With 168 cases, Mandya stands second in State, after Bengaluru Urban that has 250 positive cases Bengaluru: With 63 fresh COVID-19 cases being reported, the total number of people infected from the disease rose to 1,458 in the State till 2 pm today (Wednesday). According to official sources, in Hassan district 21 persons tested positive,…
Reid and Taylor terminates over 1,400 employees
May 20, 2020Nanjangud: Reid and Taylor factory at Tandavapura near Nanjangud has terminated the services of 1,400 of its employees as part of liquidation. All revival options have failed and after many hearings in the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), the debt-hit fashion major has been liquidated. Ravi Shankar Devarakonda, who was appointed as liquidator as…
COVID-19 impact: Only 50 guests for weddings
May 20, 202017-point advisory by Department of Health and Family Welfare Services prohibits liquor too Bengaluru: Karnataka’s Department of Health and Family Welfare Services has issued an advisory for marriages, stating that not more than 50 guests shall be allowed and the consumption of liquor on the occasion will be prohibited. In the 17-point advisory, the Department…
Owners say they have suffered huge losses
May 20, 2020‘Ready to pay 50 percent of the advance money’ Mysore/Mysuru: While people who have booked Choultries (Kalyana Mantapas) by paying advance amount are crying hoarse that the Choultry managements are refusing to refund the money in full, managements of such Choultries have a different story to narrate. “We have suffered huge losses and we are…
SSLC exam Time-Table
May 20, 2020Bengaluru: The Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) has released the schedule for the pending Board exams. SSLC exams will be held from June 25 to July 4. As many as 8,48,192 students have registered for the same. For second-year PUC or Class 12, only English language exam was left. It will be held on…
SSLC exam: Migrant students can select centre of their choice
May 20, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: With the KSEEB (Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board) announcing the time-table for the SSLC Exams 2019-20, the Board Director V. Sumangala has directed all school Head Masters to register any changes in the choice of centre by students, in the Board website before May 25. As children of migrant workers who have returned to…
Nanjangud bus stand yet to see its usual buzz
May 20, 2020Nanjangud: The KSRTC bus stand in the temple town is far from seeing its usual buzz as only a few passengers were seen at the bus stand today, the second day of resumption of bus services following easing of COVID-19 lockdown curbs. Although Nanjangud came out of sealdown a couple of days ago subsequent to…
CBI red flags COVID-related malicious software
May 20, 2020Bengaluru: Country’s premier investigating agency the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sounded a countrywide alert against a malicious software threat that uses an update related to the Coronavirus pandemic. “Based on inputs received from INTERPOL, CBI has issued an alert relating to a banking Trojan known as Cerberus. This malicious software takes advantage of…
Farmer Association welcomes amendment to APMC Act
May 20, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, one of the farmer associations of the State, has welcomed the State Government’s ordinance amending the APMC Act, allowing private players in Agricultural produce markets. Addressing a press meet at Patrakartara Bhavan here yesterday, the Association State President N.S. Verma said that although the country attained freedom 70 years ago,…
Sri Vittala Rukmini Convention Hall Trust refunds full money to 22 wedding parties
May 20, 2020‘Unfair to deny advance money for an event that has been cancelled due to COVID’ Mysore/Mysuru: The Trustees of Sri Vittala Rukmini Convention Hall Trust has set a model to all Choultries in Mysuru by refunding the full advance amount for all the weddings that have been cancelled. Twenty-two weddings had been booked between March…
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