Mysuru reports 309 new COVID-19 positive cases, 546 discharges and 11 deaths today.
Roadside sheds demolished at Manjunathapura
August 29, 2020Mysuru: In an early morning joint operation, officials of Karnataka Slum Development Board and Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) demolished unauthorised sheds that had come up along the main road passing through Manjunathapura, which is part of Gokulam Third stage. The officials are said to have demolished nearly a dozen sheds. Speaking to Star of Mysore,…
SSLC-PUC Examination Boards to be merged
August 29, 2020New Board to be known as ‘Prarthamika Shikshana Parishat’, says Minister Suresh Kumar Bengaluru: After a wait of over three years, a major rejig in the Examination Board of Secondary Education is in the offing. The proposed single examination board for Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) and Pre-University examinations (II PU) will finally be formed. …
B. Sharat is new Mysuru DC
August 29, 2020Abhiram G. Sankar transferred as ATI Joint Director Mysore/Mysuru: The State Government on Friday transferred Mysuru Deputy Commissioner (DC) Abhiram G. Sankar and appointed B. Sharat, who was serving as Kalaburagi Deputy Commissioner, in his place. Abhiram Sankar has been posted as the Joint Director of Administrative Training Institute (ATI) in Mysuru. An IAS Officer…
Takes charge as MUDA Chairman
August 29, 2020H.V. Rajeev plans to give a push for affordable Housing Schemes Mysore/Mysuru: Just hours after he was appointed by the Government as Chairman of Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA)on Friday, senior BJP leader H.V. Rajeev took charge of the post at the MUDA Office on JLB road here last evening in the presence of District…
Dy.SP Ganapathy suicide: Special Court orders fresh case against Cong. MLA K.J. George
August 29, 2020Bengaluru: In a major setback for former Congress Minister and current MLA K.J. George, the Special Court for Legislators and Parliamentarians in Bengaluru yesterday ordered that a case be registered against him for his alleged role in the death of Dy.SP M.K. Ganapathy. The Court also ordered cases to be registered against two IPS officers…
District Hospital begins to issue COVID Death Certificates
August 29, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The process of issuing automated and printed death certificates for people who die of Coronavirus infection at the designated COVID-19 Hospital — District Hospital on KRS Road — has begun since yesterday and the relatives of the deceased can approach the Hospital for the death certificates. Till now the certificates were being issued manually…
Rs. 50 lakh compensation cheque given to Nanjangud THO’s family
August 29, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: District in-Charge Minister S.T. Somashekar handed over a cheque for Rs. 50 lakh to the family of Nanjangud Taluk Health Officer (THO) Dr. S.R. Nagendra, who had committed suicide on Aug. 20 allegedly due to work pressure. The Minister, accompanied by MLA S.A. Ramdas, Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar (now transferred), MCC Commissioner Gurudatta…
MLA assures house for every family
August 29, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Very small houses in which at least a couple of families lived together in congestion, caught the special attention of KR MLA S.A. Ramdas when he undertook a padayatra in MCC Wards 56 and 60 covering Ashokapuram area coming under his Assembly segment on Thursday. The MLA assured the families that he will take…
State BJP Mahila Morcha President asks office-bearers to gear up for Gram Panchayat polls
August 29, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Stating that the Gram Panchayat polls are most likely to take place in October, State BJP Mahila Morcha (the women’s wing of the party) President Geetha Vivekananda has urged the Morcha office-bearers and other leaders to get active in rural areas ahead of the polls. She was addressing a meeting of the city unit…
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