Madikeri: A foreign nation, allegedly involved in selling narcotic substance, who had gone absconding, was nabbed by the Kodagu District Crime Investigation Bureau (DCIB) Police recently. The arrested person is 29-year-old Opong Samson of Ghana West in South Africa, was presently residing at Horamaavu in Bengaluru. Details: The DCIB Police, on Aug. 28, received information…
Bengaluru: Medical Education Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar has ruled out any corruption in procurement of COVID-19 related medical equipment procurement and said there is no need for an investigation into it, as demanded by Opposition parties. Replying to allegations made by the Opposition members in the State Legislative Assembly here yesterday, Dr. Sudhakar said that…
Bengaluru: Even as Guest Lecturers serving at Government First Grade Colleges have threatened to launch a stir over non-payment of wages, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Tuesday said that the Government would release pending salaries of Guest Lecturers shortly. The Chief Minister’s announcement came after ruling BJP’s Legislative Council Member Ayanur Manjunath, supported by Opposition…
Mysore/Mysuru: Urging Government not to cancel cultural programmes during the upcoming Dasara festival, members of Mysuru City and District Cultural and Professional Artistes’ Association staged protest opposite Deputy Commissioner’s (DC) office here this morning. Protesting artistes demanded that the Government should continue organising cultural programmes in all the major seven venues in city including Kalamandira,…
Mysore/Mysuru: An ITI College Principal was killed on the spot, when a truck rammed into the bike he was riding near J.P. Nagar Ring Road on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased is Venugopal (53), son of late Swaminath and a resident of Vidyaranyapuram in city. He was serving as the Principal of Jnanasewa ITI College at…
Mysore/Mysuru: Outsourced vehicle drivers and watermen of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) will stage a State-wide protest on Sept. 28, seeking fulfilment of their various demands, which chiefly included payment of direct wages as is being done in the case of Pourakarmikas. Announcing this at a press meet here yesterday, Karnataka State Corporations, City Municipal Corporations,…
Bengaluru: The Police Department yesterday suspended an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) and a Head Constable (HC) attached to Bengaluru CCB (Central Crime Branch) for leaking pertinent information to some of the accused in the Sandalwood Drug racket case. The suspended are ACP M.R. Mudhavi and HC Mallikarjuna. After realising that some of their leads…
Mysore/Mysuru: In separate incidents, miscreants have snatched mobile phones from two persons last night. In the first incident, miscreants have snatched the mobile phone from one Guruswamy, near Alanahalli Gram Panchayat at about 9 pm yesterday. Guruswamy was speaking over the phone while walking, when two miscreants, who came on a bike from behind, snatched…
Mysore/Mysuru: The JSS School at Suttur in Nanjangud taluk has invited applications from eligible students for admission to first to eighth standards in Kannada medium and admission to first, fifth and eighth standards in English medium. Applications are also invited for free hostel facility. Due to COVID-19, there will be no written admission test and…
Mysore/Mysuru: As a gratitude for the visually challenged students who defied all odds to score good marks in the SSLC exams, social worker Dr. K. Mahendra Singh Kalappa distributed laptop bags to the students of the Government School for Blind Children at Tilaknagar in city recently. Buoyed by the success of the Government School for…
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