Mysore/Mysuru: Ajay Kumar Singh, General Manager (GM), South Western Railway (SWR), Hubballi, did annual inspection of the Central Workshop, Ashokapuram, on Oct. 23. Central Workshop – Ashokapuram of SWR was established in 1924 as a base Workshop of the erstwhile Mysore State Railway. The Workshop has started POH of BG coaches from 1994. With the…
Snake Shyam rescues Cobra at Hebbal Police Station
November 4, 2020Rescues three more snakes at Bannimantap, Belavatta and Hulikere Mysore/Mysuru: City’s well-known snake rescuer and wildlife conservationist Snake Shyam has rescued a Spectacled Cobra which had taken shelter between UPS batteries at Hebbal Police Station on Sunday night. Hebbal Police personnel, who saw the snake between the batteries, came out of the Police Station and…
BJP wins Nanjangud CMC Presidential Polls
November 4, 2020Nanjangud: As expected, BJP won the President and the Vice-President posts in Nanjangud City Municipal Council (CMC) in the elections held on Monday. This is the first time that the BJP has won both the posts on its own in the CMC. While H.S. Mahadevaswamy was elected as the President, Nagamani Shankarappa was elected as…
Coorg Wildlife Society ex-President suffers fracture in wild tusker attack
November 4, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Coorg Wildlife Society former President Col. (retd.) C.P. Muthanna sustained a fracture when a wild tusker attacked him at his estate in Ammathi, South Kodagu this morning. Col. Muthanna was on his usual morning walk at his estate, when the tusker attacked him. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was provided…
India secures right to buy enough quantity of vaccine
November 4, 2020New Delhi: In a major development, India and Brazil have secured the rights to buy enough quantities of COVID-19 vaccine to cover half the population of the respective nations as per data compiled by Duke Global Health Innovation Centre (DGHIC). As per DGHIC, India has worked out deals with Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII)…
Veteran actor Somashekar Rao passes away
November 4, 2020A gold medallist from Mysore University, he retired as Canara Bank AGM Bengaluru: Film and theatre actor H.G. Somashekar Rao passed away at a hospital here yesterday following a heart attack. He was 86. Son of freedom fighter Harihar Gundu Rao, he hailed from Chitradurga and was the elder brother of veteran actor H.G. Dattatreya…
Violinist T.N. Krishnan no more
November 4, 2020Chennai: Violin Maestro T.N. Krishnan (Tripunithura Narayanaiyer Krishnan) passed away here yesterday due to age-related ailments. He entered the music world as a child prodigy and performed till his last days. He was 92, and is survived by wife Kamala, son Sriram Krishnan and daughter Viji Krishnan, who often accompanied their father. Born on Oct….
Odisha woman, accomplice arrested for pledging fake gold ornaments for Rs. 1 lakh
November 4, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Krishnaraja (KR) Police have arrested a MBA graduate from Odisha and her accomplice for cheating city pawn broker of Rs. 1 lakh by pledging fake gold bangles. The arrested are 40-year-old Sangeetha Das, a native of Odisha and a resident of Bengaluru and her accomplice 32-year-old Mohsin Khan, a native of Chhattisgarh. The Police…
Father, son meet watery grave while bathing sheep in canal
November 4, 2020Mandya: A man and his son, who had gone to a canal to bathe their sheep, have been drowned. The incident took place on Sunday afternoon at Visvesvaraya Canal at Goravale village in the taluk. The deceased are Hanumanthegowda (48) and his son Hemanth (13) of Goravale. Hemanth, who was bathing his sheep, accidentally slipped…
Eight poachers arrested
November 4, 2020Country-made guns, gun manufacturing equipment seized Kollegal: Kollegal Rural Police have arrested seven poachers, who were hunting down wild animals coming in search of food and water to agricultural fields in forest borders and have seized seven country-made guns besides seizing equipment used in the manufacturing of country-made guns from a house. The poachers were…
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