What happened to Centre’s Rs. 100 crore PRASHAD Scheme? Need to abolish Chamundi Hill Gram Panchayat Mysore/Mysuru: After the successful online petition to stall cutting of hundreds of trees at the foot of Chamundi Hill for Heli Tourism project, with over 80,000 signatures, forcing the State Government to do a rethink on the project, Mysureans…
Mysuru COVID-19 Update: November 13, 2021
November 13, 2021Mysuru reports 13 new COVID-19 positive cases, 24 discharges and 0 deaths today.
MCC fleecing traders through Super Commercial Tax: MLA
November 13, 2021Mysuru District Minister to convene meeting next Tuesday Mysore/Mysuru: A day after the Federation of Organisations and Associations of Mysuru launched a scathing attack on the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) for carrying out a ‘banner campaign’ to name and shame Property Tax defaulters by putting up boards, K.R. Nagar JD(S) MLA S.R. Mahesh, who owns…
Legal awareness and aid for Tribals, Adivasis and SC/STs
November 13, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: As part of Pan India Outreach Programme, the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), in association with the District Administration, Zilla Panchayat (ZP), Police Department, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), Mysore Bar Association and other concerned Government Departments, held a Legal Awareness and Aid (Kanoonu Arivu-Neravu) programme for Tribals, Adivasis, SC/STs and other Backward Communities at…
Close shave for students as chunks of plaster fall from classroom ceiling
November 13, 2021Kannenahalli Government School at H.D. Kote in dilapidated state Mysore/Mysuru: Mouldy walls, plaster falling off ceilings, lack of furniture and poor lighting — these are a few of the many problems one can find in the building of the Government School at H.D. Kote. Yesterday, students had a providential escape when portions of the school…
Transport Department bans use of mobile phone in ‘speaker mode’ while travelling in buses
November 13, 2021Cell phone model conduct: Travellers must maintain etiquette or forfeit their tickets Bengaluru: Following a series of complaints over the usage of mobile phones by the passengers while travelling, the State Government has banned putting mobile phones on the ‘speaker mode’ inside buses, the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) said. The KSRTC has also…
MBBS seats in MMC&RI may go up by 100 seats next year
November 13, 2021Institute seeking an increase from the current 150 to 250 seats Mysore/Mysuru: The number of Under-Graduate Medical seats (MBBS) in Mysore Medical College and Research Institute (MMC&RI), the first one in the State and among the oldest Medical Colleges in the country, is expected to go up by 100 from the next academic year (2022-23),…
Household articles gutted due to short circuit: Forum orders CESC to pay Rs. 6 lakh compensation
November 13, 2021Madikeri: In a retribution to CESC (Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation) for its callousness and casual approach to the grievances of its consumers, the Karnataka Consumers Forum has ordered the State-run Power Company to pay Rs. 6 lakh as compensation to a power consumer in Somwarpet taluk, Kodagu district, who lost his household articles due to…
‘Government mulling on naming Film City after Puneeth Rajkumar’
November 13, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: District Minister S.T. Somashekar has said that the Government is mulling on naming the Film City that is proposed to come up in Nanjangud taluk of the district, after late Sandalwood Star Puneeth Rajkumar. He was speaking at the preparatory meeting on ‘Nudi Namana’ programme to be organised by the District Administration in memory…
Day-3: MMC&RI PG students, Interns and Senior Residents continue protest
November 13, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Mysore Medical College and Research Institute (MMC&RI) Post Graduate (PG) students, interns and Senior Residents (SRs) are on the third day of strike today demanding payment of full COVID risk allowance (Rs. 10,000 per month) which was assured to them by the Government. Even after the end of second wave of the pandemic, COVID…
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