Hunsur: Diligently following the age-old and trusted system of creating fire lines (creating a bald patch of land between green swathes) to prevent summer forest fires, the Karnataka Forest Department this year has moved a step ahead and has adopted technology for the same task. Relying on technology, it has come up with an app…
Cycling solo to save Govt. Schools, Colleges
January 25, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: While the State Government has scrapped its own student-friendly bicycle scheme to Government school children as an incentive for them to reach their far away schools, here is a youth who is cycling across the length and breadth of the country to create awareness on the need of saving Government Schools and Colleges. The…
Vedike stages protest for repair of roads after youth dies in accident
January 25, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Residents, led by Mysuru Pragnavantha Vedike, following the death of a youth in a road accident on Jan. 23 night, opposite Rama Mandira on Kantharaj Urs Road, staged a protest, demanding the authorities concerned to take up road repair works. The residents, who assembled at the accident spot, held the bad condition of the…
Steam-era water column comes to life in Mysuru Rail Museum
January 25, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: With a view to add value to the Rail Museum, the South Western Railway (SWR) has restored a steam-era water column to its full functional order. Many Railway Stations during the steam-era had a water column for filling water into the water tank in the tender trailing the steam locomotive, which also had an…
Mekedatu project implementation: Vatal Nagaraj accuses political parties of enacting drama
January 25, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Accusing all the political parties of enacting a drama over Mekedatu and Mahadayi water projects, Kannada Chaluvali leader Vatal Nagaraj urged all the elected representatives of the political parties to quit their positions and take to the streets for implementation of the water projects. He was speaking to press persons after staging a demonstration…
National Voters Day: Judge cautions against selling votes
January 25, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Cautioning the electorate against falling prey to any type of allurements, Principal District and Sessions Court Judge M.L. Raghunath observed that democracy will be under severe threat if we failed to elect good people as our rulers. He was speaking after inaugurating the National Voters Day organised by the District Administration at Jayachamaraja Wadiyar…
City students propose innovative solution for recharging ring wells
January 25, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: India being a tropical country, the temperatures during summer rise up to 40-45°C. Due to this the ring wells, which supply water for agricultural land lacking irrigation, dry up to alarming levels. This puts lot of hardship on farmers, who depend on ring wells for irrigation. The students of Civil Engineering at the National…
CM reshuffles District In-Charge Ministers
January 25, 2022V. Somanna gets Chamarajanagar; B.C. Nagesh Kodagu; S.T. Somashekar continues as Mysuru District In-Charge Bengaluru: In a major reshuffle of District In-Charge Ministers, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday reshuffled the In-Charge position of most of the District Ministers. According to the revised list of District Ministers, Basavaraj Bommai will retain In-Charge of Bengaluru Urban…
PM urges children to go vocal for local
January 25, 2022New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday appealed to children to become ambassadors of his ‘vocal for local’ strategy to highlight the indigenous and achieve the goal of self-reliance. Modi was interacting with the awardees of Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (PMRBP) via video conferencing. “Just as you came forward for the Swachch Bharat…
Mother unites son in death
January 25, 2022Nagamangala: A woman, shocked on hearing the news of her son’s death, died a few moments later, thus uniting with her beloved son in death. The incident took place at Hosahalli Koppal in the taluk on Saturday. Kushal (45), a farmer, who was watching TV at his house, is said to have collapsed and died…
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