Mysore/Mysuru: As part of the Fit India Movement launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a quiz contest has been sponsored by Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS). The preliminary round of Fit India Quiz had participants from 13,502 schools from over 659 districts across the country, out of which students of 361 schools qualified….
Hunsur: A debt ridden farmer has committed suicide by consuming pesticides at Bilikere in the taluk on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased farmer is Shekharegowda (35), a resident of Bilikere. Shekharegowda had obtained Rs. 10 lakh loan from a bank to purchase a tractor, Rs. 3 lakh gold loan and another Rs. 3.5 lakh loan from…
Mysore/Mysuru: Ganabharathi, Mysuru, is celebrating a day-long programme of Haridasotsava and Tyagaraja Aradhane at Veene Seshanna Bhavana in Kuvempunagar on Apr. 3. The programme will commence at 10 am and continue till 8 pm. The details are as follows: 10 am: Inauguration. 10.15 am: Vid. Harisha Paandava, Vid. Keshava Mohanakumar and Vikram Bharadwaj will perform….
Mysore/Mysuru: A mobile phone repair shop was gutted in a fire caused due to short circuit at Vidyaranyapuram yesterday. Arjun Cell Tech, located on the 16th Cross in Vidyaranyapuram 4th Main Road is the shop that was gutted in the fire. It is learnt that due to short circuit of UPS batteries kept in the…
Mysore/Mysuru: An unidentified man, who had sustained serious injuries in a road accident and admitted to K.R. Hospital, has succumbed to injuries at the hospital. The unidentified man, aged between 44 and 46 years, was found writhing in pain after a vehicle had hit him near Golur on Chamarajanagar-Nanjangud Main Road. He was provided first-aid…
Nanjangud: A two-wheeler rider was killed on the spot when an unidentified vehicle hit the bike near Muddahalli Gate in the taluk on Mysuru-Ooty Highway yesterday. The deceased rider has been identified as Anil Kumar (29), a resident of Rangupura in Gundlupet taluk. Yesterday morning, Anil was proceeding to Mysuru from Begur and when he…
Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru Railway Police on Mar. 26 have found a body of an unidentified man between Naganahalli and MNGT Railway Stations and have shifted the body to the mortuary besides registering a case. The deceased is aged between 25 and 30 years, 5.6 ft. tall, oily red complexioned, has the alphabets ‘P’ tattooed on his…
Mysore/Mysuru: A Meeting of the Mysore District Hilal ( Moon) Committee will be held at the Office of the Mysuru District Wakf Advisory Committee at Muslim Boys Orphange campus on New Sayyaji Rao Road, tomorrow (Apr. 2) after Namaz-e-Maghrib at 6.50 pm to sight the Moon and declare the beginning of the Holy Month of…
Now that the top leaders of consequence from the Congress and BJP are in Karnataka, probably because they are expecting an early poll for State Assembly, I decided to express my thoughts on this idea of ‘advancing the Assembly polls’ by the ruling party (here BJP) hoping it would bring them victory. It is a…
Sir, The news of vehicle users of Mysuru city paying Rs. 23.6 crore as traffic fines for just three years from 2019 to 2021, which included lockdown periods, indicates the extent of traffic rule violations (Star of Mysore dated Mar. 19, 2022). Thus, Mysuru city secured top rank in traffic fines among all tier-2 cities…
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