New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today presented the last full-fledged Union Budget of the Modi Government before nine Assembly elections including Karnataka this year and the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The main highlight of the Budget is a new tax regime where the Income Tax rebate limit has been increased to Rs. 7…
Nirmala Sitharaman, sixth FM to present Budget five times in a row
February 1, 2023New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is the sixth Finance Minister in independent India to present five consecutive Budgets, joining a select league of legends. Sitharaman’s Budget for the fiscal year starting April 2023 is her fifth straight since 2019. Other Ministers who have presented five straight annual financial statements include Arun Jaitley, P. Chidambaram,…
Sri Ganapathy Swamiji’s Sahasra Chandra Darshana Shanti Mahotsava begins
February 1, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Various homas are being performed in 108 homa kundas at Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Ashram premises on Nanjangud Road starting from today as part of Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji’s Sahasra Chandra Darshana Shanti Mahotsava, organised by Avadhoota Datta Peetham till Feb. 5. The Mahotsava is also part of the Swamiji’s 80th birthday celebrations and homas…
K.R. Hospital set to get fresh treatment
February 1, 2023Rs. 89 crore repair works including K.R. Hospital, Cheluvamba Hospital and other health facilities under MMC&RI to start from Feb. 3 Mysore/Mysuru: Krishna Rajendra Hospital that is popularly known as K.R. Hospital, located in the heart of the city is all set to be infused a new life. The repair works of the hospital better…
Now, Vishnuvardhan Memorial open daily for public
February 1, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: The fans of late actor Dr. Vishnuvardhan have a reason to rejoice again as the recently inaugurated memorial at Halalu (Haalaalu) village, opposite Udbur Gate on Mysuru- H.D. Kote Road will be kept open for public daily. According to a press release from Dr, Vishnuvardhan Pratishtana, Dr. Vishnuvardhan Memorial will be open for public…
58-member Leopard Task Force formed in Mysuru Circle
February 1, 2023DCF, Wildlife Division, Mysuru, will head the LTF under the direction of CCF Mysore/Mysuru: With the spurt in leopard menace especially in Mysuru district with three lives lost to big cat in T. Narasipur taluk alone in the recent months (from Oct. 2022 to Jan. 2023), State Government has formed Leopard Task Force (LTF) in…
Action against dumping of medical waste inside Kodagu Reserve Forests
February 1, 2023Truck carrying waste from Kerala seized; 2 arrested Kushalnagar: A joint operation by Wildlife Range Makutta and Makutta Territorial Range was conducted to trace vehicles dumping waste inside the Reserve Forests on the Karnataka-Kerala border last night and one truck was spotted and seized. Two persons have been arrested and 15 gunny bags of medical…
Kodagu woman rescued from Kuwait
February 1, 2023She was taken to Kuwait on a visiting Visa; dumped on a street and illegally detained Kushalnagar: Many women have escaped from the clutches of a human trafficking network in Kuwait following the intervention of some social organisations there and the authorities in India like the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). Many more such women…
‘Scrap Govt. vehicles older than 15 years’
February 1, 2023Union Ministry of Road Transport & Highways issues order to be effective from April Mysuru/Bengaluru: The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has announced to scrap all Govt. vehicles older than 15 years with effect from Apr. 1, 2023. With this, the fuel guzzling Government vehicles, including buses and jeeps and other category vehicles,…
New DCP takes charge
February 1, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: S. Janhavi yesterday took charge as the new DCP (Crime and Traffic) following the transfer of M.S. Geetha Prasanna, who has been posted as the Principal of Police Training School, Mysuru. City Police Commissioner B. Ramesh handed over the charge to the new DCP. Janhavi was serving as the Joint Director of Forensic Science…
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