Month: August, 2024

69th Filmfare Awards – South: Mysuru’s Poornachandra wins Best Actor (Critics) award
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69th Filmfare Awards – South: Mysuru’s Poornachandra wins Best Actor (Critics) award

August 4, 2024

Mysore/Mysuru: The 69th Filmfare Awards South 2024, held in Hyderabad yesterday, celebrated best movies, actors, singers and technicians for their exceptional performances over the past year. The event also brought pride to Mysuru, with actor Poornachandra receiving the Best Actor (Critics) award in the Kannada films category for his role in the movie ‘Orchestra Mysuru,’…

Bannimantap’s rampant garbage crisis exposed
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Bannimantap’s rampant garbage crisis exposed

August 4, 2024

MCC’s much-publicised ‘Operation Night Raid’, to combat illegal garbage dumping loses momentum Mysore/Mysuru: A visit to Bannimantap reveals a troubling shift in Mysuru’s cleanliness status, once celebrated as the cleanest city in the country. The area is now plagued by heaps of garbage dumped along the roadside and a foul odour from unattended wet and…

MCCI-FKCCI delegation to visit Wayanad shortly
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MCCI-FKCCI delegation to visit Wayanad shortly

August 4, 2024

Mysore/Mysuru: A delegation from the Mysore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) and the Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI) is set to visit the flood-hit Wayanad district in Kerala to conduct relief and restoration activities. Recently, a meeting was held at the MCCI office on D. Devaraj Urs Road, presided over…

Government gives nod for routine works in MUDA
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Government gives nod for routine works in MUDA

August 4, 2024

Mysore/Mysuru: The routine works in Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) which had come to a grinding halt following  the probe into the massive 50:50 ratio sites allotment scam, has now resumed with the Government giving  green signal for works as usual. The Urban Development Department Under-Secretary K. Latha in a letter written to MUDA Commissioner…

Karnataka to construct 100 houses for Wayanad landslide victims
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Karnataka to construct 100 houses for Wayanad landslide victims

August 4, 2024

Death toll touches 357, search on for survivors Bengaluru:  Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said that the State Government will construct 100 houses for victims of the landslide-hit Wayanad in Kerala. Siddaramaiah also spoke to Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan over the phone and assured him of all necessary help apart from promising to construct…

Echo of Wayanad landslides tragedy: Officers asked to clear illegal home stays, resorts in Western Ghats
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Echo of Wayanad landslides tragedy: Officers asked to clear illegal home stays, resorts in Western Ghats

August 4, 2024

Bengaluru: Following the recent landslides in Wayanad, Kerala, which have claimed several hundred lives, the State Government has moved to address activities that threaten the region’s ecology. Officers have been directed to clear all illegal home stays and resorts in the Western Ghats. In a circular issued by the Minister for Forest, Ecology, and Environment…

Online trading scam: City engineer loses Rs. 27 lakh
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Online trading scam: City engineer loses Rs. 27 lakh

August 4, 2024

Mysore/Mysuru: An engineer, who was lured into investing money in online trading with the promise of high profits, has lost a whopping Rs. 27 lakh to an online fraudster. The engineer, a resident of Kalyangiri Nagar in the city, received a call on July 2 from the number 98311-86175. The caller explained online trading and…

Chamundi Hill steps cleaned in special drive
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Chamundi Hill steps cleaned in special drive

August 4, 2024

Mysore/Mysuru: Members of Kuduma Srikshetra Dharmasthala Padayatra Seva Trust took up a special drive this morning to clean the steps of Chamundi Hill, after four Ashada Fridays, during which thousands of devotees thronged the Hill shrine to have a darshan of presiding deity Goddess Chamundeshwari. The drive was inaugurated by senior advocate O. Sham Bhat,…

Tax practitioners seek representation in GST Council
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Tax practitioners seek representation in GST Council

August 4, 2024

Mysore/Mysuru: The two-day National Tax Conference and Tax Practitioners Day organised by All India Federation of Tax Practitioners (AIFTP) in association with Karnataka State Tax Practitioners Association (KSTPA), began at a private hotel on Hunsur Road here this morning. Speaking after inaugurating the Conference, KSTPA President S. Nanjunda Prasad said that the KSTPA has sought…

AIISH Outreach Unit inaugurated
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AIISH Outreach Unit inaugurated

August 4, 2024

Mysore/Mysuru: AYUSH Commissioner Dr. K. Srinivasulu inaugurated the Outreach Unit of All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) at its Centre of Excellence building, in the city on Friday. The District Administration in association with Zilla Panchayat and AYUSH Department had organised the programme, during which, Srinivasulu said, the newborn kids having any speech…

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