Well ahead of presenting its 2025-26 budget, the MCC has convened a public consultation meeting at the MCC’s Sri Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar Hall at 11 am tomorrow (Jan. 9). The meeting will be chaired by Deputy Commissioner G. Lakshmikanth Reddy. The members of the public are appealed to attend the meeting and come up with their…
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Tribute to Dr. R. Chidambaram
January 7, 2025By Madhuri Thathachari It is with great sorrow I learnt of Dr. R. Chidambaram’s demise on Jan. 4, 2025. He was not only an outstanding, distinguished and brilliant Scientist but also was a great human being. It was my good fortune that I came to know him personally because he was a friend of both…
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Mysuru Bandh evokes good response
January 7, 2025Mysuru: The dawn-to-dusk Mysuru bandh, called today by Dalit and Backward Classes organisations, garnered significant support across the city. The bandh was organised to protest Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s alleged disrespectful remarks on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in Parliament, with demands for his resignation and legal action. Over 25 organisations, including Dalit, Backward Classes, farmers,…
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MUDA seeks cancellation of 30 sites at Bhavya Bharata Layout
January 7, 2025Layout formed in an area designated as Park, violating land conversion laws Mysuru: Amid ongoing investigations into the scam involving the illegal transfer and allotment of thousands of Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) sites under the 50:50 ratio, a new violation has surfaced. A Private Housing Co-operative Society has reportedly developed and sold sites on…
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New virus cases in India: No reason to worry
January 7, 2025New Delhi: India has confirmed five cases of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV), a respiratory virus recently highlighted following an outbreak in China. The Government assured that there is no need to panic, stating that HMPV is already in global circulation. The first two cases were reported in Bengaluru on Monday, involving a three-month-old baby, now discharged…
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No mass testing for HMPV: Health Minister
January 7, 2025Bengaluru: Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao told media persons after a high-level meeting with health officials that HMPV is not a new virus or a cause for alarm. “This is not the first time HMPV has been detected in Karnataka. Monitoring for it was not conducted earlier,” he said and explained that the virus has…
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State moves SC challenging HC bail for Darshan, 16 others
January 7, 2025Bengaluru/Mysuru: The Karnataka Government has filed a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court challenging the Karnataka High Court’s decision to grant bail to Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa and others in the Renukaswamy murder case. The decision to file the SLP followed an order by Somanatha, the First Additional Solicitor and Ex-Officio Deputy Secretary…
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Mysore Airport expansion: MP urges CM to hasten 46-acre land transfer
January 7, 2025Requests Siddaramaiah to save Devaraja Market, Lansdowne Building; also help build cricket stadium Bengaluru: Mysuru-Kodagu MP Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar has called upon Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to take immediate steps to expedite the land acquisition and transfer processes for two critical infrastructure projects in Mysuru — the expansion of Mysore Airport and the construction of…
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Techie, wife kill two kids, commit suicide in Bengaluru
January 7, 2025Bengaluru: A software professional and his wife committed suicide by hanging after killing their two children at their rented house in Sadashivanagar Police limits in Bengaluru yesterday. They had first killed their children by poisoning their food and later hanged themselves. The deceased have been identified as Anoop (38), a software professional from Uttar Pradesh,…
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Illegal building on Government land razed; 1.25 acres recovered
January 7, 2025Mysuru: Days after the Mysuru Taluk Tahsildar had warned the persons who were illegally constructing a shopping complex on 1.25 acres of Government plot (coming under Hebbal village Survey No. 221) opposite the west gate of Vidyavardhaka Engineering College and close to Hebbal water tank, the Mysuru Taluk administration yesterday razed the illegal structure under…
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