State records 73.45 pass percentage: Udupi tops at 93.90%; Mysuru at 12th place with 74.30%; Yadgir at bottom with 48.45% Bengaluru: Ending the anxiety of lakhs of students and parents, the Karnataka School Examination and Assessment Board (KSEAB) announced the II PUC results (2024-25) here this noon. The II PUC exams were held from Mar….
Swachh Survekshan-2025: Quality Council team assessing city’s cleanliness, waste handling
April 8, 2025Mysuru: As part of Swachh Survekshan-2025, the process of evaluating Mysuru’s garbage collection, cleanliness maintenance and drinking water supply systems is currently underway. A 10-member team from the Quality Council of India (QCI) has been conducting the assessment since Apr. 2. The nationwide field assessment, which began on Feb. 15, is expected to conclude by…
NH-275 Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway update: NHAI opens Thoobinakere exit point after four deaths
April 8, 2025Mandya: A poorly thought-out decision by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to narrow an exit route near Thoobinakere in Mandya district has cost four lives and triggered widespread public outrage. The move, aimed at curbing toll evasion on the Bengaluru-Mysuru National Highway-275, allowed only cars and jeeps to pass through — a restriction…
Former MLC D. Madegowda to be felicitated in city on Apr. 13
April 8, 2025Mysuru: D. Madegowda, former City Improvement Trust Board (CITB) Chairman and former MLC, who is still fondly and gratefully remembered as ‘Mane Madegowda’ by beneficiaries who received sites and houses in Mysuru at very affordable prices, will be felicitated by his admirers at a function titled ‘Ughe Madegowdruge’ to be held at Kalamandira in city…
Simha backs LPG price hike, slams Congress over cost surge
April 8, 2025Kyathamaranahalli Arabic School cleared by CM Siddaramaiah, Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan Mysuru: Former MP Prathap Simha has come out in defence of the latest Rs. 50 hike in domestic LPG (cooking gas) cylinder prices, even as criticism mounts over rising household costs. Speaking to reporters in Mysuru this morning, Simha noted that LPG prices had…
BJP launches Janaakrosha Yatra from Chief Minister’s home district
April 8, 2025Mysuru: Taking on the Congress over corruption, maladministration, rising prices of essential commodities, services and taxes, diversion of SC/ST funds etc., the BJP launched its nearly month long (covering 16 days) Janaakrosha Yatra from Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s home district Mysuru on Monday. Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, after performing puja to Goddess Chamundeshwari atop Chamundi Hill,…
Lokayukta sleuths trap CNNL Executive Engineer, Accounts Superintendent
April 8, 2025Contractor harassed for Rs. 1.45 lakh bribe to clear dues for five canal works completed in 2022 Mysuru: The Mysuru Lokayukta Police have arrested the Executive Engineer and Accounts Superintendent of the Nanjangud Sub-Division of Cauvery Neeravari Nigama Limited (CNNL) while they were accepting a bribe of Rs. 1,45,000 from a contractor to clear pending…
Not 6 percent, give 10 percent!
April 8, 2025Mysuru: Initially, the bribe amount demanded by the CNNL officials — Executive Engineer Kaveri Ranganath and Accounts Superintendent Uma Mahesh — was Rs. 1,45,000, roughly 6 percent of the pending Rs. 23,10,000 bill. However, the Executive Engineer and the Accounts Superintendent later allegedly insisted that contractor Abdul Aziz pay 10 percent, raising the demand to…
Pramoda Devi Wadiyar stakes claim to 5,135 acres in Chamarajanagar
April 8, 2025Chamarajanagar: Pramoda Devi Wadiyar, a member of the erstwhile Mysore Royal Family, has laid claim to nearly 5,135 acres of private land in Chamarajanagar district. She stated that she has credible information indicating the Chamarajanagar District Administration is planning to convert several villages containing Royal Family properties into revenue villages. In a letter dated Mar….
Sri Srikanteshwaraswamy Pancha Maharathotsava at Nanjangud tomorrow
April 8, 2025Mysuru: Sri Srikanteshwaraswamy Pancha Maharathotsava will be held at Nanjangud tomorrow (Apr. 9). The Gowthama Pancha Maharathotsava begins from Sri Srikanteshwaraswamy Temple in the auspicious Meena Lagna between 5 am and 5.40 am. The district administration is all set to host the annual car festival, commonly called as Dodda Jathre, with adequate arrangements in place…
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