City, District Police take steps to mitigate accidents; NHAI to rectify anomalies Mysore/Mysuru: Taking into consideration the alarming rate of accidents at Black Spots (Accident Spots) within the limits of Mysuru District and City, the Police are brainstorming on the measures to eliminate accidents. In all, the Police have identified 41 Black Spots — 12…
Mysore/Mysuru: Taking a strong exception to Higher Education Minister Dr. C.N. Ashwathnarayan’s reported call in Mandya, asking the people to slain former Chief Minister Siddharamaiah like how Tipu Sultan met his end, thousands of people representing a host of organisations, under the banner of ‘Swaabhimaani Horata Samiti’, took out a massive protest rally in the…
Overspeeding, negligent driving only reasons for accidents, say NHAI Officers Srirangapatna: Speed thrills, but kills. Data till December 28, 2022, shows that the 10-lane Mysuru-Bengaluru Access-Controlled Expressway (National Highway-275) witnessed 77 accidents in six months where 28 persons lost their lives and 67 persons sustained injuries. Adding to the list was one more accident that…
Town Panchayats, City Municipal Council to join the campaign Mysore/Mysuru: After the proposal to install over 75 CCTV cameras all along the 43.5-km Ring Road failed to materialise, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) will take up a four-day mass cleaning campaign of the Ring Road from Monday, Feb. 27. To give some muscle to the MCC…
Mysore/Mysuru: Forest Department personnel have cracked the case of a tiger death, the carcass of which was found at Mallaiahna Katte lake at Chowdahalli village in the fringes of Bandipur Forest on Feb. 7, by arresting a person on the charge of causing the death of the big cat. Rechappa, son of Shivabasappa, Kebbepura, is…
Mysore/Mysuru: Wildlife Conservation Foundation, a NGO and Karnataka Forest Department have jointly embarked on saving vultures facing extinction, by launching a two-day (Feb. 25 and Feb. 26) Synchronised Vulture Census-2023, this morning at Bandipur Tiger Reserve, by involving 110 personnel including 70 Forest personnel. The census has been taken up simultaneously at Bandipur Tiger Reserve,…
Mysore/Mysuru: The three-day Fusion Music Festival organised by Mysore Music Association in commemoration of its Founder, Sister John de Britto, began at Jaganmohan Palace auditorium here last evening. The festival was inaugurated by Star of Mysore and Mysuru Mithra Founder-Editor K.B. Ganapathy by lighting the traditional lamp. Speaking on the occasion, Ganapathy said that Sister…
Virajpet: When Karnataka is on the cusp of Assembly polls, Social Welfare Department and Backward Classes Minister Kota Srinivasa Poojari has stated that Rs. 5 crore will be released for the development of ‘Ain Mane’ (ancestral houses) in Kodagu and also, Rs.25 lakh will be released for the genealogical study of 18 Kodava language natives….
Mysore/Mysuru: Yadavagiri Residents Association has organised a programme to unveil the statues of ‘Swami and Friends’, the fictional characters in R.K. Narayan’s famous novel Malgudi Days, installed at Joy Ice Cream Factory Circle in Yadavagiri at 5 pm tomorrow (Feb. 26). MP Pratap Simha, MLA L. Nagendra, Mayor Shivakumar, MCC Commissioner G. Lakshmikantha Reddy, Corporator…
Kendra Sahitya Academy awardee Dr. Moodnakudu Chinnaswamy feted Mysore/Mysuru: Observing that caste system is not the bane of only Dalits, noted writer Prof. O.L. Nagabhushanaswamy said that upper castes too should join hands in the eradication of this discriminatory system. He was speaking at Kendra Sahitya Academy awardee Dr. Moodnakudu Chinnaswamy’s Sahityagoshti and felicitation programme…
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