Om Birla wins election to become Lok Sabha Speaker New Delhi: Three-time MP Om Birla of BJP has returned as Speaker of 18th Lok Sabha after defeating Kodikunnil Suresh in the election to the post this morning. Suresh is an eight-time Congress MP from Kerala’s Mavelikara and the member who has won the most number…
Nalwadi Statue dome: MCC initiates repair works
June 26, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: Following a report in Star of Mysore (SOM) yesterday, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has initiated emergency repair works of the dome of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar’s statue at KR Circle in city. SOM had published a report titled ‘Gilded Metal Sheet of Nalwadi Statue Dome Falls Off,’ in its edition on June 25. Waking…
87th Akhila Bharatha Kannada Sahitya Sammelana in Mandya
June 26, 2024Three-day event to be held from Dec. 20; Sugar Town becomes third-time host Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced yesterday that Mandya will host the 87th Akhila Bharatha Kannada Sahitya Sammelana from Dec. 20 to Dec. 22. Addressing the media after a high-level preliminary meeting at his Home Office ‘Krishna’, Siddaramaiah explained that the event, originally…
Dengue: CM Siddaramaiah instructs officials to take preventive measures
June 26, 2024Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has instructed the officials to initiate measures to reduce the number of dengue cases in the State. Presiding over the meeting with officials at Vidhana Soudha here yesterday, he said that a total of 5,374 cases with five deaths had been reported in the State till yesterday and added that the…
Sewage, industrial effluents contaminating River Cauvery: Dy.CM asks CNNL officials to examine complaints
June 26, 2024Minister for Forests and Environment, Minister for Large and Medium Industries too seek report on pollution Mysore/Mysuru: In response to alarming reports of sewage and industrial effluents, including arsenic, zinc, chromium, lead, and nickel, contaminating the Cauvery River at Srirangapatna in Mandya district, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar has directed officials from Cauvery Neeravari Nigam…
MUDA allotted 4,500 to 5,000 sites illegally under 50:50 ratio
June 26, 2024Technical Committee report questions the integrity of MUDA’s land allotment practices Mysore/Mysuru: In a clear case of fence eating the crop, Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) officials have been accused of allotting about 4,500 to 5,000 sites under a 50:50 ratio to land losers, by blatantly circumventing the rules. This controversy has brought shame to…
Beware, dengue cases on the rise in district
June 26, 20242,395 blood samples tested from Jan. till June; 358 persons test positive for dengue Mysore/Mysuru: If you have high fever along with headache, muscle, bone or joint pain, nausea, vomiting, pain behind the eyes, swollen glands and rashes on skin, do not neglect it and seek medical attention immediately as these are the symptoms of…
Srikanteshwara Temple recordsRs. 1.69 crore hundi collection
June 26, 2024Nanjangud: The famous Srikanteshwara Temple in Nanjangud has recorded a hundi collection of Rs. 1.69 crore said Temple Executive Officer Jagadish Kumar. The counting of all the 35 hundis was taken up at the temple premises yesterday during which Rs.1,69,70,000 cash, 134 grams of gold, 2.350 kg silver articles and 23 foreign currencies were found….
Maharani’s College students stage protest over scholarship and admission fee issue
June 26, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: Demanding the University of Mysore (UoM) authorities to address issues concerning scholarship and admission fees, students of the Post-Graduate section of Maharani’s College of Arts for Women, under the banner of AIDSO (All India Democratic Students Organisation), staged a protest in front of Crawford Hall here on Monday. Pointing out that there are confusions…
Frank Duckworth passes away
June 26, 2024London: Frank Duckworth, one half of the team, who pioneered the Duckworth-Lewis method for calculating target scores in limited-overs cricket matches abridged by bad weather, has died at the age of 84. Along with his fellow statistician Tony Lewis, Duckworth devised the formula that was officially adopted by the International Cricket Council in 1999 and…















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