Bengaluru: Following High Court’s (HC) direction to Kannada Sahitya Academy to review its decision of conferring 2013 Academy Award on litterateur M.D. Gogeri (now late), the family of the late litterateur has returned the Award yesterday. It may be recalled that Gogeri was honoured with the Academy Award for his book ‘Maha Maathe Mallakka’ in…
SUCI-C flays rising prices of essentials
July 3, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Condemning the frequent increase in prices of essential commodities including diesel, petrol and LPG, members of Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) (SUCI-C) staged a protest in front of the Deputy Commissioners Office in city yesterday. The inefficiency in administration of Centre and State Governments for the past few years have resulted in escalation…
Two MUDA FDAs transferred
July 3, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Perhaps for the first time in MUDA’s history, the Government has transferred two First Division Assistants (FDAs), who have been serving in MUDA for years. N. Deepak attached to the Office of the Personal Assistant of MUDA Commissioner and K.C. Umesh, who served at the Office of Special Land Acquisition Officer are the ones…
Dalit organisations to stage stir on July 4
July 3, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Strongly opposing the Government’s move to abolish Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Development Corporation, D. Devaraj Urs Backward classes Development Corporation, Valmiki Development Corporation, Minorities Development Corporation and Women’s Development Corporation, that were established to help the poor and marginalised sections of the society, city-based Dalita Pragatipara Sanghatanegala Okkoota, will hold a drum beating protest (tamate…
Promised high returns, four persons lose Rs. 8 lakh
July 3, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Four persons, who were promised high returns for the money they invest, have lost Rs. 8 lakh to miscreants. R. Shashikumar, a native of Kerala, who is residing at Hanchya Sathagalli in city, along with Kerala’s Dr. Faizal, Contractor Prasol and Yakub, had paid a total of Rs. 8 lakh to the conmen and…
Girl commits suicide
July 3, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: A 22-year-old girl, depressed over falling hair, committed suicide by hanging self at her house in Gururaja Layout at Raghavendranagar here on Thursday night. The deceased girl is Kavyashree, daughter of Kumaraswamy. A native of Kanthegowdanapalya, Nelamangala taluk of Bengaluru Rural district, Kavyashree was staying at a rented room in Gururaja Layout and was…
Miscreants loot Rs. 1 lakh cash from businessman
July 3, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: A gang of three miscreants, who waylaid a businessman at Seshadripuram College junction on the Outer Ring Road (ORR) on June 30 night, threatened the businessman with a knife and have made away with Rs. 1 lakh cash which the businessman was carrying. The businessman, who lost his money, is 44-year-old Nanjunda of Nandini…
Service charges by Hotels and Restaurants: Customers empowered to approach Consumer Court
July 2, 2022New guidelines will make levying service charge ‘illegal’ New Delhi: Coming to the aid of Hotel and Restaurant customers, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs has laid out new guidelines on levy of service charges, according to which people will be empowered to approach Consumer Commissions and the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) if Hotels and…
Udaipur beheading: Hindu organisations and traders take out joint rally
July 2, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Strongly condemning Rajasthan’s Udaipur incident where a tailor was brutally beheaded, hundreds of members of various Hindu organisations and traders of Marvari community from Rajasthan and Gujarat, took out a massive rally in city this morning, urging the Government to ensure that such incidents do not recur and to further strengthen laws against terror…
Harangi Dam full: MLA offers traditional ‘Bagina’
July 2, 202210,000 cusecs of water to be released by this evening Kushalnagar: Barely 10 days after the setting in of the South West Monsoon in Kodagu district, the Harangi Dam in Somwarpet taluk has filled to the brim and today morning, 1,200 cusecs of water has been released to the river that will reach the Krishna…















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