Mysore/Mysuru: Dr. K.N. Amruthesh, former Chairman, Department of Studies in Botany and currently the Director of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), University of Mysore (UoM), has been awarded the prestigious Fellowship of the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc) for the year 2025. The award ceremony was held on Dec. 9 at the Indian Institute…
Yalandur: A 23-year-old youth, who had gone to Chamarajanagar to watch a movie, has gone missing since Dec. 25. The missing youth is Shivanayaka of Changachalli village, according to the complaint lodged by his father Puttamadanayaka with the Police. Those having any information about the missing youth may contact Mob: 94808-04649 or Chamarajanagar District Police…
Mysore/Mysuru: An unidentified man, aged about 60 years, who was found lying sick near Vijayanagar Ring Road traffic signal lights and admitted to K.R. Hospital on Dec. 13, has breathed his last at the hospital on Dec. 23. The deceased has the names ‘Nanjundegowdru’, ‘N. Manju’ and ‘N. Mani’ tattooed in Kannada on his right…
Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru Development Authority (MDA) has handed over a newly constructed building near Mysuru Zoo — originally intended to house a Passport Seva Kendra and the office of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) — to private parties, triggering serious concerns over the use of public assets. The building has been leased to…
Mysore/Mysuru: While the Mysore Palace and its surroundings were teeming with visitors and tourists on Thursday evening during the helium cylinder blast where three persons were killed, the Mobile Command Centre — launched by the City Police in 2018 to assist personnel in maintaining law and order during large gatherings — was inexplicably stationed at…
Mysore/Mysuru: In an unusual incident on Friday, a woman constable was rescued by Fire and Emergency Services after her leg got stuck in a cow trap. Nalini, a constable from Lakshmipuram Police Station, had attended a routine parade at the City Armed Reserve (CAR) Grounds under the supervision of the City Police Commissioner at the…
Incident occurs at 600 metres from Maralahalla Anti-Poaching Camp Mysore/Mysuru: A forest watcher attached to an Anti-Poaching Camp (APC) at Bandipur Tiger Reserve was killed in a tiger attack yesterday near Maralahalla in Gundlupet taluk of Chamarajanagar district. The deceased has been identified as Sanna Haida (56), a member of the Jenukuruba community from Neralekuppe…
Tribal leaders seek Rs. 1 crore ex gratia as per Forest Minister’s announcement Mysore/Mysuru: Forest, Ecology, and Environment Minister Eshwar Khandre condoled the death and stated that financial assistance would be provided as per rules. Just three days earlier, Khandre had announced that families of forest staff who die in the line of duty would…
MLC questions CM Siddaramaiah’s silence after three deaths in his hometown Mysore/Mysuru: In the wake of the tragic incident in which a balloon seller and two pedestrians were killed when a helium cylinder burst while filling a balloon near the Jayamarthanda Gate of the Mysore Palace on Thursday night, MLC A.H. Vishwanath has raised serious…
Actor Prakash Raj appointed as Film Festival ambassador Bengaluru: The 17th edition of Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFes), organised by Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy and the Department of Information and Public Relations, will be held from Jan. 29 to Feb. 6, 2026, said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah here recently. Presiding over the preparatory meeting and releasing the…
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