Death notes recovered; abetment cases booked Bengaluru: Three days after his wife, two daughters and a son were found hanging in an suicide pact, the editor of a Kannada newspaper Hallagere Shankar from Mandya and his two sons-in-law were booked by the Bengaluru Police under the charges of abetment to suicide. Shankar, in his eight-page…
Assault on Hindu activist at K.R. Pet: Two Constables suspended
September 20, 2021K.R. Pet: Two Police Constables attached to K.R. Pet Town Police Station have been suspended on charges of beating up an office-bearer of Hindu Jagarana Vedike in the Police Station. Rahmatullah and Pradeep are the two suspended Constables. Details: A Ganesha immersion ceremony was taking place at Sindhughatta in the taluk under the leadership of…
Temple demolition will not recur: CM
September 20, 2021‘Razing of Nanjangud temple pained everyone; steps to be taken to rectify mistake’ Davanagere: Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has said that his Government is contemplating taking legal and administrative steps to ensure that instances such as the temple demolition in Nanjangud do not recur. He was addressing partymen after inaugurating the State Executive Meeting of…
Plays are more popular than poetry in our country, says Folk Scholar
September 20, 2021‘Bharatiya Rangasangeetha-Natakotsava – B.V. Karanth Ranganamana’ launched Mysore/Mysuru: Maintaining that plays are more popular than poetry in our country, Folk Scholar Krishnamurthy Hanur said that theatre is a difficult one to learn and success can be achieved in this field only through hard work and dedication. He was speaking after inaugurating the week-long ‘Bharatiya Rangasangeetha…
II PU supplementary exam: 29.91 pass percentage
September 20, 2021Bengaluru: The II PU supplementary exam (2020-21) for private students, repeaters and students, who had rejected the annual exam results, has seen a pass percentage of 29.91. Announcing the results at his office in Vidhana Soudha here this morning, Primary and Secondary Education Minister B.C. Nagesh said that a total of 18,413 students had appeared…
RT-PCR test not mandatory for travellers from Tamil Nadu
September 20, 2021Chamarajanagar: With COVID crisis easing in the State, the Chamarajanagar District Administration has withdrawn the order that made production of an RT-PCR negative report mandatory for travellers from Tamil Nadu entering Karnataka. Chamarajangar DC Dr. M.R. Ravi, in an order issued on July 31, had made submission of RT-PCR negative report (taken within 72 hours…
Two Bengalureans meet watery grave at Ganalu Falls in Mandya
September 20, 2021Halagur: Two youths from Bengaluru, who had come to Ganalu Falls in Malavalli taluk of Mandya district, met watery graves after they reportedly went for a swim on Saturday. The deceased have been identified as Samuel (21) and Sibil (21), both residents of M.S. Palya in Bengaluru. It is learnt that Samuel and Sibil had…
Lone tusker creates tension among villagers in K.R. Pet
September 20, 2021K.R. Pet: Tension prevailed among the villagers of Chikkonahalli near Pura village in K.R. Pet taluk, after a lone tusker was spotted in the wee hours yesterday. The villagers, who got panicked, immediately informed the matter to the Forest Department officials that the tusker was spotted moving from Teganahalli Gate towards the forest in Karoti…
Anti-Corruption Bureau traps Kodagu Executive Engineer
September 20, 2021Accused throws money out of office window to forest area Madikeri: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths in Kodagu caught the Executive Engineer (EE) of Panchayat Raj Engineering Division of Kodagu Zilla Panchayat and four others red-handed while they were allegedly accepting bribe from a contractor for sanctioning a work order to carry out rain damage…
Giraffe Yadunandan dies at Bannerghatta Park
September 20, 2021Yadunandan was sent to B’luru from Mysuru Zoo in April last year to pair with ‘Gowri’ Bengaluru: Yadunandan, the three-and-a-half-year-old giraffe which was transported to Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP) in Bengaluru amidst lockdown in April last year, has died yesterday. It is learnt that as animal keepers and other staff at BBP were busy controlling…















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