Hunsur: In an effort to curb the entry of poachers, illegal miners, timber smugglers and encroachers while protecting forests, frontline Forest Department employees at Nagarahole National Park have arrested three poachers with arms and ammunition. Department staff cornered the three persons on the night of July 25 while they were trying to make an entry…
Bengaluru: Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa (BSY) completed a full circle in his political career yesterday when he was sworn-in as Chief Minister of Karnataka for the fourth time. Yediyurappa, credited with establishing BJP as a force in South India, will prove his majority by July 29 in the 225-Member State Legislative Assembly. The new Council of…
New Delhi: Ending speculation that the party high command had differences over backing B.S. Yediyurappa to make another shot at running a coalition regime in Karnataka, the BJP Central leaders backed the new dispensation and hoped it will herald a ‘new dawn’ for the State. “Congrats to B.S. Yediyurappa, newly sworn in CM of Karnataka….
Mysuru: Mysore Polymers and Rubber Products Ltd. (MYPOL), a Mysuru-based company started in 1982 under the leadership of C.D. Nagarajan, Executive Chairman, has added one more feather to its cap of achievements. MYPOL has supplied ‘Linear Rubber Bellow’ a very critical part used for ‘Heat-Shield separation’ in the recent ‘Chandrayaan-2’ mission. This critical part was…
Mysuru: Youth Club is a unique educational programme for the young people of the Mysuru city, which has been providing conservation education in a genuinely integrated way for the last twenty-six years and growing stronger every year. Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens (Mysuru Zoo) is often the first contact with nature and so it has been…
Mandya: Mandya MP Sumalatha Ambarish presented a memorandum to Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal recently, urging him to address the problems at Mandya Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV). Sumalatha, who met Pokhriyal at the Union HRD Ministry in New Delhi, apprised him of the problems in Mandya KV, which lacked necessary infrastructure. After the…
Gundlupet: A tiger was killed in a fierce battle with a wild boar at Maguvinahalli village inside the Bandipur Tiger Reserve. The village comes under Himavad Gopalaswamy Range of the National Park. The incident occurred last night or early this morning and the feline’s carcass was found by Forest Watchers who were on their usual…
Mandya: A suspected teakwood smuggler from Kodagu was killed when a vehicle, laden with the wood, overturned at the Regional Forest Park at Induvalu in Mandya taluk early on Friday. Manju (40) from Kodagu district is the deceased. Manju, who was part of a four-member gang, had entered the Induvalu Nature Park (Induvalu Prakruti Udyanavana)…
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court (HC) on Friday issued a notice to Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna (son of former Minister H.D. Revanna) to personally explain on the charges that he had made false claims on Income Tax Returns, to the Election Commission (EC). The High Court was hearing a petition filed by the defeated BJP…
Mysuru: City BJP workers celebrated the ascension of B.S. Yediyurappa (BSY) as the Chief Minister of the State for the fourth time, by bursting crackers in front of the party office in Chamarajapuram here last evening. Addressing the party workers, former KEA Chairman B.P. Manjunath lashed out at JD(S) and Congress leaders for making baseless…
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