Mysore/Mysuru: The city Library Authority presented a Rs.7.36 crore budget at the Budget meeting held at the MCC Council Hall here on Friday. The meeting was chaired by Mayor Rukmini Madegowda. The meeting discussed in depth the issue of library cess dues that the MCC and MUDA have to remit. An Escrow Account will be…
One killed, three seriously injured as tipper collides with car
April 19, 2021Begur: A 55-year-old man was killed and three others suffered serious injuries when a tipper vehicle collided head-on with a car on National Highway (NH) 766 near Government PU College at Begur village yesterday. While the deceased has been identified as Nagarajappa, the seriously injured are Manjunath, Kavya and Shylaja, who are undergoing treatment at…
Fr. John Francis Texeira passes away
April 19, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Rev. Fr. John Francis Texeira (72), Parish Priest of Sacred Heart Church at Naganahalli, passed away yesterday at a private hospital in city following brief illness. Funeral was held today afternoon at the Catholic Cemetery in Belawadi Parish, Mysuru and the Requiem Holy Mass was held at 3 pm today at St. Joseph’s Cathedral…
Student commits suicide
April 19, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: An Engineering student committed suicide by hanging self at his house in Giridarshini Layout on Saturday morning. The deceased student is Sujith Obalesh Rai (19). Sujith had prepared himself to take up National Defence Academy (NDA) exams during holidays. His mother is a High School teacher. On Saturday morning, after his mother left for…
Fire Brigade staff avert major fire mishap at hotel
April 19, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Fire and Emergency Services personnel attached to Saraswathipuram Fire Brigade have averted a major fire mishap at a hotel in Dattagalli by extinguishing the fire on time and preventing it from spreading further. Yesterday evening, when the cooks at Uma Mahesh Prasad Hotel were heating oil in a vessel, the oil caught fire and…
C. Narayanagowda re-elected as Cosmopolitan Club President
April 19, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru Hotel Owners Association President C.Narayanagowda was re-elected as the President of the city’s Cosmopolitan Club in the election held yesterday. Narayanagowda defeated his only rival K.P. Devaraj by a huge margin of 231 votes, thus retaining the President post for the year 2021-22. While Narayanagowda got 357 votes, Devaraj secured 126 votes. Narayanagowda,…
Tahsildar’s nod must to book wedding halls
April 18, 2021Patrol teams to visit Choultries, bakeries, hotels, community halls in city from Apr. 19 Bengaluru: With COVID-19 cases continuing to increase by the day, the State Government has made obtaining permission from jurisdictional Tahsildars and Deputy Commissioners mandatory from now to book Choultries, community halls, convention centres or auditoriums for weddings and other programmes. Rules…
Tough curbs on cards, asserts Dr. K. Sudhakar
April 18, 2021Govt. to consider more restrictions including closure of public places where people gather Bengaluru: Speculation is rife that the State Government will consider some more curbs, which might include closure of public places where people gather. These curbs will be imposed in places where COVID-19 cases are seeing a huge spike. Speaking to reporters in…
KSRTC bus services continue to improve as strike enters twelfth day
April 18, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Government bus transport services in Mysuru saw further improvement this morning , even as the indefinite strike launched by employees of the four State-run Transport Corporations- KSRTC, BMTC, NWKRTC and NEKRTC, seeking fulfilment of their various demands, entered the twelfth day today. The employees of KSRTCs are on strike since Apr.7 urging the Government…
Activists stage demonstration against felling of trees for Heli-Tourism
April 18, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Strongly opposing the Tourism Department’s plans to fell trees for building Heli-Terminal near Lalitha Mahal Palace as part of Heli-Tourism project, over 50 activists under the banner of Parisara Balaga staged a demonstration in front of Lalitha Mahal grounds this morning in protest against the felling of trees. Holding placards that carried messages on…














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