Bengaluru: The B.S. Yediyurappa-led BJP Government, which recently appointed several ruling party MLAs as Chairpersons to a host of State-run Boards and Corporations, on Wednesday accorded the rank of Cabinet Minister to 13 Chairpersons and rank of Minister of State to four other Chairpersons. Accordingly, KSRTC (Bengaluru) Chairman M. Chandrappa, Karnataka Adi Jambava Development Corporation…
Get Building Licence in a Day
December 17, 2020MUDA opens special Over The Counter Service (OTC-S) Kiosk Mysore/Mysuru: For the first time in Karnataka State, the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) has launched ‘Namma Mane – Namma Licence’ service that will help people to get building plan approved within a day. Henceforth, citizens need not run from pillar to post or grease the…
Road-cutters beware !
December 17, 2020MCC is watching; Both Public and Govt. agencies will be penalised Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner’s strict warning against road-cutters is taken with a pinch of salt with different agencies damaging the blacktop and concrete roads in the name of repair or laying new pipelines. MCC Commissioner Gurudatta Hegde’s warning came in the…
Over 5,000 COVID-19 tests conducted daily
December 17, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: With a given target of 4,500 samples to be tested on daily basis, COVID-19 Testing Centres across the city are testing over 5,000 samples in a day. There are over 20 testing centres in city, 42 in rural places, 4-5 mobile testing teams in city and 4-5 in every taluk. While the Lab at…
30 percent of city MSMEs on the verge of closure
December 17, 2020Unrelenting COVID contagion, spiralling raw material prices, back-to-back strikes main factors Mysore/Mysuru: Over 30 percent of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), which are reeling under the impact of economic slowdown and COVID-19, are on the verge of closure by the end of this year, claim industry bodies at a meeting of industries associations of…
August 2020 Talacauvery Landslide – Old cracks, contour trenches, heavy rains main causes: GSI
December 17, 2020Experts’ team submits primary report; blames excessive human intervention in eco-sensitive area Madikeri: The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has submitted its primary report on the devastating landslip on the night of Aug. 5 this year where two houses at the foothills of Gajagiri Hill (Brahmagiri Hill Range) with its residents, including the chief priest…
MUDA plans Township at Lalithadripura
December 17, 2020Mulls 2,500 single, double-bedroom flats Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) is mulling developing a Township at Lalithadripura in the foot of Chamundi Hill. In this connection, Co-operation and District Minister S.T. Somashekar and MUDA Chairman H.V. Rajeev along with a team of officials inspected the spot yesterday [see pic]. Later, talking to media, the…
Gangs use social media to lay honey traps
December 17, 2020Cases of blackmailers laying honey traps and hacking private images and videos on the rise Mysore/Mysuru: With evolving technology we are stumbling upon new faces online these days. Social media allows us to interact with people from different fields and different part of the world. The best part is we become friends easily with new…
Lady CID officer commits suicide at friend’s house
December 17, 2020Bengaluru: A lady CID officer in Bengaluru allegedly committed suicide last night. She is identified as P.V. Lakshmi. The Dy.SP-rank official was posted in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Bengaluru. According to details available, the 33-year-old had gone to her friend’s house last night for dinner. She ended her life there. She was found…
Writer Prof. K.S. Bhagawan urges Govt. to install D. Devaraj Urs Statue in Mysuru
December 17, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Senior writer Prof. K.S. Bhagawan has urged the Government to install the statue of former Chief Minister D. Devaraj Urs in Mysuru before his (Urs) next birth anniversary on Aug.20,2021. He was speaking at a seminar on the thoughts of D. Devaraj Urs, organised jointly by D. Devaraj Urs Prathime Prathistapana Samithi and Mysuru…















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