Mysuru: Devaraja Police have arrested a 23-year-old youth on charges of snatching mobile phones from public and lifting two-wheelers. The Police have recovered mobile phones and stolen two-wheelers from him. The accused is Syed Wasim, a resident of Usmania Block at Ghousianagar in city. During interrogation, the accused is said to have confessed of lifting…
Movement of poultry banned to and fro Mysuru-Kerala
January 6, 2021Mysuru; A day after Kerala declared the outbreak of bird flu (H5N8) in Kottayam and Alappuzha Districts as a State disaster, the Mysuru District Administration has banned transportation of poultry and other birds to Kerala from Mysuru and from Kerala to Mysuru through the Bavali checkpost in H.D. Kote taluk as a precautionary measure. The…
Kadakola Inland Container Depot will spur growth: MP Pratap Simha
January 6, 2021Mysuru: The ambitious work on Inland Container Depot (ICD) for Railways at Kadakola near Nanjangud by Container Corporation of India (CONCOR) will spur industrial activity both in and around Mysuru. The project will be undertaken with stringent adherence to quality and as per the CONCOR standards, said Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha on Monday. He was…
Mumbai brush aside Bengaluru to extend their unbeaten run
January 6, 2021Hero Indian Super League 2020-21 Margao: Mumbai City FC extended their unbeaten run in Hero Indian Super League (Hero ISL) 2020-21 to eight games after a 3-1 win against Bengaluru FC at the Fatorda Stadium yesterday. Mourtada Fall opened the scoring for the Islanders in the 9th minute and Bipin Singh doubled their advantage six…
80,000 street lights to be replaced with LED bulbs
January 5, 2021Project worth Rs. 108 crore, global tenders invited MCC to save 40 to 55 percent of Rs. 28 crore spent annually on street lights Mysore/Mysuru: The 2015-16 proposal of the State Government to replace conventional street lights with energy-efficient Light Emitting Diode (LED) lights in Mysuru will soon become a reality as the Mysuru City…
One bribery case, two disciplinary actions
January 5, 2021Govt. suspends Village Accountant while transfers Revenue Inspector Mysore/Mysuru: The State Government has followed two yardsticks to punish a Revenue Inspector and a Village Accountant, who had been caught red-handed while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs. 40,000 from a farmer for Khata transfer. While the Village Accountant has been suspended, the Revenue Inspector has…
Bird Flu Scare in Kerala: Mysuru Zoo, Bird Sanctuary on high alert
January 5, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: After Kerala was placed on high alert on Monday following outbreak of bird flu in Kottayam and Alappuzha districts, Mysuru Zoo and Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary have been put on high alert. Mysuru Zoo Executive Director Ajit M. Kulkarni, speaking to Star of Mysore this morning said that the Zoo Authority of Karnataka (ZAK) and…
Clear cables from electric poles on ‘Ambaari’ bus route or face action, CESC warns
January 5, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Having found optical fibre and dish TV cables hung zig-zag to electric poles during route inspection by Karnataka State Tourism Development Corporation (KSTDC) before embarking on operation of ‘Ambaari’, a specially-built double-decker bus for open-roof tours in Mysuru, KSTDC officials have asked Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Company Limited (CESC) to take steps for its removal…
Students want Semester End Exam online but VTU says ‘No’
January 5, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Even as students of National Institute of Engineering (NIE), Mysuru, want online conduct of Semester End Examination (SEE), Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, has directed all autonomous, non-autonomous, UG and PG centres of VTU to conduct SEE, both theory and practicals/laboratory, only in offline (in-person) mode by adhering to Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) guidelines…
Officials asked to continue strict measures to tackle COVID-19
January 5, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: State Chief Secretary P. Ravikumar on his first visit to the city, after taking charge of the post on Dec. 31, 2020 following the retirement of T.M. Vijay Bhaskar, instructed the officials to continue the strict measures in place for the next two months as well in order to tackle the deadly COVID-19 pandemic….















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