Mysore/Mysuru: The City Crime Branch (CCB) Police, who raided a house at Nandini Layout in Alanahalli Police limits on Oct. 4, have arrested four persons on charges of peddling and storing narcotic substance and have seized 8.650 kg ganja from them. The arrested are 50-year-old Srinivasa, a native of Pushpapura in Kollegal taluk and presently…
KPTCL employees stage protest against privatisation moves
October 6, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Strongly condemning the Centre’s reported move to privatise public sector power transmission and distribution companies, the employees and officers of Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL) staged a symbolic demonstration by wearing black arm bands, in front of CESC Office on Sri Harsha Road in city yesterday. Accusing the Centre of fast tracking privatisation…
Medical Education Minister holds COVID review meeting
October 5, 2020Instructs officials to adopt centralised allotment system for admission of infected patients Mysore/Mysuru: With the number of COVID-19 positive cases rising by the day in the District, Medical Education Minister Dr. K. Sudhakar held a COVID-19 review meeting at ZP Hall here this morning. Soon as the meeting began, Deputy Commissioner Rohini Sindhuri apprised the…
Alleged Corruption Case: CBI sleuths raid DK Bros.
October 5, 2020Bengaluru: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths raided the houses of KPCC President D.K. Shivakumar (DKS) and his brother D.K. Suresh, MP from Bengaluru Rural, this morning. According to official sources, the raid has been conducted in relation to alleged charges of corruption under the Prevention of Corruption Act, initiated by the Enforcement Directorate…
World’s first Forensic Science University to be set up in India
October 5, 2020Hyderabad: Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G. Kishan Reddy yesterday said that the Union Government will set up the world’s first Forensic Science University in India. Speaking after inaugurating CCTV Cameras at DCP East Zone office in Amberpet here, Reddy said that the vacant posts of 41 percent in Forensic Labs would be…
‘Top priority in COVID immunisation to frontline healthcare workers’
October 5, 2020Union Health Minister interacts with social media users in Sunday Samvaad-4 States to submit lists of priority population groups by month end 400-500 million doses to cover approximately 20-25 crore people by July 2021 New Delhi: Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan yesterday said that the Government has set up several Committees to work out…
Nearly 10,000 candidates write KTET in city
October 5, 2020UPSC Prelims held at 14 centres with only 50 percent attendance Mysore/Mysuru: The Karnataka Teacher Eligibility Test (KTET) for getting qualified to appear in the Common Entrance Test (CET) for appointment as Government School Teachers (Primary and High Schools), was held yesterday in the city. While the KTET (High School) for B.Ed passed candidates was…
Wild tusker that created panic among villagers captured
October 5, 2020It is the tallest elephant captured in Kodagu Released at Moolehole Range in Bandipur Virajpet: A wild tusker, which had killed a man and attempted to damage vehicles besides causing panic among villagers since four months has been finally captured. The pachyderm was released yesterday midnight at Moolehole Range in Bandipur Tiger Reserve on instructions…
City Physicians support Corona Warriors
October 5, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Mysore Physicians’ Medical Research Trust (MPMRT) and Association of Physicians of India ( API), Mysore Chapter, donated disinfectant tunnels (Iodine tunnel which will be useful to disinfect PPE before doffing off) to JSS Hospital and KR Hospital recently. They also distributed one thousand 3M N95 face masks and pulse oximeters, and digital BP apparatuses …
SWR Mysuru Division conducts Anti-Plastic Campaign
October 5, 2020Distributes cloth bags to passengers Two staff in Yakshagana attire create awareness on wearing mask Mysore/Mysuru: As part of Swachta Pakhwara, South Western Railway (SWR), Mysuru Division, conducted an Anti-Plastic Campaign at Mysuru City Railway Station on Oct.1. On arrival of 06539 Special Express from Bengaluru on Platform 1, members of South Western Railway Women…















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