Kollegal: A Head Master of a Government School died after slipping and falling from his bike on the main road in front of Kollegal School for Speech and Hearing Impaired yesterday. The deceased is Mahadevashetty, HM of Hanur Government Model School and a resident of Madhuvanahalli in the taluk. Mahadevashetty, who left for his school…
Bengaluru serial bomb blast: Accused held after 12 years
September 22, 2020Bengaluru: Twelve years after the 2008 Bengaluru serial bomb blast case, the Police have made another breakthrough in the investigation of the case, with the arrest of the prime accused. The ATS (Anti-Terror Squad) Police have arrested Shoib from his hideout in Kerala. Shoib, who has been named as the prime accused, had gone absconding…
Woman-daughter run over by tipper
September 22, 2020Mandya: In a heart rending incident, a 35-year-old woman and her 4-year-old daughter were killed on the spot when a tipper allegedly ran over them at Holalu village in the taluk yesterday afternoon. However, the woman’s husband escaped with minor injuries. The deceased are Shashikala (35) and her daughter Lavanya (4). Shashikala’s husband, who escaped…
Appointed as KPCC Spokesperson
September 22, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: MLA Tanveer Sait has been appointed as Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) Spokesperson with immediate effect, according to KPCC President D.K. Shivakumar, in a press release. Sait, a senior Congress leader of the city, is a five-time Congress MLA from NR Constituency of the city. Tanveer was first elected to the Assembly in the…
Factory employee killed in road accident
September 22, 2020Jayapura: A 26-year-old youth, working at TVS factory was killed on the spot and pillion rider sustaining serious injuries in a road accident between his bike and a Tata vehicle on Mysuru-Hullahalli Main Road yesterday evening. The deceased is Mahesh, son of Shivanna and Chikkasanamma couple of S. Kallahalli village. The seriously injured pillion rider,…
Civic Body heads for financial crisis
September 21, 2020Only Rs. 67 crore Property Tax collected as against Rs. 150 crore target By Shyam Sundar Vattam Mysore/Mysuru: Perhaps for the first time in recent years, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is heading for a deep financial crisis with a sharp decline in Property Tax collection. The current COVID-19 crisis has delivered such a deadly…
Legislature Session begins: Govt. Planning to truncate Session to three days
September 21, 2020Bengaluru: The eight-day scheduled Monsoon Legislature Session spanning 10 days began at Vidhana Soudha this morning amidst speculations that the ruling BJP Government, taking cue from the Centre’s decision to end the ongoing Parliament Session in New Delhi early due to alarming rise in COVID-19 cases, has planned to curtail the Session to just three…
MCC collaborating with BAI to set up Construction Waste Treatment Plant
September 21, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru’s garbage problem is well-known but another crisis is growing in scale without attracting the same level of scrutiny or outcry. Thousands of tonnes of construction and demolition waste is illegally dumped at open sites, along the ring road, street corners and also on lake-beds. Mysuru City Corporation’s (MCC) efforts to streamline the disposal…
Mandya priests’ murder case: Four more arrested; total arrests go up to nine
September 21, 2020Mandya: Mandya Police, who had arrested five persons allegedly involved in the murder of three priests of Sri Arkeshwara Swamy Temple — managed by Muzrai Department — at Guttalu village of Mandya taluk on the night of Sept. 10, have arrested four more persons bringing the total number of arrests to nine. Those arrested are…
Retired Principal brutally murdered at his house
September 21, 2020• Found dead with multiple stab injuries • Movements of killers captured on CCTV camera Mysore/Mysuru: A 67-year-old retired Principal, who was staying alone at his house on the 4th Cross at Nivedithanagar, has been brutally murdered by miscreants last night. The murder in a residential area has shocked residents. The deceased is Parashivamurthy. He…















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