Indore retains Cleanest City tag for fourth year in a row; Surat bags second spot, Navi Mumbai ranked third Mysuru adjudged top city under population category of 3 to 10 lakh; Hunsur, K.R. Nagar, Periyapatna, H.D. Kote too bag awards Mysuru/New Delhi: The Union Government this noon announced the results of annual survey of cleanliness,…
Palar bomb blast case convict dies at K.R. Hospital
August 20, 202022 persons were killed in blast engineered by forest brigand Veerappan on April 9, 1993 Mysore/Mysuru: A convict in the Palar bomb blast case engineered by forest brigand Veerappan breathed his last at K.R. Hospital in city this morning. He has been identified as 66-year-old Moris Gownder Bilavendran. Bilavendran was housed at the Mysuru Central…
PM Modi to declare India’s Cleanest City tomorrow
August 19, 2020Mysuru among Top 10 Cleanest Cities; virtual event at Palace tomorrow at 11 am Two MCC Pourakarmikas selected to interact with the Prime Minister New Delhi/Mysuru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually announce the results of the Fifth Edition of the Annual Cleanliness Survey ‘Swachh Survekshan 2020’ tomorrow at 11 am. The announcement of 2020…
Sushant Singh Rajput Case: SC Orders CBI Probe
August 19, 2020New Delhi: The CBI will take over investigations into actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, the Supreme Court ordered this morning, asking the Mumbai Police to hand over all evidence it has collected to the investigating agency. The SC also said the FIR registered in Patna based on a complaint filed by Sushant Singh’s father was…
No giant Ganeshas this year
August 19, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Every year by now, the main thoroughfares of Mysuru city would have colourful and huge idols of Ganesha and Gowri, some with even varied themes. But this season, the scene is different with COVID-19 taking the sheen off the celebrations. Areas including K.T. Street, Ramakrishnanagar, Agrahara Circle, near 101 Ganapathi Temple, Paduvarahalli, Saraswathipuram, Kuvempunagar,…
Makeshift Flower Market at J.K. Grounds
August 19, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: J.K. Grounds in the heart of the city and located very close to the City Railway Station, was a bee-hive of activity this morning as people from all parts of the city thronged the venue for purchase of flowers and other puja articles for the Gowri-Ganesha festival later this week. In view of the…
Boundary survey for Mysuru-Madikeri Expressway begins
August 19, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has begun boundary marking exercise and land acquisition survey for the four/ six-lane Mysuru-Madikeri Economic Corridor Expressway Project along the Mysuru-Madikeri NH-275. The 115 km-long Expressway costing Rs.6,000 crore is a fully Centrally-funded Project including land acquisition. The new Highway is being built to connect Mysuru and…
Government issues guidelines for Ganesha Festival celebrations
August 19, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: As the lockdown in Containment Zones is extended till Aug. 31 and permission not given to conduct social, political, sports, entertainment, education and religious activities and other mass meetings in the State Government’s July 30 order and as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Chief Secretary and Working Committee President of…
COVID-19 restrictions dampen spirits of traditional idol-makers
August 19, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Following the State Government’s guidelines restricting the Ganesha Chaturthi Festival celebrations in order to check the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most affected people are traditional Gowri-Ganesha idol-makers in the region. In Kumbarageri alone, which is located near Gandhi Chowk in city, there are over 20 families, who have been depending on…
MUDA reclaims land worth Rs.6 cr. on which sites were illegally allotted
August 19, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: In yet another drive against encroachment of its land, the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) has reclaimed 10 sites which were illegally allotted by a Housing Society on a parcel of land, which was part of MUDA’s Land Bank. In a press release issued on Tuesday, MUDA Commissioner Dr. D.B. Natesh said that the…















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