Pakistan Court sentences former Pak President in High Treason Case Lahore: A three-judge Bench of a Special Court in Pakistan today handed down death sentence to former Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf for high treason, according to Pak media reports. The retired General of Pakistan Army was the 10th President of Pakistan from 2001 until…
Government House Heritage Arch conservation works begin
December 17, 2019Mysuru: Following reports that the unscientific widening of the Bengaluru-Nilgiris Road (B.N. Road) has endangered the Heritage Arch at the entrance of the Government Guest House in Nazarbad, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) began the civil works for erection of safety grills to the Arch this morning. The District Special Heritage Committee headed by the…
Pratap Simha flags off Mysuru-Yelahanka MEMU Train
December 17, 2019Mysuru: The city got yet another train service to Bengaluru, with Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha flagging off the new Mysuru-Yelahanka MEMU (Mainline Electric Multiple Units) daily train (No.06562) at the city Railway Station last night. The MEMU train leaves Mysuru at 22.20 hours and reaches Yelahanka at 01.30 hours. On it’s return journey, Train No.06561…
Organisations stage massive demo in city against CAA
December 17, 2019Mysuru: Even as protests against the Centre’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) continues to rage across the country, here in the city, hundreds of people, under the banner of various organisations, staged a massive demonstration at Town Hall premises yesterday afternoon. Holding placards that read ‘No CAA and No NRC’, ‘CAA is unconstitutional’ etc., the protesters…
‘Innovation needed for transfer of technologies to augment farmers income’
December 17, 2019Mysuru: ICAR Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute (ATARI), Bengaluru, Extension Education Society (EES) of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) and ICAR-JSS Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Suttur, had jointly organised a three-day International Conference on Extension for Strengthening Agricultural Research and Development (eSARD 2019) from Dec. 14 to 16 at Suttur. The conference was to commemorate…
Brain dead accident victim saves four lives by donating organs
December 17, 2019Mysuru: A 27-year-old youth, who had met with a road accident near Ganangur village in Srirangapatna Taluk of Mandya district at 10.30 pm on Dec. 14 and brought to Apollo Hospital in city at about 12.30 am on Dec. 15, where he was declared ‘Brain Dead,’ has saved the lives of four people after his…
Government to decide on public exam for 7th std. tomorrow
December 17, 2019Bengaluru: Even as confusion persists on public exam for seventh standard, the State Government on Monday said that it will take a final call on the issue on Wednesday. Addressing a press meet here yesterday, Primary and Secondary Education Minister S. Suresh Kumar said that several private educational institutions and Child Rights Commission have expressed…
Several organisations withdrew from anti-CAA protest: City Top Cop
December 17, 2019Mysuru: Even as hundreds of people gathered at Town Hall yesterday to take part in the protest called by a host of organisations from across the city against Centre’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), City Police Commissioner K.T. Balakrishna said that several organisations withdrew from the protest. In a press release issued on Monday, Balakrishna said…
Mayoral Polls: BJP making behind the scene moves to wrest power in MCC
December 17, 2019Mysuru: Buoyed by the emphatic victory of the party in the recently held Assembly by-polls, the BJP, which does not have enough numbers on its own to attain power in the 65-member Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), is said to be making behind the scene moves to wrest the Mayor’s post, even before the Government would…
Pandavapura cops arrest 7 dacoits including 4 from Mysuru
December 17, 2019Recover Rs.9.26 lakh worth gold; solve 6 cases Mandya: Pandavapura Police, who have arrested seven dacoits, have not only recovered Rs.9.26 lakh worth gold jewellery but have also solved six dacoity cases in Pandavapura, Srirangapatna, Saligrama and Hassan’s Gorur Police limits. Addressing a press meet at his office yesterday, Mandya SP K. Parashuram said that…















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