Mysuru: KSRTC has resumed bus service on a trial basis from Mysuru to Madikeri on Saturday. The service had been stopped since Thursday following landslides owing to heavy rain around Suntikoppa town. The first bus to Madikeri left city at 1 pm. One more left in the afternoon. Speaking to Star of Mysore KSRTC Divisional…
Identify land to build houses for victims in Kodagu: HDK
August 20, 2018Madikeri: Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy has directed the District Administration to identity land to construct houses for flood-affected victims on a priority basis. He was chairing a meeting on natural disaster relief operations at the Deputy Commissioner’s office here yesterday and said that the officials should come forward to identify land along with providing them…
Cracks in T. Narasipur bridge: NHAI clarifies on rumours
August 20, 2018Mysuru: Even as the social media is rife with rumours that the bridge across Kapila river in T. Narasipur has developed cracks, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has clarified that the rumours are baseless. NHAI Executive Engineer K.P. Mahadevaiah, in a press release has dismissed the rumours as far from truth and has…
Former PM Deve Gowda to donate two months’ salary for flood relief
August 20, 2018Mysuru/Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister and JD(S) Supremo H.D. Deve Gowda has announced that he will be donating his two months salary for flood relief funds in Kodagu and Kerala. Announcing this at a private function in city yesterday, the former PM said that he had never seen such a heavy rainfall in the last 60…
DFRL, CFTRI send food packets to Kodagu, Kerala
August 20, 2018Mysuru: Mysuru- based Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) and Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL) are despatching ready-to-eat meals and other food items that have long shelf-life to rain-ravaged Kodagu and Kerala. DFRL has sent three tonnes of food items for flood-affected people and the loads were despatched on Saturday. The consignment was airlifted from…
Eighty Pourakarmikas from Mysuru leave for Kodagu
August 20, 2018MCC Pourakarmikas seen at work in one of the Relief Centres in Kodagu this morning. Mysuru: Even as Kodagu continues to reel under the havoc caused by rain fury, over 80 Pourakarmikas (civic workers) from the city left for Kodagu yesterday to be part of rescue and relief operations going on there. MCC Commissioner K.H….
Nanjangud residents despatch 5,000 chapathis
August 20, 2018Nanjangud: Even as generous contributions for flood relief measures in Kodagu continues to pour in from across the State, a group of 30 women from Vidyanagar locality of the temple town have contributed their mite in their own way, by preparing 5,000 chapathis on Sunday, meant for despatch to Relief Centres in Kodagu. The women…
BBMP Pourakarmikas leave for Kodagu with 100 bio toilets
August 20, 2018Bengaluru: Three hundred Pourakarmikas of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) have left for Kodagu to render help in relief works. BBMP Additional Commissioner D. Randeep, speaking to Star of Mysore this morning, said that the first batch of 150 Pourakarmikas left Bengaluru last evening and stayed overnight at Nanjaraja Bahadur Choultry in Mysuru and left…
In the guise of customers… Rs.15 lakh stolen from Bank at Mandya
August 20, 2018Mandya: In a reported incident, a group of miscreants, posing as customers, stole Rs.15 lakh cash from SBI Bank at Mandya this morning. Soon as the SBI Bank (Agricultural Development Branch) at Bamdigowda Layout, opened at about 10 am, a group of miscreants, who are said to be 8 to 10 in number, entered the…
List of party candidates for MCC Polls
August 20, 2018Mysuru: Following is the list of party candidates who submitted the nominations for the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) election scheduled for Aug.31.
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