Madikeri: The Karnataka High Court will on Aug.20, hear the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) Petition against the proposed Railway lines that cuts through Kodagu and the expansion of Highways inside the district. The PIL (WP 17990/2018) was filed on 24.4.2018 by the then President of Coorg Wildlife Society Col. (retd.) C.P. Muthanna, who is also…
Mad rush at Aadhaar registration centres
July 18, 2019Mysuru: The staff at all Aadhaar card registration centres in city had a hard time today as all the centres witnessed unusual huge crowds this morning. The Food & Civil Supplies Department has made it mandatory for all the beneficiaries mentioned in every BPL card to get their Aadhaar number linked with the Department for…
‘Kushalnagar-Madikeri Railway line will kill River Cauvery’
July 18, 2019Madikeri: Coorg Wildlife Society President K.C. Biddappa has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal, and Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi and Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar urging them to shelve the proposed Railway project from Kushalnagar to Madikeri through the ecologically fragile hilly…
School water tank poisoning case: Students recovering; to be kept under observation for two days
July 18, 2019Mandya: The students of A. Hulkere Government High School, who had consumed pesticide-laced drinking water from the School’s overhead water tank and admitted to the hospital, are recovering and the doctors are continuing with the treatment. As the miscreants had mixed organophosphorus, a pesticide, the doctors, suspecting that the pesticide may react at later stages,…
Sugar Factory accused of cheating farmers
July 18, 2019DC orders formation of Expert Panel Mysuru: Following complaints that Bannari Amman Sugar Factory at Alagunchi in Nanjangud Taluk of the District was cheating sugarcane growers, Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar has directed the authorities to form a Committee of experts to look into the matter. Chairing a meeting of farmers at the ZP Hall…
Missing Kodagu boy traced in Mysuru
July 18, 2019Madikeri/ Mysuru: A Madikeri youth, who left his house on July 5 saying that he was going to the college to see his 2nd PUC preparatory exam results and went missing, has been traced in Mysuru. The missing youth, who has been found, is Tej Kumar. Following Tej Kumar going missing, his parents had lodged…
Saravana Bhavan Founder, serving life sentence, dies in Chennai Hospital
July 18, 2019Chennai: P. Rajagopal, the owner of the Saravana Bhavan chain of restaurants, died this morning at a hospital here, a week after he surrendered to serve a life sentence for the 2001 kidnapping and murder of an employee. He was 72. Rajagopal, also known as the Dosa King, was put on a ventilator on Saturday…
B.T. Kavitha is new DCP (Crime & Traffic)
July 18, 2019Mysuru: The State Government yesterday appointed Senior Police Officer B.T. Kavitha as the new DCP (Crime & Traffic) of the city. She was serving as SP, State Intelligence at Mysuru. It may be mentioned here that B.T. Kavitha, who was earlier too appointed as city DCP in September last, was transferred just a day after…
His first day of work was his last day too
July 18, 2019Mysuru: In a tragic incident, a 25-year-old youth reportedly died of a heart attack on the day he had joined duty at a milk agency in city. R. Parashuram, son of N. Raju, a retired KSRTC employee and a resident of second cross, Annammakeri, Gandhinagar, is the deceased. Parashuram had joined for work at Nimishamba…
Rs.2 lakh pickpocketed from man sipping coffee: Accused arrested within 24 hours
July 18, 2019Mysuru: Lashkar Police have arrested two persons on charges of pickpocketing Rs.2 lakh from a person, who was sipping coffee at a coffee shop and have recovered Rs.1.20 lakh from them. The Police arrested the accused within 24 hours of lodging the complaint. The arrested are 42-year-old Akram Khan of Ghousianagar and 40-year-old Asgar Ahmed…















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