Mysuru: Cracking down on litterbugs, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is using footages from CCTV cameras installed at various vantage points in city to identify garbage throwers and penalise them. Fines between Rs.100 and Rs.1,000 are being levied as per the Municipal Corporation bylaws. Already may rule violators have been fined and MCC officers say…
Former Chairman K.A. Muddappa clarifies on reports of lease renewal Mysuru: The State Government has not yet renewed the lease of Mysore Race Club (MRC). It was published in Star of Mysore on July 7 this year that the lease has been renewed for 30 years after hectic parleys between the Government and the Leasing…
District Minister asks officials to do away with monotonous events Mysuru: This year’s Dasara will include new events that will make the annual festivities even more exciting. “The Naada Habba will be celebrated in a traditional, meaningful and unique manner,” Mysuru District Minister V. Somanna announced after chairing a Dasara Executive Committee meeting at the…
Thiruvananthapuram: Despite Supreme Court directing the continuation of the overnight traffic ban on the National Highway (NH) running through the core area of the Bandipur Tiger Reserve, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan yesterday batted in favour of an elevated highway through the Bandipur National Park connecting Wayanad in Kerala and Mysuru in Karnataka. Vijayan, in…
Mysuru: The six Dasara elephants which are presently housed at Aranya Bhavan in Ashokapuram, will be brought to the Palace at 12 noon tomorrow (Aug.26). The six Dasara elephants – Arjuna, Abhimanyu, Dhananjaya, Eshwara, Varalakshmi and Vijaya, were brought in the first batch from Veeranahosahalli hamlet bordering Nagarahole National Park in Hunsur taluk through Gajapayana…
• DC, who is also the Heritage Committee Chairman and Archaeology Department officials say they have no information about it. • The razing work, taken up by MUDA three months ago, was stopped then after stiff opposition. Mysuru: Just three months after the demolition works of the century-old school building at Ittigegud taken up by…
Mysuru: The nearly century-old Government-run K.R. Hospital, popularly known as ‘Doddaspathre’ among the masses, Cheluvamba Hospital, PKTB and MMC&RI buildings, which are heritage structures, are in a shambles due to poor maintenance and negligence by authorities. Recently, the portico of Fire Brigade building at Saraswathipuram, which is also a heritage structure, collapsed due to heavy…
To be cremated on Yamuna River banks New Delhi: Former Finance Minister and BJP veteran Arun Jaitley (66), who died yesterday, will be cremated with State honours this afternoon on the banks of Yamuna River. His body was kept at the BJP headquarters where party workers and leaders paid their last respects before cavalcade carrying…
Mysuru: The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) celebrated Sri Krishna Janmashtami festival in great fervour last night at its centre in Jayanagar here. Elaborate arrangements were made for the celebration which began in the morning with Sringara Aarati at 7.30 am. The traditional ‘Phool Bungalow’ concept, very much followed in North India, was the…
CII holds seminar on “Legacy Dispute Resolution Scheme, GST New Returns and Budget 2019” Mysuru: The new monthly GST return filing system will be rolled out from October, said P.M. Prabhakaran, Partner & Advocate, Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan, Attorneys. Speaking during the one-day seminar on ‘Legacy Dispute Resolution Scheme, GST New Returns and Budget 2019’ organised…
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