Hunsur: Suspecting the character of his wife, a drunk husband has allegedly killed his wife at Bijapur Dongri Gerasia Colony near B.R. Kaval, Hanagod hobli in the taluk on Saturday night. While the deceased is Manjula (30), the accused husband has been identified as Suresh. The couple has three children. Suresh used to reportedly come…
Two poachers with wild boar meat arrested
April 23, 2019Somwarpet: Forest Department Officials have arrested two persons who were allegedly transporting wild boar meat after poaching the wild boar in forest. The accused are Ashwath and Nishanth of Thaltare Shettalli. The duo are said to have hunted a wild boar at Hediyala in H.D. Kote taluk and were transporting about 40 kg meat. Acting…
Easter Sunday bomb blasts in Colombo: Four JD(S) leaders from State killed, three missing
April 22, 2019• Death toll rises to 290, 500 injured • 24 local Sri Lankans arrested for terror attack Bengaluru: Four Janata Dal (Secular) party leaders from Karnataka were killed in Colombo and three others are yet to contact their families after Sunday’s serial bomb blasts in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo that killed 290 people and…
EC orders probe into names missing from voters’ list
April 22, 2019Bengaluru: While voters of Bengaluru, especially the IT crowd, were mocked for low voting turnout in the Lok Sabha election, thousands of eligible voters were shocked as they found that their names were missing from the electoral rolls. Now, after several people complained about this, the State Election Commission has ordered an inquiry into the…
Will retire from politics if Nikhil loses: District Minister C.S. Puttaraju
April 22, 2019Mandya: Minor Irrigation and Mandya District in-charge Minister C.S. Puttaraju has said that he will retire from politics if Mandya Lok Sabha seat JD(S) candidate Nikhil Kumaraswamy loses the polls. Pointing out that he had extensively toured all eight Assembly segments of the Constituency, he said that Nikhil would get lead in all Assembly segments…
State Govt. targeting all those who supported me: Sumalatha
April 22, 2019Mandya: Mandya Lok Sabha Constituency independent candidate Sumalatha Ambarish has accused the State Government of targeting all those who supported her in the polls. Addressing a press meet here yesterday, Sumalatha lashed out at Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) for saying that he will make the actors who supported Sumalatha repent for their action and…
Conman who pulled wool over Police eyes arrested
April 22, 2019Engineering graduate poses as probationary IPS officer; cools his heels in jail Mysuru: An engineering graduate calling himself a Kerala Cadre IPS officer on probation tried to pull a fast one on City Police officers by seeking an air-conditioned SUV for a family vacation. But an alert officer from Krishnaraja Police Station caught his lie…
Median Strip plants go dry, mar city’s beauty
April 22, 2019Mysuru: The greening and beautification of the city was part of the Swachh Bharat campaign and hence many roads in the city with median strips were planted with eye-catching flowering plants. However, the plants on the median strip near Bamboo Bazaar on Sayyaji Rao Road opposite to the Deaf and Dumb School have gone dry….
Ballahalli Layout in limbo, thanks to election code
April 22, 2019MUDA to meet farmers on June 4 to end the long-pending deadlock Mysuru: The Election Model Code of Conduct has come in the way of the process of formation of Ballahalli Layout, one of the ambitious and a long pending project of Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA). Sources in MUDA told Star of Mysore that…
Rahul expresses regret in SC over his Rafale remarks
April 22, 2019New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi this morning expressed regret in the Supreme Court for “incorrectly” attributing his ‘Chowkidar Narendra Modi Chor Hai’ remarks to the top court’s verdict in the Rafale case. In response to a contempt petition filed against him in the SC, Gandhi said that the statement was made in the heat…














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