Mysuru: Marking International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, awareness rallies were taken out in city on June 26. Hundreds of JSS Medical College students, doctors and staff of Department of Drug Control under the aegis of Department of Drug Control, Regional Office and Railway Security took out an awareness rally from City Railway…
Self-styled leader from Mysuru arrested for rape in Bengaluru
June 28, 2019Mysuru: The Byadarahalli Police in Bengaluru have arrested a person for allegedly raping a woman in the guise of securing a seat for her child in a school under the Right To Education (RTE) Act. The accused M. Anandkumar hails from Mysuru and is a resident of Byadarahalli D-Group Layout in Bengaluru. Anandkumar is a…
Mother and daughters go missing from city
June 28, 2019Mysuru: A mother and her two daughters have gone missing from Mysuru South Police limits since June 24. While the missing woman is 35-year-old Padma, her daughters who have gone missing along with her are 13-year-old Ramya and 11-year-old Revathi, residents of S. Uttanahalli in the taluk. Padma is 5 ft. tall, oval faced, oily…
Youth commits suicide
June 28, 2019He took the extreme step after his wife went missing next day after marriage Nanjangud: A youth, who had got married to the girl he had loved, committed suicide after she went missing the next day of their marriage. The deceased youth is Vignesh (22), son of Basavaraju of Devanur village in the taluk. Vignesh…
Monsoon Seed Festival begins
June 28, 2019Mysore: The three-day Monsoon Seed Festival, jointly organised by NABARD, Sahaja Seeds and Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture, began at Nanjaraja Bahadur Choultry on Vinoba Road here this morning. The fest (10 am to 7 pm) got off to a start with Joint Director of Agriculture Dr. M. Mahanteshappa pouring Ragi into a bowl…
Convert NR Choultry land into multi-level parking lot
June 27, 2019Nanjaraja Bahadur Choultry Management Committee President C. Krishnappa’s suggestion to District Administration, Police Mysore: The vexed issue of vehicle parking on the commercial hub of D. Devaraja Urs Road in the Central Business District of Mysuru City could soon be a thing of the past if the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) and the City Police…
Are City parking facilities JINXED?
June 27, 2019Town Hall parking still not open due to incomplete works, bureaucratic delay Zoo parking fails to take off due to revenue sharing standoff between MCC and Zoo authorities Mysore: Following the suggestion of opening Nanjaraja Bahadur Choultry for a multi-level parking facility, Star of Mysore did a reality check on the other parking facilities in…
Devastating Bandipur Inferno: Disciplinary action recommended against Senior Forest officials
June 27, 2019Mysore: The Karnataka Forest Department has written to the State Government to take disciplinary action against senior and junior Forest officials for the devastating forest fire that occurred in Bandipur National Park during February this year. The inferno had destroyed more than 3,000 hectares of fully grown forest in the ecologically sensitive Tiger Reserve that…
‘Nagarahole Tiger Reserve will not be expanded to include villages’
June 27, 2019Wildlife First clarifies on reports that say Ponnampet, Hunsur and Periyapatna will be included in forest expansion Mysore: Wildlife First, a conservation advocacy organisation that has been intensively campaigning for nearly two decades in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot in South India, has stated that a buffer zone to support tiger populations cannot include private…
Government Schools to be developed on the lines of model schools in Delhi and Kerala
June 27, 2019Bengaluru: Primary and Secondary Education Minister S.R. Srinivas has said that government schools in the State would be developed on the lines of model schools in Delhi and Kerala. He was speaking to the media here yesterday after having a meeting with officials of the Department. Srinivas said that he, along with officials, would visit…















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