Madikeri: The Kodagu District Administration has said that 35 workers in coffee estates and plantations have died of electrocution in the last four-and-a-half years. This has been attributed to the practice of using specially-fabricated metallic ladders, which tend to be up to 30 feet high, to reach tree tops for pruning. But there is an…
Mysuru: In separate incidents, an elderly person is among three others who have gone missing from city. In the first incident, 67-year-old M.R. Balakrishna, who left his house at Siddivinayaka Block, Teachers Layout, on May 28 at about 7 pm, has since gone missing. Balakrishna is suffering from Parkinson’s disease and is unable to speak…
Mysuru: City Crime Branch (CCB) Police have arrested a youth on charges of stealing a gold chain and a mobile phone and have recovered a gold chain and an iPhone worth about Rs.1.04 lakh from him. The arrested is 20-year-old Mudasir Khan, a resident of Usmania Block 17th Cross at Ghousia Nagar in city. During…
Mysuru: Thousands of Muslim brethren gathered at the sprawling Eidgah Maidan in Tilaknagar today to offer prayers as part of Eid ul Fitr, also called the “Festival of Breaking Fast.” Hazarath Moulana Mohd. Usman Shariff, Sir Khazi of Mysuru, who led the mass prayers, said: “After one month of fasting, we assemble in the open…
Mysuru: It was on December 14, 2018 the dastardly act of human poisoning shook the conscience of the Nation where hundreds of devotees were served Prasadam laced with poison at Kichuguth Sulwadi Maramma Temple in Hanur taluk of Chamarajanagar district. Over 17 persons were killed and more than 120 fell ill after consuming the prasadam…
New Delhi: Amidst reports that the country is facing the worst job crisis in 45 years, the NDA Government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has come forward to fill up 75,000 vacancies in various Central Government Departments. As a first step, the Centre has begun gathering information on the number of vacancies in each…
Mysuru: Owing to first quarterly maintenance works by 66/11 KV Vijayanagar Power Distribution Centre, power supply will be disrupted in the following areas coming under the limits of V.V. Mohalla CESC Division on June 7 from 10 am to 6 pm. Areas to be affected are Gokulam First and Second Stages, Madeshwara Layout, Vijayanagar First…
MCC Assistant Executive Engineer Sunil Babu and Junior Engineer M.N. Mohanakumari suspended Mysuru: Heads have rolled in the Mysuru City Corporation’s (MCC) double billing scam where Rs.1.40 crore was allegedly siphoned off by submitting two bills for the same work on a stretch of Mahatma Gandhi Road. The State Government has suspended MCC Assistant Executive…
Mysuru: The chorus grew for naming Mysore Airport at Mandakalli in the name of Rajarshi Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar, with District Minister G.T. Devegowda (GTD) joining the MLAs of the old Mysuru region and the MP in declaring that they would all urge the Central Government for the name change. GTD was reacting to the suggestion…
Pet dog refuses to leave spot; forcibly taken away Kushalnagar: A retired Revenue Assistant Commissioner died on-the-spot after a truck collided against his car on Hassan-Kushalnagar State Highway near Thorenuru village yesterday morning. The deceased is 65-year-old Dr. K.A. Appaiah. His wife Meenakshi, who suffered serious injuries, has been shifted to a hospital in Mysuru….
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