Mysuru: MLA Vasu performed puja using a trowel (karni) for the renovation and restoration of the 185-year-old Maharaja’s PU College building on JLB Road here this morning. The work has commenced as the Director, Department of PU Education C. Shikha, has released Rs.1.50 crore grant, though the proposal sent by the College was for Rs….
Mysuru: Finally, the city will get a modern, hi-tech and scientific mechanised abattoir (slaughterhouse). The Rs. 40 crore project is likely to get the approval at the MCC Council meeting today evening. The modern abattoir will be set up beyond 200 metres from Outer Ring Road and a new place has been identified for the…
Bengaluru: In a significant move that is set to heat up the political scene ahead of the Karnataka Assembly elections, the Congress-led Siddharamaiah Government yesterday decided to give independent religious status to the Lingayat community, which forms 17% of the State’s population, and decided to ask the Centre to grant it minority status. The two…
Chennai: Natarajan Maruthappa, businessman and husband of J. Jayalalithaa’s aide V.K. Sasikala, died at a private hospital in Chennai on the wee hours of today. He was 74. Natarajan had been admitted to the Gleneagles Global Hospital in Chennai after his condition deteriorated a few days ago and he had been placed on ventilator. He…
Mysuru: Is there a larger conspiracy of using Veerayodha A.P. Prashanth Park at K.C. Nagar for commercial purposes by hoodwinking residents of the area? This is a question bothering residents of K.C. Nagar following the Guddali Puja for a Makkala Mantapa (children’s stage) that was performed by Krishnaraja MLA M.K. Somashekar yesterday. The original plan…
Mysuru: A two-day workshop on Epigraphy organised by the Department of Archaeology, Heritage and Museums commenced this morning at its premises at Dasara Exhibition Grounds here. About 100 researchers in the field who are participating in the workshop will be groomed on various forms of inscriptions and technical modalities of their systematic study. Inaugurating the…
Bengaluru: With the countdown for the Rajya Sabha polls begun, the JD(S) has issued whip to all its party Legislators, including seven rebel MLAs, who had voted against the party’s official candidate in the 2016 RS Polls. The whip has asked all the party MLAs to vote for the party candidate B.M. Farooq. The JD(S)…
Mysuru: There is a special shelter called ‘Gelathi’ setup in the Cheluvamba Hospital in K.R. Hospital premises for the harassed women and children. The special cell setup earlier by Women and Child Welfare Department in all the Districts and Taluk Hospitals for the treatment of women and children has now been rechristened as ‘Gelathi’ (meaning…
Madikeri: The State Government has given permission to capture four elephants for creating havoc by killing human beings and destroying crops. DFO Manjunath said that the operation to capture the four elephants will be taken up soon. Speaking to SOM, the DFO said that directions have been given to capture two rogue elephants each in…
Moscow: Vladimir Putin cruised to victory in Sunday’s Russian Presidential elections. His fourth term as president will extend until 2024, making him the first Kremlin leader to serve two decades in power since Josef Stalin. Turnout, was close to 60% as of 9 pm GMT on Sunday evening after a long day of voting. The…
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