Mysuru: Seating capacity at the famed Torchlight Parade Grounds at Bannimantap has just got bigger. The Grounds that hosts the Dasara Torchlight Parade and other events like Independence Day and Republic Day parades can now accommodate 33,500 people instead of the earlier 22,000 – an increase of 11,500 seats. Considering the need to accommodate more…
RTO (East) Office to shift to own building next month
July 13, 2018Mysuru: The newly-built Regional Transport Office (East) in city at Rajivnagar is likely to become functional from the second week of August. Tenders have been invited to furnish the RTO Office at a cost of Rs. 46 lakh and works on electricity, water and computer connectivity are likely to be completed by the end of…
Trucks banned on Madikeri-Mangaluru Road
July 13, 2018Mysuru: – Following cracks developing on Madikeri-Mangaluru Road due to incessant rains, the Kodagu District Administration has banned movement of trucks on the road from today. However, buses have been permitted to ply on the road. Cracks were witnessed on the road at about 500 metres from the General Thimmaiah Statue this morning and there…
Pratap Simha inspects building work at AIISH
July 13, 2018Mysuru: MP Pratap Simha visited the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) yesterday to inspect ongoing works on Rs.137 crore Centre of Excellence. Seeing the slow pace of the work which began in 2014 after the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr. Harshavardhan had laid the foundation stone, he asked the…
New attraction at Kalamandira
July 13, 2018Mysuru: Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited (BRBNMPL) Managing Director Jagamohan Rao inaugurated the artificial waterfall created in front of Kalamandira, here yesterday. Later, speaking at the Kiru Rangamandira, Rao said that Rs.1.40 crore had been given to Navadoya Schools through their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds. This year basic facilities will be provided…
Retired IAS Officer killed as tractor overturns
July 13, 2018Mysuru: Retired IAS officer S.N. Nagaraj (62), died after the tractor he was driving overturned at his farm at Doddabyadarahalli in Pandavapura taluk of Mandya district yesterday. The retired officer met the tragic end at around 12.30 pm after his bid to remove a tractor that had tilted in his farm. He was driving a…
Mummadi’s Jayanti tomorrow
July 13, 2018Mysuru: Maharaja’s High School and PU College Alumni Association along with Oriental Research Institute, University of Mysore and Ursu Maha Mandali will celebrate Mummadi Krishnaraj Wadiyar’s Jayanti tomorrow at Nalwadi Krishnaraj Wadiyar Auditorium of the Institution on JLB Road. MLA L.Nagendra will inaugurate by garlanding the bust of Mummadi in front of the Institution…
Music concert at Ganabharathi
July 13, 2018Vidu. Suchitra Holla will present a vocal recital at Ganabharathi’s Veene Seshanna Bhavana, Kuvempunagar, on Saturday 14th July at 6 pm. She will be accompanied by Vid. C.N. Thyagarajan on violin, Vid. B. S. Anand on mridanga and Vid. Vikram Bharadwaj on ghata. The concert is open to all. Profile: Vidu. Suchitra Holla, hailing from…
NRI teenager to enthrall Hindusthani connoisseurs
July 13, 2018Sri Nadabrahma Sangeetha Sabha has organised a Hindusthani Classical Vocal by an American teenager Tharini Nagarkar on July 15 (Sunday) at 6 pm at the Sabha premises. She will be accompanied by Pt. Bhimashankar Bidanoor on tabla and Pt.Veerabhadrayya Hiremath on harmonium. The programme is being sponsored by art patron K.V.Murthy. Tharini Nagarkar, a 16…
Man cheats people using Puneeth Rajkumar’s name
July 13, 2018Mysuru: A youth posed as a personal assistant to actor Puneeth Rajkumar and has managed to cheat several people to the tune of lakhs of rupees at Bannur village in T. Narsipur taluk. The incident came to light after some of the victims came together to lodge a complaint in this regard yesterday. The youth,…















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