Mysuru: In a joint operation, the officials and personnel of the Labour Department, Child Helpline, Special Children Police Unit and the City Crime Branch (CCB), acting on a tip off, that children from various localities were working as child labourers, raided a vessel manufacturing unit in Mandi Mohalla and rescued eight children who were found…
House burglars arrested
August 20, 2017Gold ornaments worth about Rs. 2.5 lakh and Rs. 47,000 cash recovered Mysuru: The City Crime Branch (CCB) Police, on Aug. 18, have arrested two house burglars near Sri Nagaraja Theatre in Mandi Mohalla here and have recovered gold ornaments weighing 69 grams (worth about Rs. 2.5 lakh) and Rs. 47,000 cash from them. The…
Suicide victim succumbs to burns
August 20, 2017Mysuru: Unable to repay the loans he had taken, a man, addicted to alcohol, who had poured petrol on himself and set himself on fire in a bid to end his life on Aug. 14 and admitted to K.R. Hospital here, breathed his last yesterday after failing to respond to the treatment. The man has…
Calling meritorious students
August 20, 2017Mysuru: Mysuru and Chamarajanagar District Arya Edigara Sangha, Krishnamurthypuram, has invited applications from meritorious Arya Ediga community students, who have secured high marks in SSLC and PUC exam, to present ‘Pratibha Puraskar’ at a function on Sept.10. Eligible students may obtain the prescribed applications from the office of the Sangha and submit the filled in…
Accounts and Audit Panels to monitor Dasara expenditure
August 19, 2017Mysuru: Probably for the first time, the District Administration has constituted Accounts and Auditing Committees to monitor Dasara expenditure. The Committees will have powers and jurisdiction to oversee all the expenditure during the festival including crores of rupees spent by the 16 Dasara Sub-Committees. In a press release, Deputy Commissioner D. Randeep, who is also…
Keep an eye on rowdy-sheeters, DG&IGP tells Policemen
August 19, 2017Mysuru: Director General and Inspector General of Police (DG&IGP) Rupak Kumar Dutta arrived on a three-day visit to Mysuru yesterday and held a couple of meetings and interactions with the Southern Range Police personnel manning law and order and traffic. He arrived with his family at around 11.30 am and was received at the DG…
Piyush Goyal invokes Sir MV’s name to connect with Mysureans
August 19, 2017Mysuru: Invoking the name of Engineer-Statesman Sir M. Visvesvaraya (MV), who was the first architect of modern India and strongly believed in skill India and a developed country, Union Minister of State for Energy, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines (with Independent Charge), Piyush Goyal, instantly connected with the intellectuals of the city. He…
Elephants force tribal woman to live atop banyan tree in Periyapatna !
August 19, 2017Periyapatna: While governments run by various political parties boast about several schemes they have launched for the welfare of tribal population and members of backward communities, here is a classic example in Periyapatna where it shows that many government schemes have just remained on paper, without reaching the deserving population. The story we are narrating…
Mysuru farmers supply vegetables directly to Kerala consumers
August 19, 2017By Pavan Murthy Though there are many government policies preventing middlemen from exploiting farmers, they have remained in paper without making any difference in local markets. They continue to fleece farmers and pocket most of the profits while farmers return almost empty handed though they toil year-round in their fields. A silent revolution is happening…
Kodagu Congress leader caught on camera holding lady MLC’s hand
August 19, 2017Madikeri: A senior Congress leader in Kodagu T.P. Ramesh, who is also the Karnataka Silk Board Chairman, drew severe criticism after a video surfaced that showed him holding Madikeri MLC Shantheyanda Veena Achaiah’s hand during the Independence Day function in Madikeri. Veena Achaiah is seen pushing his hand away in the video. Speaking to reporters,…
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