In a tragic incident, a city jeweller was killed when the motorcycle he was riding rammed into the road median near Nanjangud town this morning. Shankar Choudhury (30), owner of Mahalakshmi Jewellers in Vidyaranyapuram, is the deceased. A resident of Basaveshwara Road in city, he is survived by his wife and two kids. Shankar was…
Three children died and two others are in critical condition due to food poisoning at a school hostel in Chikkanayakanahalli in Tumakuru this morning. The Vidyavaridhi International School, where the children were studying, reportedly belongs to former BJP MLA K.S. Kiran Kumar. According to reports, the Police have taken Kiran Kumar into custody. The deceased…
Humiliation after theft case drives them to take the extreme step Fearing social stigma and alleged insults from friends and relatives, a woman, who was accused of stealing gold jewellery, and her husband entered into a suicide pact in the wee hours of today. While the husband died while being shifted to the K.R. Hospital,…
In yet another case of online booking cheating, the diligence of a security guard saved him from being cheated of thousands of rupees, after he ordered online an expensive mobile phone with an e-commerce company. Jayakumar, a security guard at RMP quarters in Yelwal, who stayed along with his family at the quarters, booked a…
City industrialist and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Council General Secretary Suresh Kumar Jain (in pic.) has been nominated as a member of the newly-formed High-level Mahamastakabisheka Mahotsava Committee. The Committee will hold discussions on organising Mahamastakabisheka at Shravanabelagola in Feb. 2018. This event is held once in 12 years. The Committee headed by Chief…
Motivational talks and felicitation programmes marked Women’s Day celebrations across the city yesterday. Observing that one should grab every opportunity that comes before him/her, Probationary IAS Officer Subha Kalyan has called upon women to realise their dreams by reading the achievements of great personalities. She was speaking at the Women’s Day celebration organised by the…
As part of its monthly programme ‘Sadhakarondige Samvaada,’ the Mysore Art Gallery will felicitate Sharane Neelamma who lives and works at Veerashaiva Rudrabhoomi in Vidyaranyapuram. The felicitation event will be held on Mar. 11 at 11 am at the Mysore Art Gallery on Ramanuja Road. President of Kannada Sahitya Kalakoota M. Chandrashekhar will deliver the…
As part of its ‘Exhibit of the Month’, the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) has organised a special exhibition ‘Aadmi ne Chhokro’ — man and child, an ethnographic wooden object from Rathwa tribe of Gujarat. The exhibition was inaugurated yesterday by J. Vijay Mohan, Officer-In-Charge IGRMS, Southern Regional Centre and will be on till…
The aspirants of KPSC and UPSC examinations will be imparted 8-month free coaching including boarding and lodging facilities in association with Pramathi Hill View Academy and Navodaya Foundation, said SP Ravi D. Channannavar. Addressing presspersons at Pathrakarthara Bhavan in city recently, he said that the trainees would be selected through an entrance test which will…
Man, his friend get 6-year jail:Court orders cases against 3 witnesses who turned hostile The Principal District and Sessions Court has sentenced one person and his friend to six-year imprisonment for attempting to kill a girl and her grandmother. The man was pestering the girl to marry him and on learning that he was already…
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