Poor rains, crop loss in Mysuru district Mysuru: With the farming community facing distress due to poor rainfall and crop losses, Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, citing the drought-like situation in the district, directed officials not to pressurise farmers to repay loans. He was speaking after chairing the DISHA (District Development Co-ordination and Monitoring Committee) meeting…
Mysuru: Close on the heels of cutting down 10 trees on Aug. 25 for the ongoing flyover works on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway, near Manipal Hospital (Kempegowda Circle) junction in city, seven more trees were cut on the either side of the Highway on Thursday. The Forest Department had given its approval for cutting over 65 trees…
Chamarajanagar: Chamarajanagar Deputy Commissioner and District Magistrate Shreeroopa has submitted the report of the magisterial inquiry into the Aug. 15 shooting incident in the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary to Chief Secretary Shalini Rajneesh. The nearly 200-page report was handed over in Bengaluru by Shreeroopa and Kollegal Assistant Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Meena, who conducted the inquiry. Forest…
Questions raised over lack of prior warning, close-range gunshots Chamarajanagar: The magisterial inquiry into the Aug. 15 shootout at the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary has raised serious questions over whether forest personnel followed the prescribed standard operating procedures (SOPs) while opening fire. According to the report, forest personnel were required to first warn the poachers…
Bengaluru: Barely 25 days after returning to the Karnataka Cabinet, Planning and Statistics Minister B. Nagendra quit his post on Friday over allegations of involvement in the embezzlement of funds from the State-run Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation Limited. Nagendra announced his decision to step down at a press conference at Vidhana Soudha…
Mysuru: The 22nd edition of year-long exhibition of exquisite dolls from across India, began at Ramsons Bombe Mane located in Nazarbad here yesterday. The dolls exhibition was inaugurated by Scion of erstwhile Thanjavur Maratha Samsthanam Srimant Babaji Rajah Bhonsle & his wife Srimati Gayatri Raje Bhonsle. Mysuru’s Sri Raghuleela School of Music Founder Dr. Sunitha Chandrakumar…
Mysuru: The Karnataka Ursu Mahamandali Charitable (KUMC) Trust celebrated D. Devaraj Urs’ birth anniversary and distributed scholarship to poor and meritotrious sudents of the Ursu community at Alwar Kala Bhavan, Sri Krishna Temple Complex, Gokulam 3rd Stage, on Aug. 23. Trust Hon. President M.L. Basavraje Urs inaugurated the event by lighting the lamp and offering…
Mysuru: The Fifth Additional District and Sessions Court has sentenced a man convicted of killing his wife to life imprisonment. Purushotham, aged 45 years and a native of Kestur village, Yalandur taluk, Chamarajanagar district, was accused of strangling his wife Roopa to death, on Sept. 20, 2023. As he was proven guilty, Judge P.J. Somashekar…
Hunsur: Dejected in life, an elderly couple has allegedly committed suicide by consuming pesticide at an agricultural field in Arabithittu Mini Forest area near Hunsur-Mysuru Highway recently. Malleshappa (70) and his wife Shivalingamma (60) are the deceased couple, who were the residents of Hosapura, Bilikere hobli, Hunsur taluk. They neither had a house of their…
Mysuru: Sixty percent of legacy waste accumulated over several years at the Solid Waste Management Unit, popularly known as the Excel Plant, at Sewage Farm in Vidyaranyapuram, has been cleared. More than six lakh tonnes of municipal solid waste had been dumped at the site for nearly three decades, forming hill-like mounds at several places…
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