Bengaluru: The ambitious and long-pending eight-lane conversion of Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway will begin by January-end following an assurance of speedy clearance to the project by the Centre. The project will be taken up in two packages at a cost of Rs.4,149 crore, said Public Works Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa. Addressing press persons in Bengaluru yesterday, the…
Mysuru: The Sixth Additional District and Sessions Court is all set to pronounce the judgement in a rape case where a politician, masquerading as a VIP, had allegedly raped a minor in 2014. The judgement will be pronounced today at 3 pm and the accused here is K.J. Mahesh Gowda who has the habit of…
Mysuru: “I will take political retirement even if one farmer or a middleman says that G.T. Devegowda has accepted money from them,” said Chamundeshwari MLA G.T. Devegowda, two days after the State Government handed over the alleged Karnataka Housing Board (KHB) scam to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). The scam allegedly took place when G.T. Devegowda…
Mysuru: The work on the installation of magic boxes on the Hunsur Road stretch between Paduvarahalli and Kukkarahalli is nearing completion and the road which was closed for nearly a month will open to the traffic again from Dec.25. Heavy rains had caused havoc in the area where the rainwater mixed with sewage water had…
Mysuru: Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal will flag off the electric trains between Bengaluru and Mysuru on Dec. 26. The date for the inauguration of electric trains had been decided following the completion of track electrification work by the Central Organisation for Rail Electrification (CORE), Allahabad, according to reports. However, when Star of Mysore contacted…
Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi after winning the Gujarat elections for the fifth time in a row is now focusing all his energies on Karnataka to wrest power from the ruling Congress party by planning to announce a special package to the State. He is likely to announce a special package of thousands of crores…
Bylakuppe: Tibetan Spiritual Leader Dalai Lama inaugurated the Debating Hall and the Science Centre at Sera Mey Thoesam Norling Monastery at Sera Lama Camp in Bylakuppe this morning. The programme was attended by Suttur Seer Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Swamiji, Adichunchanagiri Mahasamsthana Mutt Seer Sri Dr. Nirmalanandanatha Swamiji and a host of other dignitaries. On the…
Mysuru: The verdict in the case where Rs. 2.07 crore was looted at Yelwal from a Kerala-bound bus in the wee hours of Jan. 4, 2014 will be pronounced on Dec. 23. The Third Additional District and Sessions Court has completed the trial and was supposed to deliver the verdict on Dec. 20 (yesterday) but…
Mysuru: A two-day ‘Forensic Fair’ organised jointly by the Department of Forensic Medicine, JSS Medical College (JSSMC), Karnataka Police Academy (KPA), City Police, Department of Criminology, University of Mysore, Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) and Regional Forensic Science Laboratory (RFSL) commenced this morning at the premises of JSS Medical College here. The fair is…
New Delhi: Chamarajanagar MP R. Dhruvanarayan met Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari recently and submitted a memorandum seeking upgradation of the National Highway (NH) passing through parts of Mysuru and Chamarajanagar districts. The Union Government has revised the prerequisites for upgrading the existing two-lane NHs into four-lane. According to the revised…
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