Mysuru: Over 20,000 Muslim brethren offered mass prayers at the Tilak Nagar Idgah Maidan on the occasion of Bakrid or Eid-al-Azha celebrations in city this morning. The mass prayers were led by Sir Khazi of Mysore Hazrath Moulana Mohamed Usman Shariff who remembered the sacrifice of Prophet Ibrahim Khaleelullah and his son Ismail Zabiullah who…
Bengaluru: With just seven months to go for 2018 Assembly elections, Chief Minister Siddharamaiah strengthened his home district Mysuru by inducting M.C. Mohana Kumari, popular as Dr. Geetha Mahadevaprasad, first-time MLA and wife of his late friend and Minister H.S. Mahadevaprasad, while filling the three vacancies in 51-month-old Ministry. The new Ministers inducted, CM’s sole…
Drop Kempaiah, says Ramalinga Reddy Ending days of speculation, CM picked senior member of the Cabinet Ramalinga Reddy for the crucial Home portfolio. Reddy has been a non-controversial member of the Ministry and held the Transport portfolio. The name of Forest Minister B. Ramanath Rai was earlier doing the rounds to head Home and the…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to induct about a dozen new faces in his Council of Ministers and re-allocate some important portfolios tomorrow, probably the last major revamp of his team ahead of the 2019 general elections. The new Ministers will be sworn-in by President Ram Nath Kovind at a ceremony in…
Mysuru: Finally, commercial flights from Mysore Airport at Mandakalli will resume from Sept. 15, a week before Dasara. Mysore Airport Director Manoj Kumar Singh confirmed that Hyderabad-based TruJet’s 78-seater aircraft will be operated from Mysuru to Chennai every day. The resumption of flight operation comes nearly two years after Alliance Air suspended flight services from…
Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has begun the process of evicting the tenants of the century-old and dilapidated Devaraja Market that will be reconstructed. Eviction notices are being prepared and will be issued to over 728 tenants next week. Though the rental agreements between the MCC and the tenants expired in 2003, the MCC…
Mysuru: Chennai-based TVS Motor Company will set up an all-new two-wheeler production facility at Byathahalli near Kadakola in Mysuru at a cost of Rs. 1,100 crore. The State Government cleared the project at a meeting in Bengaluru yesterday. “TVS will set up its Two-wheeler Plant at Byathahalli. The proposal was cleared by the State High…
Mysuru: KSRTC has come forward to operate 175 extra buses from its city and rural divisions to facilitate tourists during Dasara. Speaking to Star of Mysore, KSRTC Divisional Controller (Rural Division) M. Vasu said that 125 extra buses would operate during Dasara from Sept.21 to 30 which would be extended till Oct.5 in view of…
Mysuru: Marking the 180th week of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan by Rajeev Sneha Balaga, the Balaga along with other organisations held a mass planting of saplings at three parks in Srinagar Layout here this morning. About 1,700 saplings were planted on the occasion. Launching the event, Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar commended the Balaga and other organisations…
Mysuru: As part of the Nation-wide campaign on preservation of rivers launched by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Lions Club of Mysore West had organised a ‘Rally for Rivers’ in city yesterday which received a good response. Hundreds of students and volunteers took out the rally from Maharani’s College on JLB Road passing through Devaraj Urs Road,…
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