Mysuru: If everything goes as per plan, the city will get its first flyover (grade separator) on Mysuru-Hunsur Highway near Hinkal by December 2017, the end of this year, benefiting thousands of motorists heading towards Hunsur and those coming to the city. Works are on in full swing and according to authorities, from January 2018,…
Storage in 4 dams is 26 tmcft against 57.89 tmcft last year
July 18, 2017Bengaluru: After three consecutive years of drought, the Cauvery Basin will witness one more year of distress. Weak monsoon so far has resulted in poor inflow into the four reservoirs in the Cauvery basin — Krishna Raja Sagar Dam, Kabini, Harangi and Hemavathi reservoirs. Added to the woes is the continuous release of water from…
City celebrates Jayachamaraja Wadiyar’s 98th birth anniversary
July 18, 2017Mysuru: The contributions of the last ruler of Mysore Sri Jayachamaraja Wadiyar was recalled in glowing terms at several functions organised as part of his 98th birth anniversary celebrations, here this morning. Mayor M.J. Ravikumar inaugurated the celebrations at Sri Chamarajendra Ursu Boarding School, Drama Hall organised by Sri Jayachamaraja Ursu Education Trust in the…
City Cops recover Rs. 8,69,900 cash,32 mobile phones during special drives
July 18, 2017Mysuru: The Mysuru City Police, who conducted special drives during this month, have arrested five mobile phone snatchers and two persons for changing IMEI numbers of mobile phones and selling them apart from nabbing eight dacoits. The Police have recovered Rs. 8,69,900 cash, 32 mobile phones of various companies worth about Rs. 3.92 lakh, Tata…
Water, Drought woes: BJP Raitha Morcha threatens to launch stir
July 18, 2017Mysuru: The monsoon has failed this year too and the drought has continued in the State. In the light of this, BJP State Raitha Morcha President and former Minister C.H. Vijayashankar, has urged the State Government to set up a Task Force headed by the Principal Secretary to see that, water in the reservoirs used…
Digital initiatives of Mysore Varsity presented at Delhi
July 18, 2017Mysuru: The University of Mysore (UoM) was one of the 10 State-funded Universities in the country out of 365 that was selected to make a presentation on Digital Initiatives of the University at the National Convention on Digital Initiatives for Higher Education. The convention organised by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and University…
Dasara high-power committee meeting on July 24
July 18, 2017Mysuru: The high-power Dasara Committee meeting will be held in Bengaluru on July 24 to discuss and plan this year’s Mysuru Dasara festivities. The meeting will be chaired by Chief Minister Siddharamaiah. This will be the first Dasara high-power committee meeting that will be attended by Mysuru District In-charge Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa, Primary and…
‘No place for honest officers’
July 18, 2017Mysuru: Former Minister and MLA S. Suresh Kumar, reacting to the shunting of DIG (Prisons) Roopa D. Moudgil following her report about the irregularities in the Parappana Agrahara Central Prisons and the alleged involvement of the higher ups, said that there is no place for honest officers in the State. Speaking to the media after…
‘Public co-operation needed to make Police Stations people-friendly’
July 18, 2017Mysuru: City Police Commissioner Dr. A. Subrahmanyeswara Rao felt that if Police Stations have to become people-friendly, then the cooperation of the public is very essential. He was participating in the ‘Beat Police,’ programme organised at the Ganapati Temple premises in Brindavan Extension that comes under the V.V. Puram Police limits, here yesterday. “The ‘Beat…
Smriti Irani gets additional charge of Information and Broadcasting
July 18, 2017New Delhi: Textiles Minister Smriti Irani will hold additional charge of Information and Broadcasting while Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar will also be responsible for Urban Development, the PMO tweeted today. Irani and Tomar have been given charge of the Ministries held by M. Venkaiah Naidu, who was yesterday named the Vice-Presidential candidate of…














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