Mysuru: The city Police conducted jathas to create awareness on drug abuse and ill-effects of narcotics on the occasion of International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, here this morning. Jathas were held at various Police Station limits across the city where children from various schools took part in holding placards to spread the…
Let those who consume beef eat at home and die: Yeddyurappa
June 28, 2017Ballari: Former Chief Minister and BJP State President B.S. Yeddyurappa has expressed his anger at the Professors and others who had consumed beef in the Kalamandira premises in public view. “If they want to consume beef let them eat it at their houses and die,” he said yesterday. He was reacting to a question posed…
NIA to hold training in first-aid for industrial workers on June 30
June 28, 2017Mysuru: Nanjangud Industries Association (NIA) in association with the Department of Factories and Boilers, Industrial Safety and Health, Mysuru Division, has organised the 54th one-day training programme on first-aid for industrial workers and supervisors on Friday (June 30) from 9 am to 5.30 pm at Hotel Shree Guru Residency, JLB Road Cross, Mysuru. The need…
Smart City Mission: If there is a will there could still be a way
June 28, 2017Our political leaders can still pull it off! By Ashvini Ranjan Apropos the article ‘How and why Mysuru lost the contest to be Smart City’ in SOM’s yesterday’s issue and also related news in other dailies, it is shocking to say the least, why Mysuru lost out. We deserve an explanation from our elected…
Cruelty to dog in city
June 28, 2017Mysuru: Following the report about a man attacking a dog published in Star of Mysore on June 27, under the headline “Man attacks dog brutally for barking at him,” and the complaint filed with the Police for action against the perpetrator of that brutal, inhuman act, a reader, it is learnt, has complained to country’s…
Presidential Election: Meira Kumar files nomination papers
June 28, 2017New Delhi: Former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, the Presidential candidate of the Opposition, filed her nomination for the July 17 election in the presence of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other senior Opposition leaders this morning. Meira Kumar filed four sets of nomination papers before Lok Sabha Secretary General…
District Health Officials claim no dengue deaths in city
June 28, 2017Mysuru: The Vector-borne Diseases Report released by the Department of Health and Family Welfare records 256 cases of dengue in the last six month (up to June 27, 2017). However, neither the District Administration nor the health department is willing to confirm whether there are any deaths due to dengue. On the contrary, they are…
Bengaluru conman had cheated many women in Mysuru too
June 28, 2017Mysuru: A youth, who is in the custody of Bengaluru Police for allegedly cheating nearly 100 women by promising to marry them after befriending them on matrimonial websites, has cheated many women in Mysuru too and cases have been booked against him in Krishnaraja Police limits. In fact, he was arrested in Mysuru a couple…
High drama as man threatens to jump from water tank
June 28, 2017Mysuru: High drama prevailed at the Railway Quarters at Yadavagiri yesterday after a 45-year-old mentally disturbed man climbed an overhead water tank threatening to commit suicide. He was working as a Police Constable in Bengaluru and was dismissed from service due to his mental condition. He has been identified as Jayakumar and the incident occurred…
MCC Ward 32 by-poll: Candidates step-up campaign
June 28, 2017Mysuru: With hardly two days left for public campaigning for the MCC Ward 32 by-poll, candidates of the three political parties — Congress, BJP and JD(S) — have stepped up campaigning across the Ward. Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Tanveer Sait undertook a door-to-door campaign yesterday at Gokulam 2nd Stage, Pourakarmika Colony and surrounding…















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