Mysuru: Krishnaraja MLA M.K. Somashekar today performed guddali puja for 25 houses to be constructed for the poor at Ashokapuram here. Speaking on the occasion, the MLA said that a total of 1,329 houses would be constructed at various localities in city under Rajiv Awaz Yojana (RAY). Giving the list of number of houses to…
Pramoda Devi appears before Lokayukta
June 22, 2017Bengaluru: Pramoda Devi Wadiyar appeared before the Lokayukta here yesterday and recorded her statement with regard to the five-acre land in Alanahalli in Mysuru belonging to the royal family. She appeared before Lokayukta Justice Vijayalakshmi Devi and gave her statement. Late Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wadiyar had filed a complaint in 2013 alleging that the then…
R.T. Nagar provisional site allottees list disappoints many
June 22, 2017Mysuru: The Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) has published the provisional list of site allottees for Rabindranath Tagore Nagar or R.T. Nagar. The list has been published on the notice boards of MUDA, providing an opportunity for the site aspirants to check if their names are in the list or not. The R.T. Nagar Layout…
BJP leader Kautilya Raghu for law about site allotment
June 22, 2017Mysuru: BJP leader and former KEA Chairman Kautilya R. Raghu has urged Chief Minister Siddharamaiah to announce ‘Manekattuvavarige Niveshana’ Act (sites only for those who build homes), just as D. Devaraj Urs enacted ‘Uluvavanige Bhoomi’ law (land for the tiller). He was addressing a press meet at Pathrakartara Bhavan here this morning. Expressing concern over…
Unable to pay daughter’s college fees, man ends life
June 22, 2017Mysuru: A person unable to pay his daughter’s college fees has ended his life, this morning in the city. The unfortunate victim is Gangadhar, a resident of Brindavan Extension, who used to make ‘Prasadams’ to the Ganapathy Temple in the area. His daughter was studying in B. Sc and he had to pay a fees…
KPSC selections: HC declines to vacate stay on appointing 362 candidates
June 22, 2017Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court yesterday refused to vacate the stay on the appointment of 362 candidates for the posts of Group ‘A’ and ‘B’ gazetted probationers from the 2011 batch of Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC). A division bench comprising Chief Justice S.K. Mukherjee and Justice P.S. Dinesh Kumar dismissed an Interlocutory Application (IA)…
Govt. opens new window for Banks, Post Offices to deposit old notes with RBI
June 22, 2017New Delhi: The Finance Ministry has opened a new one-month window for District Co-operative Banks, Commercial Banks and Post Offices to deposit demonetised Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 currency notes with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), provided these notes were collected from customers within the specified time period. While Post Offices and Commercial Banks…
Medical equipment donated
June 22, 2017Mysuru: Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited (BRBNMPL) has donated medical equipment under its CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) initiative to CSI Holdsworth Memorial. This will be used for poor and needy patients of the hospital. Thakur Desai, General Manager, BRBNMPL, had visited the hospital during 2015 Hospital Day and realising that the Hospital needed…
There is cure for clubfoot: Medical College Dean
June 22, 2017World Clubfoot Day observed at MMC&RI Mysuru: Mysore Medical College and Research Institute (MMC&RI) Dean Dr. B. Krishnamurthy said that those children suffering from clubfoot (a deformed foot, which is twisted so that the sole cannot be placed flat on the ground) can be cured, if proper treatment is given at the right time. He…
Screening of Kannada movie ‘Railway Children’ tomorrow
June 22, 2017Mysuru: Kannada movie ‘Railway Children,’ directed by Prithvi Konanur, will be screened at Kalamandira tomorrow (June 23) at 6 pm, as part of Cinema Samaya, organised under the aegis of the Department of Information and Public Relation, Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy and Mysore Film Society. Prior to the movie, a documentary produced by Dept. of Information…















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