Bengaluru: With today (June 3) being the last date for filing of nomination papers for 11 Legislative Council seats from the Assembly, all the three major parties — Congress, BJP and JD(S) — announced their candidates on Sunday. While the Congress will be contesting 7 seats, the Opposition BJP – 3 and the JD(S) –…
Tourists show reckless bravery above Madikeri-Mangaluru Road; Police tie warning tape; no entry for now Madikeri: A retaining wall constructed to prevent landslides on the Madikeri-Mangaluru Road via General Thimayya Circle has become a popular spot for tourists to view the breathtaking scenery of the winding road below. It has also become a risky place…
Madikeri: The repair work of the Harangi Dam’s main canal using the ‘cut-and-cover’ method is progressing rapidly. This initiative, undertaken at a cost of Rs. 49 crore, includes Rs. 8 crore specifically allocated for repairing the main canal to benefit farmers in six taluks across Kodagu, Mysuru and Hassan districts. The cut-and-cover box model for…
Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru City and District Police have beefed up security at the counting centre set up at Maharani’s College of Commerce and Management in Vinayakanagar (Paduvarahalli). Senior officers, including Police Commissioner Ramesh Banoth and DCPs M. Muthuraj (Law and Order) and S. Jahnavi (Crime and Traffic), are overseeing the security and traffic management at…
Mysore/Mysuru: In a fresh headache for the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), which is already grappling with solid waste management issues, dumping sites and non-segregation of waste at the source, residents of Old Kesare have opposed the dumping of waste at the Old Kesare Solid Waste Treatment Plant. Yesterday, vehicles heading towards the Plant to dump…
Bengaluru: The High Court (HC) has directed Jungle Lodges & Resorts Limited (JLR), a Govt. entity, to provide information on method followed to allot safari vehicles to the visitors who stay at private resorts in Nagarahole and Bandipur National Parks with Tiger Reserves. This follows an application moved by Karnataka Eco-Tourism Resorts Association in the…
Mysore/Mysuru: Pointing out that the Indian Constitution has 22 pictures including that of Ramayana and Mahabharata, Karnataka High Court (HC) Judge Krishna S. Dixit observed that the photograph of the great 12th Century social reformer Jagajyothi Basaveshwara should feature in the Indian Constitution as the 23rd one. He was speaking after inaugurating Basava Jayanti celebrations…
Bengaluru: In the wake of several reports of sewage and industrial effluents from Mysuru flowing into the Cauvery River at Srirangapatna in Mandya district causing health concerns, MLC Dinesh Gooligowda has urged the State Government to form an investigation team of technical experts and take appropriate action to prevent the inflow of contaminated water into…
Mysore/Mysuru: City’s noted Industrialist and philanthropist Dr. M. Jagannath Shenoy, the Managing Trustee of Mangalore Ganesh Beedi Works, was conferred the prestigious ‘Dharma Ratnakara’ award by Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, Mysuru, at a programme organised at Alwar Kalabhavan in Gokulam here on Friday. Speaking after conferring the award, Adichunchanagiri Mysuru Shakha Mutt Seer Sri Someshwaranatha…
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has clarified that provisions of the Right To Education (RTE) Act 2009 also applies to residential schools. The Single Judge Bench headed by Justice Suraj Govindaraj, which heard the petition filed by Mysuru-based Jnanasarovara Education Trust, which is running an unaided ICSE residential school, passed the order. This apart, the…
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