1.05 kg pangolin scales, bike, electronic weighing machine, mobile phone seized Mysuru: The Forest Mobile Squad personnel have arrested a man who was attempting to sell pangolin scales and have seized 1.05 kg of pangolin scales, a yellow colour bag, Bajaj Discover bike (KA-12-K-3755), one electronic weighing machine and one mobile phone from him. The…
Houses burgled at Yelwal, Vijayanagar
November 21, 2024Mysuru: In separate cases, two houses have been burgled in Yelwal and Vijayanagar Police limits. In the first case, burglars who broke into a house at Yelwal, have decamped with cash and gold jewellery worth Rs. 2.87 lakh from the house. The burglary took place at the house of Ram Mohan at Madagalli village, Yelwal…
Five go missing from Mysuru
November 21, 2024Mysuru: In separate cases, five persons have been reported missing from Mysuru. In the first case, 48-year-old Bellinayaka, a native of Yanagahalli in Chamarajanagar, who was residing at a rented house in Hootagalli here, left his house on Nov. 12 at about 9 am, saying that he was going for construction work and has since…
MUDA 50:50 sites scam: Lokayukta Police speed up second round of questioning
November 20, 2024Mysuru: With Mysuru Lokayukta Police speeding up the second round of questioning in connection with Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) 50:50 sites scam, former ADC of Mysuru, S. Palaiah, who had served in the post in 2004-05 and also briefly as MUDA Commissioner, appeared before the Lokayukta SP at his Office on Dewan’s Road here…
City Top Cop holds crime review meet
November 20, 2024Mysuru: City Police Commissioner Seema Latkar held a day-long crime review meeting at the Conference Hall of the Police Commissioner’s Office here yesterday. The meeting, which began at 11 am, ended at 7 pm. During the meeting, she reviewed the crime rates in city, progress in pending criminal cases and investigations, reasons for delay in…
‘Namma Bhoomi, Namma Hakku’: BJP to stage massive protest against Waqf Board on Nov. 22
November 20, 2024Mysuru: Former Mysuru-Kodagu MP Prathap Simha said that the BJP will hold massive protests in Mysuru, Chamarajanagar and Kodagu districts on Nov. 22 with a slogan ‘Namma Bhoomi Namma Hakku’ (Our Land, Our Right), against the alleged encroachments of lands by Waqf Board. Addressing the media persons at Jaladarshani Guest House here this morning, Prathap…
Demand to reclaim illegal site allotments by MUDA
November 20, 2024Mysuru: Karnataka Educated Unemployed Association State President, Koodluru Sridhara Murthy, has demanded the reclamation of all illegally allotted sites by the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) for redistribution to eligible applicants who have been waiting for decades. Speaking at a gathering of applicants at the Chamundi Guest House recently, he called for the repossession of…
State Government is retrieving BPL cards only from ineligible beneficiaries: CM
November 20, 2024Bengaluru: Those living under poverty line are eligible to apply for BPL cards, said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah here yesterday. Speaking after taking part in the birth anniversary celebrations of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) office, he said that the Department has decided to retrieve ineligible BPL cards from people…
Works atop Chamundi Hill opposed
November 20, 2024Mysuru: With civil works and felling of trees that affect the Chamundi Hill environment being carried out behind the Dasoha Bhavan atop Chamundi Hill, several environmentalists and organisations have severely opposed the works saying that such works threaten the environment. Parisara Samrakshana Samiti President Bhanu Mohan, speaking to Star of Mysore, said that rocks have…
Most wanted Naxal leader Vikram Gowda killed in encounter
November 20, 2024Udupi: Maoist leader Vikram Gowda (46) was killed in an exchange of fire between the Anti-Naxal Force (ANF) and a group of Naxals at Peete Bailu village in Kabbinale area near Hebri of Udupi district late on Monday night. The incident marks the first killing of a Naxal leader in an encounter in Karnataka since…















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