MCC shifts traffic-disrupting sheep market from Millennium Circle to nearby Bal Bhavan Mysore/Mysuru: The annual Bakrid sheep market at Millennium Circle (LIC Divisional Office Circle) has finally been shifted to the nearby Bal Bhavan premises at Bannimantap, bringing relief to motorists and residents who had long complained about traffic congestion and safety concerns at the…
Mysore/Mysuru: Scattered heavy rainfall disrupted normal life last evening as heavy rains turned roads into streams causing a lot of inconvenience to the public especially two-wheeler riders. Heavy rains lashed parts of the city including Ramaswamy Circle, Nazarbad, Gangothri Layout, K.G. Koppal, Vontikoppal, Saraswathipuram, Vidyaranyapuram, Lakshmipuram and Agrahara among other areas and roads turned into…
Female leopard caught after 14 days in M.M. Hills Mysore/Mysuru: Fourteen days after a leopard killed a 10-year-old boy near Indiganatha village on the forest route to Male Mahadeshwara Temple in Male Mahadeshwara (M.M.) Hills, the Forest Department this morning trapped the big cat using a specially designed cage baited with a goat. The victim,…
Mysore/Mysuru: A mother and son from Sathagalli, accused of orchestrating a high-profile matrimonial fraud, are on the run after allegedly cheating several gullible women, including widows and daughters of wealthy families in Bengaluru and Mysuru, out of lakhs of rupees. The prime accused, Pradeep Solomon, allegedly projected himself as a successful lawyer and created a…
Waste menace near CM Siddaramaiah’s home ends after MCC’s unusual strategy Mysore/Mysuru: After shooting all the arrows in its quiver, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has launched yet another unique campaign to deter unruly members of the public from dumping waste in vacant sites. An vacant site on Sharadadevinagar-Kuvempunagar Road, near the residence of Chief…
Indian politics is about personality and not policy. We are a people driven by blind emotion and some of us hope that our heroes can deliver in the real world what they perform in the reel world. Nowhere is this hope more visible than in Tamil Nadu, where cinema and politics have long shared a…
Residents allege lapses in safety, failure in law enforcement Srirangapatna: Even as the Srirangapatna Taluk Administration had imposed prohibitory orders banning tourists from entering River Cauvery at Balamuri, a popular tourist destination, two youths drowned there yesterday evening. The deceased have been identified as Mohan Kumar (21) of Kamaravadi near Santhemaralli in Chamarajanagar district and…
Rs. 5 crore estimate prepared for comprehensive renovation Mysore/Mysuru: The University of Mysore (UoM) has submitted a proposal to the State Government seeking Rs. 4 crore to Rs. 5 crore for the comprehensive renovation of Gautham Hostel in Saraswathipuram. The hostel, which has provided accommodation to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students for more than…
Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru’s cultural heritage has suffered another blow with the collapse of a portion of the compound wall of the 150-year-old Sanskrit Pathashala, raising fears of a major accident if immediate repairs are not taken up. The incident assumes significance as it comes just two days after Deputy Commissioner G. Lakshmikanth Reddy directed officials to…
Mysore/Mysuru: An RTI activist has been arrested on charges of attempt to murder after a video showing a man clinging precariously to the bonnet of a moving car surfaced yesterday evening. N. Gangaraju, the RTI activist, was arrested after a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against him at Kuvempunagar Police Station in the early…
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