4,914 Police personnel deployed; Cops keep vigil over 1,597 polling booths through web casting; City Top Cop, DCP visit critical booths Mysore/Mysuru: There is heavy security and the Police are keeping a hawk eye vigil to ensure peaceful voting today in city. City Police Commissioner B. Ramesh, soon after casting his vote along with his…
Theme-based booths create eco awareness
May 10, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Three theme-based polling booths have been set up in the city for Assembly elections today, which were the cynosure of all eyes. Apart from creating awareness on voting, they stand distinctly apart from others for spreading a green message. The Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) Committee of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has…
385 critical booths in District; 252 in city: 54 in Varuna alone!
May 9, 2023Additional SP, two Dy.SPs deputed in the Constituency Mysore/Mysuru: With voting booths to open tomorrow morning at 6 am, elaborate security arrangements have been made with a large workforce deployed to conduct the elections effectively, said Deputy Commissioner Dr. K.V. Rajendra this morning at a press meet. Dr. Rajendra, who is also the District Electoral…
Mobile phone, camera not allowed
May 9, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: The voters are not permitted to carry either mobile phone or camera to Polling Booth on the day of election tomorrow. According to Section 128 of Representation of People Act, 1951 and Section 39 of The Conduct of Election Rules, capturing photographs of voting is a violation of secrecy of voting. Even match boxes…
Your finest hour is tomorrow
May 9, 2023You choose your Chowkidar, your Destiny Swami Vivekananda, that wandering Hindu Monk had famously said, inspired from Veda, that ‘you are the architect of your destiny.’ If so, time has come for Karnataka to shape its destiny for the next five years by choosing its rulers. That time is tomorrow. Voting begins from morning 7…
Stones pelted at Mysuru-Chennai Vande Bharat Express in TN
May 8, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: In the second such incident, window panes of the premium Mysuru-Chennai Vande Bharat Express that travels between Mysuru and Chennai via Bengaluru were damaged after stones were pelted on the moving train near Arakkonam Railway Station on Saturday evening. This is the second such incident in the recent past and on Feb. 26 this…
Ailing Balarama passes away
May 8, 2023He had carried the Golden Howdah 13 times in Dasara procession Mysuru/Hunsur: Balarama (67), the former Captain of the Dasara jumbo squad, who had successfully carried the 750 kg Golden Howdah during Dasara procession for 13 times passed away due to suspected Tuberculosis (TB) at Bheemanakatte Elephant Camp in Hunsur taluk yesterday. Balarama was ailing…
Modi prays at Srikanteshwara Swamy Temple, poses with priests
May 8, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered prayers at Sri Srikanteshwara Swamy Temple in Nanjangud last evening after signing off his high-voltage election campaign. Earlier in the day, he ended his road show in Bengaluru that he started on Saturday and covered the central and eastern parts. Notably, this was the first time that PM Modi…
Need a strong leader to guide India: Jaishankar
May 7, 2023External Affairs Minister says ‘Operation Kaveri’ was the most challenging rescue operation Mysore/Mysuru: Union Minister of External Affairs, S. Jaishankar spoke extensively about the challenges faced during ‘Operation Kaveri,’ which was launched to evacuate Indians from civil war-hit Sudan and said that the task was most complicated for various reasons. Speaking at an interactive session…
Lotus will bloom in Varuna beautifully, says Somanna
May 7, 2023‘Siddharamaiah and son ruling Varuna like feudal lords without any basic development’ Mysore/Mysuru: The BJP has pitted senior Lingayat leader and Minister V. Somanna against senior Congress leader and former CM Siddaramaiah in Varuna with the hope that Somanna would turn out to be the ‘giant slayer’. Accepting the challenge, Somanna has been intensely campaigning…
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