Thermal screening must for those entering Karnataka from Kerala through Bavali check-post in H.D. Kote taluk Mysore/Mysuru: High alert has been sounded at H.D. Kote taluk that forms Karnataka-Kerala border in the district, following the spread of Nipah virus at Wayanad and Kozhikode in Kerala. As a precautionary measure, those entering the State from Kerala…
Youth on cycling mission to fight single-use plastic
September 14, 202332-year-old Brijesh Sharma arrives in Mysuru after pedalling 38,000 kms, meets Yaduveer Mysore/Mysuru: Cyclist Brijesh (Brajesh) Sharma of Gujarat who is campaigning for ‘Single Use Plastic Free India’ has arrived in the Cultural Capital Mysuru and will be creating awareness here for a month. A native of Morena, Madhya Pradesh, 32-year-old Sharma, who embarked on…
Unable to release water to TN, Karnataka to move Cauvery Panel
September 14, 2023Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddharamaiah yesterday said that the State will once again file a petition before the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC), expressing its inability to release Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu. The Chief Minister, who held a ‘special emergency meeting’ yesterday at the Conference Hall of Vidhana Soudha, said the Government will consult its…
K.R. Hospital Blood Bank gets mobile donation unit
September 14, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: In a significant stride towards enhancing blood collection efforts, K.R. Hospital Blood Bank in Mysuru has unveiled a cutting-edge mobile blood donation vehicle. This innovative addition is poised to revolutionise the blood donation process, rendering it more efficient and convenient for donors. For years, the K.R. Hospital Blood Bank has been at the forefront…
Man who extorted money from senior citizen arrested
September 13, 2023‘Accused targeted elderly persons by faking accidents’ Mysore/Mysuru: The Kuvempunagar Police have successfully solved a case in which a senior citizen driving a four-wheeler was targeted by a criminal who falsely accused him of causing an accident and then extorted money. One person has been arrested in connection with the incident. The arrested individual is…
Cauvery Row: CM holds meeting
September 13, 2023Bengaluru: The special emergency meeting called by Chief Minister Siddharamaiah began at Vidhana Soudha this noon to discuss steps to be taken after Cauvery Water Regulation Committee’s (CWRC) direction that Karnataka release 5,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu for the next 15 days. Dy. CM D.K. Shivakumar, Ministers of Cauvery basin region, MPs and…
People vie to own ‘branded items’ sold on footpath!
September 13, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Like a good old adage in Kannada- Jana Marulo Jatre Marulo, passersby vied with each other to own the look alike products of branded companies, in city yesterday. Tens of people split in four groups occupying footpath spaces on the either side of Regional Institute of Education (RIE) building on Bogadi Road in city,…
Mysuru-born Dr. Preeti Aghalayam is IIT Zanzibar-Tanzania Director
September 12, 2023IIT gets its first woman Director Mysore/Mysuru: The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), the country’s top-ranked educational institution, has achieved the distinction of being the first IIT in India to establish an international campus, set to be located in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The institute has also set another first by appointing the IIT’s first…
‘Make Kannada one-point programme during Dasara’
September 12, 2023Noted Film Music Director Hamsalekha, who has been chosen to inaugurate Nada Habba on Oct. 15, interacts with scribes Mysore/Mysuru: Noted Film Music Director and Lyricist Hamsalekha, who will inaugurate the Nada Habba Mysuru Dasara on Oct. 15, 2023, has strongly advocated for making Kannada a one-point programme during Navarathri festivities, as the language is…
Mysuru to run 200 more electric buses under PM-eBus SEWA Scheme
September 12, 2023Centre to procure 10,000 electric buses covering 169 cities including Mysuru, at an estimated cost of Rs. 57,613 crore By Bapu Lingaraj Urs Mysore/Mysuru: With a vision to combat environmental pollution, the Central Government plans to procure 10,000 electric buses at an estimated cost of Rs. 57,613 crore through its PM-eBus Sewa Scheme. Mysuru is…















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