We are a nation of vandals — wilful destroyers of what is beautiful or venerable. Be it painting love quotes on rocks, etching perverse rhymes on elevator doors, breaking art installations, slashing bus seats, stealing street lights or cutting fences on the new Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway, we are constantly defacing, stealing or destroying public property. Mysuru-Kodagu…
Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha has directed the Officers from Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) and Karnataka State Small Industries Development Corporation (KSSIDC) Limited (the nodal agency that will oversee the transfer of land) to acquire an additional 91 acres of land for future expansion of the Mysuru Airport that is poised to be…
Aims to implement three ‘R’s of waste management — Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has initiated the ‘My Life, My Clean City’ mission where the civic body will set up dedicated counters at various places, in which people will leave household items and furniture which no more are in their use…
Mysore/Mysuru: The Karnataka Government’s decision to increase prices of saplings or plants has come under fire from farmers and environmentalists. While the farmers are not ready to buy the saplings at this high price, the environmentalists say that it will hit the State’s plans to increase its forest cover. On its part, the Government (Forest…
Both pilots eject safely with parachutes; Court of Inquiry ordered to ascertain cause of accident Chamarajanagar: Two pilots of a light-weight Indian Air Force (IAF) Kiran Jet Trainer aircraft (HAL HJT-16 Kiran) had a providential escape after ejecting themselves from their plane before it crashed and turned into a fireball this noon. The incident occurred…
Rumble strips, widening of stretch, clearing of jungle to be taken up near Kurbur village on Mysuru-Kollegal Highway, T. Narasipur T. Narasipur: Following the recent ghastly road accident involving a car and private bus near Kurbur village on Mysuru-Kollegal Highway (NH-766) that claimed 10 lives of tourists from Ballari and the cab driver from Srirangapatna,…
584 electric poles, 26 transformers worth about Rs. 70 lakh damaged Madikeri: Though the countdown for monsoon has begun, pre-monsoon rains, accompanied by gusty wind, thunder and lightning which lashed Kodagu from Apr. 1 till yesterday (May 31), has caused huge loss to Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC). The rains and wind have damaged 584…
MLAs, officials accord warm welcome to students Mysore/Mysuru: The Government and aided Lower Primary, Higher Primary and High Schools were re-opened today after summer holidays. Gates of a total of 3,446 schools across the district were warmly opened for school children who came enthusiastically to schools on the first day of the new academic year-2023….
Virajpet: Heavy rains, accompanied by gusty wind, thunder and lightning, which lashed Virajpet and surrounding places yesterday morning has brought down a huge branch of a tree on Virajpet-Siddapura Road near Sunkadakatte on hi-tension power lines, snapping the wires and bringing down a couple of electric poles in the process. This resulted in traffic coming…
Madikeri: Work on the four-lane Highway between Mysuru and Kushalnagar will start in a month, said Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha. He was participating in a District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DISHA) meeting at Madikeri yesterday. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already launched the Rs. 4,130 crore project to lay a 93-km-long Highway between Mysuru…
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