Mysuru: The landmark LIC Circle or the Millennium Circle will no longer be a place to sell sheep. Every Bakrid season, the area turns to a sheep pen with traders coming from far off villages to sell sheep and buyers haggling with them to buy the healthiest animal for a the best price. The Mysuru…
Lashkar Police detect 27 robbery cases in six months
August 1, 2019Rs. 33.93 lakh valuables recovered Mysuru: Lashkar Police have detected 27 robbery cases that occurred in their jurisdiction in six months and have recovered gold ornaments, vehicles, mobile phones and laptops worth about Rs. 33.93 lakh from the burglars. In the operations to detect the crimes, led by Lashkar Inspector Muniyappa, Rs. 23. 47 lakh…
S.V. Ranganath is Coffee Day’s Interim Chairman
August 1, 2019Bengaluru: Coffee Day Enterprises appointed its independent Director and retd. IAS Officer S.V. Ranganath as the Interim Chairman of the company yesterday. The decision was taken after the Coffee Day’s Founder V.G. Siddhartha, who had gone missing from July 29, was confirmed dead yesterday. The Board of Directors, who met yesterday, also appointed Nitin Bagamane…
Doctor’s Paint Brush: Art Exhibition on Aug.4
August 1, 2019Mysuru: ‘Doctor’s Paint Brush,’ an exhibition and sale of traditional Mysore style art alongside contemporary style painting, modern and folk art by Dr. Shailaja Prashanth, Consultant Paediatrician, has been organised at Suchitra Art Gallery, Kalamandira premises, on Aug.4 from 10 am to 7 pm. The event will be inaugurated at 11 am by Vikram Muthanna,…
MMC&RI to get two new Hostels
August 1, 2019Mysuru: The Mysore Medical College and Research Institute (MMC&RI) is all set to build additional hostels to its students in the next academic year. The College had decided to construct new hostels as it is expecting the grant of additional 100 seats by the Medical Council of India (MCI) in the next academic year. Currently,…
Houses burgled in city; One held
August 1, 2019Rs. 24.5 lakh jewellery, cash stolen; Valuables worth about Rs. 1.2 lakh recovered Mysuru: In separate cases, Rs. 24.5 lakh worth gold jewellery and cash have been stolen from two houses in city. In the first case, burglars have decamped with 334 grams gold ornaments worth about Rs. 10 lakh and Rs. 2 lakh cash…
Youth sentenced to 10 years jail for raping minor
August 1, 2019Special POCSO Court asks him to pay Rs. 4 lakh compensation Mysuru: The Mysuru Special POCSO Court has sentenced a youth to 10 years rigorous imprisonment and has asked him to pay Rs. 4 lakh compensation for raping a minor girl. The accused, who has been sentenced, is 29-year-old Shashi alias Shashidhar, a resident of…
Two-day seminar on nomadic tribes begins
August 1, 2019Mysuru: Marking World Indigenous People’s Day, a two-day seminar on ‘Ignored Claims: Status of Nomadic and Semi-nomadic tribal groups in India’ organised jointly by Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP) of University of Mysore and Basudev Somani College commenced this morning at the College premises in Kuvempunagar in city. About 100…
City’s Veteran Social Worker Vani Venkatram felicitated
August 1, 2019Mysuru: Veteran Social Worker Vani Venkatram was felicitated at a programme jointly organised by Venkatagiri Prakashana, Acharya Purushothama Vidyapeetha and Sri Vaishnavi Sangeetha Sabha at ‘Pranava Nilaya’ on Vani Vilas Road here on July 30. Speaking on the occasion, Senior Writer C.N. Muktha said that Vani Venkatram is a role model for everyone. Observing that…
‘Varshotsava-Harshotsava’ of Rangabanuli
August 1, 2019Mysuru: Rangayana and Department of Kannada and Culture together had organised ‘Varshotsava-Harshotsava’ of Rangabanuli at Bhoomigeetha in Kalamandira premises here on Tuesday. Speaking on the occasion, Akashvani Mysuru Assistant Director S.S. Umesh contended that grammatical and pronunciation mistakes could be cited in TV news but not in Akashvani programmes. He said that for the last…















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