Mysore: The redevelopment works of one of the oldest Railway Stations in the country is being done at a cost of Rs. 16.5 crore, without harming its heritage value, said MP Pratap Simha. Simha, who has been elected for the second time to the Mysuru-Kodgau Lok Sabha Constituency, visited the City Railway Station yesterday afternoon…
Alleged cheating in the guise of getting jobs
May 29, 2019Complaint lodged against four persons including ex-Corporator Mysuru: A girl, alleging that she was cheated to the tune of Rs.12 lakh by four persons including a former Corporator who had taken the money to get a job in Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), has lodged a complaint at K.R. Police Station. The girl, identified as Yashaswini…
Carcasses of tigress, leopard found
May 29, 2019Gundlupet: Carcasses of a 6-year-old tigress and a 7-year-old leopard have been found in a highly decomposed state at Vontigudda behind Skandagiri Parvathi Hill in the taluk. A youths who had followed the pug marks of a big wild cat, that had attacked a calf, found the carcass of the leopard on the rock and…
Vatal Nagaraj threatens protest at KRS dam site
May 29, 2019Mysuru: Condemning the Government’s decision to allot 3,666 acres of land for Jindal Group in Ballari district, Vatal Nagaraj, the President of Kannada Chaluvali Vatal Paksha, staged a protest by lying down at the entrance of Mysuru City Railway Station here this morning. Speaking to reporters, he warned of staging a protest again in front…
French delegation visiting city
May 29, 2019Mysuru: A French delegation comprising Dr. Srini V. Kaveri, Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, National Centre for Scientific Research), Dr. Jérôme BOVE, Scientific and Academic Attaché, Anupama Ambika, Project Manager, Embassy of France, are visiting the city on May 30 and 31 . During their visit, the delegation will hold meeting with…
Cell phone thief held
May 29, 2019Five smartphones worth about Rs.1 lakh recovered Mysuru: V.V. Puram Police have arrested a 24-year-old youth on charges of stealing smartphones and have recovered five phones worth about Rs.1 lakh from him. The arrested is Ashoka, a resident of Madhuvanahalli, Ramanathapura hobli, Arakalgud taluk in Hassan district. On May 28, Ashoka was trying to sell…
Senior journalist Aswal Shankaregowda passes away
May 29, 2019Hunsur: Senior journalist and farmer leader of Hunsur taluk, Aswal Shankaregowda (52), passed away at a private hospital in Mysuru on Monday. Shankaregowda, who was seriously injured in a road accident near Tattekere in the taluk on May 5, was admitted to NIMHANS in Bengaluru, from where he was shifted to JSS Hospital in Mysuru…
Children back to school after summer vacation
May 29, 2019Mysuru: After two months of summer vacation, schools across the district reopened from this morning. While some students attired in their new uniforms on the first day of reopening were happy to return to school after a long gap, students of kindergarten and various primary schools were seen crying and being pacified by their parents….
First State-level conference of Kannada doctor-writers held at Mangaluru
May 29, 2019Mysuru: The first ever State-level conference of doctors, who are also Kannada writers, was held under the aegis of IMA, Mangaluru chapter, at its IMA Hall on May 26. Dr. S.P. Yoganna of Mysuru was the Conference Chairman. Speaking after inaugurating the meet, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) Vice-Chancellor Dr. S. Sachidanand said…
Hark… the Larks…
May 29, 2019Larks, the very name makes one recall the story of ‘The Lark & Her Young Ones’ studied by all in the Middle Schools, as an English prose in the text books. The moral of the story was to do things when the time is right, neither late nor early. Larks, the Sparrow-sized birds, resembling the…















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