Government bows to pressure by fans, to airlift Rebel Star’s body to Mandya this evening; funeral with full State honours in Bengaluru tomorrow Mysuru/ Mandya: Even as Mandya district was yet to come to terms with last evening’s bus accident at Kanaganamaradi in Pandavapura taluk that snuffed out 30 lives, the people of the district…
Mandya/ Bengaluru: Actor and politician M.H. Ambarish, who passed away in Bengaluru last night, was Kannada cinema’s most popular actor after Dr. Rajkumar and Dr. Vishnuvardhan. He was also the only one, of the three, who took a successful shot at electoral politics. Co-incidentally, Ambarish’s brother Dr. Harish passed away on the same day last year,…
Pandavapura: There are only four survivors in yesterday’s bus tragedy at Kanaganamaradi in Pandavapura taluk. Of the survivors are 14-year-old Rohith and his co-passenger Girish, the bus driver Shivappa and conductor whose identity has not been revealed. The private bus, which was on its way from Pandavapura to Mandya, fell into the Visvesvaraya Canal at…
Mandya: The private bus named ‘Rajkumar’ which plunged into Visvesvaraya Canal at Kanaganamaradi in Pandavapura taluk of the district, cutting short the lives of 30 passengers, was a 18-year old bus, which had outlived its road fitness. The bus, having Mangaluru registration, operated for 15 years on Mangaluru-Udupi, changing ownership 8 times in this span,…
Mandya: Yesterday’s tragedy at Kanaganamaradi in Pandavapura taluk, has once again brought to the fore the issue of RTOs issuing Fitness Certificates to vehicles which are too old or unfit to ply on roads. With 30 people losing their lives in Saturday’s tragedy, people are blaming the RTO officials for issuing Fitness Certificate to the…
Mandya/Bengaluru: Ambarish won three Parliamentary elections. He was a Central Minister for a while, holding the portfolio of Information and Broadcasting for about two years. He later became Housing Minister in the Siddharamaiah Cabinet in Karnataka. When he was dropped from the Cabinet in 2016 for poor performance, a miffed Ambarish resigned. Ambarish considered himself…
Bengaluru: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths raided Kalmutt Nanjundaswamy Educational Institution in Shanivarasanthe of Somwarpet taluk of Kodagu district on wee hours of yesterday and arrested 116 Civil Police Constable aspirants and main accused in connection with selling question papers and answer scripts for the upcoming Civil Constables written examination that was scheduled today…
Mysuru: “Ambarish was a good friend of our family and we are deeply hurt on learning of his demise,” said Pramoda Devi Wadiyar of the Royal Family. Addressing a press meet at her residence in Palace premises here this morning, Pramoda Devi said “Ambarish used to meet my husband when the latter was an MP…
Mysuru: Get ready for another round of mass tree-felling in the heritage city. The Forest Department has given permission to cut 255 trees to facilitate road-widening works of an 8.5-kilometre stretch from Bogadi Ring Road Junction to Kumarabeedu Junction. The existing two-lane road will be widened to a four-lane one by the Public Works Department….
Bengaluru: Veteran Congress leader and former Union Railway Minister Challakere Kareem Jaffer Sharief (85) passed away today at a private hospital in Bengaluru. He was hospitalised after he collapsed while getting into his car for Friday namaz on Nov.23. Born on Nov.3, 1933 in Chitradurga, Sharief represented Bengaluru North Constituency from 1977 to 1996. He…
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