Mysuru: “Demonetisation has not fulfilled its promise. Before demonetisation, authorities should have considered the capacity of note printing presses to print such a huge volume of currency notes. Since more than 60 to 70 percent of the notes had to be printed, it takes months to print and here lies the problem,” said 14th Finance Commission…
Mandya farmers to launch massive agitation against Disneyland plan at KRS
November 18, 2018Mandya: Farmers of Mandya and surrounding places are teaming up for another mass agitation — to save Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Reservoir, their lifeline. They are up in arms against the proposed Disneyland mega project, giant statue of Mother Cauvery and also the rampant mining in and around the Dam. Under the banner “Save Cauvery”…
Mysore Bar Association poll begins
November 18, 201841 candidates in fray for 16 posts; results by 7 pm today Mysuru: Voting to elect members for the Executive Committee of the Mysore Bar Association began at the Association office in the City Law Courts complex here this morning. As many as seven polling booths were opened at 9 am. The polling went on…
No more milk, fish and HOPCOMS outlets on Government properties
November 18, 2018Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner has asked the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) Commissioner not to permit Nandini Milk outlets, fish stalls of Fisheries Department and Horticultural Producers’ Cooperative Marketing and Processing Society (HOPCOMS) outlets to be set up on the footpaths in city. Based on a Government circular, the MCC Commissioner has…
Debris on land in Kurubarahalli Survey No.4 being cleared
November 18, 2018Mysuru: A private person has begun clearing construction debris on the Block 5A and C coming under the controversial Kurubarahalli Survey No.4, which the then Deputy Commissioner in 2015 had declared as ‘B Kharab’ land. The debris is being shifted using a JCB machine from ‘C’ Block on the left side of the land on…
Will seek co-operation of everyone for better Governance: Mayor
November 18, 2018Mysuru: Elated by her election as city Mayor, Pushpalatha Jagannath has said that she will seek the co-operation of everyone for better Governance in the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC). Speaking to SOM yesterday after the election results were announced, Pushpalatha Jagannath, a Congress Corporator, said that she felt delighted over her election as the Mayor…
Professor writes to President over violation of Court order
November 18, 2018Mysuru: Accusing the University authorities of holding his promotion for years, a Kannada Associate Professor of University of Mysore (UoM) has written to the President of India seeking his intervention to resolve the issue. Dr. Vishwanath, an Associate Professor serving as the Head of Kannada Department at Maharaja’s College, a constituent college of UoM, had…
Engaging and innovative performances by students at Talents-2018
November 18, 2018Mysuru: – The students of Vidyavardhaka School bagged Overall Championship with a prize money of Rs.30,000 at ‘Talents-2018,’ an inter-school cultural competitions jointly organised by Mysore Round Table-21 and Mysore Ladies Circle-9, with the theme ‘Human-Animal Conflict – Finding Peaceful Co-existence’ at Mysore West Lions Sevaniketan School in Gokulam yesterday. Mysore West Lions Sevaniketan School…
‘Valuable Citizen of Mysuru-2018’ Award conferred on Dr. Jagannath Shenoi
November 18, 2018Mysuru: As a prelude to the second edition of Mysuru Literature Festival that began in city this morning, Mysore Literary Forum Charitable Trust (MLFCT) had organised a function at a private hotel in city last evening to confer the ‘Valuable Citizen of Mysuru-2018’ Award on Dr. M. Jagannath Shenoi, Partner, Mangalore Ganesh Beedi Works and…
‘All four pillars of Democracy are corrupt today’
November 18, 2018Mysuru: Vidyavardhaka Law College had organised a workshop on ‘Role of students in prevention of corruption in India’ at its premises here yesterday. Inaugurating the programme, former Lokayukta Justice N. Santosh Hegde regretted that all the four pillars of Democracy were corrupt today with officials and politicians having an insatiable hunger for power and money….















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