Washington: The United States Government has officially shut down. Law-makers are now scrambling for a quick deal to reopen it and buy them more negotiation time. The shut down happened yesterday midnight after Democrats and Republicans failed to reach a last-minute deal to fund its operations, divided in a bitter dispute over immigration and border…
Leaders lobby for BJP ticket in Nanjangud
January 20, 2018Nanjangud: With the State Assembly polls just a couple of months away, hectic political activities have begun in Nanjangud BJP, with leaders vying with each other for getting the party ticket. Former Minister and senior BJP leader V. Sreenivasa Prasad, who quit his Assembly seat from Nanjangud after being unceremoniously dropped from Siddharamaiah’s Cabinet, contested…
Animals, birds gather together to clean Mysuru!
January 20, 2018Mysuru: How does it look if elephants hold broomsticks? What if birds themselves collect garbage and put it into the dustbins? Who is going to chase cows that eat plastic? These were the creative messages on cleanliness, the city’s budding artists depicted through their paintings. Even as the Swachhata fever gripped the city, artists and…
‘Must understand sustainable development to conserve resources’: UoM Registrar D. Bharathi
January 20, 2018Natl. Meet on Infrastructure & Sustainable Development Mysuru: A One-day National Conference on ‘Infrastructure and Sustainable Development: Issues and Challenges,’ organised by the Department of Commerce, Management and Economics, was held at Basudev Somani College here yesterday. University of Mysore Registrar D. Bharathi inaugurated the Conference and said that infrastructure and sustainable development is very…
Bahuroopi: Breathtaking feats of Mallakamba
January 20, 2018Mysuru: The ongoing Bahuroopi theatre festival at Rangayana premises in city last evening featured breathtaking feats of Mallakamba performed by Shambhaiah and troupe from Dharwad. The show commenced with the artistes performing Surya Namaskara on a pole followed by various yogasanas. They also formed human pyramid in different forms drawing a huge applause from the…
Mauritius Vice-President interacts with city industrialists
January 20, 2018Mysuru: Vice-President of Mauritius, Paramasivum Pillay Vyapoory (also called Barlen Vyapoory) and FKCCI Senior Vice-President Sudhakar S. Shetty held an interaction session at Government Guest House in city recently. At the meeting, Mauritius Vice-President explained about the opportunities available in Mauritius in the field of tourism, construction, agricultural products, electronic goods and so on. He…
Two JD(S) MLAs join BJP
January 20, 2018Bengaluru: In a severe setback to the JD(S) just a couple of months before the Assembly polls, two party MLAs from Raichur district quit the JD(S) and joined the BJP at the BJP State headquarters in Malleswaram here on Thursday. Lingasugur MLA Manappa Vajjal and Raichur city MLA Dr. Shivaraj Patil, after quitting their Assembly…
Forget Helmets Let’s Leave it to Destiny
January 20, 2018Our helmet woes never end. That’s because helmets are never on our head. Instead, it’s on our arm or tucked away in our vehicle’s luggage space. Ever since helmet checking began, two-wheeler riders have turned into rats — they run helter-skelter, risking their own lives and putting the lives of others at risk trying to…
Plastic and Paper National Flags banned: DC
January 20, 2018Mysuru: In the wake of Republic Day celebration on Jan.26, Deputy Commissioner (DC) D. Randeep has asked the traders not to sell plastic and paper National Flags. In a press release, the DC said that the sale of plastic and paper Flags has been banned as there were widespread complaints of their inappropriate use by…
Dy.SP M.K. Ganapathy Suicide Case: CBI questions news channel reporter and cameraman
January 20, 2018Madikeri: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team which is probing the suicidal death of Dy.SP M.K. Ganapathy, who was found hanging at a lodge in Madikeri on July.7, 2016, has intensified investigation in the case. The five-member CBI team, headed by Additional SP Kalaimani and Inspector Dilip, who arrived in the Town on Friday,…















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