Hyderabad: A 22-year-old girl has died after she was set on fire near Hyderabad yesterday by a former colleague who was allegedly obsessed with her and had been stalking her. Sandhya Rani, a receptionist for a company in the Secunderabad area, was on her way home from work around 6.45 pm when Karthik came on…
Mysuru Winter Festival: Cultural extravaganza at Mysore Palace
December 22, 2017Mysore Mohan & Orchestra to perform in city after two decades! Mysuru: Mysore Mohan & Orchestra are back in city after more than two decades to entertain the audience. The three brothers, who started their career in Mysuru about 40 years back, will be performing on the inaugural day of the 10-day Mysuru Winter Festival-2017…
Mysuru Winter Festival: Open Air Movie screening at Maharaja’s College Grounds
December 22, 2017Mysuru: The Mysuru Winter Festival is getting jazzier and jazzier with more attractions being added. As part of the festival, the Tourism Department is coming up with one more initiative — Open Air Movie Screening. Four movies including two in Kannada, one Hindi and one English will be screened at the Maharaja’s College Grounds from…
Regulation of fees in private schools: New rules from 2017-18
December 22, 2017Bengaluru: In a bid to prevent private schools from collecting exorbitant fees so that education could be affordable to all, the Primary and Secondary Education Minister Tanveer Sait on Wednesday announced that the final rules for fee regulation in private schools will be published by January. Speaking to reporters, the Minister said that the final…
Allotment of sites at Lalithadripura 2nd stage: MUDA to announce final list within a month
December 22, 2017Authority collects Rs. 117.42 crore from 33,024 site aspirants Mysuru: The Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) will announce the final list of allottees for the 530 sites to be distributed in Lalithadripura 2nd stage in a month’s time. Speaking to Star of Mysore, MUDA Chief Accounts Officer N. Mutta said that the MUDA had collected…
Karnataka Housing Board Scam: Bail plea adjourned to Dec. 23
December 22, 2017Mysuru: The 3rd Additional District and Sessions Court yesterday adjourned its judgement with regard to the bail plea of the five accused in the Karnataka Housing Board (KHB) scam to tomorrow (Dec. 23). The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), which is entrusted with the task of probing the scam, had arrested M.B. Somashekar and M. Mahesh of…
Mysore Palace Board to provide space for Fire Station in Palace premises
December 22, 2017Mysuru: An exclusive Fire Station is coming up in the Mysore Palace premises and the Mysore Palace Board has agreed to provide space for it which would be established on the lines of Fire Stations at Vidhana Soudha, Raj Bhavan, M.S. Building and the Karnataka High Court in Bengaluru. In a communication to the DGP…
Music at crossroads
December 22, 2017The classic tag to music, literary works, attire and so on originating in different regions of the country represents the refined tastes of a bygone generation. Classical music used to be music to their ears, classics among the literary works used to be their immortal possessions showing the world its own shame (as Oscar Wilde…
Golden plates returned to Sri Vyasaraja Mutt
December 22, 2017Bengaluru: Sri Vyasaraja Mutt (Sosale) in city got back its golden plates that were in Police custody for about six years. The Police had recovered the plates from a financier with whom it had been allegedly mortgaged by the Mutt’s former seer Sri Vidyamanohara Theertha. The 40th seer of the Mutt has been accused of…
Unusable footpath on Kalidasa Road
December 22, 2017Sir, The footpath from Reliance Fresh to 14th Cross on Kalidasa Road is in such a sorry state that it is practically unusable with wild growth, potholes, stones, concrete electric posts, encroachment etc. As a result pedestrians are forced to walk on the road, endangering their lives and hindering the free flow of traffic. The…















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