By M.T. Yogesh Kumar Mysore/Mysuru: The over six-year wait is over and the Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary near Srirangapatna in Mandya District has been declared a Ramsar site, underlining its status as a wetland of international importance. Ranganathittu is Karnataka’s first Ramsar site that fulfils the criteria as defined by the Ramsar Convention. The announcement was…
Mysore/Mysuru: Chamaraja MLA L. Nagendra on Wednesday took out a padayatra in Kumbarakoppal to hear public grievances. Nagendra, who commenced the padayatra from Mahadeshwara Temple at Kumbarakoppal, directed the officials to take action on public complaints. Responding to complaints that most of the roads in the area are in a poor state, Nagendra assured to…
Nanjangud: Nanjangud Police are said to have arrested four persons including a woman member of Nanjangud City Municipal Council (CMC) on charges of allegedly murdering a lady teacher of Morarji Desai Residential School in the taluk. The deceased teacher is Sulochana (45), a Hindi teacher at Morarji Desai Residential School at Mahadevanagar in the taluk….
Mysore/Mysuru: Appealing to those who have kept their water bills pending for a long, the Mysuru City Corporation has urged them to make use of the new scheme implemented from July 15 this year. As per the scheme, if the bills are paid in one go, the interest on the amount will be kept in…
Awareness programme held on what types of plastics are prohibited Mysore/Mysuru: Conveying that it has strictly enforced the ban on single-use plastic notified by the Centre under the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021 by the Ministry of Environment Forests and Climate Change, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has sought cooperation from all stakeholders in…
Mysore/Mysuru: The City Police have intensified the drive to issue QR Code-enabled Auto Driving Licence Display Cards to all autorickshaws and till now, over 11,229 cards have been distributed to be affixed in the vehicle for passenger information. There are over 25,000 autos in the city. Aimed at ensuring passenger security, the system makes it…
Mysore/Mysuru: In separate cases, a doctor, engineer and an elderly lady have lost a total of Rs. 5,78,974 to online fraudsters. In the first case, a city doctor has lost Rs. 2,98,979 to a fraudster, who had agreed to sell medical equipment at a lesser price. The doctor, who was cheated, is Dr. N.S. Ravichandra…
Mysore/Mysuru: Sri Ramakrishna Vidyashala, Yadavagiri, has organised a musical evening by eminent vocalist Brajeshwar Mukherjee from Kolkata and a flute recital by Ravi Shankar Mishra at its premises on Aug. 5 at 5.15 pm. They will be accompanied on tabla by Gourisankar (Texas, USA) and on harmonium by Veerabhadraiah Hiremath. Brajeshwar Mukherjee is a well-known…
Srirangapatna: Srirangapatna Sub-Division Police have cracked the case of headless bodies of two women which were found discarded at two different places. While one woman’s body was found near Arakere, the body of another woman was found between Bebi Betta and K. Bettahalli on June 7. The two incidents of the grisly crime where semi-decomposed…
Geetanjali Shree, winner of the International Booker Prize-2022 for translated work, was in Mysuru last month to attend the sixth edition of the Mysuru Literature Festival. Her award-winning book, ‘Ret Samadhi’ in Hindi (‘Tomb of Sand’ in English) is not just a story of a family or partition but also about global warming, feminism, ancient…
Pulse polio drive at Sigma HospitalDecember 22, 2025
SavithrammaDecember 22, 2025
Sports meet and medical check-up heldDecember 22, 2025
Rotary West School celebrates Annual DayDecember 22, 2025
Recent Comments