He had demanded Rs. 3 lakh to approve a private layout; outsourced data entry operator too trapped Mysore/Mysuru: Five days before his retirement, G.S. Jayasimha, Town Planner Member of Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA), was trapped by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Police yesterday for taking a bribe from a developer to approve a private layout….
Mega Lok Adalat in city on June 25
May 28, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: The Mega National Lok Adalat, the second one this year, will take place in the City and District Courts on June 25. Announcing this at a press meet at the Malalavadi Court Complex in Jayanagar here yesterday, Principal District and Sessions Court Judge M.L. Raghunath said that the National Lok Adalat is being held…
Geeth Gaatha Chal: Doctors Musical event on June 5
May 28, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Geeth Gaatha Chal, the popular Annual Musical Event by Doctors, is in its 20th year and this year the event will be held on June 5 at Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) Convocation Hall on Hunsur Road in city. The event, which has been successful all these years due to the continued patronage of…
ED sleuths raid Corporator’s house in Bannimantap
May 28, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided the house of Ward 17 JD(S) Corporator Reshma Banu’s house in Bannimantap this morning as part of the raids on Yusuf Sharif alias ‘KGF Babu’ alias ‘Scrap Babu’ in Bengaluru. The Corporator and her husband Rehman Khan are the relatives of KGF Babu and the ED sleuths landed at…
Seven elected unopposed to Legislative Council
May 28, 2022Bengaluru: All the seven candidates representing the three major parties, who had filed nomination for the Legislative Council polls from the Legislative Assembly were on Friday declared elected unopposed. Those elected were Laxman Savadi, S. Keshava Prasad, Chalavadi Narayanaswamy and Hemalatha Nayak of the BJP, M. Nagaraj Yadav and K. Abdul Jabbar of the Congress…
Vandita Sharma to be next Chief Secretary
May 28, 2022Bengaluru: The State Government has appointed 1986-batch IAS Officer Vandita Sharma as the new Chief Secretary. She will replace P. Ravi Kumar who will retire from his post on May 31. Vandita Sharma’s name was picked by the Basavaraj Bommai Government from a pool of nine probables serving as Additional Chief Secretaries: I.S.N. Prasad (Finance)…
Youth killed in self-accident
May 28, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: In a late last night incident, a 25-year old youth died of serious injuries when the motorcycle he was riding rammed into an electric pole on the Ring Road. A.N. Ullas, son of G. Narayanaswamy of Ankanahalli village in K.R. Nagar taluk, is the deceased. Ullas, who was a worker at RMP near Yelwal…
School boy drowns in lake
May 28, 2022Hunsur: In a tragic incident, a 14-year-old school boy, who went for a swim at a lake after skipping school, died of drowning this morning. Harsha (14), a ninth standard student of a Private School in Hunsur, is the deceased. Harsha, son of Manjunath and Shailaja couple of Chilkunda in Hunsur taluk, had gone for…
Two motorcyclists killed in hit-and-run case
May 28, 2022Gundlupet: In what appears to be a hit-and-run case, two motorcyclists were killed on the spot, when their two-wheeler was knocked down by an unidentified speeding car near Hasaguli in the taluk late last night. The deceased have been identified as Venkatesh (30) and Kantachari (50) of Alattur village in Gundlupet taluk. Venkatesh and Kantachari…
Plea to re-locate starving street dogs
May 28, 2022Sir, I am staying in Alanahalli area for the last 30 years and being a regular walker, my favourite walking route is via Lalitha Mahal and Helipad area. Earlier, there were very few stray dogs in and around helipad but the numbers have gone up since three years. Regular walkers, animal-lovers and people from a…















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