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….
Pay pending water bills under new scheme: MCC Commissioner
August 4, 2022Mysore/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…
Ban on single-use plastic from July 1: MCC collects Rs. 12 lakh fine, seizes 1,350 kg banned plastic
August 4, 2022Awareness 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…
Police intensify display card drive for autorickshaws
August 4, 2022Mysore/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…
Online frauds: Doctor, engineer among three persons lose over Rs. 5.78 lakh
August 4, 2022Mysore/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…
Musical evening at Ramakrishna Vidyashala tomorrow
August 4, 2022Mysore/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…
Headless bodies of women: Serial killer, lover arrested
August 4, 2022Srirangapatna: 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…
Exclusive interview with Intl. Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree: ‘I was influenced by lives of women around me’
August 4, 2022Geetanjali 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…
Replace ‘directionless’ direction boards in J.P. Nagar
August 4, 2022Sir, I am a senior citizen residing at 7th Cross, 17th Main, E Block, C Zone, 3rd Stage, behind Sai Baba Temple in J.P. Nagar, Mysuru. The direction board which is in the left side of my house has to be replaced as the letters in the board is not visible and it is almost…
Commonwealth Games – Day 6: Historic bronze in Squash & High-Jump, silver in Judo
August 4, 2022It has been a great day for India at the CWG 2022 yet again. Judoka Tulika Maan won a silver medal in judo after going down to Scotland’s Sarah Adlington in +78kg final. In the men’s singles squash, Saurav Ghosal defeated England’s James Willstrop to win India’s first singles medal (bronze) in the sport at…















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