Mysore/Mysuru: Karnataka’s New Industrial Policy has aimed at attracting Rs. 5 lakh crore investments that could create employment for 20 lakh people by 2025, said Large and Medium Scale Industries Minister Jagadish Shettar here yesterday. Releasing the New Industrial Policy 2020-25 handbook here, Shettar said that the State Government has decided to focus more on…
Farmers with weak mind commit suicide: Agri Minister B.C. Patil
January 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Agriculture Minister B.C. Patil has said farmers with weak mind will commit suicide and diversion of their mind will prevent them from taking such an extreme step. Talking to reporters here on Tuesday, he said that the need of the hour was to create self-confidence in farmers than going to houses of dead farmers…
Vegetable vendors to be evicted from Dasara Exhibition Grounds
January 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: The M.G. Road vegetable market that was shifted to Doddakere Maidan (Dasara Exhibition parking lot) will move back to its old place (M.G. Road) as the Karnataka Exhibition Authority (KEA) has decided to take back the space from vendors. A decision to this effect was taken at the Governing Council meeting of the KEA…
Work on Kootupole Bridge on Karnataka-Kerala border resumes
January 20, 2021Virajpet: Virajpet MLA K.G. Bopaiah recently inspected the work on a bridge across Kootupole near Makutta which provides connectivity between Karnataka and Kerala. The bridge is at the Karnataka-Kerala border and is part of the Kerala State Transport Project (KSTP) road between Thalassery and Valavupara. The bridge work has resumed as Karnataka Wildlife Board has…
Siddharamaiah urges for commissioning of ethnographic survey of Kurubas
January 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Opposition Leader and former Chief Minister Siddharamaiah has urged the State Government to commission an ethnographic survey of Kuruba community, which has been demanding inclusion in Scheduled Tribe (ST) category. He was speaking after releasing a booklet on ST reservation for Kuruba community brought out by Karnataka Pradesha Kurubara Sangha, at a programme jointly…
Concert at Ganabharathi
January 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Ganabharathi has organised a Vocal Concert by Vidu. M.R. Sudha at Veene Seshanna Bhavan on Adichunchanagiri Road in Kuvempunagar on Jan. 22 at 6 pm. She will be accompanied by Vid. C.N. Thyagarajan on violin, Vid. Sunil Subrahmanya on mridanga and Vid. V.S. Ramesh on morching. The Concert will also be available on both…
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birth anniversary is Parakram Diwas
January 20, 2021Prime Minister Modi would preside over the inauguration of the function in Kolkata New Delhi: The Union Culture Ministry yesterday announced that Jan. 23, birth anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose, would be celebrated as “Parakram Diwas” — day of courage — every year. In a notification, the Ministry said the Government had decided to celebrate…
‘Difficult to bail out only hotel industry from crisis’
January 20, 2021Tourism Department Secretary T.K. Anil Kumar unveils plans to increase tourism revenues Mysore/Mysuru: The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a severe blow to the tourism and travel industry, which was once a booming sector. The industry has been battered after the stringent lockdown was imposed. Like the hospitality sector, all the other sectors and industries too…
Snake Shyam rescues Cobra hiding inside air cooler
January 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: A four feet-long Cobra snake, which had taken shelter inside an air cooler at the house of one Surya Prakash in K.R. Puram near Silk Factory, was rescued by city’s snake rescuer and wildlife conservationist Snake Shyam on Sunday afternoon. Surya Prakash’s neighbours, who saw the Cobra entering his house, informed him and after…
Protest against privatisation BEML Employees submit memorandum to MP
January 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Opposing the move by the Centre to privatise Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML), the members of BEML Employees Association, who have been protesting against the move, submitted a memorandum to Mandya MP Sumalatha Ambareesh in city yesterday. The Association members met the MP, who was in city to attend a programme organised at Sri…















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