Mysore/Mysuru: The Karnataka Khadi and Village Industries Board (KVIB), Kuvempunagar, has invited applications from entrepreneurs interested in setting up Micro Industries/ service units in rural areas of the District with the help of Bank loans, under the Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP). The interested entrepreneurs can apply along with necessary documents through the website:…
SUCI demands bus pass to domestic workers
June 12, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Urging the State Government to provide bus pass facility to house maids/domestic workers, the activists of Socialist Unity Centre of India ( SUCI-Communist) submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister through Officers of Labour Department. Over 25 maid servants together with members of SUCI, who met the officials said, “Following Coronavirus pandemic and lockdown,…
CPI(M) demands re-opening of factories
June 12, 2020Seeks monthly financial aid of Rs.7,000 to all workers for six months Mysore/Mysuru: Days after lockdown curbs were relaxed and industries were permitted to re-start manufacturing activities, the CPI-M (Communist Party of India-Marxist) has urged the Government to re-open shut factories and ensure job security to all those who were employed with them in the…
Govt. to pay pending wages of Pandavapura Factory workers
June 12, 2020Pandavapura: Minister Shivaram Hebbar later visited PSSK (Pandavapura Sahakara Sakkare Karkhane) at Pandavapura, which was recently taken on a 40-year lease by Bagalkot District-based Nirani Sugars, owned by Bilgi BJP MLA and former Minister Murugesh Nirani. Speaking to press persons after an inspection of the Factory and holding talks with the officials, Hebbar, replying to…
Youth working as bonded labourer rescued
June 12, 2020Mandya: A 23-year-old youth, who was allegedly forced to work as a bonded labourer at a chicken meat stall for the interest amount to the loan he had taken, has been rescued by the taluk officials at Bellur Cross in Nagamangala on Wednesday evening. The youth who was rescued belonged to Budubuduke Colony in Nagamangala…
Senior citizen’s gold chain snatched in Bannimantap
June 12, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Bike-borne miscreants have snatched a gold chain of a senior citizen at Bannimantap yesterday night. The elderly woman, who lost her gold chain, is 76-year-old Sharadamma, a resident of HUDCO Layout in Bannimantap. She was returning home after visiting her relative when two persons on a bike snatched her 15 grams gold chain and…
Stray cattle obstructing traffic caught
June 12, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The officials of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) with the help of N.R. Traffic Police have caught stray cattle that were obstructing smooth flow of traffic and causing accidents in city. Following complaints that the stray cattle were causing problems near St. Joseph’s School in Bannimantap and near Subashnagar on Mysuru-Bengaluru Road, N.R. Traffic Inspector…
Woman, daughter go missing from city
June 12, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: A 26-year-old woman and her five-year-old daughter have been missing from Manchegowdanakoppal in city. The missing persons are Bindu, wife of H.K. Kiran Kumar and her daughter Lasya. According to the complaint, Bindu and Lasya left home on June 6 saying that they were going to a shop and have since gone missing. Those…
Animal Adoption continues at City Zoo
June 12, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The following persons have adopted the animals of Mysuru Zoo under ‘Adoption of Animals’ scheme by paying the adoption fee: The Mysore Co-operative Bank Ltd. (Staff Contribution), Mysuru – Indian Grey Wolf, Green Anaconda, Emu, Himalayan Goral and Smooth Coated Otter – Rs.50,000. Santram B. Nimbalkar, Bidadi – Indian Cobra – Rs. 2,000; AMIGOS…
Kodava Koota of North America to award scholarship to meritorious Kodava students studying in India
June 12, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The Kodava Koota of North America has instituted a scholarship for the year 2020 to recognise and reward meritorious Kodava students studying in India. Kodava Koota is a non-profit organisation founded in 2017 by like-minded Kodavas living in North America under the leadership of Gina Konganda, an entrepreneur based out of Dallas, Texas. She…















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