Nanjangud: District Minister S.T. Somashekar, who visited Nanjangud this morning, offered special puja at the famous Srikanteshwara Temple in the town that is dedicated to the Hindu supreme deity Shiva, also called Sri Nanjundeshwara (The Lord who drank poison to save the earth) and prayed for the well-being of the State and make it Corona-free…
Jubilant Generics allowed to re-open subject to conditions
May 17, 2020Nanjangud MLA Harshavardhan spells out Government move in the interest of Company employees Mysore/Mysuru: Nanjangud-based Jubilant Generics, an extended arm of Jubilant Life Sciences, will be allowed to re-start operations from Nanjangud with certain conditions and the Company management has come forward to adopt 10 villages contributing to their overall development, said Nanjangud MLA B….
Lockdown relaxation: Traffic signal lights go Red and Green after two months
May 17, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The traffic signal lights which were stopped due to lockdown has begun to function since Friday in city. Following the relaxation of lockdown rules phase by phase, the Traffic Police personnel are now switching on the traffic signal lights across the city from 9 am to 9 pm. As movement of vehicles were banned…
Need funds to raze and re-build Devaraja Market, Lansdowne Building: MLA
May 17, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Call it inordinate delay or procrastination, the decision to restore or demolish the nearly 120-year-old heritage structures — Devaraja Market and Lansdowne building — in the heart of the city is back in focus again and this time it is before S.T. Somashekar, who assumed charge as the new Mysuru District Minister over a…
City Clubs offer discounts to clear beer stocks
May 17, 2020Some Clubs suffer losses due to Government’s limited window period for sale and expiry date for beer Mysore/Mysuru: Litres of beer is set to flow down the drain as some of the reputed sports and recreation clubs in city have not been able to sell their beer stocks and are staring at revenue loss. Even…
Seers launch mega grocery kits distribution drive by former Chamaraja MLA Vasu
May 17, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Vidya Vikas Educational Institutions Chairman and former Chamaraja MLA Vasu, along with his family members, distributed grocery kits to thousands of people near Mahadeshwara Temple in Paduvarahalli this morning. Each kit contained ragi flour, rice, green gram, black eyed beans, dal, salt, sugar, cooking oil and other grocery items. Present on the occasion were…
Two go missing from N’gud, Mysuru
May 17, 2020Nanjangud/Mysuru: In separate incidents, a housewife and a youth have gone missing from Nanjangud and Mysuru respectively. In the first incident, a 25-year-old housewife has gone missing from her parents’ house in Nanjangud since May 13. The missing woman is Bhagya alias Siri, daughter of Ramesh, residing in Nanjangud Rural Police limits. Bhagya, who was…
SWR Ticket Checking Staff provide ration kits to licensed porters, house-keeping staff
May 17, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: In yet another show of humanitarian concern for the licensed luggage porters and station house-keeping staff, badly affected because of the cancellation of passenger-carrying trains, ticket checking staff of South Western Railway (SWR), Mysuru Division, have pooled their resources to provide ration kits to about 97 persons who depend on train services for their…
Woman’s gold chain snatched in broad daylight
May 17, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Bike-borne miscreants have snatched the gold chain of a 50-year-old woman in broad daylight near Jain Bhavan at Kakarawadi in city yesterday afternoon. The woman, who lost her 20 grams gold chain worth Rs. 75,000, is Mangalamma of Kakarawadi. Mangalamma, who had been to a shop, was on her way home, when two miscreants,…
Student donates Rs.5,000 cash prize won in Pratibha Puraskar towards Relief Fund
May 17, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: It is commendable that many students are coming forward to donate whatever they have saved towards COVID-19 Relief Funds. Similarly, M. Sahana, a student of JSS Speech and Hearing Institute and a resident of Kuvempunagar, has donated Rs.5,000, the cash prize she had won in Pratibha Puraskar previous year. Daughter of BJP Mahila Morcha…















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