Bengaluru: With the State Cabinet expansion just two days away (Feb.6), loyal and senior BJP MLAs, who are apprehensive of being sidelined, have intensified their pressure on Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa seeking their induction into the Cabinet. While some MLAs are making frequent trips to ‘Dhavalagiri’, the private residence of Yediyurappa, others have taken to…
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UoM restricts entry of private vehicles into Gangothri campus
February 4, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: With outsiders extensively using the University of Mysore (UoM) campus at Manasagangothri to reach Hunsur Road and SJCE through the entrance to the University campus from Bogadi road side, where Kuvempu statue has been installed, the University has restricted the movement of outsiders and their vehicles in the campus, starting from yesterday on an …
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Coronavirus Threat: Sale of masks soars, hand sanitiser sale increased by 40 percent in Mysuru
February 4, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: Amid the Coronavirus alarm, the sale of face masks has soared in city, triggering shortage in supply of the protective gear and increase in its price. Fear and rumours of coronavirus have resulted in a sudden jump in sale of face masks in city. Most medical stores have run out of face masks and…
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Sale of part of Government’s stake at LIC: Insurance Unions stage protest in city
February 4, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: Following the announcement by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman while presenting the Union Budget recently that the LIC would be listed in the Stock Exchange and the Government would sell a part of its stake in LIC via public offering, members of various insurance unions, numbering more than 100, opposing the move of the…
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Lok Sabha adjourned amid uproar over Hegde’s remarks on Gandhiji
February 4, 2020New Delhi: Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned till noon today following uproar by Opposition members over BJP leader Anant Kumar Hegde‘s controversial remarks on Mahatma Gandhi. Members from the Congress, DMK and NCP sought to raise the issue of Hegde’s remarks but Speaker Om Birla did not allow them. The House also observed silence as…
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Woman murdered in broad daylight at home
February 4, 2020Miscreants lock house before fleeing Periyapatna: Miscreants, who barged into a house on Kote Brahmin Street here, have killed a woman and decamped with her gold mangalya chain, yesterday morning. The miscreants, after murdering the woman locked the house before fleeing from the spot. The deceased is Kalavathi (40), wife of Indresh, Proprietor of a…
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Minor girl kidnap case: Police rescue girl, arrest accused within 24 hours
February 4, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: The District Crime Investigation Bureau (DCIB) Police, who were investigating the kidnap case of a minor girl have arrested the accused within 24 hours of the crime and have rescued the girl. The accused is Ganesh, a resident of Sulagodu village in Periyapatna. Ganesh had kidnapped a minor girl from a village in the…
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Former Minster D. Manjunath passes away
February 4, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: Former Minister and former State JD(S) President, D. Manjunath, passed away yesterday at a private hospital in Bengaluru following a brief illness. He was 92. Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and former CM H.D. Kumaraswamy have condoled the death of Manjunath. Yediyurappa, after offering his condolences to the family, addressing the media, said, ‘Manjunath was…
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Accidental fire at Government Guest House and Hebbal Industrial Area
February 4, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: With summer fast approaching and grass and plants drying up, fires lit by miscreants has destroyed dry grass and plants at Government Guest House and at Hebbal Industrial area yesterday, creating panic for a while. Fire lit by miscreants at Government Guest House premises at Nazarbad soon spread to about six acres of land…
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Minister Sriramulu invites Pramoda Devi for daughter’s wedding
February 4, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: Health Minister B. Sriramulu visited the Mysore Palace yesterday and invited Pramoda Devi Wadiyar for his daughter’s wedding at Bangalore Palace on Mar. 4 and 5. Pramoda Devi presented Sriramulu with a silk shawl and told the Minister that she would attend the wedding. The titular head of Mysore Royal family, Yaduveer Wadiyar was…
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