Mysuru-Bommasandra Road blocked; Tyres burnt; Police resort to mild lathi charge A 38-year-old BJP leader was hacked to death by unknown assailants in the wee hours of today near Bommasandra, South East part of Bengaluru. The victim has been identified as Vasu alias Srinivas alias Kittaganahalli Vasu. Assailants blocked Vasu’s car at around 5 am,…
All Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in the State will get telemedicine facility within six months, according to Health and Family Welfare Minister K.R. Ramesh Kumar. Speaking at the launch of Primary Health Centre Management Information System at Vidhana Soudha, Ramesh Kumar said that the new initiative would facilitate patients at the PHCs to avail the…
Members of Kodagu District Coffee Growers Federation led by Kodagu District JD(S) President Meriyanda Sanketh Poovaiah met former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda at the latter’s residence in Bengaluru and apprised him of the problems being faced by coffee growers over a long period. Giving a patient hearing to the grievances of the coffee growers,…
Social Welfare Minister Anjaneya has said that the Health Department permission is mandatory for setting up private residential schools in the State. Speaking to press persons here yesterday, Anjaneya said that residential schools must install CCTV cameras in their premises and the new set of rules will come into force from the coming academic year….
The translocation of Tipu Sultan’s armoury at Srirangapatna to pave way for the double-tracking work of the Mysuru-Bengaluru Railway line was completed yesterday at 4.45 pm. This is a spectacular engineering effort and is the first such in India. The shifting of the 228-year-old and 1,050-tonne Tipu armoury began on Mar. 3. The armoury was…
Channamma, a gravedigger-cum-body burial worker in Hanumanthapura Hindu Burial Ground at Srirampura in Bengaluru, took up the job after her husband’s death in 2000 to feed her four daughters. Her husband Ganesh was a gravedigger at the Srirampura Burial Ground. She is digging graves and burying bodies since 13 years and has buried about 5,000…
While the perceived image of the land’s cinema industry, its players, and more so its current output of biopics is none-too-flattering in circles of society who have nostalgic memories of the classical movies of their bygone days, the country has the dubious distinction of world’s highest producer of movies in multiplicity of languages, including Kannada….
Indian skipper Virat Kohli and Ravichandran Ashwin bagged the top honours during the BCCI Annual Awards function held at Bengaluru yesterday. While the Delhi-dasher won the prestigious Polly Umrigar Trophy for the best international cricketer of 2015-16, Ashwin was honoured with the Dilip Sardesai award for his magnificent performance against West Indies during which he…
Parvathamma Rajkumar, a film producer and wife of legendary Kannada actor late Dr. Rajkumar, was hospitalised yesterday midnight. She is being treated at M.S. Ramaiah Hospital in Bengaluru, over issues related to diabetes and low blood pressure. Hospital sources said she was in good condition and stable. Her sons Raghavendra Rajkumar, Shivarajkumar and Puneeth Rajkumar…
In an ambitious move aimed at decongesting Bengaluru, the State Government will develop a new city at Kolar Gold Fields (KGF) around 100 km from Bengaluru to decongest its capital, State Urban Development Minister Roshan Baig said. 11,000 acres of Bharat Gold Mines Ltd. (BGML) land will be used to build the city, he said…
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