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….
Tipu armoury moved to new location
March 11, 2017The 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…
This gravedigger at B’luru has buried 5,000 bodies
March 9, 2017Channamma, 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…
Sizzling Silver Screen
March 9, 2017While 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….
BCCI annual awards: Virat Kohli, Ashwin bag top honours
March 9, 2017Indian 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 hospitalised
March 8, 2017Parvathamma 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…
State mulls to develop KGF
March 8, 2017In 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…
Siddharamaiah to present Budget for 12th time
March 7, 2017Chief Minister Siddharamaiah is said to have told his Ministerial colleagues to aggressively market the programmes, schemes and initiatives launched by the State Government during the last four years. At a Council of Ministers meeting convened on Monday to discuss Budget proposals for 2017-18, Siddharamaiah is learnt to have exhorted the need to connect with…
CM fumes at Forest Officials
March 7, 2017Chief Minister Siddharamaiah, who held a high-level meeting of Forest Officials here yesterday, fumed over the functioning style of Karnataka Forest Department (KFD) Officials and directed Forest Minister B. Ramanath Rai to take stringent action on negligent Officials besides ordering for a CID probe into the recent forest fires across the State. Siddharamaiah said that…
Guest lecturers to take out Raj Bhavan Chalo
March 7, 2017The guest lecturers, under the banner of Government Degree Colleges Guest Lecturers State Co-ordination Committee will take out a Raj Bhavan Chalo tomorrow (Mar.8) at 11am, to demand a high-level probe into the irregularities in the appointment of Assistant Professors in Government First Grade Colleges and to press for job security of guest lecturers. The…
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