Mysuru: The Forest Department personnel have been successful in catching an injured leopard at an agricultural field at Honnahalli village in the taluk on Monday. One Nagaraju, son of Mahadevashetty of Honnahalli village, who saw the leopard sleeping in front of the house in the field, informed the matter to the villagers and also brought…
Python struggling to swallow peacock rescued
May 18, 2019Chamarajanagar: A huge python, which was struggling having swallowed half of a peacock, was rescued by a snake rescuer at Hondarabalu village in the taluk recently. The python was believed to have caught the peacock near a haystack in front of the farm house of one Rajesh. Half-way-through and unable to swallow the whole peacock,…
Major gold seizure at KIA: Chamarajanagar man among 2 held for smuggling 4 kg yellow metal
May 4, 2019Bengaluru: In a major gold seizure at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), Bengaluru, the Customs sleuths busted two passengers attempting to innovatively smuggle in over 4 kg of the yellow metal worth about Rs.1.3 crore last Thursday. Sources with the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Bengaluru Customs said their team intercepted a passenger who disembarked from…
Temperature likely to touch 41 degrees Celsius in Chamarajanagar
April 28, 2019Mysuru: The Meteorological Department has predicted that there is going to be drizzle and light rain in Mysuru, Kodagu and Chamarajanagar districts till Apr.28. There is going to be fluctuation in weather condition in Chamarajanagar and the weather forecast says that the temperature is going to go up from 37 degrees Celsius to 41 degrees…
Youth murdered for trivial reasons in Chamarajanagar
April 23, 2019Chamarajanagar: A 19-year-old youth was murdered by his own colleagues following a scuffle over trivial reasons of conducting pujas at a temple in city on Saturday. The deceased youth has been identified as Mahesh of Uppara Layout. Based on the complaint filed by the deceased’s mother, Rural Police SI Ravikiran arrested accused Mahesh and Kiran…
High voter turnout keeps candidates guessing in Chamarajanagar
April 20, 2019Chamarajanagar: Chamarajanagar (SC) Lok Sabha Constituency, which recorded a high voter turnout of 75.22 percent in Thursday’s polling, has kept all the candidates guessing. With polls over, people are discussing among themselves on which candidate will benefit from the high voter turnout. Sitting Congress MP R. Dhruvanarayan is seeking re-election for the third time, while…
Peaceful Polling at Chamarajanagar
April 18, 2019Chamarajanagar: Voting began on a moderate to brisk note this morning in all the 2,005 polling booths across Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha constituency. Polling was by large peaceful at all the eight Assembly segments of the constituency — Chamarajanagar, Hanur, Kollegal and Gundlupet of Chamarajanagar district and Varuna, Nanjangud, H.D. Kote and T. Narasipur of Mysuru…
Polling Officer on duty dies at Chamarajanagar
April 18, 2019Chamarajanagar: Shanthamurthy (48), who was deputed as a Polling Officer, died of cardiac arrest while on duty at Booth No.48 in Chamarajanagar this morning. Currently, he was working as Kannada Lecturer and Additional Principal of GV Gowda Government PU College in Hanur town of Chamarajanagar district.
Chamarajanagar LS Constituency to witness straight fight between Prasad & Dhruvanarayan
April 15, 2019Chamarajanagar: For various reasons, Chamarajanagar Reserved Lok Sabha constituency has been labelled as a high voltage constituency. Though ten candidates are in the fray now for the LS polls, it is obviously declared as a straight fight between former Union Minister and BJP candidate V. Sreenivasa Prasad and sitting MP and Congress candidate R. Dhruvanarayan….
Woman, daughter die of electrocution while bathing in river
April 13, 2019Chamarajanagar: In a tragic incident, a 40-year-old woman and one of her daughters, who were taking a bath at Suvarnavathi river waters in the taluk, died of electrocution while another daughter sustained injuries when an electric wire snapped and fell on them yesterday. The deceased have been identified as Manjula (40), a native of Hebsur…
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