Chamarajanagar: Two bike riders died in a head-on collision with a Bolero vehicle coming from the opposite direction, here yesterday. The victims are M.S. Girish Babu, resident of Vidyaranyapuram in Mysuru, who was the Mysuru District Electrical Contractors Association’s Organising Secretary and Kumar, a resident of Kuvempunagar in Mysuru. Both were electrical contractors. Girish and…
‘Chamarajanagar, Mysuru farmers get Rs.449 crore loan waiver benefit’
February 22, 2019Commercial Banks are giving tough competition for Co-operative Banks Nanjangud: President of Mysuru-Chamarajanagar District Co-operative Central (MCDCC) Bank G.D. Harish Gowda said that the State Government has waived off Rs. 449 crore loans borrowed by farmers in various banks of Mysuru and Chamarajanagar districts by the loan waiver announcement scheme. Speaking after felicitating the…
Passport Seva Kendra in Chamarajanagar from Feb.15
February 7, 2019Chamarajanagar: A Passport Seva Kendra will be opened on Feb. 15 at Chamarajanagar District headquarters, thus fulfilling a long-standing demand of the people. The Kendra will be opened at Post Office near Santhemarahalli Circle. Chamarajanagar MP R. Dhruvanarayan had been striving hard since the last six years for the Passport Seva Kendra. His efforts has…
MP chairs DISHA meeting, asks officials to complete Highway works
February 4, 2019Chamarajanagar: Member of Parliament R. Dhruvanarayan directed the officials concerned to complete all the ongoing National Highway development works on war footing without any delay. Chairing the District Development Co-ordination and Monitoring Committee (DISHA) meeting at Zilla Panchayat Hall in city yesterday, he instructed them to expedite the land acquisition and other related works within…
Haadi Vasthavya: DC, ZP CEO ‘blend’ with tribals, stay in hamlets
February 2, 2019Bureaucrats do a HDK in Chamarajanagar Chamarajanagar: Who says only politicians do ‘Grama Vasthavya’ (village stay) to listen to the problems faced by ground-level people and give them solutions? Even officers, if they mind, can stay in villages as it is the officers who implement government schemes, programmes and policies bringing the most backward to…
Prasadam poisoning case: Hearing posted to Feb.12
January 29, 2019Chamarajanagar: The Chamarajanagar District Court today posted the next hearing in the Sulwadi Temple prasadam poisoning case, in which 17 people lost their lives, to Feb.12. Principal District and Sessions Judge G. Basavaraja conducted hearing through video-conference from Mysuru Central Jail, where all the four accused — Immadi Mahadevaswamy, Ambika, Madesha and Doddaiah — have…
Compensation for Temple tragedy victims MP distributes Centre’s order copy
January 27, 2019Chamarajanagar MP R. Dhruvanarayan, along with Hanur MLA R. Narendra (extreme right), symbolically distributing the order copy of Centre’s compensation to the families of victims of Kichuguth Sulwadi Maramma Temple prasadam poisoning incident. 17 persons have died and over a 100 fell ill when poison-laced prasadam was distributed to devotees at the Temple in December…
Elephant herd tramples elderly woman to death
January 20, 2019Irate villagers block NH 209 with wooden logs Chamarajanagar: A seventy-year-old woman was trampled to death by wild elephants at Mahantalpura village in Chamarajanagar taluk last evening. The incident came to light this morning when the villagers saw the dead body. As the news spread like wild fire, the enraged villagers blocked the National Highway…
‘Utilise sports grants to encourage sportspersons’ – MP Dhruvanarayan inaugurates synthetic track
January 18, 2019Chamarajanagar: Lot of grants are being released to encourage sports and this should be utilised properly for its development, said Chamarajanagar MP R. Dhruvanarayan. He was speaking after inaugurating the newly-laid synthetic track at a cost of Rs. 5.5 crore and the District-Level State Government Employees’ Sports Meet at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Sports Stadium here…
In a first, Sulwadi tragedy trial through video-conferencing
January 16, 2019Chamarajanagar: In a first, Chamarajanagar District and Principal Sessions Court Judge B. Basavaraja conducted the Hanur Sulwadi Temple tragedy case through video-conferencing due to security reasons at the District Court Complex in city this morning. Over 17 persons were killed and more than 120 fell ill after consuming prasadam laced with pesticide on Dec.14, 2018…
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