Mysuru: Chief Minister Siddharamaiah will be on a three-day tour to the city to participate in various programmes. He will leave Bengaluru’s HAL Airport in a special aircraft this evening at 4 and land in Mysore Airport at 4.35 pm. He will leave by road to Siddaramanahundi, Varuna Hobli in Mysuru Taluk, participate in local…
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CM says he is committed to Kannada development
November 25, 2017Mysuru: The 83rd edition of Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana began with great fervour at Maharaja’s College Grounds in city yesterday. The Sammelana was inaugurated by Chief Minister Siddharamaiah in the presence of Sammelana President Prof. Chandrashekar Patil, popular as Champa, Mysuru District in-Charge Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa, Mayor M.J. Ravikumar, MLA M.K. Somashekar, Kannada…
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Pregnant woman forced to walk for CM’s smooth drive!
November 21, 2017Mysuru: A pregnant woman had to walk for over 600 meters to reach a hospital because the Police forced her to do so. The insensitive Police refused to allow the ambulance that was carrying the pregnant woman as they had blocked the road for the Chief Minister’s convoy to pass. The incident occurred in Mandya…
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Chief Minister Siddharamaiah Man for the Age of Reason: Appointing Astrologers in Hospitals. Howzat?
November 18, 2017I do not know what the stars foretell about Chief Minister Siddharamaiah’s political future in 2018 Assembly elections. But I do know what the people of reason, the rationalists, foretell about his contributions to gullible people to live in dignity. They foretell a place in Karnataka’s history for Siddharamaiah as a redeemer of superstitious people…
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CM, KPCC Chief confident of Cong. victory in Assembly polls
November 16, 2017Belagavi: Asserting that the Congress would return to power in the 2018 Assembly polls, Chief Minster Siddharamaiah has urged the party Legislators to be more connected to the people. Addressing the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting at Suvarna Soudha Hall here yesterday, the CM reiterated that the party would form the next Government, whatever hue…
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CM to inaugurate two-day Kannada Conference on Science & Technology
November 12, 2017Mysuru: For the first time a Kannada Science and Technology conference has been organised jointly by Science and Technology Academy and JSS Arts, Science and Commerce College at the latter’s premises here on Nov 24 and 25. Disclosing this at a press meet at Patrakarthara Bhavan here yesterday, Academy Chairman Dr.S.K. Shivakumar said that the…
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Ramdas sends Epigraphia Carnatica Vol. 6 to CM
November 11, 2017Mysuru: Countering Chief Minister Siddharamaiah’s statement that those who oppose Tipu Jayanti do not know the history, former Minister S.A. Ramdas has sent a copy of B.L. Rice’s Epigraphia Carnatica Volume 6 to the CM where the atrocities committed by Tipu Sultan in Kodagu, Srirangapatna and Melukote have been documented. Despatching a copy of Epigraphia…
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Is government dithering on KPME Act amendments?
November 10, 2017Bengaluru: The State Government appears to be dithering over its plans to regulate private medical practitioners by tabling the Karnataka Private Medical Establishment (Amendment) Bill 2017 during the ensuing winter session at Belagavi. The State Cabinet yesterday gave only an in-principle approval to the proposed amendments and left the final call to Chief Minister Siddharamaiah…
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Ensure full implementation of schemes by March, CM to DCs
November 8, 2017Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddharamaiah yesterday issued strict instructions to Deputy Commissioners (DCs) and Chief Executive Officers (CEO) of Zilla Panchayats to focus on 100 per cent implementation of all Government schemes within the end of this financial year (March 2018). Addressing a conference of DCs, ZP CEOs and Heads of Government Departments, the CM sought…
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CM upset with doctors’ irresponsibility
November 4, 2017Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddharamaiah has taken strong exception to the strike call given by the private hospitals terming it an act of irresponsibility by the Doctors. Reacting to the strike call by the doctors of private establishments against the KPME (Amendments) Bill, he said that the strike was uncalled for when discussions were still on…
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