Srirangapatna: Depressed over family issues, a 32-year-old woman, pushed her 3-year-old daughter into the river near Gosai Ghat in Srirangapatna and later committed suicide by jumping into the river. The deceased are Bhargavi and her daughter Deeksha, residents of Lakshmisagar village in the taluk. A native of Devegowdanakoppal village in Srirangapatna taluk, Bhargavi had married…
Revenue Minister Ashoka leads mass ‘Pinda Pradhana’ rituals
October 4, 2021Prays for salvation of departed souls who died of COVID Srirangapatna: It is a tradition in South India to immerse the ashes of those who have been cremated in River Cauvery. But one of the many sad fallouts of the COVID pandemic is that the ashes of many patients who died of the virus were…
Villagers block road to Paschimavahini
May 4, 2021Residents take matter into their own hands as people continue to perform rituals in connivance with some priests Srirangapatna: Family members of a COVID victim who had come to Srirangapatna (Gosai Ghat) from Bengaluru to immerse the ashes were turned away by villagers this morning. The family was told that the Taluk Administration had banned…
700-year old Shiva Temple near Gosai Ghat restored
February 3, 2021Srirangapatna: NSS volunteers of Seshadripuram Degree College in Mysuru, Achievers Academy of Srirangapatna and the Town Panchayat administration jointly undertook the cleaning of a Shiva Temple that is over 700-years-old. The Temple is located in front of the Gosai Ghat in an island on River Cauvery. Volunteers cleared the wild weed growth that had literally…
Recent Comments