Hunsur: A week-long efforts by Forest Department staff to trap an elusive tiger near K.G. Habbanakuppe is yet to yield the result as the ‘intelligent’ tiger seems to be not lured by the goat kept as a bait in the cage but continue to roam in the said village looking for another prey. The tiger…
New Court building at Hunsur
August 6, 2018Hunsur: Justice Dr. Vineet Kothari of Karnataka High Court inaugurated the new court building in the town recently. Speaking on the occasion, Principal District and Sessions Court, Mysuru, Judge S. Krishnappa Vontigodi said that the Court has been built at a cost of Rs. 6.9 crore. Pointing out that the new building will facilitate disposal…
Woman goes missing from Hunsur
July 27, 2018Hunsur: A 25-year-old housewife has been reported missing from Hunsur town and a complaint has been lodged at Rural Police Station in this regard. The missing housewife has been identified as Jayanthi, wife of Devaraju and a resident of Hunasegala village in the taluk. Jayanthi, who left the house on July 3 saying that she…
Farmer ends life
July 20, 2018Hunsur: A 29-year-old farmer has committed suicide by hanging self at his house in Hanagodu village in the taluk this morning. The deceased has been identified as Prashanth, son of Muthanna of Hanagodu. Prashanth had reportedly borrowed a loan of Rs. 8 lakh from a bank in Hunsur town and also had taken money from…
Passenger’s gold chain stolen in bus
July 19, 2018Hunsur,: Miscreants have stolen a gold chain of a passenger while travelling from Hunsur to Modooru on Tuesday. The lady, who lost her gold chain, is Rajamma, a resident of Kolavige village and mother of Dodda Hejjuru Gram Panchayat President Devaraj. Rajamma, who wanted to go to her daughter’s house in Modooru, boarded a bus…
Leopard trapped in Hunsur
July 10, 2018A four-year-old male leopard was trapped by the Forest Department personnel at the farm of one Jaffar Baig at Siddanakoppal in Hunsur last night. The leopard had killed Jaffar’s dog and had consumed a part of it on Sunday. The Forest Department personnel had placed a cage in the farm and had kept the carcass…
Effective waste segregation helps Hunsur bag Best City Award in Solid Waste Management
June 25, 2018Mysuru: Hunsur has won the South Zone Award for Best City in Solid Waste Management (SWM) while the Heritage City of Mysuru has slipped into eighth position in the Swachh Survekshan 2018 from the fifth position it achieved in 2017. The rankings were released in New Delhi on June 25 by the Union Ministry of…
Victory smiles on A.H. Vishwanath in Hunsur
May 16, 2018Mysuru: Former Minister Adagur H. Vishwanath, who was fed up with the functioning style of Congress leaders and had quit the party last year to join the JD(S) registered a comfortable victory over Congress candidate H.P. Manjunath by a margin of 8,575 votes. Vishwanath who had openly ridiculed the working style of Chief Minister Siddharamaiah…
Teenager electrocuted
May 12, 2018Hunsur: In a tragic incident, a 15-year-old girl died of electrocution in the premises of her house at Hareenahalli in the taluk this morning. The deceased girl has been identified as Pallavi, daughter of Mahadeva Nayaka and Yashodamma of Hareenahalli. Pallavi was cleaning the backyard of her house at about 6.45 am, when she accidentally…
A.H. Vishwanath to file nomination tomorrow
April 18, 2018Hunsur: Former MP A.H. Vishwanath will file his nomination papers tomorrow (Apr.19) as the JD(S) candidate for Hunsur Assembly constituency. He will offer prayers along with his family at 9 am at the Ganapathi temple and perform a Ganapathi Homa. Later he will arrive at the office of Assistant Commissioner (Assistant Electoral Officer) in a…















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