K.R. Pet: A 14-year-old girl student, upset over her teachers for scolding her, reportedly committed suicide by hanging self at her house in Chaitanya Vidyanikethana High School premises at Kodimaranahalli village in the taluk yesterday afternoon. The deceased girl has been identified as Sangeetha (14), a 9th standard student of the school. A native of…
Sleepy driver plunges car into pond
July 8, 2018An exhausted and a sleepy car driver drove his vehicle straight into a pond last night at K.R. Pet. Fortunately, the driver managed to escape and there were no other passengers. The incident occurred at Neralakatte village in K.R. Pet taluk when the car driver Naveen Kumar of Kurrenahalli village was coming to K.R. Pet…
Woman ends life
June 30, 2018Mysuru: Dejected over domestic disharmony a 46-year-old woman from K.R. Pet ended her life by consuming excessive pills. The deceased has been identified as Vijayalakshmi (46), wife of Anjanigowda of Natanahalli village in Akkihebbal hobli of K.R. Pet taluk. After heated exchanges with her husband on Thursday night, Vijayalakshmi is said to have consumed excessive…
Four persons injured as car topples
May 30, 2018K.R. Pet: Three persons travelling in a car were injured when the vehicle toppled and fell into a roadside ditch after the driver lost control of the car near Vivekananda Educational Institute at Bommenahalli. The injured have been identified as 65-year-old Thammannagowda, his wife 58-year-old Savithramma, his son 42-year-old Dharma, who was behind the wheels…
Prithvik Shankar of K.R. Pet secures 211th rank in UPSC Exam
April 29, 2018K.R. Pet, Apr.29 (US)- Prithvik Shankar, a resident of Doddayachenahalli in the taluk of Mandya district has secured 211th rank at the Civil Services Examination conducted by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) in 2017. He is the son of Shankaregowda and Sudha. After doing PUC at Saibaba Institutions in Puttur, Prithvik completed B.Sc in Bengaluru…
K.R. Pet MLA falls ill
April 24, 2018K.R. Pet: K.R. Pet JD(S) MLA K.C. Narayanagowda, who had filed his nomination as the JD(S) candidate yesterday morning, took ill later in the evening and was treated at a local hospital. Narayanagowda, who was upset after JD(S) Supremo issued the party’s ‘C’ form to another aspirant B.L. Devaraj, had staged a protest along with…
Former Speaker K.R. Pet Krishna quits active politics
April 19, 2018K.R. Pet: Former Assembly Speaker Krishna, popular as K.R. Pet Krishna from Congress has announced his retirement from active politics. “I have no intention to continue in politics that has been polluted and I have decided to retire from politics after spending over 40 years there,” he said. Addressing reporters at Ramdas-Sulochanamma Kalyana Mantap yesterday,…
Alleged harassment by teacher: Girl student commits suicide
January 25, 2018K.R. Pet/Mysuru: A girl student of Navodaya Minority Residential School at K.R. Pet, unable to bear the harassment of the teacher, committed suicide by hanging self at her hostel room in K.R. Pet last evening. While the girl student has been identified as Zaibunnisa (14), daughter of Mohammed Ibrahim and Zubeid couple, residents of Uppinangadi…
Threshing Crops on Road: Car catches fire after driving over millet straw strewn on road
January 22, 2018K.R. Pet: Five members of a family from Bengaluru, who were on their way to Sri Bhu Varahanatha Swamy Temple at Ganjigere Kallahalli in the taluk, has a miraculous escape, when the car in which they were travelling caught fire after running over millet straw which was strewn on the road for threshing by farmers…
Negligence of Cauvery Neeravari Nigam Limited officials render hundreds of Cormorant fledglings homeless
January 10, 2018Mandya: Sheer negligence on the part of the officials of Cauvery Neeravari Nigam Limited (CNNL) in K.R. Pet, have rendered nearly 350 birds of various species, mainly Cormorants homeless. On Saturday, CNNL engaged workers to cut branches of a few trees in its premises, which was done without taking precautionary measures despite knowing that there…
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