Supreme Court settles 9-year battle between erstwhile royal family and Kerala Govt. New Delhi: The Supreme Court this morning sided with the erstwhile Travancore Royal Family for the administration and control of the Anantha Padmanabha Swamy Temple in Kerala. Settling the nine-year-long dispute, the Top Court overturned the January 2011 judgment of Kerala High Court…
Village on Mysuru-Nagarahole road sealed following COVID positive case
June 4, 2020More people have come from Kerala and Tamil Nadu to Mysuru than Mumbai: DC Hanagodu/Mysuru: The Maharashtra or the feared Mumbai link of COVID-19 positive cases has spread its tentacles into rural areas and as an evidence of this, late last evening, one woman who had come from Mumbai to Hanagodu village tested positive. The…
Truck transporting 250 quintal Anna Bhagya scheme rice to Kerala seized
May 14, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Police personnel manning the check post near Nanjangud have seized a truck which was transporting 250 quintal (500 bags) ‘Anna Bhagya’ scheme rice to Kerala illegally and have arrested one person in this regard. On Tuesday evening, the Police personnel, who intercepted the truck with Kerala registration number plate at the check post near…
Kerala’s first tribal girl who cracked civil service to join as Kozhikode Assistant Collector
May 7, 2020Kozhikode: Braving all odds, Sreedhanya Suresh, the first tribal woman from Kerala who cracked the civil service examination, will join as Assistant Collector in Kozhikode district. The 26-year-old Sreedhanya belongs to the Kurichya community in Pozhuthana village in Wayanad district. The tribal woman, who is now undergoing training at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of…
Love will have to wait: Kerala quintuplets’ wedding delayed
April 27, 2020Thiruvananthapuram: If there was no lockdown, the quintuplets (five children in one birth) of ‘Pancharatnam’ House at Nannattukavu in Pothencode in Kerala would have entered a new phase of life as four of them were to enter wedlock the same day and at the same venue on Sunday, Apr. 26. The four girls of the…
‘Boby Heli Taxi’ to ferry patients from Kerala to Mangaluru
April 6, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The 812-km run Unique World Record title holder Dr. Boby Chemmanur of Chemmanur Jewellers has donated one helicopter free of cost to the Government to transport COVID-19 patients from Kerala to Karnataka. A communication sent to Kerala Chief Minister says that ‘Boby Heli Taxi’ will ferry patients from Kasargod in Kerala to Mangaluru in…
Kerala wants to lift blockade; Kodagu MLAs, MP say no
March 29, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention to lift the blockade of the Thalassery-Kodagu State Highway-30 by the Karnataka Police. However, this move is opposed by the MLAs and MP of Kodagu who have urged the Karnataka Government not to lift the blockade as there is…
Health Officers strive to keep Monkey Fever at bay
March 5, 2020Joint cross-border meeting between Karnataka and Kerala Officers held at Manandavadi Mysuru/Mysore: After several cases of Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), also known as ‘Monkey Fever,’ were reported from areas bordering Manandavadi-Wayanad areas in Kerala, the Mysuru District authorities said they have taken several precautionary measures to stop it from spreading. It is known as ‘Monkey…
Guruvayur Temple loses its ‘Gajaratnam’
February 27, 2020Thrissur: An elephant credited with carrying the ‘Thidambu,’ the miniature of the presiding deity of Lord Krishna of Guruvayur Temple for several decades during temple rituals died on Wednesday at the age of 84, a Guruvayur Temple official said. The elephant named Guruvayur Padmanabhan, who gained the title of ‘Gajaratnam’ due to his attractive features…
Coffee planters cautioned against engaging labours from Kerala
February 5, 2020Madikeri: Following third Novel Coronavirus (nCOV) case reported in Kerala, the Kodagu District Administration has warned planters against engaging labours from neighbouring State for coffee picking season which is on now. Authorities have asked coffee planters not to send their workers to Kerala or bring new workers to their plantations till Feb. 15. Kodagu shares…
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