Jumps into river in front of brother Kollegal: A 32-year-old man has reportedly committed suicide by jumping into a river in Kollegal Town Police limits yesterday. The person, who committed suicide, is Basavaradhya, a resident of Kurubalanahundi village in T. Narasipur taluk. Basavaradhya, about 20 days ago, had met with a road accident on Kanakapura…
Kollegal lass becomes country’s first woman Flight Test Engineer
May 23, 2021Kollegal: Sqn Ldr Ashritha V. Oleti of Indian Air Force, hailing from Kollegal in Chamarajanagar district, has been selected as the country’s first woman Flight Test Engineer and has brought laurels to the State. Daughter of late O.V. Venkatesh Babu and O.V. Vani couple, she has obtained degree from Indian Air Force Test Pilot School,…
Chamarajanagar tragedy was waiting to happen
May 6, 2021On Apr. 23, 30 oxygen cylinders were rushed from Kollegal to save patients at the nick of time Kollegal: Ten days before the Chamarajanagar tragedy occurred where 24 COVID-19 patients died at the District Hospital owing to lack of oxygen, the District was severely facing oxygen shortage and all appeals by doctors for oxygen replenishment…
Attempt to smuggle sandalwood billets: Ten sandalwood smugglers arrested; Two among them test COVID positive
April 25, 2021Kollegal: The Mahadeshwara Wildlife Forest officials have arrested 10 persons on charges of chopping sandalwood trees in forest area and trying to smuggle the sandalwood billets. Five more accused have gone absconding and a hunt has been launched to nab them. Out of the 10 accused, two (a couple) have tested positive for COVID-19. The…
Abetment to suicide: Youth arrested following nursing student’s death
April 15, 2021Kollegal: Kollegal Rural Police have arrested a 22-year-old youth for allegedly abetting suicide of a nursing student. The nursing student committed suicide by hanging self after the youth had told her they will end their lives together at their respective homes. While the accused youth has been identified as Siddappa Swamy of Madhuvanahalli village in…
Chocolates in ‘used’ syringes!
April 9, 2021Supply suspected from Bengaluru and Tamil Nadu Tahsildar, Health officials conduct inspection, warn shop-keepers Kollegal: Kollegal shop-keepers are allegedly selling chocolates and juices filled in medical syringes. This has come as a shocker to parents and public, who have suspected that used syringes may have been used to fill chocolates and jellies. Anxious people said…
CESC Lineman killed in hit-and-run case
March 9, 2021Kollegal: A CESC Lineman was killed, when an unidentified rammed into his bike and sped away near Madhuvanahalli village in the taluk last evening. The deceased is T.R. Srinivas (49), a Lineman at Lokkanahalli CESC Office and a resident of Chowdeshwari Temple Street in Kollegal. After finishing his day’s work, Srinivas was proceeding to Kollegal…
Man kills daughter-in-law, commits suicide in family feud
March 7, 2021Kollegal: Suspecting over his daughter-in-law’s behaviour, a man allegedly stabbed her to death and later committed suicide by hanging self at his house in Adarsh Layout, Kollegal yesterday. While the deceased woman has been identified as Sumithra (32), wife of Surendra, a Group-D contract worker at Kollegal Sub-Division Hospital, the accused (Sumithra’s father-in-law), who killed…
City driver stabbed, pushed into ditch along with car
January 16, 2021Police on the lookout for four miscreants from Bengaluru Kollegal: A gang of miscreants from Bengaluru stabbed, assaulted and robbed a car driver at Kollegal after hiring the vehicle to go on a tour. After the attack, the gang pushed the injured driver along with his car into a ditch and fled the place along…
Pregnant woman’s ordeal: Baby dies after birth inside ambulance
December 8, 2020Lack of proper facility forces tribal woman to go from one hospital to another Kollegal: Lack of proper facility at the Government Hospital forced a tribal woman to go from one hospital to another and later deliver a baby inside the ambulance on the way to a hospital in Mysuru resulting in the death of…
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