Kollegal: 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…
Kollegal CMC Commissioner suspended for irregularities
November 9, 2020Kollegal: The Directorate of Municipal Administration has suspended Kollegal City Municipal Council (CMC) Commissioner Nagashetty on charges of illegally issuing e-Property (e-Swathu) certificates after splitting a single site into smaller ones by using the Digital Key (password) even after he was transferred from the CMC. Nagashetty, who was posted as Kollegal CMC Commissioner last year,…
Eight poachers arrested
November 4, 2020Country-made guns, gun manufacturing equipment seized Kollegal: Kollegal Rural Police have arrested seven poachers, who were hunting down wild animals coming in search of food and water to agricultural fields in forest borders and have seized seven country-made guns besides seizing equipment used in the manufacturing of country-made guns from a house. The poachers were…
Head Master dies after falling from bike
September 22, 2020Kollegal: A Head Master of a Government School died after slipping and falling from his bike on the main road in front of Kollegal School for Speech and Hearing Impaired yesterday. The deceased is Mahadevashetty, HM of Hanur Government Model School and a resident of Madhuvanahalli in the taluk. Mahadevashetty, who left for his school…
Will decide on political course in coming days, says Kollegal MLA
September 15, 2020Kollegal: Asserting that he has not deserted BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party) on his own and it is the party which has expelled him, Kollegal MLA N. Mahesh said that he will soon decide on his future political course. Addressing a press meet here recently, Mahesh, who was elected from Kollegal (SC Reserved) constituency on a…
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