Kushalnagar, Apr. 28 – The Income Tax (I-T) sleuths continued their searches at Sri Lakshmi Narayana Group, popularly known as SLN Group, here this morning and it is the third day of the raids. The Group, headquartered in Kushalnagar, Somwarpet taluk in Kodagu district, is owned by Vishwanathan and Sathappan, who are its Managing Directors….
Wedding party? No it’s I-T raid
April 26, 2017Kushalnagar: Kushalnagar residents witnessed a convoy of 30 decorated cars including Sports Utility Vehicles (SUV) passing through the streets this morning and they assumed that it was a marriage party of some rich man. Only later it dawned upon them that the occupants of the cars were sleuths from the Income Tax (I-T) Department who…
Mahout trampled to death in Dubare camp
April 17, 2017Kushalnagar – In a tragic incident, a mahout was trampled by a domesticated elephant at Dubare Elephant Camp near here this morning. The deceased mahout has been identified as Annu (50). Annu was offering food to the elephant named Karthik this morning, when the elephant all of a sudden trampled him to death, it is…
Cherumandanda Babi Annaiah
April 8, 2017Cherumandanda Babi Annaiah (78), a resident of Kushalnagar, passed away this morning. She leaves behind two sons including Mysore Travels Association (MTA) President C.A. Jayakumar, a daughter and a host of relatives and friends. Last rites will be performed at her native later this evening, according to family sources. Family can be contacted on Mob:…
Boy’s death at city hospital: Expert panel submits report
April 6, 2017Kushalnagar – An expert committee set up to investigate the death of 7-year-old Bhupin at Cauvery Hospital in Siddarthanagar Nagar in Mysuru has submitted its report. Based on a complaint filed by the father of the boy, the Karnataka Medical Council (KMC) has issued a notice to the hospital and sought an explanation from them…
Mysuru-Madikeri traffic disrupted
March 19, 2017Normal life came to a standstill in Kushalnagar in Kodagu district this morning following the dawn-to-dusk bandh called by the ‘Cauvery Taluk Rachana Horata Samiti’ demanding taluk status for Kushalnagar. As of now, Kushalnagar comes under Somwarpet Taluk and it has been a long-pending demand of Kushalnagar residents for a separate Taluk. The bandh was…
Cauvery Nisargadhama closed for visitors
March 14, 2017Cauvery Nisargadhama near the town here would be closed for visitors for 10 days from today to facilitate repair works on the suspended bridge, according to a press release from the Forest Department.
‘Unclaimed’ body exhumed; handed over to relatives
March 8, 2017In a humanitarian gesture, the Railway authorities exhumed the body of a person who was buried sometime back and handed over to his relatives. Fifty-year-old V.S. Lokesh, a resident of Kushalnagar, was travelling from Mysuru to Bengaluru on Feb. 1 when he collapsed near Srirangapatna. His condition worsened and the Railway authorities shifted him to…
HDK says will release documents of payments made by BJP leaders if Union Govt. promises action
February 27, 2017Former Chief Minister and State JD(S) President H.D. Kumaraswamy said that he would release documents pertaining to payments made by State BJP leaders to top BJP leaders if the Union Government promises to take action against such BJP leaders. Speaking to press persons at Basavanahalli Helipad near here yesterday, Kumaraswamy claimed that he had documents…
Bike skids, rider dies
February 26, 2017Naveen, a Forest Guard attached to Kundakere region of Bandipur forest, was killed when the bike he was riding allegedly skidded in front of Kushalnagar Forest Department office on Thursday. Naveen, a resident of Kushalnagar, who was severely injured in the accident, was treated in the town hospital initially and shifted to a hospital in…
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