Bengaluru: The Karnataka Cabinet on Thursday approved the 40-year lease of Pandavapura Sugar Factory (PSSK-Pandavapura Sahakara Sakkare Karkhane) to Bagalkot district based Nirani Sugars, owned by Bilgi BJP MLA and former Minister Murugesh Nirani. Announcing this after a Cabinet meeting, Law Minster J.C. Madhuswamy said that following an appeal by the sugar factory share holders,…
‘Pandavapura Sugar Factory will start crushing in a month’
June 27, 2020Sugar baron Murugesh Nirani interacts with city scribes Mysore/Mysuru: Declaring that the Pandavapura Sugar Factory (PSSK-Pandavapura Sahakara Sakkare Karkhane) that he has recently taken on a 40-year lease, will be started in a month, Chairman of Bagalkot District based Nirani Sugars Group and BJP MLA from Bilgi, Murugesh Nirani, who is also a former Minister,…
Government yet to take decision on MySugar privatisation: Murugesh Nirani
June 24, 2020Bengaluru: Stating that the Government is yet to take a decision on privatisation of MySugar Mill at Mandya, BJP MLA from Bilgi and Chairman of Nirani Sugars, Murugesh Nirani maintained that his company is not lobbying to takeover MySugar factory, as projected by a few vested interests. In a press release, Nirani, who is also…
Mandya Corona cases touch 364; second case in Chamarajanagar
June 21, 2020Mandya/ Chamarajanagar: COVID-19 positive cases in Mandya has touched 364 yesterday as four fresh cases were reported in Karnataka’s Sugar Bowl. A majority of all cases reported in Mandya are travellers from various places from Maharashtra especially Mumbai. Yesterday’s cases were that of 40-year-old male, 17-year-old youth, 39-year-old woman and an 18-year-old youth. The infected…
State committed to totally ban mining around KRS
June 20, 2020Several quarry owners have approached Court, says Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai Mandya: The State Government is prepared and committed to impose a total ban on quarrying around the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam in Srirangapatna taluk of Mandya district, said Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai in Mandya yesterday. Speaking to reporters after chairing a meeting of…
Guest lecturers demand probe into suicidal deaths of fellow teachers
June 20, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Urging the Government to order an investigation into the suicidal deaths of their fellow lecturers during the COVID-19 lockdown, guest lecturers under the banner of Government First Grade College Guest Lecturers State Co-ordination Committee, staged a demonstration in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s Office here yesterday. Demanding the State Government to take serious note…
MP Sumalatha bats for resumption of crushing at MySugar under O&M system
June 19, 2020Mandya: Days after Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar suggested timely crushing of sugarcane at Mandya’s MySugar Mill under O&M (Operations and Maintenance) system in his Facebook Post, Mandya MP Sumalatha Ambarish too said that running the factory under O&M arrangement would be a viable option. Addressing a group of protestors (led by former MLA H.D. Chowdaiah)…
Yaduveer calls for timely re-start of crushing at MySugar factory
June 18, 2020Mandya: Days after Pandavapura Sugar Factory was handed over on a 40-year lease to Bagalkot-based Nirani Sugars owned by Bilgi BJP MLA and former Minister Murugesh Nirani, speculations about the re-start of sugarcane crushing at the century-old MySugar Factory in Mandya has begun, with the titular head of the erstwhile Mysore Royal family Yaduveer Krishnadatta…
350 total infected in Mandya; 289 cured, 61 active cases
June 18, 2020Mandya: The Mumbai link continues to haunt Mandya where many COVID-19 positive cases are travelling from the neighbouring State. Yesterday, six Mumbai returnees and a patient with Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) tested positive in Mandya taking the total positive cases to 350, a record in itself for Mysuru region. All the Mumbai returnees have their roots…
MySugar to start crushing in July second week: Mandya DC
June 18, 2020Mandya: A week after Sugar Minister Shivaram Hebbar visited MySugar Mill and asked the authorities to make preparations to re-start sugarcane crushing, Mandya DC Dr. M.V. Venkatesh on Tuesday directed the officials to take all measures for starting crushing in the second week of July itself. Presiding over a meeting of officials of all concerned…
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