Mandya: 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…
Mandya drowning incident: CM instructs officials to provide compensation of Rs. 22 lakh to 7 families
June 16, 2020Bengaluru: Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa has instructed the officials concerned to provide a total compensation of Rs. 22 lakh to the families of seven persons, who were drowned in separate incidents in Mandya district on Sunday. The CM has instructed the authorities concerned to pay Rs. 5 lakh each to the family of deceased Geetha,…
Mandya Government College to get University status
June 15, 2020Mandya: The Government College (Autonomous) of the city will be soon be upgraded and conferred the status of University, said Deputy Chief Minister Dr. C.N. Ashwath Narayan on June 12. Speaking to press persons after inspecting the working of the Government College, he said: “In 2015, the State Government had conferred the status of University…
Seven persons meet watery grave in Mandya district
June 15, 2020Mandya: In three separate incidents, seven persons including five women met their watery grave in Mandya district yesterday. In the first incident, a woman and her two daughters drowned at the lake in Beeranahalli village in Nagamangala taluk coming under Bogadi Gram Panchayat limits. The deceased are Geetha (40), wife of Narasimhaiah and their daughters…
Two guest lecturers of same college end lives
June 13, 2020Financial woes, depression during lockdown suspected Mysore/Mysuru: During lockdown period, within a span of a month, two guest lecturers of a Government Degree College in Malavalli taluk here, have ended their lives. Financial problems and depression that resulted out of lockdown woes are suspected to be the cause of their extreme step. The deceased are…
MySugar Factory won’t be privatised, says Minister
June 12, 2020Mandya: Assuring that the near Century-old MySugar Factory at Mandya won’t be privatised, Sugar and Labour Minister Shivaram Hebbar said that the Government will run the Factory keeping in mind the sentiments of the people of the region. Speaking to press persons after inspecting the Factory on Wednesday, Hebbar said that MySugar, which is a…
COVID-19: More cured patients a matter of comfort to Mysuru
June 12, 2020Five persons test positive on June 11; 10 active cases; 96 discharged Mysore/Mysuru: With five persons testing positive for COVID-19 in Mysuru yesterday, the total cases have increased to 106. Out of them, 10 are active and the remaining patients have recovered and discharged from the designated COVID-19 Hospital on KRS Road. All the fresh…
Youth working as bonded labourer rescued
June 12, 2020Mandya: A 23-year-old youth, who was allegedly forced to work as a bonded labourer at a chicken meat stall for the interest amount to the loan he had taken, has been rescued by the taluk officials at Bellur Cross in Nagamangala on Wednesday evening. The youth who was rescued belonged to Budubuduke Colony in Nagamangala…
Sugar baron Murugesh Nirani in city
June 9, 2020Invites Pramoda Devi to re-open Pandavapura Sugar Factory Mysore/Mysuru: Just a couple of days after Bagalkot District-based MRN (Murugesh Rudrappa Nirani) Sugars bagged the Rs.405 crore contract for running the decades-old Pandavapura Sahakara Sakkare Karkhane Niyamita (PSSKL) at Pandavapura in Mandya District on a 40-year lease, BJP MLA from Bilgi and former Minister Murugesh Nirani,…
Narrow escape for Minister as boulder explodes near his moving car
June 8, 2020Mandya: Horticulture and Sericulture Minister K.C. Narayanagowda, who is also Mandya District In-charge Minister, had a close shave when a boulder exploded very close to the car he was travelling near Bankapura in Nagamangala taluk of the District on Sunday. Narayanagowda was on way to his Constituency K.R.Pet travelling in his car on Bengaluru-Jalasuru road,…















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