Mandya: Scores of teary-eyed fans paid their last respects to actor and politician M.H. Amarnath, popular as Ambarish, in Mandya yesterday. The darling of the masses passed away at a private hospital in Bengaluru on Saturday night after a cardiac arrest. After thousands of people — men, women and children — from across Karnataka came…
Sugar Town Mandya in tears… Ambarish passes away
November 25, 2018Government bows to pressure by fans, to airlift Rebel Star’s body to Mandya this evening; funeral with full State honours in Bengaluru tomorrow Mysuru/ Mandya: Even as Mandya district was yet to come to terms with last evening’s bus accident at Kanaganamaradi in Pandavapura taluk that snuffed out 30 lives, the people of the district…
Questions raised on how ill-fated bus was issued Fitness Certificate by RTO
November 25, 2018Mandya: Yesterday’s tragedy at Kanaganamaradi in Pandavapura taluk, has once again brought to the fore the issue of RTOs issuing Fitness Certificates to vehicles which are too old or unfit to ply on roads. With 30 people losing their lives in Saturday’s tragedy, people are blaming the RTO officials for issuing Fitness Certificate to the…
Man stabs brother to death
November 22, 2018Mandya: In a brutal murder, a 43-year-old man stabbed his elder brother to death over an alleged illicit affair at Kestur in Maddur taluk this morning. The victim has been identified as Shashikumar (45), a BMTC Employee working at Bengaluru, while his younger brother Ravi Kumar has been arrested by the Police on charges of…
Boiler blast at sugar factory: None injured
November 21, 2018Mandya: A boiler at a sugar factory in Maddur taluk burst late last night. However, no casualties or injuries were reported. The boiler blast took place at NSL Sugar Factory at Koppa in the taluk and due to the intensity of the blast, the compound wall of the sugar factory crumbled. A major disaster was…
Two motorcyclists killed in accident at Mandya
November 21, 2018Mandya: In a serial road accident involving three vehicles, two motorcyclists were killed on the spot, when the two-wheeler on which they were travelling was knocked down from behind by a car near Siddayyanakoppalu Gate on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway this morning. Even as the car knocked down the bike riders, killing then on the spot, a…
Elderly farmer couple, Copra trader commit suicide
November 20, 2018Mandya: – In a heart-rending incident, a debt-ridden elderly farmer couple committed suicide by consuming poison near their farmland at Bommanahalli in K.R. Pet taluk of the district late last night. The deceased have been identified as Boralingegowda (62) and Lakshmamma (54). Boralingegowda is said to have borrowed loans from banks and private money-lenders and…
Young couple killed by family in Mandya to ‘save honour’
November 17, 2018Mandya: In what has turned out to be a case of ‘honour killing,’ a young couple from Hosur in Krishnagiri district in Tamil Nadu has been found brutally murdered. The bodies of the couple, who went missing a few days ago, were recovered from the Cauvery River in Mandya district under the jurisdiction of Belakavadi…
By-polls to 3 LS and 2 Assembly Seats: Mandya witnesses poor voter turnout
November 4, 2018Bengaluru: Voting for the by-polls to five seats in the State ended last evening with two Assembly seats – Ramanagaram and Jamkhandi registering higher voter turnout than the three Parliamentary Constituencies of Mandya, Ballari and Shivamogga. Jamkhandi Assembly constituency in Bagalkot district saw 77.17 percentage polling, higher than its May 2018 Assembly poll turnout, while…
Brisk Polling for 3 MP and 2 MLA seats: Counting of votes on Nov. 6
November 3, 2018Mandya:- In what is considered as crucial for all the three major political parties — Congress, BJP and JD(S) — with Lok Sabha (LS) polls just a few months away, the voting in the bypoll for three Lok Sabha seats and two Assembly seats began on a moderate note this morning. This by-election is also…
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