Mandya: Incidents of burglars stealing money from a temple hundi (offering box) and burgling two houses has been reported at Hosaholalu village, K.R. Pet taluk in Mandya district last night. The burglars, who struck Sri Kalikamba Kamteshwari Temple, decamped with cash by breaking open the hundi and also broke into the houses of Shekar and…
Complaint against Mandya MP Puttaraju for threatening Forest Officers
July 16, 2017Mandya: Mandya Member of Parliament C.S. Puttaraju who was in the news recently for his alleged involvement in illegal mining inside forest areas, has allegedly obstructed an Assistant Conservator of Forests (ACF) from discharging his duties. Dhananjay, Deputy Conservator of Forests (DCF), Mandya division, has filed a complaint against Puttaraju alleging that he threatened Forest…
Commonwealth Chess Championship: Mandya’s Shefali wins gold
July 13, 2017Mandya’s chess prodigy A.N. Shefali, a fourth standard student of Santhome Public School, representing India in the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2017 won the gold in the U-8 Girls category on the concluding day of the championship in Delhi, yesterday. Shefali, who won her second successive gold in the Commonwealth Chess Championships, is also the reigning…
SC hearing on Cauvery water row: Security beefed up in Mandya
July 11, 2017Mandya: Mandya Police headed by SP G. Radhika conducted a flag march on the main thoroughfares of the city this morning to warn the agitators of stringent action in case of disrupting peace and harmony over River Cauvery issue. The Police have also been conducting meetings with the farmer leaders and pro-Kannada organisations at all…
Viral fever deaths continue to haunt Mysuru and Mandya
July 8, 2017Mysuru: Even as the district authorities in Mysuru and Mandya have been claiming that there was no dengue deaths and the disease situation was under control, deaths due to viral fever has become a regular affair. A cause of concern is many patients from villages surrounding districts are getting admitted to various government and private…
MySugar factory resumes cane crushing in Mandya
July 7, 2017Mandya: MySugar factory in town, the lifeline of sugarcane growers of the district which stopped its operations from April 21, 2015 for various reasons, resumed its operations on Wednesday with Factory Managing Director Dr. J.C. Prakash launching the crushing of sugarcane by feeding a few canes to the crusher. The re-opening of the factory however…
Release of water to Tamil Nadu: Protests continue across Mandya
July 2, 2017Mandya: Protests over the release of KRS water to Tamil Nadu continued across the district for the second day yesterday. Police detained hundreds of protesting farmers at Mandya city, while farmers staged a road blockade at Srirangapatna to register their protest against the detention of farmers. The farmers who gathered near Sir M. Visveswaraiah statue…
Alleging water release from KRS: Mandya farmers block Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway
June 30, 2017Mandya: Alleging that the State Government was clandestinely releasing Cauvery water from the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam to Tamil Nadu even before the dam became full, farmers blocked the Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway for about 30 minutes this morning. The road block resulted in huge pileup of traffic on the both sides of the busy four-lane…
Mandya Tahsildar lodges complaint against ex-Tahsildar
June 30, 2017Land alienation through fake documents Mandya: Mandya Tahsildar Maruti Prasanna has lodged a complaint with the Police, accusing his predecessor Tahsildar, Shirastedar and other officials of permitting land alienation through fake documents. In his complaint with the Mandya West Police on June 3, Maruti Prasanna has accused the then Tahsildar Priyadarshini, who is currently serving…
Quarry linked to Mandya MP penalised
June 29, 2017Mandya: Mandya JD(S) MP C.S. Puttaraju and his stone quarry business, in which his nephews are partners, has come under the scanner with the Department of Mines and Geology slapping a fine of Rs. 90 lakh for carrying on illegal mining in the deemed forest area of Pandavapura taluk. The Department issued a notice to…
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