Mandya: A person, who was bound and placed inside the dickey of a car and being taken to an undisclosed placed by kidnappers, has managed to escape from the car in a filmy style near Shivalli in the taluk yesterday. The person, who was allegedly kidnapped, has been identified as Papu, son of Chikkaiah of…
UTTARAKHAND LANDSLIDES: 45 Mandya pilgrims yet to reach Uttarakhand
May 20, 2017CM promises all help to trapped Kannadigas Mysuru: Even as more than 14,000 pilgrims were left stranded at various places in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand after a massive landslide blocked the Rishikesh-Badrinath highway yesterday afternoon, over 45 pilgrims have left Mandya for Uttarakhand for the Char Dham Yatra. The Char Dham Yatra is a visit…
Unidentified body found
May 19, 2017Mandya: The Mandya Police, on May 8, 2016, had found a body of an unidentified person, whose face has been disfigured, on the bullock cart path on the way from Konanahalli village to Konanahalli Lake in Mandya district. The unidentified person, who is between 30 and 35 years of age is 5.11ft. tall, wheatish complexioned,…
Girl who had secured 73% in PUC commits suicide
May 14, 2017Mandya: An 18-year-old girl, who was expecting more than 90% marks to secure a medical seat, but secured 73% in PUC, ended her life by allegedly jumping in front of a moving train at Maddur in Mandya on Friday. The deceased girl has been identified as K.S. Nikitha, the only daughter of Surendra, a farmer…
Thief arrested for breaking into timber shop
May 14, 2017Mandya: Mandya Central Police have registered a case against a person for breaking into a timber shop and trying to steal electrical tools from the shop on Saturday. The accused has been identified as Mahadevaswamy, a resident of AJ Block at N.R. Mohalla in Mysuru. It is reported that Mahadevaswamy, who broke into ABC Timber…
Rural students from Mandya to visit NASA on study tour
May 8, 2017Mandya: Eight students from various schools run by Abhinava Bharathi Shikshana Trust in Mandya have been selected to visit National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the US on a study tour. The Trust has made all arrangements for the study tour of eight rural students Swarna, Chandana, Vandana, Sarika, Chidananda, Pranati R. Bharadwaj, Harshith…
KSCA Mysuru Zone Inter-District Tournament: Six-wicket win for Combined XI
May 2, 2017An unbeaten knock of 71 n.o (6x4s) by Yashwanth Patel helped Combined XI to register a facile six-wicket win over Mandya in the KSCA Mysuru Zone Inter-District Tournament for U-14 played at the PET Grounds in Mandya on Monday. Brief Scores: At Mandya- U-14: Mandya 134 for nine in 50 overs (M.S. Yeshwanth 43, Naphish…
Abetting crime: Mandya Jail Superintendent suspended
April 29, 2017Mandya: Mandya Jail Superintendent Satish, accused in abetting a crime by providing a cell-phone and other items to an inmate in jail, has been suspended. One Shiva was sentenced to imprisonment in the jail for allegedly involved in murdering an entrepreneur H.P. Nagendra. Satish was said to have helped Shiva by illegally providing him a…
Musings on Siddharamaiah’s rebuke to an IPS Officer in public
April 27, 2017On April 20, 2017 Chief Minister Siddharamaiah was in Malavalli, Mandya District, to fulfil a public engagement. As his motorcade was whizzing past the town-roads on his way to Shanthi College Grounds to launch various development programmes, hundreds of BJP workers displayed black flags, demanding waiver of farm loans. They even tried to stop the…
Hoax bomb calls at Mysuru, Mandya Railway Stations
April 26, 2017Mysuru/Mandya: Tension prevailed in Mysuru and Mandya Railway Stations yesterday afternoon following an anonymous caller calling up Mandya Railway Station Control Room and informing the personnel there about bombs being placed in Mandya & Mysuru Railway Stations. As soon the personnel received the call, he informed the Railway authorities, who in turn called up the…
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