By Kalki, a concerned citizen As Mysureans are gearing up to soak in Dasara festivities, the official and political machinery are also gearing up for the annual ritual of last-minute hasty and hotchpotch repair works on potholed roads and broken pavements, draining tax-payers money with poor workmanship and absolute lack of accountability. With just 25…
Round-the-clock vigil for EVM Strong Rooms
September 1, 2018Mysuru: With the fate of 393 candidates, including 163 women, who had contested elections for 65 Wards of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) sealed in EVMs, the five Strong Rooms at Maharani’s College of Commerce and Management on Valmiki Road, Vinayakanagar (Paduvarahalli), have been fully secured, with over 150 Police personnel and a KSRP platoon guarding…
MCC records 50.01 percent polling
September 1, 2018Mysuru: The polling for 65 Wards of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) ended peacefully at 5 pm yesterday, with the city recording a dull 50.01 percent voting. The polling which began on a sedate note at 7 am on Friday, later picked up momentum as the day progressed. But the overall polling percentage stood at…
MCC polls: Residents block vehicle; allege EVM hijack
September 1, 2018Mysuru: Tense atmosphere prevailed last night at Gandhinagar where local residents and members of different political parties claimed that Electronic Voter Machines (EVMs) that stored the votes cast for Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) yesterday were hijacked from the Polling Booths instead of being carried into Strong Rooms. The residents and party activists alleged that EVMs…
Moderate Polling: Mysuru city records 25.62% voting till 1 pm
August 31, 2018Mysuru: In what is considered as the first litmus test for the JD(S)-Congress coalition Government in the State, the voting to the 65 Wards of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) began at 7 am today. The coalition partners are contesting the MCC polls separately even as 102 other Urban Local Body (ULB) polls including three…
Five Pourakarmikas in fray for MCC polls
August 25, 2018Mysuru: Pourakarmikas of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), who played a key role in the city getting the ‘Cleanest City’ tag for two successive terms, are now trying their hand in politics, with five of them contesting the Aug.31 MCC polls from different parties. Pooja is contesting on a BJP ticket from Ward 32 (Ghousianagar…
Corporation polls, a spring board for candidates to make it to Legislature
August 25, 2018Mysuru: Even as the city is voting on Aug.31 to elect new Corporators of MCC, an insight into the earlier polls has thrown light on how several MLAs, past and present, made it to the Legislature after contesting the MCC polls. Kempegowda, B.K. Puttaiah, B.N. Kengegowda, H.S. Shankarlingegowda, Vasu, Tanveer Sait, M.K. Somashekar and L….
SBM Manju is official JD(S) candidate for Ward No. 6
August 25, 2018Mysuru: The problem pertaining to the official JD(S) candidate for MCC Ward No. 6 has been solved with the JD(S) party announcing the name of SBM Manju as its official candidate. The problem was created as the party had issued ‘B’ Forms to SBM Manju and B. Madhu. SBM Manju had first filed his nomination…
FOODPATHS: Pushing pedestrians off the footpath
August 18, 2018A photo feature by M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav Come evening and there is a Mela on certain city roads with vendors turning out in large numbers to sell everything from momos to gobi manchurian, egg, vegetarian and meat rolls to dosas, cut fruits, salted-and-peppered raw mangoes and pani-puris from their pushcarts. With people, especially youngsters and…
Raised concrete borders around trees turning into Garbage Pits
August 6, 2018By M.B. Pavan Murthy Mysuru: Major roads in the heart of the city and its footpath look spotless and it matches any international standard road in the biggest capitals of the world. It seems the authorities concerned are doing a fine job of maintaining the standards that proves Mysuru’s ‘Cleanest City’ tag is fully justified….
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