Mysuru: A man was found trapped in a heap of stinking garbage on Tuesday morning by the Pourakarmikas of Mysuru City Corporation. The Pourakarmikas, meandering around the city collecting the garbage dumpsters and emptying them into tippers, spotted the man amidst the rubbish. If he was not spotted on time, the garbage truck’s hydraulic compactor,…
MCC official trapped while taking Rs.3,000 bribe
December 21, 2019Mysuru: An assistant attached to Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) was caught red-handed by the personnel of Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) while accepting bribe for an official work at his office. Manjunath, a Second Division Assistant (SDA) working at Krishnaraja Constituency Ashraya Scheme Division, who was overseeing the files of Ashraya Scheme houses, had demanded money…
Box drain work ends up costing MCC a house wall !
December 17, 2019Mysuru: The ongoing box drain works at Tilaknagar has cost the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) dearly. A trench dug up by the earth- moving machine for box drain works taken up by MCC at 7th Main, Tilaknagar last week, has resulted in the front wall of a tiled-roof mud house collapsing. The disturbance caused by…
Royal balustrades continue to crumble
December 17, 2019Mysuru: Raja Marga, the so-called prestigious stretch of road in city, has always been in the news for its fragile balustrades and continues to be so. Last evening one Mahadev from Gundlupet was reportedly injured near Thathaiah Park on Raja Marga when a balustrade crumbled and fell on his feet as another person walking on…
Government House Heritage Arch conservation works begin
December 17, 2019Mysuru: Following reports that the unscientific widening of the Bengaluru-Nilgiris Road (B.N. Road) has endangered the Heritage Arch at the entrance of the Government Guest House in Nazarbad, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) began the civil works for erection of safety grills to the Arch this morning. The District Special Heritage Committee headed by the…
Mayoral Polls: BJP making behind the scene moves to wrest power in MCC
December 17, 2019Mysuru: Buoyed by the emphatic victory of the party in the recently held Assembly by-polls, the BJP, which does not have enough numbers on its own to attain power in the 65-member Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), is said to be making behind the scene moves to wrest the Mayor’s post, even before the Government would…
Swachh Survekshan Contest begins
December 13, 2019Mysuru: In its efforts to regain the ‘Cleanest City Tag’, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is conducting ‘Swachh Survekshan Contest’ ahead of Swachh Survekshan-2020 conducted by the Union Urban Development Ministry. The MCC is hoping to regain the Cleanest City Tag for Mysuru that it had lost in 2017 after being in the top position…
Amidst tall talks of ‘Shelter for All’… Mysuru’s only shelter for homeless women shuts
December 13, 2019Mysuru: Even as Mysuru District Minister V. Somanna, who is also the State Housing Minister, waxes eloquently when it comes to the issue of housing for poor and homeless, a shelter meant for urban poor women in Mysuru that was maintained by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has closed down. Somanna, who has come a…
Tax dues: MCC officials lock hotels, shops
December 11, 2019Mysuru: Officials of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), which raided hotels, shops and other establishments for non-payment of taxes and for not obtaining Trade Licenses, have locked various hotels and other establishments behind the main MCC Office in Fort Mohalla here yesterday. The officials raided True Spirits, Adduri Comforts, Nanda Hotel and Supriya Lodge yesterday morning…
Mayoral poll schedule to be announced soon
December 11, 2019Mysuru: With the by-polls to 15 Assembly segments in the State over, the Government is likely to announce the Mayoral poll schedule in a couple of days. The term of the current Mayor Pushpalatha Jagannath ended on Nov.16 and the city should have got a new Mayor on Nov.17. But the delay in the announcement…















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