Sewage water is flowing on the roadside on DD Urs Road since four months. Repeated requests and complaints from the shopkeepers to the authorities have fallen on deaf ears. With Mysuru being the ‘Cleanest city’ for two consecutive times and this road being one of the major roads located in the centre of the city,…
Harrowing experience in Rajya Rani Express
March 10, 2017Sir, Just a few days back I was travelling to Bengaluru by Rajya Rani Express which departs from Mysuru at 2.30 pm. The journey was very awesome up to Naganahalli. The train reached Naganahalli so fast that I didn’t feel like I travelled. It was there almost at 4.30 pm. But trouble started only after…
‘Unclaimed’ body exhumed; handed over to relatives
March 8, 2017In a humanitarian gesture, the Railway authorities exhumed the body of a person who was buried sometime back and handed over to his relatives. Fifty-year-old V.S. Lokesh, a resident of Kushalnagar, was travelling from Mysuru to Bengaluru on Feb. 1 when he collapsed near Srirangapatna. His condition worsened and the Railway authorities shifted him to…
ADGP Alok Mohan to visit city tomorrow
March 8, 2017ADGP (Law and Order) Alok Mohan will be visiting city tomorrow (Mar.9). Alok Mohan, who will arrive in city at 11.30 am, will hold a progress review meeting at the City Police Commissioner’s office. The meeting will discuss issues such as anti-rowdy operations, status of investigation into crimes, crime prevention and detection, traffic regulation, etc….
Tipu Armoury on rails: Armoury was elevated and moved by about 25 metres on Day 1
March 7, 2017The works on shifting Tipu’s armoury finally began this morning to make way for the completion of Mysuru-Bengaluru Railway double track in Srirangapatna near Mysuru. Expert engineers, architects and monument shifting experts, who conducted a test to find out the feasibility to move the structure, were successful and the historic structure was moved by 8…
World is watching
March 6, 2017Taking stock of where the society in the land is heading to, as objectively as the manner of pursuing the task meets with its unqualified acceptance, one may have to indulge in talking about the difficult-to-control perverse behaviour of the land’s people, of course, taking care not to stereotype all of them in one sweep….
India F4 Futures Men’s Tennis Tournament: Vasisht enters main draw
March 6, 2017Mysuru lad C. Vasisht entered the main draw in the men’s singles event in the India F4 $15,000 ITF Men’s Futures Tennis Tournament at the Bhilai Steel Plant Tennis Complex, Bhilai on Saturday last. In the final qualifying round Vasisht beat second seeded Anirudh Chandrashekar 6-4, 7-5 to enter the main draw of the tournament….
Talented Golfer: Pranavi S. Urs
March 5, 2017Golf is a sport that attracts more players than any other outdoor sport — one of the reasons is the beautiful surroundings and the pleasure of being on the course to share this experience amongst friends and nature. To be able to perform successfully on such a playing field demands the ability to analyse and…
Merry Mysureans
March 3, 2017The air all over is abuzz with adulation in some circles for happenings such as demonetisation and accusation in some other circles for the unbecoming conduct of the netas across virtually all regions of the land, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh figuring conspicuously for now. Voices of aam janata loudly expressing disenchantment with the administration at…
Country’s crisis ridden cities
March 2, 2017Displaying boundless love for village life and finding oneself in no frame of mind to move out of one’s favoured city is a game many people are seen playing with no signs of that mental dilly-dallying consciously finding a definite end. The dilemma reminds one of the Shakespeare soliloquies in his play Hamlet “To be,…
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