Devotees gather at Srikanteshwaraswamy Temple as early as 2 am; mega event concludes at 10.50 am Nanjangud: A sea of humanity converged on the Temple Town of Nanjangud on the banks of River Kapila this morning for the famed Srikanteshwaraswamy Pancha Maharathotsava (Dodda Jatre) that passed off peacefully. Lakhs of devotees cheered as the Rathotsava…
Vijayendra confident of BJP coming to power
March 26, 2023MP Sreenivasa Prasad challenges to defeat Siddu from Varuna Nanjangud: Buoyed by the latest pep talk he received from BJP chief election strategist and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP Vice-President B.Y. Vijayendra (son of former CM B.S. Yediyurappa) has expressed confidence that BJP will win a majority in the forthcoming Assembly elections to be…
Unidentified body found on footpath
March 25, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Nanjangud Town Police have found the body of an unidentified woman on the footpath in front of the old Sub-Treasury Office and have registered a case. The deceased is said to be begging for a living and used to consume food given by people. She is aged between 55 and 60 years, 5.5 ft….
MLA asks officials to ensure success of Nanjangud Car Festival
March 21, 2023Nanjangud: With the Srikanteshwaraswamy Gautama Pancha Maharathostsava scheduled to take place on Apr. 2, Nanjangud MLA B. Harshavardhan has asked officials to ensure the success of the grand Car Festival of Lord Srikanteshwara. He was speaking at the Maharathotsava preparatory meeting at Srikanteshwara Temple Dasoha Bhavan in Nanjangud on Monday. He said that officials must…
Former Minister Dr. Mahadevappa not to contest from Nanjangud
March 16, 2023Withdraws from ticket race, announces support to Darshan Dhruvanarayan Mysore/Mysuru: In a sudden political development, former Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa has announced his support to Darshan Dhruvanarayan, withdrawing himself from the race for Congress ticket to contest the ensuing Assembly elections from Nanjangud (SC reserve) Constituency in the district. Dr. Mahadevappa, who was vying for…
Was eyeing Nanjangud seat to contest Assembly polls
March 11, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: KPCC Working President R. Dhruvanarayan who had lost the previous Lok Sabha election from Chamarajanagar to BJP’s V. Sreenivasa Prasad in 2019, was also keen on returning to State politics. Hence, when D.K. Shivakumar became KPCC President in July 2020, Dhruvanarayan was anointed as KPCC Working President in Feb. 2021, along with four other…
Nanjangud MLA Harshavardhan will win by over 30,000 votes: Eshwarappa
March 6, 2023Nanjangud: Senior BJP leader and former Minister K.S. Eshwarappa has predicted that sitting Nanjangud BJP MLA B. Harshavardhan would win by over 30,000 votes in the forthcoming Assembly polls. Speaking to presspersons after visiting Srikanteshwara temple in the town on Friday, Eshwarappa, who earlier took part in the BJP’s ‘Vijaya Sankalpa Yatra’ in the temple…
Leopardess gets caught in snare, dies
March 2, 2023Nanjangud: A two-year-old leopardess, which had got caught in a snare laid in an agricultural field belonging to one Chandrashekar at Koodlapura village in the taluk, has died. Range Forest Officer (RFO) Kirankumar Karatangi said that a leopardess has died after getting caught in a snare at an agricultural field in the outskirts of Koodlapura…
Man goes missing
March 2, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: A 36-year-old man has gone missing from Kakkarahatti village in Nanjangud taluk since Feb. 17. The missing man is R. Mahesh, a driver by profession. He is 5.5 ft. tall, normal built, has a scar on his left knee, speaks Kannada and Malayalam and was wearing a Khaki coloured shirt and pant at the…
Elderly woman goes missing
March 1, 2023Nanjangud: A 73-year-old woman, who left her house on Feb. 13 saying that she was going to her son’s house, has since gone missing. The missing woman in Nagamma, a resident of SMP Layout near Mahadevanagar in the taluk, according to the complaint lodged by Nagamma’s son Kumar with Kavalande Police. Those having any information…
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