Pandavapura: With the Mandya District Administration going ahead with the preparations for trial blast at Bebi Betta, several farmer organisations staged protests for and against the blast near KRS Dam in Srirangapatna taluk 1on Wednesday. Farmers under the banner of KRRS led by Badagalapura Nagendra staged a protest against the blast by blocking the road…
Female Foeticide: As probe deepens, startling revelations emerge
June 3, 2024Bail application moved by 9 accused quashed by Court Pandavapura: As the Police are probing deep into female foeticide racket at the staff quarters in the premises of Taluk Hospital, startling revelations are tumbling out from the casket, with the investigators surmising it as a case more than meets the eye. A woman, who had…
Female Foeticide Case: One more accused nabbed, total arrests reach nine
May 13, 2024Mandya: Mandya Police, who are investigating into the female foeticide case reported in Pandavapura recently, have made yet another arrest. The Police arrested Shruthi (32), a resident of Ganigara Beedhi in K.R. Pet. According to Police, Shruthi worked at the private clinic of late Dr. Manjunath, who was one of the accused in the female…
Health Department staff involved in female foeticide at Pandavapura
May 7, 2024Ambulance driver, his wife, mother-in-law, nurse arrested Pandavapura: The Health Department staff, who are supposed to protect the health of the patients, have involved themselves in killing female foetuses at the Department quarters, located right behind the Taluk Health Officer’s (THO) office in Pandavapura. The Police have arrested four employees of the Department in this…
Mystery shrouds techie’s death in Pandavapura
February 2, 2024Mandya: A techie was found dead under mysterious circumstances at the bathroom of his house in Pandavapura, here yesterday. The deceased has been identified as T.S. Gangadhar (42), son of Shivanna and a native of Kerethonnur village, in Pandavapura, who was working as a software engineer with a Chennai-based company. The Police said, Gangadhar had…
Woman PDO collapses at Taluk Panchayat Office, dies at hospital
December 5, 2023Family blames work pressure at off ice Pandavapura: A woman Panchayat Development Officer (PDO), who was on duty, collapsed and died at the Taluk Panchayat (TP) Office in the town yesterday. The deceased PDO is Bharathi (54), a resident of Vasanthanagar in Mysuru. She was serving as the Secretary at Tubinakere Gram Panchayat (GP) in…
Five drown as car plunges into Visvesvaraya Canal
November 8, 2023Group from Tiptur was returning from Mysuru via Pandavapura-Nagamangala route when tragedy struck Pandavapura: Three months after three women and a girl drowned in Visvesvaraya Canal when their car veered off the road at Gamanahalli, about 40 km from Banaghatta, in Srirangapatna taluk on July 29, five persons drowned when the car in which they…
Melukote MLA Darshan Puttannaiah goes abroad, rakes up heated debate
June 5, 2023Pandavapura: Newly elected Melukote MLA Darshan Puttannaiah has drawn a flak for reportedly failing to keep his word on staying put in the Constituency after winning the Assembly elections. Darshan, who won as Sarvodaya Karnataka Paksha (SKP) candidate with the support of Congress in the recent elections, has himself shared a video message on social…
Man dies after falling from tree
January 21, 2023Pandavapura: A 31-year-old man died after falling from a banyan tree at Vaddarahalli village in the taluk on Thursday. The deceased is Sunil, son of Shivanna of the village. He had climbed the banyan tree grown in his farm land to chop leaves for goats when he slipped and died on the spot. The jurisdictional…
Alleged sexual harassment by HM
December 16, 2022Girl students lock Head Master in office, thrash him Cops arrest accused, register case under POCSO Act Pandavapura/Srirangapatna: A High School Head Master (HM) was locked in the office room and thrashed with sticks and brooms by the girl students for allegedly harassing them sexually. The villagers, with the help of hostel warden, managed to…
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