Periyapatna: A 42-year-old farmer, unable to repay debts he had borrowed from the bank and private financiers, committed suicide by consuming pesticides at his house yesterday. The deceased farmer has been identified as Somashekar, son of Ningegowda and a resident of Senabinakuppe village in the taluk. Somashekar was working as a waterman at Komalapura Gram…
Periyapatna: A 20-ft deep tunnel-like well has been found near Tavarekere on Bettadapura-Kushalnagar road in the taluk on Monday. A trench was being dug using an earth mover to lay cable for a Telecom company when the vehicle operator noticed the deep well. He immediately informed the Tahsildar and Police. The officials arrived at the…
Mandya/Periyapatna: A youth and a teenage girl were drowned in separate incidents in Cauvery River at Muthathi, Malavalli taluk of Mandya district and near Hole Hanumantharaya Temple in Periyapatna taluk. In the first incident, Ravikiran (27), a resident of Kadur in Chikkamagalur district had come along with six of his friends for sight-seeing and after…
Mysuru: The JD(S) broke the Congress stronghold in Periyapatna Assembly segment of the district with party candidate K. Mahadev defeating four-time MLA K. Venkatesh of the Congress. Venkatesh, who first became a JD(S) Legislator by defeating Kalamarigowda of the Congress in the 1994 Assembly polls, later joined the Congress and recorded a hat-trick of wins…
Periyapatna: Over 35 houses that were built by the State Government for tribals living at the border areas of the forest were damaged last night due to heavy rain that pounded Periyapatna and surrounding areas. Most of the houses at Uthanahalli Girijana Colony had asbestos sheets as the roof and gusty winds blew the sheets…
Periyapatna: The Bylakuppe Police have arrested a gold appraiser on charges of cheating banks and customers by authenticating counterfeit gold as real one. The accused has been identified as Shivaram of Mangaluru. Commercial banks that grant loans against security of gold jewellery appoint jewel appraisers to find out the exact gold contents in the jewellery….
Periyapatna: In a reported incident, an official who went to the hostel for investigating complaints that the husband of the warden of Girls Pre-Matric Hostel in the town was unnecessarily trespassing into the hostel, has been threatened recently. Following numerous complaints that Kantharaj, husband of warden Arati, was unnecessarily trespassing into the hostel premises under…
Periyapatna: Many Girijana Haadis (Tribal Hamlets) in the taluk have been receiving contaminated drinking water from the past several days and the apathetic attitude of the officials concerned have only compounded the problems of tribals. More than 100 tribals living in Maralukatte Girijana Haadi have been suffering from untold misery as the hamlet has no…
Periyapatna: A bike rider was killed on the spot when a car collided with his bike head-on near Tobacco Board on Bettadapura Road here on Wednesday night. The deceased has been identified as Kariyappa (30), a resident of Hittnehebbagilu in the taluk. Kariyappa, along with his friend Chandu were proceeding on the bike (KA-45-X-2064) from…
Periyapatna: A bike rider was killed on the spot when the bike he was riding collided head-on with a car near Sri Mahadeshwara Temple on Gonikoppal Road here yesterday. The deceased has been identified as Raghu (40), a native of Neralekuppe village in the taluk. Raghu was proceeding on his bike to Habatoor to a…
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