Bengaluru: A day after the Government announced that former Chief Minister S.M. Krishna will inaugurate this year’s Dasara atop Chamundi Hill on Oct. 7, the veteran leader has thanked CM Basavaraj Bommai for the invite. In a letter to the CM, Krishna said that Dasara has not lost its grandeur and splendour in the past…
Former CM S.M. Krishna to inaugurate Dasara-2021
September 29, 2021First politician in 22 years to get this honour Bengaluru: Ending the suspense on the choice of dignitary for the inauguration of Mysuru Dasara-2021, the State Government yesterday announced that former Chief Minister S.M. Krishna will inaugurate the Naada Habba, which starts from Oct. 7. S.M. Krishna is the first politician in 22 years to…
District Minister greets S.M. Krishna
September 29, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Soon after the announcement that former CM S.M. Krishna will inaugurate this year’s Dasara, Co-operation Minister S.T. Somashekar, who is also Mysuru and Chamarajanagar Districts in-Charge Minister, greeted the veteran politician. Welcoming CM Basavaraj Bommai’s decision to invite S.M. Krishna for inaugurating the Naada Habba, Somashekar said that Krishna must be credited for making…
Contented to be in active politics for 55 years: S.M. Krishna
August 11, 2021Maddur: “I have completed 55 years of active politics and now I am feeling it is enough. Hitherto, life expectancy of man was 50 years but I was active in public life for 55 years,” said former Chief Minister S.M. Krishna. Talking to reporters during his visit to Ugra Narasimhaswamy Temple here on Monday, he…
Political Leadership and State’s Prosperity
July 10, 2021On July 9, Kitex Garments, the second-largest children’s apparel manufacturer in the world, announced that the company would invest an initial Rs. 1,000 crore in Warangal, Telangana. How this investment came about has lessons for many States and its Ministers. Initially, this was a Rs. 3,500-crore project, which was supposed to come up in Kerala…
Former CM to donate 100 oxygen cylinders, 10,000 masks in Mandya
May 9, 2021Mandya: In an effort to combat the COVID crisis in his native district Mandya, former CM S.M. Krishna has come forward to donate 100 jumbo oxygen cylinders and 10,000 masks. In a statement released yesterday, former External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said, “Mandya district is facing a huge scarcity of oxygen cylinders. The associates of…
‘Implement plans to convert Kuvempu’s Udayaravi house into Museum’
March 18, 2021Former CM S.M. Krishna writes to Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and Mysuru District Minister S.T. Somashekar Mysore/Mysuru: The long-pending project of converting the 85-year-old house of Poet Laureate and Jnanpith awardee Kuvempu (K.V. Puttappa) in city into a Museum has just got a boost with former Chief Minister S.M. Krishna writing to Chief Minister B.S….
Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka attend Aisshwarya-Amarthya reception
February 18, 2021Bengaluru: Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (Party General Secretary) flew to Bengaluru yesterday to participate in the wedding reception of KPCC President D.K. Shivakumar’s daughter Aisshwarya, who tied the knot with Amarthya Hegde. Grandson of former CM S.M. Krishna, Amarthya is the son of Cafe Coffee Day founder late…
D.K. Shivakumar’s daughter ties knot with S.M. Krishna’s grandson
February 14, 2021Bengaluru: Aisshwarya, the daughter of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President D.K. Shivakumar and Usha tied the knot with Amarthya Hegde, son of Cafe Coffee Day founder, late V.G. Siddhartha Hegde and Malavika this morning at The Sheraton Grand, Whitefield, Bengaluru, on the occasion of Valentine’s Day. Amarthya Hegde is the grandson of former CM…
It’s official…DKS’ daughter gets engaged to Coffee Day Founder’s son
November 19, 2020The engagement ceremony of Aishwarya, daughter of former Minister and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President D.K. Shivakumar, with Amartya Hegde, son of Cafe Coffee Day Founder late V.G. Siddhartha, was held at a private hotel in Bengaluru this morning. The formalities of ‘gatti maatu’ (loosely translated as ‘confirming a marriage’) was held at Shivakumar’s…
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