Mysuru: Revenue Minister R.V. Deshpande held a disaster management and drought relief review meeting at the Zilla Panchayat (ZP) meeting hall this morning where officials and Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar provided information about rain-related natural calamity and losses to the Minister. The Minister directed the city and rural wing officials to identify encroachments and…
Minister S.R. Mahesh, actor Harshika Poonacha in verbal duel
June 17, 2019Quality of house construction for flood victims in Kodagu Minister questions her educational background to comment on house quality; Harshika says she an engineering graduate Mysore: During the Mandya Lok Sabha constituency election, Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy had asked, ‘There is someone called ‘D Boss’, who is this ‘D Boss’ questioning Challenging Star Darshan’s role…
Kodagu District Minister orders distribution of houses for flood victims
June 9, 2019Madikeri: Kodagu District in-charge Minister S.R. Mahesh has directed the district administration to publish the list of houses meant for distribution among flood victims in all Gram Panchayats within two days. Presiding over a flood relief meeting here on Friday, Mahesh instructed the officials to prepare a list of victims who lost their houses completely…
Minister assures to address problems of small-scale electrical contractors
June 9, 2019Mysuru: Tourism Minister S.R. Mahesh has assured to look into the problems of small-scale electrical contractors. He was speaking after receiving a memorandum from the contractors at the District-level convention of them organised by Karnataka State Licensed Electrical Contractors Association at MMC&RI Platinum Jubilee Hall here yesterday. The contractors alleged that the government was opting…
International Yoga Day: No Guinness World Record attempt this year too
June 5, 2019Mysuru: The June 21 International Day of Yoga in Mysuru, India’s major yoga destination, will be a mega event with efforts on to mobilise over one lakh yoga enthusiasts on the sprawling Mysore Race Club (MRC) premises at the foot of Chamundi Hill. However, the idea to enter the Guinness World Record once again has…
Railways clarify on ongoing civil works: Re-development works at City Railway Station temporarily stopped
May 30, 2019Mysuru: The Railways have decided to temporarily stop the re-development works at the annex site in the City Railway Station for a couple of days following the visit of the Tourism Minister S.R. Mahesh and Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar to see if any violations of norms were indeed there, so that the Railways’ stand…
Minister takes DRM to task
May 29, 2019Mysuru: Tourism Minister S.R. Mahesh, upset with the Railway authorities for continuing the development work of the Mysuru City Railway Station in spite of him asking to stop the work, took DRM Aparna Garg to task. When Mahesh spoke to the media he said that heritage norms had been violated. In the light of this,…
Take measures to tackle drinking water problem in villages: GTD
May 18, 2019Mysuru: Announcing that he will be touring the district once the LS Polls Model Code of Conduct gets over, District Minister G.T. Devegowda (GTD) has warned that action will be taken against officials for any laxity in addressing drinking water woes in villages. Presiding over a meeting of officials at the ZP Hall here on…
Former MP C.H. Vijayashankar meets Minister S.R. Mahesh
March 23, 2019Mysuru: Even before the Congress is to announce its list of candidates for Lok Sabha seats from the State, former MP and Congress leader C.H. Vijayashankar, who is the most likely nominee of the Congress for the Mysuru-Kodagu LS seat, meet Tourism Minister S.R. Mahesh at the latter’s residence in Chamaraja Mohalla here yesterday. During…
Tourism Minister wants City Railway Station Development stopped after 60% works done !
March 14, 2019Mysuru: Even as almost 60 per cent of the Rs.15 crore re-development work at the City Railway Station has been completed under the Central Government fund, the State Tourism Minister S.R. Mahesh, who visited the spot on Mar.11, asked the Railway authorities to stop the work immediately claiming that they were affecting the heritage structure….
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