Mysuru: City’s well-known snake rescuer and wildlife conservationist Balasubramanya, popularly known as Snake Shyam, rescued a Cobra from a vegetable shop at Devaraja Market in city last morning. With rapid urbanisation resulting in the natural habitats of snakes shrinking, snakes are now finding shelters in home gardens, houses and now, a vegetable shop. Most of…

Mysuru: Snake Shyam, who is popular for catching snakes in city and adjoining districts, has created a record of sorts by successfully rescuing 34,000 snakes and releasing it back to the woods. He caught a rat snake at a hut belonging to  watchman Gavirangappa at Vijayanagar Fourth Stage recently, creating this record.   Snake Shyam…

Mysuru: The city’s own amateur conservationist, who is also a local Corporator, reached a milestone yesterday by catching 33,000 snakes. M.S. Balasubramaniam — popularly known as ‘Snake Shyam’ — recorded his 33,000th catch since he started keeping a count of the number of snakes caught and rescued by him since 1997. The number was reached…

Mysuru: City’s well-known snake rescuer and wildlife conservationist, Snake Shyam, caught a Trinket Snake at a house in Manti village in the outskirts of city here yesterday. The snake, which was first seen near the sump of the house, entered into the sump as soon as people began to crowd the place. The residents soon…

City’s well-known snake rescuer and wildlife conservationist Snake Shyam, yesterday caught a Spectacled Cobra in the house of one Shariff at Rajiv Nagar here thus recording his 32,000 rescue and still continuing. Shrugging it off as just another rescue and before the significance of the count could fade out, he received a few more calls…

Claiming that the dubbing of films of other languages to Kannada will be a severe blow to the Kannada film industry, Corporator Balasubramanya (Snake Shyam) staged a solo protest at Rajkumar Park near the Palace this morning. Maintaining that dubbing will badly affect the prospects of Kannada actors, technicians, artistes and all others associated with…