Mysuru: Karnataka Janapada Parishat Chairman Dr. S. Balaji has urged the Government to set up an Exclusive Tribal Academy. He was speaking at the ‘World Tribal Day’ organised by Mysuru District Kannada Janapada Parishat at Government First Grade College, Kuvempunagar here yesterday. Alleging that the Governments were ignoring Tribal communities, Dr. Balaji said that although…
ACB public contact programme
August 31, 2019Mysuru: In a move aimed at moving closer to the public, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) will be conducting a public contact programme at its offices in all taluks of the district from Sept.17 to 23 on different dates, the details of which are as follows: Sept.17: Hunsur, Hanagudu and Bettadapura; Sept.18: Periyapatna; Sept.19: K.R….
S.R. Vishwanath is CM’s Political Secretary
August 31, 2019Bengaluru: Yalahanka BJP MLA S.R. Vishwanath has been appointed as the Chief Minister’s Political Secretary. The post carries the status of a Cabinet Minister. S.R. Vishwanath has been rewarded for his behind the scene efforts in the formation of BJP Government in the State. Mohan Limbikai is Legal Advisor: In another significant appointment, former MLC…
Burglar arrested: Gold jewellery worth Rs.1.7 lakh recovered
August 31, 2019Mysuru: The CCB Police, who arrested a burglar, have recovered 44gm of stolen gold jewellery worth Rs.1.7 lakh from him. Naushat, 35, a resident of Farm Colony in Ghousianagar of the city, is the one who is arrested. Acting on a tip off, the CCB sleuths rounded up Naushat when he was trying to sell…
Unidentified body found
August 31, 2019Mysuru: The body of an unidentified elderly man aged about 70-80 years was found in a Railway Coach at the City Railway Station recently. The man is 5 ft. in height, brownish in complexion, oval faced and lean built. The kith and kin, if any, can contact Mysuru Railway Police on Ph: 0821-2516579.
PM to visit State on Sept.7
August 31, 2019Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the State on Sept.7, according to Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa. Speaking after paying tributes to the portrait of Hockey legend Dhyanchand as part of ‘Fit India’ campaign programme held in front of Vidhana Soudha on Thursday, Yediyurappa said that he will seek funds for flood relief from the…
Employment-emolument equation
August 31, 2019Payment for work in cash or kind and employment with salary are written about copiously by cognoscenti viewing the connect between work and compensation through the prism of justice to both employer fraternity and employee. Government as the employer and babudom as employee are engaging one another in an unending interaction, the former pretending to…
Heritage Structures Vs Human Lives
August 31, 2019Sir, With more number of old structures crumbling, it is high time for the guardians of “heritage” to re-look and re-think their views on restoring, re-constructing or maintaining these structures at the cost of human lives. Human life is more precious than the heritage value of any crumbling and dilapidated old structures. God forbid, suppose…
Dist. Minister calls on Bhyra
August 31, 2019Mysuru District in-charge Minister V. Somanna called on noted writer and Saraswati Samman awardee Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa, who has been given the honour to inaugurate this year’s Dasara festival, at his residence in Kuvempunagar yesterday and held discussions with him for more than an hour. Others seen are MP Pratap Simha, Gundlupet MLA C.S. Niranjan…
Vacant site behind Janata Bazaar turns into public urinal
August 31, 2019A private vacant site on 6th Main Road just behind Janata Bazaar on Irwin Road has turned into a public urinal. As a result the whole place stinks putting the residents of the area and the nearby shopkeepers to untold misery. But people have not only made this place a public urinal but the residents…
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