Chamarajanagar Deputy Commissioner B. Ramu, who is also the District Electoral Officer, has appointed officers for training the workers for videographing and web-casting the voting process of Apr. 9 by-poll. Chethan, Nodal Officer, District Urban Development Cell, has been named as Webcasting Nodal Officer. Aadhaar District Counsellor Ramprasad, District Sakala Counsellor Naga Sundar, Atal Ji…
Farmer’s suicide: KRRS stages protest
March 30, 2017Farmers demand Rs. 50 lakh compensation; DC assures of taking action after by-poll Holding the Police responsible for the death of farmer Nagesh (30) of Kaggaladahundi village in Gundlupet taluk, who consumed poison at Terakanambi Police Station on Mar. 24 and breathed his last at K.R. Hospital in Mysuru on Mar. 26, activists of KRRS…
Students make it to Guinness Records
March 27, 2017Form largest human image of foot of Maharshi Poojyapada As many as 1,290 students of 11 colleges in the district formed the largest human image of the right foot of Maharshi Poojyapada, during the Athishaya Mahotsava recently, at Srikshetra Kanakagiri in the taluk and made it to Guinness World Records. The feat was achieved on…
City dancers perform at Ch. Nagar Gharana
March 24, 2017Bhuvan V. Hegde, a student of Lasyaranjana Nrutya Shale, Ramakrishnanagar, and a disciple of Vidushi Jyothi N. Hegde and R. Pavankumar of Nandini Nrutyalaya, Mysuru and a disciple of Kannan, presented a Bharatanayam programme at Chamarajanagar during the Natarajothsava organised by Sri Sharada Pradarshaka Kalegala Prathistana recently. On the occasion, Vidushi Jyothi N. Hegde was…
Gundlupet By-election: Ch’Nagar DC asks Banks to provide info on suspicious transactions
March 18, 2017Chamarajanagar Deputy Commissioner B. Ramu held a meeting with the representatives of various Banks including the Nationalised, Private and Co-operative banks at his office here yesterday and instructed to keep a track of all the transactions in their Banks and report in case of suspicious transactions. Addressing a meeting in the wake of Gundlupet By-polls,…
Forest officials rescue female elephant
March 10, 2017The forest officials this morning rescued a female elephant which was stuck in Krishnaiahna Katte tank slush at BRT Tiger Reserve located near Yelandur in Chamarajanagar. Forest officials said that a herd of six elephants had come to the tank to quench their thirst during which one of the elephants got stuck in the slush….
New Additional SP for Ch’Nagar
March 8, 2017Geetha Prasanna will take charge as the new Additional SP of Chamarajanagar today. A 2008 batch KSPS Officer, she previously worked as the Principal, Police Training School, located at Danisandra in Bengaluru. She is the first woman Additional SP of Chamarajanagar after it was declared as a district. Geetha Prasanna is the wife of Dr….
Renovation: B.R. Hills Temple to be shut for 2 years after Mar.17
March 6, 2017The historical Biligiri Ranganathaswamy Temple atop B.R. Hills in Yelandur taluk of Chamarajanagar district will be shut for two years for carrying out renovation works. The Temple authorities have decided to shut the Temple for devotees after the 3-day special rituals that concludes on Mar.17. The hill temple, which has a history of over 500…
Ch’Nagar Dodda Ratha set ablaze: Accused confesses to crime
February 25, 2017Chamarajanagar Police have arrested Mohan Kumar, 32, of Upparabeedhi, a bar-bender by profession who is accused in setting ablaze the ‘Dodda Ratha’ of Sri Chamarajeshwara Temple recently. Disclosing this at a press meet here on Thursday, SP Kuldeep Kumar R. Jain said that the Temple Executive Officer Manjesh had filed a complaint before the Town…
One held for setting ablaze Chamarajeshwara Chariot
February 23, 2017Based on footages of CCTV cameras installed at the nearby Bharatiya Co-operative Bank, Chamarajanagar Police yesterday arrested one person in connection with the incident of setting the ‘Dodda Ratha’ (chariot) of the historic Sri Chamarajeshwara Swamy Temple on fire on the night of Feb.18. It is reported that Police, who took serious note of the…
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