MYSURU: Three women are cooling their heels in jail, for attempting to blackmail a neurosurgeon.
Self-styled human rights activists and reporters of ‘Suvarna Kaveri Express’, Amreen Sania, Shahida and Ayusha Bai, hatched a plan to extort money from KR Hospital’s neurosurgeon Dr Rajesh T S, and blackmailed him to regarding his alleged act of receiving favour from patients, to offer service.
Accordingly, one of them telephoned him on his mobile number on January 18, and claimed they have received complaints against him from patients and their relatives, of receiving money from them, to provide them treatment. She threatened to disclose the complaint in the media, and summoned him to a nearby hotel at KR Hospital, where they demanded Rs 5 lakh from him, if he didn’t want the information they had, to appear in the media.
Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar and Trishika Kumari visited a Channapatna toys showroom on Thursday
MYSURU: In a shot in the arm for traditional Channapatna toys, which has been facing threat from the influx of Chinese toys in the market, Mysuru royal couple Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar and Trishika Kumari have taken to promote the former. They are planning to sell those made of organic materials at national and international markets by creating an online platform for them.
Speaking to reporters after visiting Channapatna Toys Handicrafts Showroom and inspecting the cluster of houses involved in making such toys at the toy town of Karnataka Channapatna on Thursday, Yaduveer said his family members, especially Trishika Kumari, had initiated to promote the toys as it would reach out to children outside the state and abroad.
A file photograph of the Male Mahadeshwaraswamy temple, one of the most popular shrines in the Old Mysore region
MYSURU: The Male Mahadeshwara Temple atop MM Hills, a Muzrai temple, suffered a loss of Rs 50 crore last year as most of the utsavs and jathra celebrations were cancelled due to the lockdown and the pandemic.
The temple grossed the second highest revenue among Muzari temples after Kukke Subramanya in Dakshina Kannada district in 2019. The temple was closed in the last week of March and opened on June 8.
Sources told TOI that as a handful of devotees and VIPs were allowed to enter the shrine during festival occasions the entry of devotees for major jathras and utsavs were restricted, the temple’s revenue collection was Rs 25 crore, as against Rs 78 crore in the previous year. The Hundi collection, which was counted twice, totalled Rs 3.5 crore.