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Sandalwood museum to be inaugurated today Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The country’s first sandalwood museum showcasing different variety of the species will be inaugurated on Monday. District in charge Minister S.T. Somashekar will inaugurate the museum which is at Sri Gandha Koti on the Aranya Bhavan campus in Ashokapuram at 10 a.m. Deputy Conservator of Forests Prashanth Kumar said that though Karnataka is known for sandal and it has a pride of place in the State’s history and heritage, there was no one source of information pertaining to it. Hence senior Forest Department off...

Metagalli Police seize 230 kgs of scented wood worth Rs. 35 lakh Mysore/Mysuru: A week after busting an inter-State gang of sandalwood smugglers and arresting four accused, the city Police swooped on another similar gang and have arrested another four accused. The latest arrests made by Metagalli Police have yielded sandalwood weighing 230 kgs worth Rs. 35 lakh along with machetes, axe, saw, bike, weighing scale and other items.  The arrested are 46-year-old Raghu and 22-year-old Manjunath of Kamralli village at Yelwal Hobli, 58-year-old Maqbul Sharif of Lashkar Mohalla and 50-year-old Syed...

Avian behaviour monitored hourly Disinfectant palate created to step into while entering the boating area Srirangapatna/Mysuru: Close to the heels of outbreak of bird flu in Kerala, the Karnataka Forest Department has sounded high alert in its bird sanctuaries and water bodies under its limits and also of those under various departments / institutions and has taken preventive steps to check its spreading. “As of now, there is no need to be panic as the situation is very much under control. The decision on closing Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary in Srirangapatna taluk of Mandya district will b...

Injured leopard tranquilised, shifted to Bannerghatta Mysuru, Updated: Mysuru, Updated: It was found near Devikere atop Chamundi Hills Share Article It was found near Devikere atop Chamundi Hills A leopard found injured near Devikere atop the Chamundi Hills in Mysuru was tranquilised and shifted to Bannerghatta in Bengaluru for treatment, on Monday. The leopard was found to be struggling to heave itself from the place and local people who first sighted it around 8.45 a.m. informed the Forest Department. A team of officials including veterinarian Nagaraj reached the spot and found the anim...

Udupi: Octogenarian Dalit man fighting for 36 years to get justice against corruption   Fri, Dec 18 2020 11:24:58 PM Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (HB) Udupi, Dec 18: Family of the 87-year-old Dalit Giddaiah has been struggling for over 36 years to get justice which has been denied by the Karnataka forest department. The corruption of the department even cost Giddaiah his son Narasimhamurthy who also had worked as an employee at the forest office for 23 years. Narasimhamurthy was denied salary which he was liable to receive for the service he rendered, to a fake appointment made to the s...