New Sai Baba Mandir at Ramanagaram

A new Shiradi Sai Baba Mandir was inagurated on 9th October 2011 at Ramanagaram. The Baba idol carved out of white marbel at Jaipur in Rajasthan was installed today in the new mandir amidst chanting of vedic hymns and other religious rituals. Karnataka Ex Chief Minister H.D.Kumara Swamy, ex minister Zameer Ahmend, MLA K.Raju, ex MLA C.M.Lingappa and many other dignitaries from all walks of life visited the temple and offered their prayers to Lord Baba. The marvelously built mandir will surely become a new land mark of Ramanagaram in coming days.

Unique Ganesha Idol in Ramanagaram

Sri Arkavathy Ganapathi Seva Sanga along with Arali Katte Geleyara Balaga are know to install unique Ganapathi Idols on occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi every year. This year too the idol of Ganapa sitting on moon (Sri Chandraseena Ganapathi) is installed. As usual it is pulling the crowd.

Collage Students writes post cards to PM

The collage students who participated in the Ramanagaram Bandh call given by the Merchants Association here supporting Anna Hazare wrote post cards to the Prime Minister demanding a strong Lokpal Bill.

Hunger protest at Ramanagaram condemning Anna's Arrest

Condeming Mr.Anna Hajare's arrest and demanding the Strong Lokpal Bill under the aegis of Jana Jagruti Vedike many office bearers of various associations and members from public are fasting at Ramanagaram. Freedom fighter Doreswamy visited the place on 17th August 2011 and motivated the agitators. Vedike President K.Seshadri, KMF director P.Nagaraj and others were present

Sri Chamundeshwari Karaga Festival

Ramanagara District Crime Graph

Ramanagara District Crime Graph for January 2011 to March 2011

(As per data given by Supdt.of Police S.P. on 29^th April 2011)

Sl.No.	Crime Category	Reported No. of cases	Investigated Cases
1.	Murder	20	07
2.	Murder for gains	02	01
3.	Dacoity	04	01
4.	Plunder	09	03
5.	Chain snatching	06	01
6.	Day light robbery	18	02
7.	Night robbery	58	11
8.	Theft	103	25
	Total	220	51

Sri Rama Chariot Festival

On eve of auspicious Sri Rama Navami Festival, the Chariot Festival of the leading deity of Ramanagaram Town Sri Rama was successfully conducted on 13th April 2011, with all grandeur. The 50 ft tall chariot with idols of Sri Rama, Seetha Devi, Lakshmana and Hanumantha was pulled by devotees on the Agrahara Main Road, M.G.Road, Main Road and Choultry Street.

Thousands of devotees across the district had a glimpse of Lord Sri Rama and offered bananas and “javana” (a kind of leaves) to the lord as devotion. Many individuals and service oriented groups organized “aravantike” across main roads and distributed Butter Milk, Lemon Juice sweetened with Jaggery along with “Kosambari” (mixture of cucumber, moong dal, coconut grating, coriander and chillies) that quenched the thirst and hunger of devotees. The photos here shows the chariot and the "aravantike"organised by R.P.Ramesh, J.Mukundaraj and friends on Choultry Street.

Dream Girl Hemamalini campaigns for BJP candidate

Famous film actor and Rajya Sabha Member Hemamalini canvassed for BJP candidate C.P.Yogeshwar at "toy city" Channapatna in Karnataka on 6th April 2011 along with Chief Minister B.S.Yediyurappa. Bye-election for Channapatna Assembly Constituency is scheduled on 9th April. Hemamalini is known in this part as Basanti, the female lead character of Sholay. Sholay the box office hit three decades ago was entirely shot in Ramagiri Hills at Ramanagaram. Channapatna is just 11 kms away from Ramanagaram on Bangalore-Mysore Highway.
On way to Channapatna from Bangalore, Hemamalini had a chance to look upon the Ramagiri Hills. Hemamalini started her election campaign with greeting the public in Kannada. In her speech Hemamalini recalled many memorable instances during the filming of the mega hit film Sholay.
State BJP leaders Ananth Kumar, Shobha Karandlaje, Eshwarappa, Bacche Gowda, C.T.Ravi, V.Somanna, candidate C.P.Yogeshwar accompanied Hemamalini during the campaign.

Ugadi Celebration

With the Indian Cricket team after 23 years winning the ICC Cricket World Cup the delighted citizens at Ramanagaram are preparing themselves to celebrate Ugadi, the beginning of the new Hindu calender tomorrow (2011,April 4). With the prices have sky rocketed, people are buying the most essential commodities with an eye on their purse. Jaggery, Flowers, Mango Leaves, Neem Leaves are on demand.

World Cup! Cheers at Ramanagaram

Nityananda devotees on hunger protest

Farmers strike hits highway traffic

Toyota Kirloskar Auto Parts commences construction of its engine plant and expansion of its transmission plant at Bidadi

Ramanagaram, 24th Feb 2011: Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) announced today that Toyota Kirloskar Auto Parts PVT. LTD. (TKAP) held a ceremony to mark the commencement of construction of its new engine plant and the expansion of its existing transmission plant at Bidadi in Ramanagaram Taluk. This development is a part of the unit localization project.

Mr. Hisashi Suzuki, Managing Director,TKAP unveiled the foundation stone under the august presence of Mr. V P Baligar, Principal Secretary, Department of Commerce and Industry and Mr. Takahiro Iwase, Senior Managing Director, TMC and Mr. Hiroshi Nakagawa, MD, TKM.

The unit localization project for Etios involves setting up a new engine plant and expanding the existing transmission plant, also an Export Orient Unit. The new production at the plant, representing an investment of approximately Rs. 5 billion. The project was cleared by the State High Level Clearance Committee, Government of Karnataka, in Jan 2011. The production will commence from third quarter of present year and approximately 100,000 engines will be producedper year. From early 2013 the capacity will be increased to 2.40 lakh transmissions.

TKAP currently produces manual transmissions for the “Fortuner” manufactured in India, Thailand and Argentina. It also produces axles and propeller shafts for the “Innova”, manufactured in India.

Talking on the occasion Mr. Vikram Kirloskar said Indian operations play a very important role in Toyota’s global strategy. Making of Etios exclusively for the Indian market and the localization of engine and transmission marks an important milestone in the growth of Toyota in India. Production of engines and transmissions for the Etios will further localize parts production. With the production of these critical parts, the localization ratio for Etios, currently around 70%, is expected to cross 90% he said.

Mr.Hisashi Suzuki in his address said “This project will help generate additional employment for more than 500 members at TKAP. It will also additionally, create opportunities for indirect employment in our supplier fraternity. TKAP, an EOU will now contribute towards localization and will get an opportunity to serve customers in India.”

Ramangaram gets new pin code

Ramanagaram the district head quarters of the three year old Ramanagara District has got a new Postal Index Number (PIN). The new Pin Code is 562159. The earlier number was 571511. Since the old number was creating confusion among other districts whose pin code begins with 571, we have changed the PIN to 562159, the postal authories have said.