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MYSORE: Farmers in the region, especially those involved in rain-fed cultivation and who lost crops last year due to drought, are in upbeat this time with pre-monsoon rain raising their hopes. The region, particularly Mysore district, has received good pre-monsoon rain, prompting farmers to take up the sowing of kharif crops. Mysore usually gets pre-monsoon rain in good quantity during April-end and early May. But the delay in getting this rain has left the farmers with bad memories of last year's drought. However, the good spell of rain in the last 3-4 days, particularly on Friday night, has got them set for the sowing season, which has already begun in some parts of the district. According to the agriculture department, all seven taluks of Mysore district and four taluks of Chamarajanagar received good rain on Thursday and Friday. Krishnaiah, joint director of agriculture, said: "Barring T Narasipura, rest of the taluks of the district received good rain on Friday. This is

MYSORE: A day after assembly election results were announced, the residents in Janathanagar in west of Mysore in Chamaraja constituency took to streets, protesting against erratic water supply. They also threatened to lay siege to water supply main office if the authorities failed to supply water. Scores of residents from Janathanagar in Mysore City Corporation (MCC) ward 24 staged a protest on the streets, urging the authorities and elected representative to attend to their basic problem. They, however, relented an hour later following an assurance from an official of Vani Vilasa Water Works (VVWW), the water-supplying arm of MCC. Revanna, an activist of citizen's forum Jana Jagruthi Vedike, who led the protesters, said that residents in 5th, 6th and 7th cross roads of Janathanagar are deprived of water since three weeks, and that borewells in the locality are also dry. "We have been appealing to officials to supply water at least through tankers, but they were dragging