Mysuru, April 17 -- Silent candlelight protest near SP Office tomorrow at 6.30 pm

After the resounding success of the 2021 online campaign that halted the felling of hundreds of trees for a proposed Heli Tourism project at the foot of Chamundi Hill - garnering over 80,000 signatures and forcing the State Government to rescind - Mysureans have once again turned to public action. This time, to oppose the indiscriminate axing of trees for road-widening projects.

A new petition titled 'Demand restitution for the massacre of over 40, 50-year-old trees in the heart of Mysuru' has been launched on Change.org by Sanjay Dattatri, a member of Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP).

The petition, which went live yesterday, has already crossed 7,423 sign...