Coronavirus Update, Top Stories
Mysuru COVID-19 Update: January 26, 2022
Mysuru reports 2797 new COVID-19 positive cases, 4054 discharges and 3 deaths today.
News, Top Stories
Sudden spurt in cases attributed to backlog reports, says DC
Mysore/Mysuru: With the district reporting more than 4,000 COVID positive cases for three consecutive days (Jan.22, 23 and 24) causing concern among people, Deputy Commissioner Dr. Bagadi Gautham clarified that the sudden spurt in the cases is because of addition of all backlog reports. Speaking to presspersons on the sidelines of the National Voters Day...
News, Top Stories
App to detect forest fires at Nagarahole
Hunsur: Diligently following the age-old and trusted system of creating fire lines (creating a bald patch of land between green swathes) to prevent summer forest fires, the Karnataka Forest Department this year has moved a step ahead and has adopted technology for the same task. Relying on technology, it has come up with an app...
NEWS
News
COVID War Room operations re-start
Helpline 0821-2424111 with 10 lines open for pandemic-related queries By M.T. Yogesh Kumar Mysore/Mysuru: With cases of COVID-19 surging at a rapid pa...
News
Patients hostile as COVID stigma refuses to die down
Mysore/Mysuru: Now COVID-19 variant may be relatively milder than its more devastating predecessors but the efforts to tackle its spread have by no me...
News
Not many takers for Ambaari city trips
Only 10 tourists every day; poor response during weekends too Mysore/Mysuru: The wheels of the Ambaari double-decker hop-on and hop-off city tourist b...
News, Top Stories
Sudden spurt in cases attributed to backlog reports, says DC
Mysore/Mysuru: With the district reporting more than 4,000 COVID positive cases for three consecutive days (Jan.22, 23 and 24) causing concern among p...
News, Top Stories
App to detect forest fires at Nagarahole
Hunsur: Diligently following the age-old and trusted system of creating fire lines (creating a bald patch of land between green swathes) to prevent su...
HEALTH CAPSULE
TEASER
COLUMNS
Columns, Point of View
In UP, BJP’s leaders know only love
By T.J.S. George In a matter of weeks, Uttar Pradeshians will be lining up to vote. This election will be of considerable significance to all of...
Abracadabra By K. B. Ganapathy, Columns
Republic Day musings on India’s march since Independence
Some intellectuals are of the opinion that we must trust people and take their advice. Dr. U.R. Ananthamurthy was one such intellectual. In one of his...
Columns, Over A Cup of Evening Tea
Of stray Dogs and not-so-stray Men!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I am writing about this subject after reading a front page report in the Star of Mysore recently about how citizens are be...
Columns, Point of View
A Welcome Book of Assertive History
By T.J.S. George A remarkable anthology has come out. It is misleadingly titled as “Two hundred years of English prose.” The m...
Abracadabra By K. B. Ganapathy, Columns
Long March of a Malayali Boy From Darkness to Light ! —2
You are the architect of your life — Swami Vivekananda [Continued from yesterday] Joseph was not sure of success with the Bishop but mustered courage ...
EVENTS TODAY
Events Today
EVENTS TODAY – JAN. 25: Sri Prasanna Vidya Ganapathi Mandali Charitable (SPVGMC) Trust
60th Heritage Music Festival, flute recital by Vid. Shashank Subramayam, accompanied by Vid. B.U. Ganesh Prasad on violin; Vid. Ananth R. Krishna on m...
Events Today
EVENTS TODAY – JAN. 19: Sri Nadabrahma Sangeetha Sabha
Piteelu Chowdaiah Samsmarana, Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji will be honoured in the name of legendary Violinist Piteelu Chowdaiah, 6 pm; Grand ...
Events Today
EVENTS TODAY – JAN. 19: Sri Prasanna Vidya Ganapathi Mandali Charitable (SPVGMC) Trust
60th Heritage Music Festival, Kavya Vaachana, 5.15 pm; Vid. Ruthvik Raja presents a vocal recital accompanied by Vidu. Adithi Krishnaprasad on violin,...
Events Today
EVENTS TODAY – JAN. 19: Children’s Literary Club, Mysuru
‘Valedictory of 10 Sessions of English-Speaking Hour: Participants Kannada Medium’, event conducted by Club Director Dr. R. Purnima, Chamu...
FEATURED ARTICLES
Feature Articles
The First President of India Dr. Rajendra Prasad
By Dr. C.D. Sreenivasa Murthy India gained independence on 15th August 1947, but technically it was not yet a fully free nation. The newly independent...
Feature Articles
Discovering alphabets of old Kodava script
Two inscriptions, previously assumed to be in mixed language, contain a unique character set By Mookonda Nitin Kushalappa, Engineer, Historian, Author...
Feature Articles
Shikra, the leopard of avian kingdom
By Ragoo Rao, Ethologist The Shikra has long been known for its great courage, coupled with intellect as a hunter. It is the most common bird used in ...
Feature Articles, Top Stories
Helping isolated patients recover faster, happier
KSOU COVID Care Centre at Mandakalli strives to become a model centre again By M.T. Yogesh Kumar The COVID Care Centre (CCC) at Karnataka State Open U...
Feature Articles
The Act of Seeing
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist To see or not to see, that is the question. The difference between an organ...
Feature Articles, Top Stories
Has Mysuru gone Bengaluru way?—6: Iconic Mysore and its Tipping Point
By R. Chandra Prakash The Wadiyar dynasty of Mysore State had a divine heart and a magic sceptre in their hand. Their belief in Goddess Chamundeshwari...
Feature Articles
Strong and harmonious living space
By S.B.S. Surendra, Accredited Master Feng Shui Consultant Feng Shui, Vaastu science, modern structural designs and building science have detailed man...
Feature Articles
Proteas drub top ranked India to humiliating Test series defeat 2-1
By V.N. Prasad Heartiest congratulations to the young Proteas who gathered all their might to register a 2-1 victory over the favourites, India. It wa...
EVENTS TOMMOROW
Events Tomorrow
EVENTS TOMORROW – JAN. 27: Sri Prasanna Vidya Ganapathi Mandali Charitable (SPVGMC) Trust
60th Heritage Music Festival, vocal concert by Vid. Vijay Siva, accompanied by Vid. R.K. Shriramkumar on violin, Vid. Melakaveri Balaji on mridanga an...
Events Tomorrow
EVENTS TOMORROW – JAN. 27: Aishwarya Kalanikethana, Chikkaballapur and Kannada & Culture Department, Bengaluru
Rangotsava (Theatre Festival), staging of play ‘Bellakki Hindu Bedaryavo’ by Aishwarya Kalanikethana, Chikkaballapur (Playwright: Go.Ru. Channabasappa...
Events Tomorrow
EVENTS TOMORROW – JAN. 26: Sri Prasanna Vidya Ganapathi Mandali Charitable (SPVGMC) Trust
60th Heritage Music Festival, vocal concert by Vid. Vignesh Ishwar, accompanied by Vid. Sai Rakshith on violin, Vid. Jayachandra Rao on mridanga and V...
Photo News
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Photo News
Mysore Brothers perform at 8th Cross, V.V. Mohalla
Mysore Brothers — Vid. Mysore Nagaraj and Vid. Dr. Mysore Manjunath — presenting a Violin Duet at 8th Cross, V.V. Mohalla, last evening as part of the...
Photo News
City Bharatanatyam Acharya honoured
Internationally acclaimed Bharatanatyam Acharya and artiste Badari Divya Bhushan was honoured by Kuchipudi Parampara Foundation Directors Deepa Naraya...
Photo News
Excels in Instrumental Music
Yeashas N. Kashyap, an 8th standard student at Sadvidya Semi-Residential School, has bagged 2nd prize in Instrumental Music (Flute) Contest organised ...
EDITORIAL
Editorial
Forewarned is forearmed
The term virus, understood so far by an infinitesimal fraction of humanity across the world has witnessed universal familiarity during the past few mo...
Editorial
Country’s Corona Curve
Graphic representations of the cosmic dance of Coronavirus as it were, currently christened as COVID-19, in the form of curves while reporting the num...
Editorial
People’s pleasing profile
Self-praising and self-degrading habits are known to lead to enthusiasm and depression respectively. Also, facing crisis situations and succumbing to ...
Editorial
Administration amends Aam janata adjusts
The issue of providing good governance in the country has just turned tougher than in normal times, thanks to the pandemic in almost all countries acr...
Editorial
Courage conquers crisis
Global scenario, particularly in the self-declared developed countries and that in India are strikingly contrasting on many counts in the ongoing Covi...
VOICE OF THE READER
Scholarly article on a visionary educationistJanuary 25, 2022
Re-asphalt General K.S. Thimayya Road in Vija...January 24, 2022
More on Ring Road mishapsJanuary 23, 2022
Traffic violations on the rise: Stringent act...January 22, 2022
KRS Road in dark since a monthJanuary 21, 2022
SPORTS
Sports
Pink Pandal
The Pink Tabebuia has bloomed again at Oval Grounds opposite Crawford Hall, enhancing the beauty of the heritage building and by being a sight to beho...
Sports
City fighters win medals at National Kickboxing Championships
Fighters of Elite Academy, Mysuru, have excelled in the WAKO National Kickboxing Championships-2021 organised by Amateur Sports Kickboxing Association...
Sports
Tennis: Wins U-14 and U-16 titles
C.N. Varunya, a student of St. Joseph’s Central School, Vijayanagar, has won the Girls U-14 and U-16 State-level Mysore Junior Tennis Tournament organ...
Sports
Medal-winners in Muaythai National Championship
Nine Muaythai fighters (7 male and 2 female) of the Smite Academy of Martial Arts participated in the 22nd MTI Muaythai National Championship under th...
IN BREIFS
In Briefs
Siri Kannada channel’s entertainment package
‘Siri Kannada’ channel is telecasting four new tele serials with a variety of story line and giving a complete entertainment package to the audience. ...
In Briefs
Typing workshop
The Rashtriya Computer Saksharatha Samithi, Kuvempu-nagar, in association with QDP Technologies, will be conducting a 10-day ‘Kannada Nudi’ computer t...
In Briefs
Discount on books
As part of its 55th anniversary, city’s Sapna Book House, located on N.S. Road, Devaraja Mohalla in city, will be offering 50% discount on Kannada an...
In Briefs
MCC’s Continued Council Meeting
The Continued General Council Meeting of Mysore City Corporation (MCC) will be held at its Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar auditorium on Jan. 27 at 3 pm. ...
OBITUARY
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