An incident of a 26-year-old girl committing suicide by coming under a moving train has been reported near Varuna Canal close to Ring Road in city yesterday afternoon. The deceased has been identified as Vijayalakshmi, daughter of Lakshmamma and a resident of Bamboo Bazaar here. It is learnt that Vijayalakshmi was working at a petrol…
Sir, KBG’s Abracadabra titled “Mysuru calling, why are you not going?” published in yesterday’s SOM seemed to ‘instruct’ those in authority to become game-changers to develop tourism in Mysuru. However, I would like to mention that there are two more tourist destinations that need immediate attention. One is Brindavan Gardens. It is a chaotic situation…
The Music and Dance School of Ganabharathi, Kuvempunagar, has organised the 25th anniversary celebrations on Feb.19 at 10 am. The Principals who have served the institution and the teachers who are serving the school will be felicitated on the occasion. Awards for the winners in various competitions held to mark the occasion will be distributed….
A grand procession marked the 133rd birth anniversary celebrations of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar, in city this morning. The citizens, accompanied by cultural troupes performing Veeraghase, Dollu Kunitha, Puja Kunitha, Kamsale and Nandi Dhwaja, participated in the colourful procession along with a flower-decked silver chariot carrying the portrait of the Rajarshi. The Mounted Police personnel, two…
The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday directed the Karnataka Government to furnish a CID report into the alleged defrauding of more than Rs. 500 crore worth properties of taxidermist Edwin Joubert Van Ingen. A three-Judge Bench presided over by Justice Ranjan Gogoi asked advocate Joseph Aristotle, appearing for the State Government, to bring the enquiry report…
The Gopalopayanam Award was conferred on 97-year-old scholar Prof. K.S. Varadacharya Swamy by Sri Tridandi Srimannarayana Ramanuja Chinna Jeeyar Swami of Ubhaya Vedanthacharya Peetam Trust, Hyderabad, who is well-known as Andra Geeyar, at Varadacharya’s residence in Jayanagar here recently. This award, instituted in 1997, carries a memento and a cash prize of Rs.1 lakh and…
By Prof. A.V. Narasimha Murthy, former Head, Department of Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Mysore Numismatists (specialists in ancient coin research) all over South India are congregating at Hyderabad on 18th and 19th February 2017. It was originally called Bhagyanagar but now it is Hyderabad. The occasion is the 27th Annual Conference of South…
Dr. Gangubai Hangal Music and Performing Arts University, in association with the Department of Kannada and Culture, had organised Tyagaraja and Purandara Aradhana Mahotsava yesterday at the University premises here. Inaugurating the programme, scholar Dr. T.N. Nagarathna said that the contributions of great personalities like Buddha, Basavanna, Guru Nanak and Pygambar to society were matchless…
As part of its State-wide campaign against the corrupt Congress Government in the State, the BJP will be staging a massive demonstration in front of the DC’s office here on Feb.20 at 12 noon. Announcing this at a press meet at a private hotel here this morning, City BJP President Dr. B.H. Manjunath said that…
Facility to be thrown open to public by Dasara: Mayor Even after several postponements of the deadline to complete the interior renovation of the Town Hall and the multi-level parking lot in the Town Hall premises, which have now been stalled, Mayor M.J. Ravikumar, who inspected the Town Hall premises on Thursday said that the…
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