Various models of vehicles seized by the Police are lying unclaimed at Saraswathipurm Police Station. The owners of such vehicles should claim the vehicles within 10 days by producing original documents of vehicles failing which they would be auctioned in public and the proceeds would be remitted to Government Treasury which has been permitted by…
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Women’s Day
March 8, 2017Men and women from the District Administration, several voluntary organisations, political parties, and educational institutions in the city came together this morning to celebrate International Women’s Day. March 8 is celebrated as Women’s Day across the world, celebrating the strength and achievements of women. The first International Women’s Day was celebrated in 1911 as a…
Abracadabra By K. B. Ganapathy
Frailty thy name is not woman, thy name, in truth, is Man!
March 8, 2017With apologies to William Shakespeare, who said in great dramatic flourish and rhetoric in the play ‘Hamlet’ ‘Frailty, thy name is woman,’ I have to disagree with him, at least today being Women’s Day! It is one of the memorable expressions from that play and has over the years become proverbial. He thus describes all…
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CID team arrives at Bandipur to probe forest fires
March 8, 2017A team from Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrived in Bandipur National Park this morning to probe the recent forest fires. Forest Department sources told Star of Mysore that a team of eight to nine members arrived at Bandipur from Bengaluru and headed straight to N. Begur Range where the first fire was reported. Thousands…
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Parvathamma Rajkumar hospitalised
March 8, 2017Parvathamma Rajkumar, a film producer and wife of legendary Kannada actor late Dr. Rajkumar, was hospitalised yesterday midnight. She is being treated at M.S. Ramaiah Hospital in Bengaluru, over issues related to diabetes and low blood pressure. Hospital sources said she was in good condition and stable. Her sons Raghavendra Rajkumar, Shivarajkumar and Puneeth Rajkumar…
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State mulls to develop KGF
March 8, 2017In an ambitious move aimed at decongesting Bengaluru, the State Government will develop a new city at Kolar Gold Fields (KGF) around 100 km from Bengaluru to decongest its capital, State Urban Development Minister Roshan Baig said. 11,000 acres of Bharat Gold Mines Ltd. (BGML) land will be used to build the city, he said…
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Mysuru’s Public Bicycle Sharing System by March end
March 8, 2017The Public Bicycle Sharing System (PBS), to be launched in Mysuru by March end, will consist of 450 cycles at 48 docking stations and once launched, the project will make Mysuru to become the first city in the country to have public bicycle-sharing system, Roshan Baig said. The Minister said that the docking stations will…
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Tipu armoury moved by 98 mts
March 8, 2017The translocation process of the historic Tipu armoury to a new site which began on Monday, has been moved by 98 meters on the third day today till about 1.30 pm. Sources said that as the monument has to be moved in a ‘L’ shape, the turning process will be held tomorrow or Friday and…
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Workshop on “Self Employment Opportunities for Women”
March 8, 2017RUDSET Institute, Mysuru, will celebrate International Women’s Day on Mar.10 at its premises in Hinkal. The Institute proposes to conduct a half-day workshop on “Self Employment Opportunities for Women” from 10 am to 1.30 pm. There will be no entry fee. Interested women and Women Federations, SHGs, Women’s Associations may contact the Director, RUDSET Institute,…
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SC/ST Ph.D holders to be feted
March 8, 2017The University of Mysore intends to felicitate SC/ST candidates and lecturers who have received Ph.D, at a function to be held on April 14 to mark the 126th birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. The University Deputy Registrar, in a press release, has asked such candidates and lecturers to register their names before Mar. 31…
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