Mysuru: The high-power Dasara Committee meeting will be held in Bengaluru on July 24 to discuss and plan this year’s Mysuru Dasara festivities. The meeting will be chaired by Chief Minister Siddharamaiah. This will be the first Dasara high-power committee meeting that will be attended by Mysuru District In-charge Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa, Primary and…
Mysuru: Former Minister and MLA S. Suresh Kumar, reacting to the shunting of DIG (Prisons) Roopa D. Moudgil following her report about the irregularities in the Parappana Agrahara Central Prisons and the alleged involvement of the higher ups, said that there is no place for honest officers in the State. Speaking to the media after…
Mysuru: City Police Commissioner Dr. A. Subrahmanyeswara Rao felt that if Police Stations have to become people-friendly, then the cooperation of the public is very essential. He was participating in the ‘Beat Police,’ programme organised at the Ganapati Temple premises in Brindavan Extension that comes under the V.V. Puram Police limits, here yesterday. “The ‘Beat…
Usually life gets simpler as nations progress. But not in India where a barrage of sudden changes, new rules and revised regulations are making life burdensome for ordinary people. First, it was demonetisation. The dislocations that abrupt adventure triggered are still haunting people. As if that were not enough, a whole new mess has developed…
New Delhi: Textiles Minister Smriti Irani will hold additional charge of Information and Broadcasting while Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar will also be responsible for Urban Development, the PMO tweeted today. Irani and Tomar have been given charge of the Ministries held by M. Venkaiah Naidu, who was yesterday named the Vice-Presidential candidate of…
Mysuru: Urging the District Administration to confiscate the properties of Green Buds Agro Farm Limited and return the money got through public auction to the depositors, the depositors and activists under the banner of Green Buds Karyakartharu Hagu Tevanidarara Rakshana Samithi, yesterday submitted a memorandum to the District Administration. Before submitting the memorandum, a meeting…
Mysuru: Lokayukta Police, headed by Dy.SP K.B. Swamy, received complaints at Chamundi Guest House here yesterday. Residents of Banki Nawab Street in Mandi Mohalla, Sarvamangala and others filed a complaint alleging that a person had been running a hotel without licence in the vicinity and no action had been initiated by MCC despite filing a…
A law attributed to some unknown wit says that “No two watches agree; if they agree, they are not watches (in real terms).” One cannot be faulted for extending the same logic behind this obscure law and say, “No two scholars agree; if they agree, they are not scholars (commanding respect).” This extended law’s force…
Bengaluru: The State Government has decided to enhance its share of institutional quota seats from 30% to 50% an increase by 20%. The decision in this regard was taken after students from the State demanded that the quota be increased for their benefit, said Medical Education Minister Dr. Sharan Prakash Patil. He said that if…
Sir, This is in support of the letter in this column by M.K. Raghu (SOM dated July 11). These days almost every other student either goes to take up engineering or medicine as a profession. And moreover many parents and teachers are not even aware of other courses that are in our curriculum. I, as…
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