New Delhi: The Election Commission yesterday announced by-elections to four Assembly seats, including Panaji, from where Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is likely to contest. The by-elections in Bawana (Delhi), Panaji and Valpoi (Goa) and Nandyal (Andhra Pradesh) will be held on August 23. The notification for the by-elections would be issued on July 29,…
MGP to take up cases of student-victims of KSOU
July 28, 2017Mysuru: The report of Justice K. Bhakthavatsala shows that students who were admitted to MPhil, PhD, BE, BTech, MTech, Diploma in Engineering and other technical professional programmes of the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) are facing severe problems since the degrees are not recognised. Despite warnings from the Distance Education Council way back in 2011,…
Panel to look into fake marks card racket: Doubts about the Committee as both VC and Registrar on leave
July 28, 2017Mysuru: KSOU has constituted a 12-member teachers’ committee to look into admission, marks card printing, valuation, coding and decoding, custodians of confidential papers and convocation. In an agreement with a Mumbai-based company IEM the work was entrusted to them in 2013. However, nearly 60,000 to 70,000 marks cards printed by them has been cancelled as…
KSOU students threaten stir
July 28, 2017Mysuru: Even as the KSOU fake marks card racket is making news, the aggrieved students of the same institution are up in arms threatening to launch an agitation if the recognition to the University is not restored immediately. It may be recalled that the recognition to the KSOU had been withdrawn since the last four…
State to get 6 Women Entrepreneurs’ Park
July 28, 2017Mysuru: The women entrepreneurs are being given a lot of encouragement and six Women Entrepreneurs’ Park will be set up in the State, said Additional Chief Secretary K. Ratna Prabha. She was speaking after inaugurating the Women Entrepreneurs(WIBE) Institution and Training camp for women at Hotel Pai Vista, here yesterday and said, “These days more importance…
Passenger train converted to Express train: Bengaluru City-Talguppa-Bengaluru City Daily Express extended up to Mysuru
July 28, 2017Mysuru: The Mysuru-Bengaluru-City- Mysuru Passenger train(T.No.56234/33) has been converted into an Express Train and T.No.16227/28 Bengaluru City-Talguppa-Bengaluru City daily express has been extended up to Mysuru. The South Western Railway has announced the following changes in the time table with effect from 28.07.2017: T.No.56234/33 Mysuru-KSR Bengaluru City-Mysuru Passenger has been converted as Express & T.No.16227/28…
‘Limia’ and ‘Guppy’ fish to reduce dengue scare in city
July 28, 2017Mysuru: MLA M.K. Somashekar launched a demonstration and awareness programme on dengue eradication, organised by ‘Swachcha Karnataka – Arogya Karnataka’ at Gandabherunda Park next to Jayamma Govindegowda Kalyanamantap on Udayaravi Road in Kuvempungar this morning. Speaking on the occasion, Somashekar said mosquito menace was the main cause for the spread of dengue and it has…
Young Indians start ‘Wall of Kindness’ in city
July 28, 2017Mysuru: In an effort to provide the needy and the homeless with basic amenities such as clothes, slippers, blankets, books and others, the Mysuru Chapter of Young Indians (Yi) established ‘Wall of Kindness’ at the Dasappa Circle near Mandovi Motors this morning. Inaugurating the Wall, both Mayor M.J. Ravikumar and MCC Commissioner G. Jagadeesha…
Instil ethics, values from childhood: NLSUI VC
July 28, 2017Mysuru: The University of Mysore founded 102 years ago by Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar has today attracted global attention. The founders had focused on ethics and values when they set up the institution of higher learning, said National Law School of India University (NLSUI) Vice-Chancellor Prof. R. Venkat Rao. He was delivering the 102nd Foundation Day…
Forewarned, yet not forearmed
July 28, 2017The old saying “Man doesn’t live by bread alone” may not convincingly impress people at large that they need much more than bread itself (the term bread representing all that we consume as food, both for pleasure and to keep soul and body together). Further, the expression “Man shalln’t live by bread alone,” attributed to…
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