By Maneka Gandhi In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka explains how a cat that is out on the street can be brought home and taken care of… Why do cats fold their ears down when they are scared? Cats instinctively fold their ears back to protect themselves from attack. They are harder to bite and…
By H.D. Ramesh Periyapatna: Every one of us would like to live on tree-tops for one or two days, far from the madding crowd and hustle and bustle of the city. But what if you are forced to live atop a tree, 365 days and 24/7, that too under the threat of wild elephants? Here…
Bengaluru: The Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has decided to introduce Kannada as a compulsory subject for all the first-year students. This means that engineering students will now have to mandatorily pass the Kannada language test to move into the next semester. Until now, Kannada had been an add-on subject (in which attendance was compulsory, but…
Bengaluru: The recent transfers affected in the Police Department has not gone down well with a section of IPS officers in the State and they are now blaming “Super Home Minister” Kempaiah (in pic) for the mess. Kempaiah, a retired Police officer, is the advisor to the Home Minister and Chief Minister Siddharamaiah holds the…
Bengaluru: Taking a strong objection to the Cabinet de-notifying around 1,500 dying lakes, State JD(S) President H.D. Kumaraswamy has sought the Governor’s intervention to stop the Government move. Quoting a Supreme Court order and recommendations by Committees headed by retired IAS officer N. Lakshman Rao on lakes in the city, as well as Committees of…
Mysuru: Members of ITC Limited Technical Staff Union, a unit of Mysuru District General Employees Union, have launched a morning to dusk breakfast, lunch and tea abstinence protest during work hours from Monday up to August 5. In a press statement, the members stated that technical officers and agriculture officers of the Karnataka Green Leaf…
Mysuru: To attract engineering students to the field of theatre, Abhiyenthararu – A Theatre for Engineers has organised a theatre training programme from Aug.6 to Sept. 15. Disclosing this at a press meet at Pathrakartara Bhavan here yesterday, Abhiyenthararu President H.S. Suresh Babu said that the organisation had been imparting training to engineers in theatre…
Pages of history portray that students of primary and secondary schools some decades past and now in their eighties can recollect names of local kings ruling in different regions of the land credited with many pro-people measures such as building water bodies, planting trees, construction of roads, building infrastructure for travellers and so on, not…
Mysuru: The fake marks card racket at KSOU is acquiring gargantuan proportions with each passing day. After KSOU Co-ordinator in Hubballi Manjunath Kulkarni and Health Department official Mallanna were arrested on Saturday last, KSOU Assistant Registrar (Evaluation) Siddaraju was suspended. And, added to this, an order has been passed to dismiss temporary employee Shivanna. As…
Sir, KBG’s Abracadabra titled “News that drove me back to Bombay — Is it possible to live and die like Krishna Raj?” (Star of Mysore dated July 28) evoked “memories of the past” in me, too. I fully endorse everything my friend KBG wrote about Krishna Raj. While KBG had the good fortune to work…
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