Mysuru: The two-day Mysuru District-level Dasara Sports Meet began at Chamundi Vihar Stadium here this morning. About 800 sports persons from various parts of the district are taking part. The sports meet was inaugurated by ZP President Nayeema Sulthana. ZP member Jayalakshmi Rajanna and DYES Assistant Director K. Suresh were present. The winners in taluk-level…
Dasara Wrestling tournament from Sept.21
September 1, 2017Mysuru: The Dasara Wrestling tournament will take place from Sept. 21 to 26 at D. Devaraj Urs Multipurpose Stadium adjacent to Dasara Exhibition Grounds in city. Announcing this at a press meet at Vartha Bhavan on Dhanvantri Road here this morning, SP Ravi D. Channannavar, who is also the Dasara Wrestling Sub-Committee Working President, said…
Declare uniform Dasara holidays for schools across State
September 1, 2017Mysuru: Hotel Owners Association President C. Narayanagowda has urged the District Administration to declare holidays for schools all over the State during the ten-day Dasara celebrations in Mysuru. This will help the parents to visit the city along with their children to participate in the celebrations, he said. Reacting to this suggestion ADC T. Yogesh…
Flavoured milk for school children: Tanveer Sait
September 1, 2017Mysuru: Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Tanveer Sait has said that flavoured milk will be supplied to school children under ‘Ksheera Bhagya’ scheme. Addressing Sahukar Chennaiah Block Congress workers meeting at Shikshakara Bhavan here on Sunday, Sait said that the authorities are considering to provide flavoured milk under the scheme from Nov.1 as most…
Grumblers and Government
September 1, 2017Pages of the land’s history, given the portrayal of various issues and events by chroniclers during centuries of past rulers, big as well as sundry kings, have generally sidelined describing the connect between aam janata and authorities in the matter of the former expressing discontent in their day-to-day life and the latter responding satisfactorily or…
Special barricades to maintain Law & Order
September 1, 2017Mysuru: City Police Commissioner Dr. A. Subrahmanyeswara Rao has said that this year for Dasara procession, special barricades used during rock shows to control the crowd will be used. Speaking to Star of Mysore here yesterday, he said that last year during Dasara procession, the crowd had pushed the barricades on Raja Marga and in…
Worsening traffic: Form Mysuru Traffic Commission or Task Force
September 1, 2017Sir, This refers to the well-researched article on worsening traffic problem by Prof. Chandra Prakash, former President of Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP) in SOM dated Aug. 19 and 20. Besides discussing the factors which are causing traffic problem with lots of statistics, he has suggested a set of solutions. We, the residents, cannot afford to…
Man murdered by relatives over land dispute
September 1, 2017Accused mother-daughter arrested Mysuru: In a ghastly incident, a man was killed by his relatives in broad daylight over a land dispute at Bogadi in city this morning. The deceased has been identified as Lokesh (50), son of Ammanne Gowda, a resident of Bogadi. Police said that Lokesh had visited his 9 gunta land near…
Hunsur MLA refutes allegations
September 1, 2017Mysuru: Refuting allegations that he had made abusive remarks against a section of the audience during a Swachh Bharath Mission programme in Hunsur taluk, Hunsur MLA H.P. Manjunath said that the campaign against him in the social media was only aimed at tarnishing his image. Addressing a press meet at Patrakarthara Bhavan here this morning,…
First Open-Defecation-Free City certificate presented
September 1, 2017Mayor M.J. Ravikumar and MCC Commissioner G. Jagadeesha are seen receiving the certificate that declares Mysuru as Open-Defecation-Free City from Chief Minister Siddharamaiah in Bengaluru as Ministers K.J. George, R. Roshan Baig and Eshwar Khandre look on. Mysuru was crowned the ‘First City Free of Open Defecation’ in the country in 2016. The city, which…
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