Mysuru: The six-day Bangle Mela organised by Tholasi Jewels began at its new store on Temple Road in V.V. Mohalla here yesterday. The Mela was inaugurated by Sulochana R.Guru and Jhanavi Murthy by lighting the traditional lamp. Tholasi Jewels has announced special offers on various varieties of gold bangles including the Bengali, antique and much…
Damodara Deepotsava at ISKCON Mysuru from today
October 5, 2017Mysuru: The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), Jayanagar in city, is celebrating a month-long festival of lights called “Damodara Deepotsava” during the auspicious month of Karthika starting Oct. 5 (today). This festival is being celebrated in commemoration of an enchanting childhood pastime of Lord Krishna who agreed to get bounded by the pure unalloyed…
Castrated for God
October 5, 2017By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist In a Guru’s Ashram, I saw a young, beautiful girl who had completely stripped herself of her gender and sexuality: shaven hair, ash on her face, baggy clothes, bare feet, and complete subservience to her Guru, who she referred to as ‘master’. The men were similarly…
Reasons for Low Economic Growth
October 5, 2017One Awdhesh Singh, a retired Indian Revenue Service Officer, has put this TRUTH on WhatsApp and is appreciated by all those who love India and wish for the qualitative improvement of our college education. Remember a leading industrialist bemoaning that a large number of our engineering graduates are unemployable? Now read this WhatsApp.—Ed Imagine that…
Self-rule & self-reliant nation
October 5, 2017Looking for supply of materials from other countries to meet the major needs of the land’s steadily expanding masses, particularly food grains, takes us back to the mid-60s when the physically diminutive but otherwise steely leader Lal Bahadur Shastri took over the reins of the government. Although his stint at the top was too short,…
Exemplary service at PSK Mysuru
October 5, 2017Sir, It was a very pleasant surprise for us today when myself and my wife visited the Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) in Metagalli Post Office, Mysuru, by an appointment at 2.30 pm. We were there by 1.45 pm; the actual work on our applications started by 2.15 pm and by 2.35 pm the complete process…
UGC recognition sought for KSOU
October 5, 2017Mysuru: Urging the Centre and the State Governments to take steps to get UGC recognition to Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) in city, members of Paduvarahalli Srigandha Yuvakara Sangha staged a protest in front of Gandhi bust opposite City Law Courts Complex here yesterday. Alleging that violation of rules by previous Vice-Chancellors had led to…
Lightning kills Six in Periyapatna this afternoon
October 5, 2017Periyapatna: Lightning and thunder killed 6 people at Periyapatna this afternoon. The incident occurred at around 1 pm when 12 persons including cowherds and field workers were standing under a tree to take shelter from heavy rains. The villagers hailed from Hunasawadi near Periyapatna. Two persons who are critically injured are being shifted to Mysuru…
VPAC’s Pallavotsava from tomorrow
October 5, 2017Mysuru: Vasundhara Performing Arts Centre (VPAC), one of the prestigious Bharatanatyam training institutes in Mysuru, is celebrating its 31st year annual festival of Indian Classical Music and Dance — Pallavotsava-2017 — for five days from Oct. 6 to 10 at Sri Nadabrahma Sangeetha Sabha on JLB Road in city from 6 pm to 9 pm….
Provide gadgets for Railway employees
October 5, 2017Sir, Railways is in the news for all the wrong reasons these days. Recently I travelled by Tipu Express to Bengaluru. The coaches were dirty and uninviting. When do we catch up with the swanky trains we see in the West and other developed countries? As the train moved, a Ticket Examiner entered our coach…
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