Bengaluru: With the State BJP mired in internal dissidence, BJP National President Amit Shah is scheduled to visit the State on Dec.31. Shah has convened a meeting of party MPs, Legislators and office-bearers at the party State headquarters here tomorrow. He is said to have asked the party leaders to come up with statistics and…
Kannada must in all schools from next academic year
December 30, 2017Bengaluru: The State Governments intent to make Kannada mandatory in CBSE and ICSE Schools will become a reality from 2018-19 academic year. Speaking to press persons here yesterday, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Tanveer Sait said that students from other States who join here for higher grades, will have to take up a beginner’s course…
City Police to crackdown on non-ISI mark helmets
December 30, 2017Drive against non-standard helmets in January Mysuru: Even as the Union Ministry of Road Transport is planning to ban production and sale of non-ISI mark helmets as part of the government’s efforts to reduce road fatalities, the Mysuru City Traffic Police will soon launch a crackdown on the use of non-ISI certified helmets by motorists….
Wild elephants head back to forests in Madikeri
December 30, 2017Madikeri: The two elephants that had entered the main roads of Madikeri early yesterday morning have returned to the forests last night. Forest Department officials did not spot the pachyderms since last evening and they walked up to eight kilometres into the forests in their attempt to chase the elephants away. Tension prevailed in Madikeri…
Mysooru Mithra columnist Dr. M.R. Ravi’s article included in BBA syllabus
December 30, 2017Mysuru: Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat CEO Dr. M.R. Ravi’s article that was published in his column in Mysooru Mithra, the sister concern of Star of Mysore, has been included as a chapter of Kannada text book for Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) course in Mangalore University. The article, ‘Yellaru Doctor, Engineer Aadare Bere Vruthigala Paadenu?’…
Hawk’s eye on revellers
December 30, 2017Mysuru: The City Police will keep a strict watch on the partying crowd during the New Year Eve tomorrow (Dec.31). DCP Dr. Vikram V. Amathe told SOM that the Police vigil will start at 7 pm tomorrow. “We will not spare people who indulge in drunken driving, hooliganism and eve-teasing. Barricades will be placed at…
School owner’s murder accused get bail
December 30, 2017Mysuru: A City Court has granted bail to the three accused in the murder of Dattagalli Chanakya School owner Krishna. The deceased Krishna’s wife Radha and her alleged accomplices Manjunath and Arun are the ones who have been granted bail by the city’s First Additional Sessions Court Judge Basavaraj. Krishna died last year when it…
Students bag Rolling Trophy
December 30, 2017Acharya Vidya Kula students have won the Rolling Trophy for overall performance at QSCIENZA conducted by BASE PU College in Mysuru recently. K.V. Sudhanva and Sudhanshu Bharadwaj of tenth standard who won the first prize in the quiz contest are seen with the other members of the School team S.K. Anirudh, Jayanth Rao and B.C….
Country’s cursed cities
December 30, 2017Mysuru city, identified by its earlier name Mysore that endured for more than a century, has witnessed a change not only in its name but also its profile, a change that is not exactly in line with the Winston Churchill quote, “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” Many old…
State-level workshop for Assistant Professors of Kannada at CIIL
December 30, 2017Mysuru: The National Testing Service-India (NTS-I) of Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) is conducting a five-day training-cum-workshop on Testing and Evaluation and Question Item Writing for the newly-recruited Assistant Professors of Kannada, Department of Collegiate Education, Government of Karnataka, from Jan. 1 to Jan. 5 at CIIL, Mysuru. Prof. H.M. Maheshwaraiah, Vice-Chancellor, Central University…
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