Mysuru: While picnics, family get-togethers, parties and merry makings have lined up for the New Year celebrations, consumption of liquor in gallons would be the centre of attraction of all these revelries. Looking at the celebration mode of the people, City Police have come up with certain precautionary measures to ensure that the festivities end…
Bengaluru: The demand of the ruling Congress Government in Karnataka for replacing Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with ballot papers is unlikely to cut much ice with the Election Commission (EC) as the poll body has already initiated the process to introduce EVMs equipped with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) for the forthcoming Assembly elections…
Mysuru: The Sound and Light Show (Son et Lumiere) of the six-hundred-year history of Wadiyar dynasty in English will unfold in the first week of January 2018 at the Mysore Palace. The Hindi version will also be shown shortly. The Mysore Palace Board and the District Administration is already showing the city’s cultural history in…
Mysuru: This year’s ten-day Mysuru Winter Festival has been a great hit among the tourists as well as the local residents. People have been thronging Mysore Palace and other venues to witness cultural programmes and flower show as well. Now, as part of the winter extravaganza, the District Administration and Department of Tourism have organised…
I was a school-going boy not known to fever. The only health problem I remember was stomach ache — apparently due to erratic over-eating. And one night it hit me. Fever. I was miserably sweating. I was taken to a hospital by bus at Virajpet, a small town. The good doctor gave me an injection…
Mysuru; To prevent the deaths of spot-billed pelicans, the Forest Department has started the process of spraying anti-septic liquids at Kokkare Bellur in Mandya. They will next spray around the Kukkarahalli Lake in Mysuru. Officials from the Veterinary Department have clarified that the spray is not anti-bacterial and anti-viral agents. Both water bodies have reported…
Mysuru: Chamaraja MLA Vasu distributed compensation to affected residents of Paduvarahalli (Vinayakanagar) whose houses were damaged due to water gushing during the heavy rains a couple of months ago, at a programme organised at Basaveshwara Samudaya Bhavan in Vinayakanagar here yesterday. Apart from Rs.3,800 relief out of the National Disaster Relief Fund (NDRF), Vasu personally…
Search Engine Giant Google has paid its tributes to Rashtrakavi Kuvempu on his 113th birth anniversary today in the form of a doodle. It shows the poet laureate clad in white kurta and dhoti, with close-cropped grey hair holding a book, writing, sitting on a hillock, called Kavishaila, surrounded by the Sahyadri mountain range, flowing…
Bengaluru: Poet Laureate Kuvempu was conferred the Jnanpith Award for his magnum opus Ramayana Darshanam 50 years ago. To mark the golden jubilee of the award, the Department of Posts released a special cancellation postal cover yesterday at a function organised by Kannada and Culture Department at Ravindra Kalakshetra here. Former High Court Judge Justice…
Mysuru: Adijagadguru Sri Shivarathri Shivayogi Jathra Mahotsava Samithi, on the occasion of Suttur Jathra- 2018 to be held between Jan. 13 and 18, will be conducting free mass marriage ceremony on Jan. 14 at Suttur Sri Kshetra. The organisers will be providing mangalasutra, sari and toe ring for bride and dhoti, valli and shirt for…
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