Sir, The corporate culture in healthcare driven by MBAs and venture capitalists running corporate health care as ‘wealth management’ has brought about serious issues with patient-doctor relationship and mistrust. The venture capitalists’ only goal is to sell and make money, so they drive the doctors to perform more and more to make the numbers good…
Cake-mixing heralds arrival of X-mas
December 3, 2017Mysuru: As the month of December gets underway, the Southern Star Team gets ready for Christmas celebrations. In order to make the preparations come alive, the Hotel had recently invited its in-house guests to join in the fun and exciting annual fruit-mixing ceremony! The guests, donning chef caps, aprons and gloves, enjoyed the colourful ritual…
ADC K.M. Gayathri takes over as in-Charge Municipal Comr.
December 3, 2017Chamarajanagar: Additional DC K.M. Gayathri has assumed charge as In-Charge Commissioner of City Municipal Council. Incumbent Commissioner M. Rajanna had been dismissed from service alleging misappropriation of funds and was relieved on Nov. 23. DC B. Ramu, in the interest of smoother functioning of the Municipality, had issued an order indicating that Additional DC would…
KPME muddle: A balanced view
December 3, 2017Sir, Kudos to Star of Mysore for giving a very balanced view on the travails of Private Medical Establishments to educate the public impassionately. We hope that the final outcome of the KPME saga would be a win-win situation both for public and the private healthcare establishments and in turn to doctors and patients. We…
Seminar on Analytical and Molecular Techniques in Drug Discovery
December 3, 2017Mysuru: A one-day seminar on ‘Analytical and Molecular Techniques in the Drug Discovery Process’ was jointly organised by the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and the Department of Pharmacology of JSS College of Pharmacy, Mysuru, recently. The objective of the seminar was to impart the knowledge on the advanced instrumental techniques like HPTLC, HPTLC with LCMS,…
Head Constable dies while returning from hospital after check-up
December 3, 2017Mysuru: A Head Constable serving at Devaraja Police Station in city, died while returning to Mysuru after undergoing check-up at a hospital in Bengaluru. The deceased has been identified as Shadakshari (44), a native of K.R. Nagar. Shadakshari, who got himself examined by doctors at a private hospital in city after his heath fluctuated, was…
Evaluation for Urdu teachers
December 3, 2017Mysuru: A five-day training-cum-workshop on Testing and Evaluation and Item Writing for High School and PU College Urdu teachers of Karnataka and Urdu Research Scholars of various Universities of Karnataka was held at National Testing Service-India (NTS-I) of Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) in city recently. Speaking at the inaugural session, Pankaj Dwivedi, Officer…
Vijaya Vittala bags rolling shield
December 3, 2017Students of Vijaya Vittala Vidyashala bagged the rolling shield in inter-school extempore and devotional songs competitions organised by Sadvidya High School, here recently. Seen in the picture are S. Shreyas, Vismaya Dinesh, Saanvi R. Prabhu and R. Deepika.
Talented Golfer: Vidhatri Urs
December 3, 2017Golf is played and patronised in Mysuru at Jayachamaraja Wadiyar Golf Course and the JWGC has played a big part in producing talented golfers from time to time with their development programmes. One such product of their Junior prog. is Vidhatri K. Urs, who represented Karnataka in IGU YES Bank All India Junior Golf Championship-2017…
Play ‘Andhayuga’ on Dec.7 and 8
December 3, 2017Mysuru: Staging of play ‘Andhayuga’ has been organised at Vanaranga in Rangayana premises on Dec.7 and 8 at 6.30 pm, under the aegis of Paraspara Art Foundation, Mysuru. ‘Andha Yug,’ a 1954 verse play written in Hindi, by renowned novelist, poet, and playwright Dharamvir Bharati, is translated to Kannada by Siddalinga Pattanashetty and Thippeswamy and…
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