Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh: Banned notes worth crores, making up a ‘bed of cash’ when stacked, was found at a house in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur. The Police named the owner of the house as Ashok Khatri, who has a money exchange business. The cash was in Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes, which were demonetised by…
Theatre lovers continue to throng Rangayana
January 17, 2018Mysuru: There is something very mystic about Sufi music and it sounds ethereal especially in a setting like Vanaranga with the trees as the backdrop and an open sky adding to the joy. A large crowd gathered at Rangayana here yesterday, nodded in appreciation to the philosophy of the lyrics that Sufi singer Dr. Jayadevi…
Battery-operated vehicles at Manasagangothri campus soon
January 17, 2018Mysuru: University of Mysore (UoM) is planning to follow the Mysuru Zoo model of introducing battery-operated vehicles in it sprawling campus for the benefit of teachers and students. In-charge Vice Chancellor Prof. C. Basavaraju has mooted the idea of having the battery-operated vehicles for the teaching and non-teaching staff to move from one department to…
Participate in ‘The Great Migratory Path!’ art work
January 17, 2018Mysuru: City-based artist, musician and photographer Pramod Chakravarthy Stephen has conceptualised “I was here… in The Great Migratory Path!” a Public Participatory Installation Art, as part of the Bahuroopi National Theatre Festival- 2018, at the Rangayana premises. The theme of the Festival is ‘Migration.’ The idea of this participatory installation art is to facilitate the…
‘Special’ cyclist on mission path
January 17, 2018Mysuru: A young man who lost both his legs, has embarked on a bicycle journey to spread the message of ‘Strong Bharat.’ He reached Mysuru yesterday. Madhya Pradesh’s Indore resident Pradeep Kumar Sen is the unfortunate victim who lost his legs in an accident when it came under the train. However, he did not lose…
Anganawadi workers seek regularisation of jobs
January 17, 2018300 workers of district take out protest rally Mysuru: As part of the one-day All India Anganawadi workers protest, about 300 Anganawadi workers of various centres in taluks of the district took out a protest rally from Ramaswamy Circle here to DC’s office this morning urging the government to fulfil their long-pending demands. The rally…
City hoteliers hold awareness programme on EPF services
January 17, 2018Mysuru: An interaction and awareness programme on Employees Provident Fund (EPF) organised by Mysuru Hotel Owners Association, Mysuru Hotel Owners Charitable Trust and Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) was held at the Hotel Owners Association premises in Krishnamurthypuram here this morning. The programme was inaugurated by Provident Fund (PF) Department Assistant Commissioner Manoj Prabhu. Speaking…
A Straggler at Ranganathittu
January 17, 2018This bird is a Great White Pelican – Pelicanus onocrotalus, a rare visitor to this region. Very seldom sighted in this part of the country. It is a migratory visitor to parts of Gujarat and Barathpur Lake in North India. Sometimes the birds land up in unconventional locations accidentally. These accidental arrivals are called Stragglers…
Weekend concerts at Nadabrahma
January 17, 2018This weekend Nadabrahma Sangeeta Sabha, JLB Road, has organised two major events. On Jan.18, Smt. Shanta Narasimham Memorial concert will be held at 5 pm. The renowned Malladi Brothers will give a vocal duet accompanied by H.N. Bhaskar on violin, Tumkur B. Ravishankar on mridanga and G.S. Ramanujan on ghata. Profile: Malladi Brothers Sreeramaprasad and…
Demand for books on drama at Bahuroopi
January 17, 2018Mysuru: True to the National Theatre Festival Bahuroopi, the bibliophiles are picking up a lot more books related to drama than the ones on other genre. The Bahuroopi exhibition has three types of stalls — the food stalls, handicraft stalls and bookstalls and all of them have 12 stalls each. Majority of the booksellers said…
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