Mysuru: Bharatiya Jain Sanghatan (BJS) has been in the forefront of addressing national concerns in the areas of Disaster Response, Social Development and Educational Initiatives. BJS has worked with Central and many State Governments and NGOs to implement many of its projects. Smart Girl programme, formerly known as EOG (Empowerment of Girls), is a unique…
Liquor licence, renewal process to go online
June 14, 2018Mysuru: The Karnataka Excise Department has decided to streamline the process of issuing licences to all categories of liquor shops, wine stores, bars and restaurants, clubs and other places that serve liquor. And for this, the entire process will be made online to ensure transparency. The Department is mulling to implement the online system by…
Dalits to stage demonstration on June 15 in Bengaluru
June 14, 2018Mysuru: The Dalita Sanghatanegala Okkota will stage a demonstration in Bengaluru on June 15 to demand promotion, reservation in jobs and for continuing the Dalit Atrocities (Prevention) Act in its present form. Announcing this at a press meet here yesterday, Okkoota district President and former Mayor Purushottam said that the demonstration will be held at…
Prof. K. Ramdas commemoration on June 17
June 14, 2018Mysuru: City’s Desiranga Samskrutika Samsthe will be holding a programme in memory of late Writer Prof. K. Ramdas, at Maneyangala, Kalamandira, at 10.30 am on June 17. Samsthe Secretary Krishna Janamana said that the programme features interaction on Prof. Ramdas’s achievements, a seminar on communal harmony and release of book ‘Matiyavaadada Neralalli Prajaprabhutva’ and screening…
Organic Mango Mela on June 18, 19
June 14, 2018Mysuru: Karnataka Institute of Agricultural Marketing, Akashavani, Federation of Mysuru, Mandya, Chamarajanagar Districts Regional Co-operative Organic Farmers Association, Mysuru, along with Kolar and Chikkaballapur Regional Co-operative Organic Federation, have jointly organised an Organic Mango Mela on June 18 and 19 at Karnataka Institute of Agricultural Marketing on Hunsur Road in city from 10.30 am to…
City student bags LSAT Chancellor’s Scholarship
June 14, 2018Mysuru: Sriram D. Hemmige, a student of Vidyavardhaka PU College, Mysuru and an alumnus of Acharya Vidya Kula, has secured admission to O.P. Jindal Global University, one of the top-ranked private Law Universities in India, based on his meritorious performance in LSAT exam, and has been awarded the prestigious Chancellor’s Scholarship. This scholarship will be…
Indo-Sri Lankan Fellowship awarded to city professor
June 14, 2018Mysuru: Dr. M.S. Sapna, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Journalism, Mysore University, has been awarded the Indo-Sri Lankan Foundation Fellowship to visit Colombo for 10 days from June 14 to 24. During her visit, she will be working in collaboration with Sri Lankan Press Institute and will help the journalism school of the Institute…
Yagna or Puja
June 14, 2018By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist It is common amongst Western scholars and their Westernised students to differentiate between the Vedic yagna and the Puranic puja, rituals that define the two major phases of Hinduism, one that flourished over 3,000 years ago and one that emerged 2,000 years ago. Of course, at…
Importance of morals
June 14, 2018By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC A nice and interesting story: Immediately after finishing her school, a girl left her countryside to attend a University in Paris, France and then find a job. It was a dream come true for this young girl. However, she was soon overwhelmed by all the changes she faced….
Burdensome babudom
June 14, 2018Of the four pillars of our democracy, namely Legislature, Judiciary, Executive and Press, the first three seem to be providing stability to the fourth one while each of them is tottering in different ways for diverse reasons. The players of the first and relatively the most dominant pillar in the current dispensation have been indulging…
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