Jakarta: The duo of Apurvi Chandela and Ravi Kumar got India its first medal at the 2018 Asian Games with Bronze on Sunday. They won the medal in the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team event with a final score of 429.9. Chinese Taipei (494.1) and China (492.5) bagged the gold and silver medal respectively. India…
Ondu Preetiya Kathe: A ‘different’ kind of love
August 19, 2018During our teen and college years in the early and late 1970s, one word that we used to define the friendship whenever we were seen talking to a boy or a girl was ‘platonic.’ In majority of the friendships between two opposite sexes this was true because whether a boy or a girl would not…
Please locate my son’s body, pleads mother of truck driver
August 19, 2018Kikkeri: “Please locate my son’s body… please trace my husband’s body,” were the words that came out of truck driver Santosh’s mother and his wife Navya who were seen pleading with Hassan DC Rohini Sindhuri. Santosh, a resident near Kikkeri in K.R. Pet taluk who was driving a Gas Tanker via Shiradi Ghat from Mangaluru…
Retired Professor and writer Aravinda Malagatti felicitated
August 19, 2018Mysuru: Aravinda Malagatti Felicitation Committee had organised a function at Rani Bahadur auditorium in Manasagangothri here recently for the release of three books and to felicitate retired Professor and writer Aravinda Malagatti. Speaking on the occasion, former Minister H.K. Patil contended that it was a good development in not isolating writers to regions of their…
Book talk: Wealth from waste
August 19, 2018Title : Utilisation of agricultural waste for the production of high-valued products Author : Dr. Renu Agrawal Pages : 140+XIV Price : INR 2,700.00 Publisher : New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi Considering the references, numbering 480, cited it in the concluding section of the publication over 40 pages as well as information and data…
Forest Department launches operation to trap elusive tiger
August 19, 2018Hanagodu: Even as a tiger has caused scare among the villages of K.J. Habbanakuppe near Hanagodu, located at the edge of Nagarahole National Park, the Forest Department has launched an operation to trap the elusive tiger. The tiger which is said to have surfaced at an estate in K.J. Habbanakuppe a week ago, is also…
Palace illumination cancelled tonight
August 19, 2018Mysuru: As the week-long State Mourning has been declared following the passing away of former Prime Minister Atal Bihar Vajpayee on Aug.16, Mysore Palace illumination has been cancelled tonight. Also, the Sound and Light show has been cancelled till Aug.22, according to Palace Board Deputy Director T. S. Subramanya.
K. Jyothi is new ZP CEO
August 19, 2018Mysuru: Department of Employment and Training Director K. Jyothi, an IAS Officer, has been transferred and posted as Mysuru Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer (CEO).The post had fallen vacant after the previous ZP CEO P. Shivashankar was posted as Personal Secretary to Puttaranga Shetty, Minister for Backward Classes Welfare. The notification of posting of Jyothi…
Karnatak Classical music by Chilkunda Aruna
August 19, 2018Chilkunda Aruna Thyagaraju, a student of Vijaya Vittala Composite PU College, gave a Karnatak classical music vocal performance at the college auditorium under the auspicious of ‘Fine Arts Club’ of the institution. Aruna Thyagaraju began the day’s performance by the traditional Varna, Navaragamalike in Aadi Taala composed by Patnam Subramanya Iyer. Her next song was…
Rotary Mysore honours Senior Rotarians
August 19, 2018Mysuru: On the momentous occasion of its 75th year, Rotary Mysore honoured 21 of its senior Rotarians who have served the Club for 25 years and more at a function organised at the Rotary Centre in city recently. The Rotarians, who were honoured, are Past District Governor (PDG) Rtn. R. Vasudeva Murthy (62 years of…
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