The students of Sapient PU College secured second place in the District-level Hockey Tournament conducted by the Department of PU Education recently. Seen are the winning students — (from left – standing) K.S. Sharan, B.P. Prajwal, V.K. Vishal Gowda, M.S. Pavan, Bhuvan Achaiah, K.R. Bopanna; (kneeling) P.B. Vrishab Thimanna, M.K. Subbaiah, K.T. Dilien Somanna and…
Seoul: India’s ace shuttler Saina Nehwal went down fighting in what was a close encounter against former world champion Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in the quarterfinals to bring down the curtains on India’s campaign at the Korea Open Tournament here on Friday. The fifth-seeded Indian squandered four match points to go down 21-15 15-21 20-22…
Cairo: Mysuru lad Vasisht Cheruku, teaming up with Tejas Chaukulkar and representing India in the F20 $15,000 ITF Men’s Tennis Tournament being held at Cairo, Egypt, from Sept.24 to 30, entered finals in the Men’s Doubles event on Friday. Vasisht and Tejas combined well to beat the fourth-seeded pair of Petr Hajek and Ondrej Krster…
Bhubaneswar: Mysuru girl Reena George, representing Karnataka in the 58th National Open Athletics Championships-2018 which concluded at Kalinga Stadium here on Friday, won the 200m gold in the women’s section. Reena won the gold with a timing of 24.10s. Chari Sharavath of Railways secured silver with a timing of 24.23s and Rosalin Lewis of Maharashtra…
Prithvi Sekhar bounced back from a bad start to beat Deaflympics silver medallist Andres Vazquez 0-6, 6-4, 6-1 as India secured the seventh place with a 2-1 victory over Ecuador in the Deaf Tennis World Championship in Antalya, Turkey, on Thursday. After Mysuru lad, D.H. Prashanth, gave a flying start by outplaying Jean Carlos Santana…
A.P. Adiraj (73), proprietor of Mysore Steel House on Ashoka Road in city and a resident of Siddarthanagar, passed away yesterday. He leaves behind his wife, two daughters, a son and a host of relatives and friends. Last rites were held at the foot of Chamundi Hill this morning.
Machamada Usha Ponnamma (Bollarapanda), wife of Machamada Katti Devaiah and a resident of Vijaynagar 1st stage, passed away at a private hospital here last night. She was 66. She leaves behind her husband and a daughter. Cremation took place at Gokulam this afternoon.
New Delhi: In another landmark judgment, the Supreme Court this morning allowed women, irrespective of their age, to enter Kerala’s Sabarimala temple. A five-member Constitution Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, Justices Rohinton Nariman, A.M. Khanwilkar, D.Y. Chandrachud, and Indu Malhotra, in a 4-1 majority, struck down the “Kerala Hindu Places of Public…
Mandya: Mandya Deputy Commissioner (DC) N. Manjushree has banned the use of explosives in mining and stone quarrying activities in 20 kilometers radius around the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam. The ban has been imposed in view of Karnataka State Natural Disasters Monitoring Committee (KSNDMC) recommending the Mandya District Administration to check damages and fractures…
Mysuru: During the campaign for the May 2014 Lok Sabha polls, BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi (now Prime Minister) had promised to make Mysuru a global tourist destination and said, “Mysuru will draw tourists like Paris.” It is September 2018 now and though the promise of drawing tourists to Mysuru like Paris remains a…
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