Mysuru, Oct. 3- As part of Dasara festivities, the Bharath Vikas Parishad, Bharadwaja Shakha, Mysuru, will be conducting a Dasara Doll arrangement contest in the city. The contest is open for members of the public and for organisations. Commercial establishments are barred from contesting. The application forms are available at the following places: Bombe Mane,…
Gandhi Jayanti: 10 prisoners to be released from Mysuru Central Jail
October 3, 2018Mysuru: Following a State government order, City Central Jail Superintendent Ananda Reddy informed here yesterday (Gandhi Jayanti Day) that 10 prisoners, who were convicted for petty crimes, will be released on Oct.5 from Mysuru Central Jail to mark 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. They are Erappa, resident of Vaddarahalli, Arkalgud taluk of Hassan district,…
Impressionz – Nine Bags Full
October 3, 2018Impressionz showcasing few of the finest designers where Mysuru will soon be treated to the coveted, traveling pop-up Nine Bags Full, a showcase of women’s and men’s fashion and accessories on Oct.5 at Hotel Southern Star (Boardroom) on Vinoba Road in city from 10.30 am to 8.30 pm. Keenly curated by Ravage designer Raj Shroff…
Excels in Dance Exam
October 3, 2018Mysuru: M.S. Kaveri, a disciple of Vid. Jyothi N. Hegde, Director, Lasyaranjana Nrutya Shale, Ramakrishnanagar, has secured first rank in Mysuru Division by scoring 559/600 (93%) in Senior-level Bharatanatyam Dance Examination conducted by Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) during May 2018. She is the daughter of D. Pushpa and M.K. Somashekar, Executive Engineer, CHESCom,…
Toppers felicitated
October 3, 2018Mysuru: Builders’ Association of India (BAI) and Mysore Builders Charitable Trust (MBCT) had jointly organised a function at a private hotel in city to felicitate toppers in Civil Engineering and Construction Technology and Management from various Engineering Colleges in and around Mysuru. The following are the 19 toppers who were felicitated: H. Hemanth Kumar &…
Dasara Kannada Book Exhibition: Entries invited to open stalls
October 3, 2018Mysuru: Kannada Book Authority, Kannada and Culture Department, Mysuru Dasara Festival Committee, will be jointly organising Kannada Book Exhibition from Oct.10 to 19 at CADA premises in city. The Authority has invited entries from reputed publishers and publishing houses to take part in the exhibition. Permission will be given to open 50 stalls for publishers….
Hon. Doctorate to city industrialist
October 3, 2018Mysuru: City industrialist and Founder of The Young Island Group of Hotels & Resorts M. Mahesh Shenoy has been awarded ‘Doctor of Business Management’ by the Royal Academy of Global Peace during the ‘United Nations Sustainable Development Goals’ Conference held at Dubai recently.
Ph.D Awardees
October 3, 2018Mysuru: Dhananjaya Palahalli has been awarded Ph.D in Kannada by the University of Mysore (UoM) for his thesis ‘Kyathanahalli Ramanna avara sahitya mattu janapada samshodane’ [Guide: Dr. T. Jayalakshmi]. R. Suma has been awarded Ph.D in Speech and Hearing by the UoM for her thesis ‘Cognitive linguistic skills in bilinguals’ [Guide: Dr. N.P. Nataraja]. M.B….
Mysoreans Making Us Proud: The Harvard Professor from Mysuru
October 3, 2018Mysuru-born Harvard Professor Gita Gopinath, popularly called as GG, has been appointed as the Chief Economist at International Monetary Fund (IMF). She is the first Indian woman to occupy the coveted post and the second Indian after former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan. Star of Mysore had featured Gita Gopinath under its column ‘Mysoreans Making Us…
Courtesy at a discount
October 3, 2018The commonly expressed lament by public speakers at functions where people belonging to different sections of society congregate, as in Mysuru, that the present generation is bereft of the land’s values of the past often triggers the youth to ask what values are they talking about, with no prospect of getting a convincing answer from…
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