Mysuru: “The gross enrolment for Higher Education in the State stands at 27.8 per cent and out of this 28.5 per cent are females. Due to various reasons, it is very difficult to enrol girls into higher education. However, institutions like JSS and many others are doing yeoman service by educating girl children,” said Dr….
K.V. Sharath Chandra is In-charge Mysuru Police Commissioner
November 14, 2018Dr. A. Subramanyeswara Rao posted as Police Observer for Madhya Pradesh elections Mysuru: IGP (Southern Range) K.V. Sharath Chandra has been given the additional charge of In-charge City Police Commissioner as the incumbent City Police Commissioner has been deployed as the Police Observer for Madhya Pradesh polls. Sharath Chandra has been given the additional responsibility…
Search Panel meets in Bengaluru to shortlist VC for Mysore Varsity
November 14, 2018Mysuru: The Search Committee headed by Chairman Prof. K. Narayana Gowda, former Vice-Chancellor, University of Agricultural Sciences, met at the conference hall of the Higher Education Department at MS Building in Bengaluru yesterday, to shortlist three candidates for the Vice-Chancellor’s post of University of Mysore (UoM). Sources in the UoM told Star of Mysore that…
Hachiko: The most loyal Japanese dog
November 14, 2018Hachiko — A Japanese breed of dog, popularly known for its loyalty. Accidentally, Professor Hedesaburo Ueno of Tokyo University came across abandoned Hachiko puppy at the Shibuya Railway Station in 1924 and with sympathy took it home and showered love, with all care and affection. Hachiko used to come with him in the morning up…
Unveiling of artist Ganjifa Raghupathi Bhat’s art-works on ‘Sri Ramayana Darshanam’
November 14, 2018Mysuru: As part of the theatre adaptation of ‘Sri Ramayana Darshanam’ to be staged at Rangayana from tomorrow at 6 pm till Nov.18, artist Ganjifa Raghupathi Bhat’s art-works based on ‘Sri Ramayana Darshanam’ will be unveiled at Rangayana premises in city tomorrow (Nov.15) at 11.30 am. Archery trainer B.M. Anil Kumar and archers K. Venkatesh…
Special Children Carnival on Saturday
November 14, 2018Mysuru: The Mysore Chapter of Round Table (RT) and Ladies Circle (LC) India, Mysore Heritage Round Table-109 and Mysore Heritage Ladies Circle-109 have decided to celebrate Children’s Day in a unique way by organising a Carnival for Special Children on Nov.17 (Saturday) at 9.30 am at Govindegowda Convention Centre, Kuvempunagar Around 750 special children, parents…
Book release on Nov.20
November 14, 2018Mysuru: Cine actor K. Suchendra Prasad will release the book ‘Samastha Nataka’ authored by poet H.S. Venkateshamurthy (HSV) at a programme organised by Talukina Venkannaiah Smaraka Granthamale, Mysuru and Kadamba Ranga Vedike at Sarada Vilas Centenary Hall in Krishnamurthypuram on Nov.20 at 11 am. Novelist Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa will preside. Poets B.R. Lakshmana Rao &…
Stan Lee, creator of Spiderman comics, dies at 95
November 14, 2018Los Angeles: Stan Lee, the colourful Marvel Comics’ patriarch who helped usher in a new era of superhero story-telling and the creator of Spiderman comics, died at the age of 95 on Nov. 12. The illustrator, who started in the business in 1939, created Black Panther, Spiderman, X-Men, The Mighty Thor, Iron Man, The Fantastic…
City doc for UK study
November 14, 2018Mysuru: Dr. Ali, Consultant Surgeon, JSS Hospital, Mysuru, has been invited by MedBIC Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford, UK, to study about NHS (UK) healthcare system and also join the discussion panel in Blockchain healthcare with Deputy Dean of Aston University of England on Nov. 22. He is the brain behind the globally spread website…
Child prodigy Rahul Vellal’s concert in city on Nov. 17
November 14, 2018Raaga Music Academy is presenting popular Child Prodigy Rahul Vellal for its Smt. D. Rama Bai Memorial Endowment Concert on Saturday (Nov. 17) at 6 pm, at Sri Nadabrahma Sangeetha Sabha, JLB Road. Eleven-year-old Rahul, son of Ravishankar Vellal and Hema, started learning Karnatak music at the age of four. Presently, he is under the…
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