Mysuru: Devaraja Police have arrested two persons on charges of snatching a bag containing a gold chain and have recovered the chain besides seizing the scooter used for the crime. The duo, on Nov. 22, 2017, had snatched the bag from one Susheela, who was proceeding on a scooter along with her husband between Dasappa…
MasterClass on ‘Digital Payments in India: Issues and Challenges’ at MYRA on Jan. 18
January 16, 2019Mysuru: Mysore Royal Academy (MYRA) will host its popular “MasterClass Series” on the theme “Digital Payments in India: Issues and Challenges” by Dr. H. Raghav Rao, University of Texas, USA, on Jan. 18 from 2 pm to 5 pm at MYRA School of Business, near Infosys, Mysuru. This MasterClass discusses the introduction to Digital Payments…
Appointed as CM’s Political Secretary
January 16, 2019Bengaluru: Nearly a fortnight after the Congress named its Sidlaghatta MLA V.Muniyappa as the Chief Minister’s Political Secretary, CM H.D. Kumaraswamy on Monday signed the order appointing him to the post. Muniyappa was also among the list of Congress Legislators, who were appointed as Chairmen of various Boards and Corporations recently. Although the CM signed…
Tipper brings down electric poles on Akbar Road
January 16, 2019Mysuru: A sand laden lorry, hit an electric pole on Akbar Road near Panchamukhi Ganapati Temple resulting in three electric poles getting broken and crashing on the road on Monday afternoon. Luckily no one was injured in the incident. Meanwhile, CESC officials and Corporator Ramesh, who rushed to the spot, got the electric poles and…
Woman killed as bike rams into her
January 16, 2019Mysuru: A 33-year-old woman was killed when a bike rammed into her near Maruti Temple on Sahukar Channaiah Road here on Sunday. The deceased is identified as Latha, a resident of Janata Nagar in city. Latha, who had been to the Temple, was returning home when a bike without registration plate rammed into her resulting…
Girl goes missing from city
January 16, 2019Mysuru: An 18-year-old girl, who was working at a garment factory, has gone missing from Jan.11 from city. The missing girl is N. Nandini, daughter of Nirmala and a resident of Manchegowdanakoppal in city. Nandini, who left her house on Jan.11 to the factory at Koorgalli Industrial Area, had not returned home in the evening….
MLC demands setting up of Education Commissionerate and Evening Polytechnic
January 16, 2019Mysuru: Senior JD(S) MLC Marithibbegowda has appealed Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy to set up a Commissionerate of Public Instruction and a Government Evening Polytechnic in city. In a memorandum submitted to the CM, the MLC has stressed on the need for setting up the Commissionerate in city as it would greatly help in taking education…
Ayyappa politics is sacrilege
January 16, 2019By T.J.S. George Two factors are preventing the Sabarimala conundrum from moving towards a solution — and the self-promoting politics of BJP-RSS forces are too unimportant to be one of them. It’s true that Hindutva extremists’ political obstructionism drew attention in the early days through violence. Although their campaign was in the name of tradition,…
Pet Talk
January 16, 2019In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka gives tips on how to help migratory birds and how to safely discourage a monkey By Maneka Gandhi Should elephants be domesticated? The question is wrongly framed because elephants cannot be domesticated. So, instead: Can elephants be domesticated? Domesticated means that elephants have lost all wild instincts and are…
Beauty and beholder
January 16, 2019A classical description of money, attributed to some highly rated economist, is crisply stated as ‘Money is what money does.’ The term beauty has its time-honoured perception expressed in a simpler yet fascinating statement, namely, ‘Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder,’ thus lending beauty a canvas with no boundary and the beholder a…
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