Mysuru: The District Administration authorities will strive to make Mysuru a ‘tobacco-free city’ by ensuring compliance with Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), 2003, enacted to reduce the use of tobacco products. At a review meeting held in city recently, the authorities spelt out the measures taken to implement COTPA to ensure reduction in…
Mysuru: A two-day programme titled ‘Students Cultural Movement’ was organised by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) at the Convocation Hall of KSOU here recently. Speaking as the chief guest during the inaugural, KSOU Vice-Chancellor Dr. Shivalingaiah said that KSOU has come forward to adopt the Choice Based Credit System…
Natural disaster, less production, lack of good pricing and disease spread worry growers Madikeri: Excess rainfall which devastated the lives of the Kodagu population last year, has also caused huge loss to coffee as well as pepper plantation in the district as the coffee crop is likely to drop during 2018-2019 in the State as…
T. Narasipur: The logo, website and mobile app for the 34th State Journalists Convention, organised by the Karnataka Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ), was released at a simple function during the Kumbha Mela here on Sunday. Mysuru District Minister G.T. Devegowda released the logo, Adichunchanagiri Seer Sri Someshwaranatha Swamiji launched the website and MLA Dr….
Mysuru: MCC Commissioner Shilpa Nag has directed the officials to introduce online approval of building plans. Chairing her first meeting after taking over as the new MCC Commissioner, Shilpa Nag yesterday instructed for setting up a system in the City Planning Section at MCC, where the public can apply online for getting approval of building…
T. Narasipur: A grand procession of hundreds of Balasanyasis and Sadhus, including those from North India, on main streets of the temple town last evening marked the second day of Kumbha Mela. The colourful procession, along with folk troupes, which began from Gunjanarasimhaswamy Temple, passed through Vishwakarma Street, Bhagawan Talkies Road, Bus Stand, Link Road…
Mysuru: The Principal Civil Court has ordered stay on the eviction of roadside vendors taken up by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), said G.K. Joshi, Legal Advisor to the Karnataka Rajya Rasthebadhi Vyaparigala Mahamandala. Addressing a press meet at Patrakarthara Bhavan in city on Saturday, Joshi said that the Mahamandala had approached the Court against…
Mysuru: The 50th anniversary of Yadavagiri Ladies Association was celebrated in city recently. This Ladies Association was launched by the then Maharani Tripura Sundarammanni Avaru in 1968 and the Maharani’s daughter-in-law Pramoda Devi Wadiyar was the chief guest both during the 25th and 50th anniversary celebrations at the same hotel in Yadavagiri. The Association is…
Mysuru: The beneficiaries of Rajiv Gandhi Housing Scheme who have been allotted sites at Kergalli and Ajjayyanahundi in the taluk, who met MCC Commissioner Shilpa Nag yesterday, have urged her to get the sites registered in their name at the earliest. Under the Rajiv Gandhi Housing scheme, the authorities had invited applications in 2001-02 and…
Mysuru: With the ongoing strike by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) employees entering the second day today, BSNL services — landline, mobile and internet — were hit inconveniencing the customers. Customers told Star of Mysore that no one at the BSNL Customer Care Centres was receiving a call leaving them in the lurch. Many aggrieved…
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