Bettadapura: Increasing debts has forced a women and her daughter to commit suicide by consuming poison at Echuru village in Periyapatna taluk on Sunday. The deceased are Lolakshi (28) and her daughter Sandhya (10). Lolakshi, a native of Doddabelalu village had married Suresh of Echuru village 10 years ago. Suresh, who owned two acre land,…
Selected for ‘Spark Catch Them Young’
April 16, 2019Rohith S. Murthy, M.S. Manyashree and V. Sinchana, Class VIII students of Acharya Vidya Kula, Mysuru, have been selected for ‘Spark – Catch Them Young (CTY) – 2019’ training programme to be held at Infosys Mysuru campus. The training began from yesterday (Apr.15).
Excels in Paper Presentation
April 16, 2019Mysuru: Dr. K.L. Sunil Tejaswi, Reader, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Dr. S. Ganesh, Reader, Department of Prosthodontics, JSS Dental College and Hospital, Mysuru, won 2nd Best Paper (Oral Presentation) Award at the International Conference on ‘Advanced Functional Materials for Energy, Environment and Health Care 2019’ held at University of Mysore (UoM), Manasagangothri, recently. The…
Three meet watery grave
April 16, 2019Mandya: Three youths, who had gone for a swim at a lake in Mangala village in Mandya yesterday afternoon, have been drowned. The deceased youths are Chandan, Arjun and another youth. A group of six youths from Halahalli Ashoka Nagar in Mandya had gone to the lake for a swim out of which four youths…
Musings on Shashi Tharoor and his ‘Paradoxical Prime Minister’
April 16, 2019Reading books has many advantages to those who have no friends and those who have problem getting sleep. As for me, I have friends and no problem sleeping the moment I hit the sack, exceptions apart. All the same, I continue my old habit of reading books. After all, old habits die hard, it is…
Lies, cash, liquor and elections
April 16, 2019By T.J.S. George Winston Churchill told us that it wasn’t polite to refer to lies as lies, that we should be cultured enough to call them terminological inexactitudes. But such phraseological definitudes do not apply to party manifestos in India’s hit-and-run democracy. BJP Spokesmen call Congress manifesto a pack of lies and Congressmen describe BJP…
Unsung heroines
April 16, 2019An often-quoted verse taken from Manusmriti, Yatra naryastu pujyante ramante tatra Devata, yatraitaastu na pujyante sarvaastatrafalaah kriyaah translates as: Where women are honoured, divinity blossoms there, and where women are dishonoured, all action no matter how noble remain unrewarded. The numerical shortfall of females in the country’s total population by an estimated nearly five per…
Going to vote? Leave your phones behind
April 16, 2019Sir, With all eyes on upcoming Lok Sabha elections, it may be noted that unlike previous polling, this time mobile phones will not be allowed inside the polling booths and to avoid last minute glitches, it’s better if voters either leave their mobiles at home or have their own arrangement to keep their phones either…
Is your name in voters’ list?
April 16, 2019Sir, With the voting date of Apr.18 LS polls nearing, my interaction with people reveals that many of them are not aware whether their names are in the voters’ list or not. Most of them I suspect do not check and believe that as they voted earlier their names would be in the voters’ list….
Hardik Pandya’s cameo helps MI coast to victory
April 16, 2019Mumbai Indians (MI) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 5 wickets at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Chasing 172, MI were off to a flier as the opening pair of Quinton de Kock and captain Rohit Sharma added 70 runs in 7 overs. De Kock made a quick-fire 40 off 26 balls. His innings included…
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