Mysuru: Vijay Foundation, along with Heartfulness Education Trust, has organised a book release ceremony at Rotary Centre, JLB Road, here on May 16 at 6 pm. The book ‘Health Education – A guide to promote wellness in children’ authored by Dr. B.R. Pai, Promoter of Health and Wellness, will be released by Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja…
Pharmacists Association demands filling up of vacancies
May 13, 2019Mysore: The State Pharmacists Association has demanded filling up of vacant pharmacy posts in the Health Department. Addressing a press meet here yesterday, Association State President B.S. Desai said that there were many pharmacist vacant posts in the Health Department which have not been filled since many years. Claiming that unqualified persons were dispensing medicines…
Driver assaults security guard atop Chamundi Hill
May 13, 2019Mysuru: A driver of a tourist vehicle, who had brought tourists to the Chamundi Hill, allegedly assaulted a Security Guard for not allowing the vehicle near the Temple yesterday. While the Security Guard, who was assaulted, is Mahesh, the driver who assaulted him is Ayaz Shariff of city. Ayaz, who had brought tourists to Chamundi…
One held for robbing passengers
May 13, 2019Car, mobile phone and knife seized; gold ornaments recovered Nagamangala: Nagamangala Police have arrested one member of a gang which was looting passengers after picking them on Bengaluru-Mangaluru National Highway in the guise of dropping them. The arrested is Venkatesh, a resident of Huliyur Durga in Kunigal taluk of Tumakuru district. Accused Venkatesh had formed…
“We are desperate for great books”, Says HarperCollins MD Colin Hughes
May 13, 2019Not everybody is fortunate to get opportunities to work in different fields that are related. There are a few, however, who do manage to straddle many areas and successfully at that. Star of Mysore Features Editor N. Niranjan Nikam met one such person Colin Hughes, Managing Director, HarperCollins, who has been a journalist, publisher and…
Digital Damage
May 13, 2019The two digits, 0 and 1, together described as binary code, also called bits, used for representing words and also images, traced to the binary number system, invented by Gottfried Leibniz (1646 – 1716) in 1689, accounting virtually for the heart and soul of all electronic devices, may not be familiar to anyone among lay…
Name Hirannaiah was synonymous with the play ‘Lanchavatara’
May 13, 2019Sir, I knew Narasimha Murthy, more popularly known as Master Hirannaiah, for more than sixty years. A multi-faceted personality, his death is a great personal loss to me and equally in the field of drama and society at large. He was our family friend from the time he came to study in Sarada Vilas College….
…Shobha’s poll makeover
May 13, 2019In yet another publicity stunt, Shobha Karandlaje, BJP MP from Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha Constituency, donned the Lambani attire while campaigning in Chincholi yesterday for the party’s candidate Avinash Jadhav, who is contesting the by-polls to be held on May 19. The by-poll to Chincholi was necessitated as his father Umesh Jadhav quit as Congress MLA…
Mumbai Indians lift 4th IPL trophy
May 13, 2019Mumbai Indians (MI) defeated Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in a thrilling encounter by one run to lift their 4th Indian Premier League (IPL) trophy. Needing nine to win off six balls, CSK’s star performer Shane Watson (80 off 59) got run out. Thereafter, veteran Lasith Malinga became the saviour for MI as he bowled tight…
Kampala ITF World Tennis Tour: Prajwal Dev-Kunal duo finishes runner-up
May 13, 2019Mysuru lad S.D. Prajwal Dev, teaming up with fellow Indian Kunal Anand, finished runner-up in the Men’s Doubles event in M15 Kampala ITF World Tennis Tour at Kampala, Uganda, from May 6 to 12. In the final, Guy Orly I (BDI) and Ismael R.M. Changawa (Ken) beat Prajwal and Kunal 6-1, 7-5. In the semi-finals,…
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