Five smartphones worth about Rs.1 lakh recovered Mysuru: V.V. Puram Police have arrested a 24-year-old youth on charges of stealing smartphones and have recovered five phones worth about Rs.1 lakh from him. The arrested is Ashoka, a resident of Madhuvanahalli, Ramanathapura hobli, Arakalgud taluk in Hassan district. On May 28, Ashoka was trying to sell…
Senior journalist Aswal Shankaregowda passes away
May 29, 2019Hunsur: Senior journalist and farmer leader of Hunsur taluk, Aswal Shankaregowda (52), passed away at a private hospital in Mysuru on Monday. Shankaregowda, who was seriously injured in a road accident near Tattekere in the taluk on May 5, was admitted to NIMHANS in Bengaluru, from where he was shifted to JSS Hospital in Mysuru…
Children back to school after summer vacation
May 29, 2019Mysuru: After two months of summer vacation, schools across the district reopened from this morning. While some students attired in their new uniforms on the first day of reopening were happy to return to school after a long gap, students of kindergarten and various primary schools were seen crying and being pacified by their parents….
First State-level conference of Kannada doctor-writers held at Mangaluru
May 29, 2019Mysuru: The first ever State-level conference of doctors, who are also Kannada writers, was held under the aegis of IMA, Mangaluru chapter, at its IMA Hall on May 26. Dr. S.P. Yoganna of Mysuru was the Conference Chairman. Speaking after inaugurating the meet, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) Vice-Chancellor Dr. S. Sachidanand said…
Hark… the Larks…
May 29, 2019Larks, the very name makes one recall the story of ‘The Lark & Her Young Ones’ studied by all in the Middle Schools, as an English prose in the text books. The moral of the story was to do things when the time is right, neither late nor early. Larks, the Sparrow-sized birds, resembling the…
Gram Panchayat employees stage demonstration
May 29, 2019Mysuru: Seeking fulfilment of their various demands, over a hundred Gram Panchayat (GP) employees, under the banner of CITU-affiliated Karnataka State Gram Panchayat Employees Association, staged a demonstration in front of the Zilla Panchayat (ZP) office here this morning. Claiming that the Government owed Rs.830 crore as wages to over 61,000 GP employees of the…
Youth dies of snake bite
May 29, 2019Saragur: A 19-year-old youth, who had gone to his family’s agricultural field on Monday night and was bitten by a snake, died when being shifted to the hospital. The deceased youth is T.P. Umesh Kumar, son of T.P. Prakash, a resident of Puradasheddu village in Saragur taluk. On Monday night, Umesh had gone to the field…
Lest we forget their sacrifice-2 : The story of Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa
May 29, 2019By Dr. S.N. Bhagirath [Continued from yesterday] Many of the top officers were being short-listed by the British to be groomed into future Commanders of the Indian Army with Independence just round the corner. Among these were J.N. Choudary, N.N. Vandu, N.T. Naqvi and K.M. Cariappa. These chosen few were sent to ‘Imperial Defence College…
Pet talk
May 29, 2019In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka explains how to handle an abandoned baby bird & about treating bee sting By Maneka Gandhi I found an abandoned baby bird in our balcony. It has no feathers. I cannot identify it. How should I treat it? First task is to identify what type of baby bird is…
Elders-Youngsters distance
May 29, 2019Figuratively or otherwise, even as the huge distance between Planets of the universe is being made to look not as huge as the reality, the distance between the elderly members of the family in particular and society in general seems to have become huge on the mental plane. That distance, being often described as generation…
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