Month: October, 2019

Nepal train tour
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Nepal train tour

October 3, 2019

Mysuru: Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) has launched AC Tourist Train Tours to Mukhthinath and Nepal. Mukhthinath Darshan (SZATT09A): The train departs from Trichy via Erode, Salem, Whitefield and Perambur – Naimisaranyam – Ayodhya – Mukhthinath – Pokhara – Kathmandu from Oct. 19 to Nov. 1. The tour is for 13 days…

Girl drowns in jumbo trench
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Girl drowns in jumbo trench

October 3, 2019

Periyapatna:  A seven-year-old girl died after she slipped and fell into a water-filled elephant trench at Aladakatte Tribal Hamlet in the taluk yesterday morning. The deceased is Sinchana, daughter of Chandru of the tribal hamlet. Sinchana, along with her classmates, was playing near the water-filled trench close to her house, when she accidentally fell into…

Nine-year-old goes missing
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Nine-year-old goes missing

October 3, 2019

Mysuru:  A nine-year-old girl, who left her house at 9.30 am on Oct. 1, has since gone missing. The missing girl is Anushri, daughter of Saroja and a resident of K.N. Pura in city. She was studying in third standard at Government Higher Primary School in Kyathamaranahalli.  Anushri is 3.5 ft. tall, oval faced, normal…

Hoysala Kannada Sangha to present Dasara Awards
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Hoysala Kannada Sangha to present Dasara Awards

October 3, 2019

Mysuru: The following personalities have been selected for Dasara Awards for the year 2019 given by the city’s Hoysala Kannada Sangha and Savigannada Patrika Balaga: Dr. D.L. Vijayakumari Achievement Award: G.V. Nirmala, Bengaluru; Dasara Poet Award: Kerodi Lolakshi, Mysuru and Dr. Sukanya Sunagahalli, Kenya; Dasara Yuva Prathibe: Apurva Jain, Mysuru; Savigannada Samskruthika Prashasthi: S. Niranjanakumar,…

Three meet watery grave
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Three meet watery grave

October 3, 2019

Bannur/Mandya: In separate incidents, a student and two youths met watery graves at Kodagahalli near Bannur and at Mangala village in Mandya.   In the first incident, a student, who along with his friends had gone for a swim at Cauvery Backwaters at Kodagahalli, drowned in the river yesterday morning. The deceased student is Yashwanth, son…

Dolls display at STG Pebblez Pre-School and Kautilya Vidyalaya
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Dolls display at STG Pebblez Pre-School and Kautilya Vidyalaya

October 3, 2019

Mysuru:  In an effort to educate children about the history behind Dasara Dolls and arrangement during Navaratri, STG Pebblez Pre-School located at Vijayanagar 1st Stage has displayed dolls at the school premises. The school in association with Beyond Taalas is also conducting art workshop between 11 am and 1 pm tomorrow (Oct.4) in which saree…

Musings on Gandhi Jayanti
Abracadabra By K. B. Ganapathy, Columns

Musings on Gandhi Jayanti

October 3, 2019

Yesterday, 2nd October 2019 was the 150th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. We call him ‘Father of the Nation’ because he got us the freedom from British subjugation and taught us many values that we should practice in our personal, family, social, economical and political life. No wonder, when he was asked by a foreign journalist,…

Tourism, the Face-saver
Columns

Tourism, the Face-saver

October 3, 2019

By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC Five percent growth in Gross Domestic Products (GDP) ! There is a recession staring on our Indian economy. The Government in its wisdom has announced several fiscal stimulus, aimed at giving the necessary push to the economy. Ironical, the banks are flush with funds but no private players…

Breathtaking Mallakhamba  pulls crowd to Kuppanna Park
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Breathtaking Mallakhamba pulls crowd to Kuppanna Park

October 3, 2019

Complex calisthenics performed with ease by a set of 36 boys and girls from Bagalkot By Rajkumar Bhavasar In 1936, a group of 35 acrobats left from India for Berlin to demonstrate Mallakhamba, the Indian sport that’s probably the toughest in the world. Hitler himself honoured the 35 acrobats who showcased Mallakhamba at the 1936…

Taming technology
Editorial

Taming technology

October 3, 2019

The era of drawing water from the depth of wells, digging earth to sow seeds for raising food crops, walking distances to reach destinations, lifting heavy articles for stacking, creating fire by lighting firewood, straining lungs, for cooking food, chopping trees by using axe involving physical labour as well as needing hours of work, constructing…

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