Mysuru: Columbia Asia Hospital, Mysuru, had organised a corporate quiz and a talk on Cardiology and a Basic Life Support training session by Dr. C. B. Keshavamurthy and Dr. Sasirekha at the Hospital premises recently. Around 65 people participated in the corporate quiz and about 100 people attended the health awareness session. Basic Life Support…
Begur (Chamarajanagar): Manju Rao (35), a resident of Kalyanagiri in Mysuru is said to have committed suicide by consuming poison at a dilapidated building near Chikkahundi Gate. He was believed to have come in his autorickshaw three or four days ago to the spot and committed suicide. Tahsildar Najundaiah, Begur Police Sub-Inspector Lokesh and Village…
Mysuru: The Fifth Additional District and Sessions Court here has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife. Rajesh alias Raju of Lingapura Colony in Periyapatna taluk is the one who has been sentenced. Rajesh, an alcoholic, used to pester his wife Kumari who worked as a labourer for money. But…
Mysuru: The City Crime Branch (CCB) on Oct. 24 arrested two persons who were allegedly involved in mobile phone thefts. The accused are Tausif Pasha, a resident of Kalyanagiri and Firoz Pasha, a resident of Ghousianagar. According to the Police, the accused were nabbed near M.A.R Mobile Shop on Akbar Road in Mandi Mohalla while…
Mysuru: Forest Mobile Squad arrested two persons while selling an elephant tusk. The accused are Suresh alias Kulla, a resident of Junglehaadi in Virajpet and Chethan, a resident of Kattekeri in Mandya. Mobile squads sleuths, based on a tip-off, nabbed the duo near Anechowkur in Periyapatna and recovered a 20 kg tusk and a Tata…
By S.T. Ravi Kumar [Pics. by M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav] Lamps filled with oil and a cotton wick is lit. The wick burns itself with the help of oil to spread light to encounter darkness. A beautiful reddish yellow light stays stubborn in the battleship of air. It battles with the passing by winds, dancing, twisting,…
By M.B. Pavan Murthy [Pics. by M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav] The popular Mannar’s Market in Shivarampet has paved way for artisans and traders to make extra money as Deepavali draws near. Some traders in the bustling Mannar’s Market sell lamps of various hues and shapes procured from different parts of the country. Besides, clay lamps too…
Looking for the origin of earthen lamps or Diyas for Deepavali, Star of Mysore, on a rainy day, arrived at Doora, a village located 20 kms to the South of Mysuru. At Doora, we were standing right in the middle of a sea of clay pots and Diyas. This village is keeping the tradition of…
On Tuesday, there was a landslide on Chamundi Hill. About 50 ft. of road connecting Nandi Statue area to the View Point on Chamundi Hill main road broke off from the Hillside and slid to a depth of 22 feet. Works to rebuild the road are going on at a brisk pace but it has…
The sentiment attached to the expression Mother Earth seems to have got fractured in today’s society lost in the humdrum of life, mistakenly perceived as development, in the wake of unabated vandalising all that the past generations have bequeathed in the form of rivers, greenery, lakes, fertile land and also hills as well as mountains,…
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