Mysuru: The colossal Nandi Statue, located mid-way on Mysuru-Chamundi Hill Road, was this morning bathed in more than 49 sacred herbs and flowers, including milk, honey, cane juice, curds, ghee, payasam, sacred ash, dry fruits, tender coconut water, sandalwood, kumkum, turmeric, rice flour, banana and other fruits as devotees performed ‘Mahabhishekha.’ The event is being…
Mysuru: Wildlife activists and stakeholders from Karnataka want to maintain status quo on the movement of vehicles on National Highway passing through Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Gundlupet taluk of Chamarajanagar district. They made their stand clear at a programme organised at the Institution of Engineers-India (IEI) on JLB Road in city yesterday. They also opined…
Mysuru: Corporator K.V. Sridhar has urged the MCC to clear footpath encroachments on all roads in city failing which he along with other organisations would stage a protest in front of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) tomorrow. Addressing a press meet at Patrakarthara Bhavan here on Saturday, Sridhar said that he along with Pedestrians Welfare Committee…
Madikeri: Kodagu Deputy Commissioner (DC) Annies Kanmani Joy, who chaired the White Water River Rafting review meeting at her office on Nov.1, has decided to issue licences to 60 raft operators in the district next season. The meeting also decided to continue those who were issued licences this year based on the recommendations of a…
Mysuru: A four-day exhibition of rare manuscripts, organised at Oriental Research Institute (ORI), University of Mysore (UoM), to commemorate the birth centenary of Sri Jayachamaraja Wadiyar, concluded on Nov.2. Inaugurating the expo, Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar said that ORI was a treasure house of knowledge and likened it to Ambari of Mysore Palace. He observed…
Mysuru: Former MP and Congress leader C.H. Vijayashankar, who had unsuccessfully contested on a Congress ticket from Mysuru-Kodagu Constituency in the Lok Sabha polls held in April this year, will rejoin the BJP at the party headquarters in Malleshwaram, Bengaluru, tomorrow at 3 pm. Vijayashankar was with the BJP since the 1990s and had represented…
Mysuru: The Department of Biotechnology, JSS Science and Technology University (JSS S&TU), in association with the Departments of Information Science and Computer Science, had organised an International Workshop on Bio-imaging Trends and Applications in Life Sciences recently, as an initiative of TEQIP III. Several academicians, industrialists, undergraduate and postgraduate research scholars and students from around…
Three arrested; event attracted 121 people from Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai and Chandigarh Ponnampet: Over nine months after the Kodagu District Police busted a rave party at a Home Stay at Nelaji village near Napoklu and arrested five persons, the District Police raided another rave party organised at Nalloor village in South Kodagu on Nov.2. This…
Mysuru: Today’s research is not society-driven and does not comprise a blend of knowledge acquired from various domains, rued JSS Science and Technology University (JSS STU) Vice-Chancellor Dr. Jawahar Nesen. He was speaking at the valedictory of State-level 24-hour Hackathon organised by Institutions Innovation Council (IIC), JSS STU at SJCE premises, here recently. Stating that…
Mysuru: Senior Journalist Amshi Prasannakumar has been elected as the Chairman of the first ever two-day conference of the Mysuru District Journalists Association (MDJA) to take place at Gavadagere in Hunsur taluk on Dec.14 and 15. He was elected at a recent MDJA meeting chaired by it’ President C.K. Mahendra. Amshi Prasannakumar has been in…
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