Mysuru: The fourth edition of Winter Festival is drawing a huge crowd every day and has turned out to be a big hit among visitors. The Festival began on Tuesday, Dec. 24 and will end on Thursday, Jan. 2. The star attraction of this year’s Winter Festival is the Flower Show inside Mysore Palace premises….
Swachh Survekshan-2020: MCC delegation requests Pramoda Devi Wadiyar to be its Brand Ambassador
December 27, 2019Mysuru: Gearing up for the next annual Swachh Survekshan-2020 under Swachh Bharat Mission launched by Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) authorities met the member of erstwhile Mysore royal family Pramoda Devi Wadiyar at her residence in Mysore Palace yesterday and requested her to be the Brand Ambassador this…
Coffee growers seek debt-relief package from Finance Minister
December 27, 2019‘Market prices, erratic weather and increasing input costs making coffee cultivation unviable’ New Delhi: A delegation of coffee growers has demanded the Centre to implement schemes to revive the sector claiming that growers were facing a number of challenges including price crash, fall in production and increasing cost of production. During a pre-budget meeting with…
Karnataka: NPR updation exercise slated for April-May 2020
December 27, 2019Bengaluru: The updation of National Population Register (NPR) will be taken up in Bengaluru and elsewhere in Karnataka along with Phase I of the Census 2021 exercise, beginning from April 15, 2020. The actual enumeration of persons for Census-2021 is slated to be done in Phase II from Feb. 9 to 28 in 2021. Phase…
GTD performs guddali puja for slew of development works
December 27, 2019Mysuru: A day after Solar Eclipse, Chamundeshwari JD(S)MLA and former Minister G.T. Devegowda performed guddali puja (ground breaking ceremony) to a slew of development works in his constituency this morning. The works included storm water drain works near MUDA shopping complex in Vijayanagar Third Stage (Rs.25 lakh), construction of drain and cross drains near the…
Yoganarasimhaswamy Temple to distribute 2 lakh laddus on New Year
December 27, 2019Mysuru: Sri Yoganarasimhaswamy Temple at Vijayanagar 1st Stage in city, will be distributing two lakh laddus to the devotees visiting the temple in Jan. 1, 2020 on the occasion of New Year. Disclosing this at a press meet at the temple premises this morning, Temple Founder Sri Bashyam Swamiji said that the laddus will be…
Student goes missing from city
December 27, 2019Mysuru: An engineering student, who left her Paying Guest (PG) accommodation on Dec. 20, saying that she was going to Hospet for a medical check-up, has since gone missing. The missing student is 20-year-old Rachana, daughter of Yallappa of Hospet. Yallappa in his complaint to Alanahalli Police has stated that her daughter has not reached…
‘Vaastu’ is not meant for making money: Sanskrit University VC
December 27, 2019Mysuru: Asserting that Vaastushastra(Vaastu Science) is an integral part of Indian culture, Karnataka Sanskrit University Vice-Chancellor Prof.V. Girishchandra maintained that Vaastu is not a business meant for making money. He was speaking after inaugurating the third National Vaastu Science Conference organised jointly by Karnataka Sanskrit University, Sri Mayakar Gurukula and Karnataka State Astrologers and Astrological…
Ten-day ‘Nandini Sihi Utsava’ begins
December 27, 2019Mysuru: The 10-day ‘Nandini Sweet Festival’ (Nandini Sihi Utsava) organised by MyMUL (Mysore District Co-operative Milk Producers Societies Union Ltd.) was inaugurated by MyMUL Managing Director Dr. M.S. Vijaykumar at the Nandini Milk Parlour on KRS Road, opposite ESI Hospital in city on Dec. 24. He inaugurated the 10-day ‘Nandini Sweet Festival’ by launching the…
Vinuthana Samsthe confers Sarva Shreshta Sarthaka Seva Award
December 27, 2019Mysuru: Marking its 24th Founders Day, Vinuthana Samsthe, Mysuru conferred ‘Sarva Shreshta Sarthaka Seva Award’ on former Dean and Director of Mysore Medical College and Research Institute (MMC&RI) Dr. Geetha Avadhani at a function held at Town Hall in city recently. Speaking on the occasion, Retd. Commercial Tax Commissioner (Additional) Puttaraju cautioned the students about…
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