Mysuru: An assistant attached to Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) was caught red-handed by the personnel of Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) while accepting bribe for an official work at his office. Manjunath, a Second Division Assistant (SDA) working at Krishnaraja Constituency Ashraya Scheme Division, who was overseeing the files of Ashraya Scheme houses, had demanded money…
Man dies after falling off from scooter
December 21, 2019Mysuru: A 45-year-old man died after falling off from his scooter on Wednesday. Rudraiah (45), a resident of J.P. Nagar in city, is the deceased. Rudraiah was travelling on his scooter near Kavita Bakery Circle in J.P. Nagar on the morning of Dec.19, when he accidentally fell off from the scooter and sustained serious injuries….
Flute recital on Dec. 23
December 21, 2019Mysuru: Sri Tyagaraja Sangeetha Sabha Charitable Trust, Mysuru, has organised a Karnatak Classical Flute Recital by Vid. Rakesh Sudhir at Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple in Vivekanandanagar, SBM Colony, Srirampura, at 6.30 pm on Dec. 23. He will be accompanied by Vid. M. Keshav on violin, Vid. Kumar Swamy on mridanga and Vid. Shyam on…
Rotary District Conference ‘Sankalpa-2020’
December 21, 2019Mysuru: Rotary District 3181 Annual Conference ‘Sankalpa-2020’ will be held from Jan. 3 to 5 at Dr. Shivegowda’s USA Farm in R.T. Nagar here. PDG Rtn. G.K. Balakrishna said that about 2,000 Rotary members and their family from Mysuru, Chamarajanagar, Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada coming under Rotary District 3181 will participate in the conference which…
Centenary of Veerashaiva Anathalaya tomorrow
December 21, 2019Mysuru: Veerashaiva Anathalaya as part of its centenary celebrations has organised a function tomorrow at 10 am at Rajendra Kalamandira on Ramanuja Road here. Veerashaiva Anathalaya Trust President M. Rajashekar said that Suttur Seer Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Swamiji and Kuderu Mutt Seer Sri Gurushanta Swamiji will grace the occasion. Retired DGP L. Revanasiddaiah will inaugurate….
Warming up for Winter
December 21, 2019Winter is here and amidst the chill weather where people are seen warming themselves up with fireplaces at every nook and corner of the city, a Winter Festival is being held to spread a feeling of warmth. The Festival will kick off from Tuesday, Dec. 24 and will end on Jan. 2. This is the…
Citizenship Amendment Act: Dr. Swamy responds…
December 21, 2019This morning I had a pleasant surprise in The Hindu. It had published a response to what the leader of the CPI (Marxist) and Chief Minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan had written in The Hindu titled “Time to defend India’s secularism,” on Dec. 18, 2019 expressing his opposition to Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA). Dr….
Secular Who?
December 21, 2019So, protests continue. While initially the protest was against leaving out illegal Muslims from Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), it has now moved to a ‘pre-emptive protest’ against National Register of Citizens (NRC). We say ‘pre-emptive’ because there is no draft in place for a nationwide NRC. Now, the protestors claim, if NRC is implemented and…
Great Sanskrit Scholar, illustrious Music Composer
December 21, 2019By Prof. A.V. Narasimha Murthy, former Head, Department of Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Mysore Recently, I was invited to attend a music concert at Veene Seshanna Bhavan in city. The invitation came from Neeraja Achyuta Rao. The concert was really wonderful and everybody including myself enjoyed it. This concert was arranged in the…
Digital disordered eating
December 21, 2019Time-honoured channel of reaching the literati with information they seek and desire that the world knows as media, particularly dailies seems to have donned a new avatar, that is also familiar to a growing number of people embracing digital technology as social media. Chip-based devices are taking birth with versatile features being embedded in them…















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