Mysuru/Mysore: The City Police have sounded an alert in Mysuru after a bag containing a live bomb was found near the entrance of Mangaluru Airport on Monday. Sources said that it is a general alert sounded as per standard operating procedure. Following the alert, checking and patrolling has been intensified in the city and all…
Mock Counter-Terrorism Drill by NSG Commandos at Mysore Palace ends at 2.30 this morning
January 21, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: Continuing their ‘operation’ for the second day on Monday, Commandos of the elite National Security Guard (NSG), a counter-terrorism unit, conducted a ‘Mock Drill’ at Mysore Palace premises last evening. The Mock Drill which commenced at around 5 pm concluded at 2.30 am today. NSG Commandos from Chennai carried out the Mock Drill to…
Rashmika Mandanna appears before I-T Officials in city
January 21, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: Actress Rashmika Mandanna, whose house and other properties at Virajpet in Kodagu were raided by the Income-Tax (I-T) sleuths on Jan. 16, appeared before the I-T Officials at the Regional I-T Commissioner’s Office of the Principal Income Tax Department at Nazarbad in city this morning. The actress, who arrived in a black Hyundai car…
J.P. Nadda takes over as BJP Chief from Amit Shah
January 21, 2020New Delhi: J.P. Nadda took over as BJP President yesterday, a responsibility he shared with Home Minister Amit Shah for nearly a year. Nadda, considered number three in the ruling party after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, was elected unopposed since he was the only candidate. Nadda’s name was proposed by ex-Chiefs and…
Theatre personalities felicitated
January 21, 2020Mysuru: Senior Scholar Prof. Maleyur Guruswamy said that true art will transform society for better. He was speaking at a function jointly organised by Kannada Sahitya Kalakoota and Kadamba Ranga Vedike to felicitate Rangayana Director Addanda C. Cariappa, Karnataka Nataka Academy awardees — playwright Venugopal and Rangayana artiste B.N. Shashikala — at Sriranga auditorium in…
Anil Kumble photographs birds for nearly five hours at Ranganathittu
January 21, 2020Srirangapatna: Former international cricketer and an avid wildlife photographer, Anil Kumble, visited Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary near Srirangapatna yesterday afternoon and spent nearly five hours clicking photographs of various birds there. Kumble, who came to the Bird Sanctuary at about 1 pm along with two of his friends, took a boat ride in the Sanctuary and…
Anant Nag to inaugurate Bahuroopi Theatre Festival
January 21, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: The much awaited theatre event of the year, the annual National Theatre Festival, Bahuroopi-2020 will be held in Rangayana from Feb.14 to Feb.19. Marking the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the theme for the Festival this year is ‘Gandhi Patha’ (Gandhi’s Path). Rangayana Director Addanda C. Cariappa briefed the media about the upcoming…
Mass Marriage at Suttur tomorrow
January 21, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: Following are the events to be held tomorrow (Jan.22) as part of the Annual Jathra Mahotsava at Suttur Srikshetra in Nanjangud taluk: 4 am: Karthru Gadduge – Maharudrabhisheka. Installation of Sri Nanjundeshwara, Nandi and Vinayaka idols; 6 am: Laksha Bilwarchane; 7 am: Hasiruvaani Alankara. Mahamangalarati; 7.30 am: Peace-Prayer Friendship March; 8.30 am: Sri Nanjundeshwara,…
“Teachers urged to be agents of Nation-building”
January 21, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: Teachers, apart from acting as Learning Facilitators, should also have to play as the agents of Nation-building in the contemporary context of India, said Dr. N.N. Prahallada, former Faculty, Regional Institute of Education (RIE), Mysuru, while addressing a group of Pre-University Principals and Teachers from Mandya District on the theme “Role of Teachers in…
Nano Jatha popularises Nanotechnology among young minds in city
January 21, 2020Prelude to 11th edition of Bengaluru India Nano-2020 in March Mysuru/Mysore: The Faculty of Life Sciences, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, (JSS AHER), Mysuru, recently hosted ‘Nano Jatha-2020’ as a prelude to the 11th edition of ‘Bengaluru India Nano-2020.’ Over 200 High School and Pre-University College students participated. The objective of the event…
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