Mysore/Mysuru: In separate incidents, a woman and her two children and a minor boy are among four persons missing from city. In the first incident, a woman and her two children are missing since Mar. 2 from Manasi Nagar in city. The missing persons are 27-year-old Uma, 7-year-old Lekhana and 5-year-old Rachana. Uma is oily…
Four arrested for illegally hoarding 49 quintals of PDS rice
March 19, 20204,961.35 kg rice, electronic weighing machine, sewing machine, Rs. 4,000 cash and goods vehicle seized Mysore/Mysuru: The City Crime Branch (CCB) Police, who raided a godown in Lashkar Mohalla in Mandi Police limits, have arrested four persons, who were loading Public Distribution Scheme (PDS) rice that was stocked in the godown belonging to one Jaber…
Corona: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly !
March 19, 2020By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC Every experience in life has three sides — that is the good, the bad and the ugly and the Coronavirus is no exception. Well, one can ask what is the good side of a virus like Corona? Let us take China where thousands have been self-quarantined by the…
A Brief History of Goddess Worship
March 19, 2020By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Harappan civilisation, which thrived over 4,000 years ago, had seals of as-yet-unidentified Goddesses emerging from trees and Goddesses riding tigers. Vedic religion that thrived 3,000 years ago, however, was primarily a masculine religion dominated by worship of Indra, Varuna, Agni and Soma, even Prajapati. Goddesses play…
Untouchability in new avatar
March 19, 2020Without meaning to take the side of Covid-19 ravaging many countries around the world, the epidemic has its unique positive, virtually concealed under its multiple negatives made familiar by the ever alert media. For a change, not exactly welcome, the columns of dailies don’t seem to have space for printing matters relating to other familiar…
A neglected vacant site
March 19, 2020Sir, It is high time that Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) takes action against the owners of old vacant sites in the city’s jurisdiction as they are turning into garbage dumping yards and polluting the surrounding environment. For example, a site opposite to the Bisilu Maramma temple in Gangothri Layout, which is situated immediately next to…
Sports needs to be given its right due
March 19, 2020Sports need to be linked to education and it is the need of the hour. In the present world, when smaller nations are making much progress in sports with medals in Olympics, India is lagging far behind. It’s poor involvement in sports other than cricket is a matter of grave concern. India’s higher education system…
KSCA Group II, 1st Division League: Railway Institute scores over N.R. Sports Group, Mysuru
March 19, 2020Railway Institute, Hubballi, registered a four-wicket win over N.R. Sports Group, Mysuru, in KSCA Group II, 1st Division League match played at Bengaluru recently. Batting first, N.R. Sports Group, Mysuru, scored 200 in 40.1 overs. Vinay (47), Lankesh (49) and Arun (26) were the major contributors. In reply, Railway Institute, Hubballi, scored 201/6 in 36.3…
ICC includes two Indian women Umpires in its panel
March 19, 2020The number of women match officials across different International Cricket Council (ICC) panels has gone up to 12 as Janani Narayanan and Vrinda Rathi of India were yesterday named in the International Panel of ICC Development Umpires. The announcement comes soon after the launch of 100% Cricket, a 12-month campaign anticipated to build on the…
City’s Nagaraj for ITF Senior World Tennis Tourney
March 19, 2020Mysuru’s senior tennis player R. Nagaraj, of Income-Tax Department, has been selected to represent India in the 55+ Category (men) of ITF Senior World Team Championship 2020 to be held at Boca Raton, Florida, USA from Apr.26 to May 2. It is a prestigious Senior Tennis Tournament conducted by the International Tennis Federation (ITF).
Recent Comments