Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru-based CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) continued extending its helping hand for fighting COVID-19 by supplying hand sanitisers for the use of field workers in Mysuru. Hand sanitisers are used when water is not available to wash hands to keep the virus at bay and are alcohol-based liquids or gels. CSIR-CFTRI prepared sanitisers…
Lockdown boredom? Freely access National Digital Library
April 16, 2020Over three crore books available Mysore/Mysuru: The Union Ministry of Human Resources is giving an opportunity for the public to utilise the lockdown period for reading. The Ministry will give free access to the National Digital Library where over 3,82,00,000 books and periodicals will be available to read. The digital version of the books and…
Art of Living and B.Y. Vijayendra Abhimani Balaga feed stray cattle
April 16, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Stray cattle at Nanjumalige, Agrahara, Chamundipuram and surrounding areas were fed with green grass under the joint aegis of Sri Ravi Shankar Guruji’s Art of Living Foundation and B.Y. Vijayendra Abhimani Balaga yesterday. Later, grass was also distributed to the Goshala of Bharati Yogadhama in Uthanahalli. Speaking on the occasion, General Secretary of BJP…
Power of “Faith” in trying times
April 16, 2020By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC My friend Sarasa sent me this story which I thought of sharing with ‘SOM’ readers as it fits in with the current times: Once a man got lost in a desert. The water in his flask had run out two days ago and he was on his last…
One Idea, Many Expressions
April 16, 2020By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist In a typical Hindu temple, we do not find just one image. We find multiple images. For many people, unfamiliar with Hindu tradition, this looks like polytheism. But for Hindus, these are various manifestations or expressions of the same divine principle. Broadly there are three categories…
Sell milk at nominal price, NOT free
April 16, 2020Sir, It is appreciable that Governments and many philanthropists are providing food in their own ways to the needy at the time of crisis. As far as free milk distribution is concerned, it may not reach the needy and might be misused also. Immaterial of caste or creed, all daily wage earners and those from…
Ideal time for MCC to implement online payment of Property Tax 2020-21
April 16, 2020Sir, It is disheartening to read that online payment of property tax has not been implemented, in spite of the software being available to the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC). The plea that Government of Karnataka has not approved it as yet is no excuse. This is the ideal time, when there is a lockdown due…
Barricading roads is no solution, until people understand the severity of COVID-19
April 16, 2020The Number of COVID-19 positive cases are increasing each day so also the barricades on roads to restrict people movement with an aim to contain the deadly virus spread. But no matter how many ways Police and the District Administration find to stop people from moving around, people make their way out. This scene of…
Feeding the slum-dwellers in Mysuru
April 16, 2020Teresian Institute and CSST Associate, joined hands with Edu Synergy Force, to provide meals for hungry people in various slums in Mysuru. Apart from providing a week provision, they helped Edu Synergy Force in packing and distribution.
Mysurean donates one month pension towards PM CARES Fund
April 16, 2020S. Padmavathi Bai, a senior citizen residing at Krishnamurthypuram in Mysuru, handing over her one month pension cheque to MLA S.A. Ramdas, towards PM CARES Fund.
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