Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru Deputy Commissioner (DC) Abhiram G. Sankar has withdrawn the Containment Zone order imposed on a few areas in the city and in Nanjangud following the outbreak of COVID-19. Sri Subhramanya Swamy Temple Road, Yaraganahalli New Layout, Sardar Vallabhai Patel Nagar, Lalithadripura, Basavanagudi Block in Nanjangud, Vijayanagar First Stage, Gokulam Ward 19 were declared…
Armed Forces to conduct fly-pasts to thank COVID-19 Warriors tomorrow
May 2, 2020New Delhi: India’s Armed Forces will conduct fly-pasts, light up ships at sea and shower flower petals on hospitals in an elaborate display on Sunday (May 3) to thank doctors, medical staff and other frontline workers battling the COVID-19 outbreak, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat said on Friday. “The Air Force will…
Rajasthan’s 170 migrant workers wait for their special train from Mysuru
May 2, 2020By Rajkumar Bhavasar Mysore/Mysuru: Thousands of migrant workers have been stranded in places across the country since the nationwide lockdown was enforced on Mar. 25. To ease the situation, the Centre on Friday gave its nod for stranded migrant workers, students and others to return home by “Shramik Special” trains that will be run by…
Youth in soup for catching rare Mahseer fish at Harangi
May 2, 2020The species is critically endangered Hump Backed or Orange Fin Mahseer Kushalnagar/ Mysuru: The youth who had caught a 38-kg fish at Harangi backwaters in Kodagu district on Apr. 29 is in a fix now as the fish has turned out to be Mahseer (not Catla as reported earlier). Angling Mahseer is prohibited as it…
Hundreds benefit from COVID-19 Mobile Clinics
May 2, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Everyday hundreds of people are being benefited by the COVID-19 Mobile Clinics, launched by the Mysuru District Administration on Apr.29, with the motto ‘Doctors at your doorstep.’ Thermal screening being a mandatory procedure in the Mobile Clinic service, so far no COVID-19 symptoms have been reported. Elderly citizens are making most of the service…
Mysuru youth travels to Bengaluru to get cancer drugs for a stranger!
May 2, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Who ever thought that there would come a day when groceries, vegetables, medicines and other essential goods are to be bought online, at the click of a button? Thanks to Coronavirus, now almost everyone knows online transactions, online shopping, making ‘Digital India’ a reality, but at such a desperate time! Even in Mysuru, there…
No face masks: MCC officials collect Rs. 18,400 fine from flouters
May 2, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The MCC Health officials, who conducted an operation in all nine MCC Zones against those not wearing face masks, have collected a total fine of Rs. 18, 400 yesterday. The details of fines collected in all nine zones is as follows: Zone1-Rs.1,000; Zone 2-Rs. 3,900; Zone 3-Rs. 800; Zone 4-Rs.1,100; Zone 5-Rs. 3,000; Zone…
Lt. Gen. P.C. Thimayya retires as GOC-in-C Army Training Command (ARTRAC)
May 2, 2020Shimla: Lieutenant General P.C. Thimayya, who was serving as the 21st General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Army Training Command (GOC-in-C, ARTRAC) here, retired from service after duty hours on April 30, 2020, an Army official said. Lieutenant General Pattacheruvanda Chengappa Thimayya, PVSM, VSM, ADC, had assumed office on Nov. 1, 2018 from Lt. Gen. Manoj…
Digital Learning at Sharada Vidya Mandir
May 2, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Sharada Vidya Mandir (SVM), Sri Jayachamarajendra PU College, Mysuru, has begun digital learning classes to provide education solution to students through its new video-taped (digitalised classes). Technology should be utilised in such difficult times (COVID-19) which could be a simple solution for a number of students who can be educated by staying at home…
District Minister visits kitchen set up by MLA
May 2, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: District Minister S.T. Somashekar, this morning, visited the kitchen set up by MLA S.A. Ramdas near Vivekananda Circle in Vivekananda Nagar here to provide food to labourers who are rendered jobless due to COVID-19 lockdown. Every day, 4,000 people are served food from this kitchen where hundreds of volunteers are preparing and packing food…
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