Mysore/Mysuru: Under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (2020-21), for implementation of water collection unit programme, Horticulture Department has invited applications from farmers. Horticulture Department is providing 50 percent subsidy of up to maximum Rs. 5 lakh for each beneficiary for construction of below ground level 4,000, 6,000 and 8,000 cubic metre (individual or community) water collection…
Bengaluru: Transport Minister and Deputy CM Laxman Savadi ruled out any proposal for hike in tariff of bus passes issued to students at concessional rate. In a press release here, he scotched off rumours of hike in bus passes tariff and also ruled out any plans to change the guidelines while issuing the concession pass….
Mysore/Mysuru: Members of Inner Wheel Club of Mysore Central on Aug. 31 distributed cows and calves to four women who were in financial distress due to lockdown and subsequent poor economic condition in the region. Four women, Javaramma, 70, Kendamma, 37, Nanjamma, 35 and Nanjammanni, 33, all residents of Chikkereyuru village in H.D. Kote taluk,…
Mysore/Mysuru: The newly formed Mysuru Zilla Dance Choreographers and Dancers Association will be inaugurated in the city on Sept. 6. Announcing a press meet at Patrakarthara Bhavan here this morning, Association President Chamaraj said that former MLA M.K. Somashekar will inaugurate the newly formed association at 5.30 pm on Sept. 6 at Hotel Kalyani on…
Mysore/Mysuru: With the Norcotics Control Bureau (NCB) unearthing the link between Kannada Film Industry and drug supply network, Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) staged a demonstration near the Deputy Commissioner’s Office here this morning seeking total crackdown on drug mafia and criminal action against drug peddlers. Expressing concern over drug menace among youths, the protestors…
Mysore/Mysuru: Accusing the Union Government of pursuing anti-people policies, members of CPI(M) (Communist Party of India- Marxist) staged a demonstration near the Deputy Commissioner’s Office here this morning seeking ration and Rs.7,500 monthly financial assistance to all poor families for the next six months in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. They also urged for fulfilment…
A few days back I received a book titled ‘Random Thoughts of an Oilman,’ by U.B. Acharya, obviously the oilman — one who worked for oil companies. In these days of COVID-19 and the consequential isolation, nay quarantine, specially for aged, the book seemed a relief to pass time. Since the author’s age and mine…
By R. Chandra Prakash In Swachh Survekshan 2020 Indore has been declared as India’s Cleanest City for the fourth consecutive time. Mysuru is now ranked cleanest among the middle category population (3 to 10 lakh) cities. It is matter of great concern for Mysuru. A city which was ranked first among all the big cities…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Some of the oldest and most spectacular images of Shiva are found in Elephanta and Ellora, cave temples built by Chalukyas and Rashtrakutas roughly 1,500 years ago, when a new form of Hinduism, based on Puranas and Hindu trinity began overshadowing the old Vedic and Buddhist…
Sir, I had the good fortune of meeting and sharing the platform with our late President Pranab Mukherjee twice. First time it was at Tirupati when the book ‘Gold Coins in the Srivari Hundi of Lord Sri Venkatesvara’ of which I was one of the authors, was released. At that time I only garlanded him….
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