Bengaluru: Close on the heels of Panchamasali Lingayats demand seeking 2-A category reservation for them, Veerashaiva Lingayat Seers have urged the Government to grant OBC status for the community. Over a hundred Seers from the influential Veerashaiva-Lingayat community congregated in the State capital on Saturday to mount pressure on Government to include the community under…
GP polls, VVIP birthdays help flower business to bloom in city
February 14, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: The recently concluded Gram Panchayat (GP) election results, birthdays, marriages and felicitations have pushed up the flower business in city which had hit rock bottom during lockdown and COVID-19 pandemic in the past few months. This has brought a smile on the faces of flower vendors at wholesale and retail flower market in Devaraja…
Farmers’ protest: Spike in demand for green shawls
February 14, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: With the spurt in farmers’ protests in last one month, demand for the green shawl has spiked. The ongoing farmers’ agitation in different parts of the State seeking repealing of three farm laws enacted by the BJP-led NDA Government, has shot up demand for the green shawl. Be it KSRTC employees protest or aggrieved…
D.K. Shivakumar’s daughter ties knot with S.M. Krishna’s grandson
February 14, 2021Bengaluru: Aisshwarya, the daughter of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President D.K. Shivakumar and Usha tied the knot with Amarthya Hegde, son of Cafe Coffee Day founder, late V.G. Siddhartha Hegde and Malavika this morning at The Sheraton Grand, Whitefield, Bengaluru, on the occasion of Valentine’s Day. Amarthya Hegde is the grandson of former CM…
Mysore Airport to get first priority in Tourism Policy: CM
February 14, 2021Yediyurappa releases books on Mysuru tourism; talks about travel industry investment and job potential Mysore/Mysuru: Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa has assured of taking measures to boost tourism and hospitality sector in Mysuru. “My Government is spending nearly Rs. 5,000 crore on the tourism sector in the entire State for 2020-2025 as part of a new…
GP Pourakarmikas seek fulfilment of demands, including wage payment
February 14, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Disappointed over the Government’s failure to pay them wages, Pourakarmikas serving in 266 Gram Panchayats (GPs) of the district presented a memorandum to Deputy Commissioner Rohini Sindhuri and to the ZP CEO seeking fulfillment of their various demands, which chiefly included payment of wages. Later, speaking to presspersons, Mysuru District Pourakarmikas Association President C.R….
Probationary Excise Inspector among four killed in road accident
February 14, 2021Hassan: A probationary Excise Inspector and three software engineers were killed on the spot, when the car in which they were travelling rammed into a container vehicle that was stationed at D. Chikkagondanahalli, near Channarayapatna on Bengaluru-Mangaluru National Highway, in the wee hours of yesterday. The deceased are probationary Excise Inspector Chethan (28) and Bengaluru-based…
‘Tatva Tangali’ soothes listeners at Rangayana
February 14, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: ‘Tatva Tangali,’ a tatvapada concert by Basavalingaiah Hiremutt and troupe organised at Bhoomigeeta in Rangayana premises last evening as part of Raaga Rangayana, received good response from the art-lovers. Senior tatvapada singer Ekatari Ramaiah launched the event by rendering tatvapada ‘Endu Nodiri lokada kanna, sulallu henna, Malla janarige tiliyadallannna…’ Later, noted tatvapada singer Basavalingaiah…
Kadamba Ranga Habba to conclude this evening
February 14, 2021Showing free play is like Siddharamaiah distributing free rice to people: Rangayana Mysuru Director Mysore/Mysuru: Nothing should be given free and drama should never be screened without entry fee, opined Addanda C. Cariappa, Director, Rangayana, Mysuru. He was speaking after inaugurating a three-day ‘Kadamba Ranga Habba’ organised by Kadamba Ranga Vedike at RamaGovinda Rangamandira in…
Losar, Tibetan New Year, celebrated at Bylakuppe
February 14, 2021Kushalnagar: Tibetans at Bylakuppe are celebrating their annual festival Losar under COVID-19 shadow with junior monks taking over the festival while all their senior counterparts have gone to Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh to spend the New Year with their loved ones. As per the Tibetan calendar, this is 2148th year and Losar which began on…
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