New Delhi: Retirement fund body Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has allowed its members to avail second Covid-19 advance to meet exigencies due to the second wave of the contagion. Under the provision, the members were allowed to withdraw three months basic wages (basic pay + dearness allowance) or up to 75 percent of amount…
New Delhi: Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers D.V. Sadananda Gowda has said an additional 30,100 vials of Amphotericin-B were allocated to all the States and Union Territories by the Centre on Monday to fight the black fungus infection. The Minister tweeted, “Additional 30,100 vials of #Amphotericin-B have been allocated to all the States/UTs and…
Mysore/Mysuru: With the Government announcing a one-time relief of Rs.3,000 to each Labourer in the wake of COVID crisis, the Labour Department has directed the Labour Welfare Board to credit a total of Rs.749.55 crore to the respective bank accounts of 24,98,521 registered construction workers of the State. The Labour Department Under-Secretary B.S. Pradeep Kumar…
Mysore/Mysuru: Automotive Axles Limited launched the vaccination drive for its employees and their family members, a first of its kind in city as part of Government’s Workplace Vaccination Drive initiative. Deputy Commissioner Rohini Sindhuri, who inaugurated the vaccination drive yesterday, appreciated the initiative taken by the Management as a proactive preventive measure and the excellent…
Mysore/Mysuru: Stepping onto the “Antim Pag” (last leg) is truly a dream of every defence aspirant. One such aspirant, who has recently passed out of Indian Naval Academy, Payyanur in Kerala, is Sub Lieutenant Rakshith Narayan Pai from Mysuru. Rakshith did his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya Mysuru. He joined the NCC and represented Karnataka in…
Mysore/Mysuru: It has been ‘Treatotainment (treatment+entertainment)’ for Corona positive patients at Morarji Desai Residential School at Varakodu village in Varuna Assembly Constituency, which has been temporarily converted as COVID Care Centre (CCC) for local population. Inmates of this CCC do not feel boredom as there will be lots of entertainment daily, thanks to Taluk Administration…
Mysore/Mysuru: In the wake of rising COVID positive cases in rural areas, Zilla Panchayat (ZP) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) A.M. Yogesh visited several villages in Nanjangud taluk to see the functioning of COVID Care Centres (CCCs). The CEO, who has been touring rural areas since the last six days, visited Hura, Muddanahalli and Kottenahundi villages…
[Continued from yesterday] I don’t claim to have read in depth about world’s Prophets and religions. But of what I have read my favourite has always been Jesus. I have found that mortality and change are inevitable and are in the very nature of existence — no matter it is Himalayas or Oceans; a Saint,…
Sir, I wish to highlight the issue of meter readers of Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC) inserting the bills after reading the meter into the switch boxes of street-lights spread all over the city. These bills do not benefit any one. They are not collected by Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) for years. On the contrary…
Lockdown has made people take up their hobbies including fishing. Nanjunda, a fisherman and a resident of KRS, who had cast his nets in KRS backwaters, caught a Catla fish, also known as the major South Asian carp weighing a whooping 36 kg. Nanjunda said that he sold the fish for Rs. 6,000 by selling…
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