Thiruvananthapuram: Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun several times between 2014 and 2016, has been acquitted by a Kottayam Court in Kerala. Franco Mulakkal, 57, was the first Catholic Bishop in India to be arrested for assaulting a nun. The Court acquitted him of all charges after a trial that lasted for more…
Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner G. Lakshmikantha Reddy on Wednesday directed the officials to address Pourakarmika issues including glitches in facial recognition attendance system. He was addressing a meeting of MCC officials and Pourakarmikas at the MCC’s Old Council Hall here. At the meeting, Pourakarmika leaders urged for one-time facial recognition attendance instead of…
Mysore/Mysuru: Panicked over increasing COVID-19 positive cases in city and also many hostel inmates testing positive for the deadly virus, students of National Institute of Engineering (NIE) on Manadawadi Road staged a silent protest, urging the authorities to postpone the exams. The students, who assembled in front of the College, said that more than 30…
Mysore/Mysuru: With the server at University of Mysore (UoM) breaking down suddenly, the University students are facing a lot of hardship in payment of fees. The server breakdown has made the students and their parents to curse the University authorities for their gross negligence or apathy. With the University making it mandatory to pay fees…
Mysore/Mysuru: MP Pratap Simha performed guddali puja for Rs. 1.5 crore Kumbarakoppal crematorium development works coming under MCC Ward 4 yesterday. Speaking on the occasion, Pratap Simha said it is not easy for a Corporator to get a huge grant of Rs.1.5 crore for development works at one spot. He lauded area Corporator Pailwan Sreenivas…
Madikeri: Siddapur Police have arrested a rowdy sheeter identified as 32-year-old Anand of Koratagere in Tumkur, who had made a blackmail call to Virajpet MLA K.G. Bopaiah and demanded Rs. 1 crore ransom. The accused was arrested at Bengaluru Railway Station. The accused who called Bopaiah (who is also a former Assembly Speaker) over his…
Mysore/Mysuru: A youth, said to be drunk, who was behaving indecently and teasing women in a city bus, was dragged from the bus and beaten black and blue by a group of women, who were travelling in the bus. The incident took place near PKTB Sanatorium on KRS Road here on Tuesday. The youth, who…
Bengaluru: Dr. V.S. Badiger, a Kannadiga, has been appointed as one of the Directors of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). Dr. Badiger worked as the Superintendent of the ASI Dharwad Circle. The Department’s Promotion Committee finalised his name for the Director’s post. He will work from the ASI Head Office in New Delhi. Hailing…
Mysore/Mysuru: Dr. R.S. Umakanth, Associate Professor, Department of Sericulture Science, University of Mysore, Manasagangothri, Mysuru, will receive the prestigious Global Faculty Award-2021 from A.K.S. Education Awards for his contribution to teaching and research in Sericulture Science. The award carries a memento and a certificate of appreciation and will be presented to him tomorrow (Jan. 15)…
Mysore/Mysuru: In its series of activities on Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav to commemorate 75 years of Independence, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CSIR-CFTRI), Mysuru, had organised a webinar on “Balanced nutrition through microbial food additives” on Monday (Jan.10). The core ideology behind this webinar was consumption of safe microbial food, products from microbial fermentation, microbial…
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