City’s women auto drivers fight odds to make a living By M.T. Yogesh Kumar Traditional auto-rickshaws have always remained heavily male-dominated. Of late, there are many women who have shattered the stereotypes and have been performing the duties of auto drivers, sometimes even better than their male counterparts. Though they face plenty of gender bias…
A trend-setter in city’s hospitality sector: Saree-clad robot brings food to table
February 15, 2022Service just got better with ‘Echo,’ Mysuru’s first robot waitress at Hotel Siddharta Mysore/Mysuru: Robots have been replacing humans on factory floors and even operation theatres for decades, and now they are coming for customer-facing jobs. They are designed to look and act like us and these robots can do any job humans can do,…
Irwin Road from Ayurveda College Circle till Nehru Circle asphalted
February 15, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: While only three properties extending up to 60 metres have to be demolished to realise the full benefits of a widened and a beautified Irwin Road, asphalting works have been undertaken under the initiative of Chamaraja MLA L. Nagendra. The work that was on since the last three days has been completed today. Following…
Mysuru COVID-19 Update: February 15, 2022
February 15, 2022Mysuru reports 66 new COVID-19 positive cases, 261 discharges and 1 death today.
MCDCC Bank launches Mobile ATM
February 15, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: In a move aimed at improving banking services in keeping with the times, the MCDCC (Mysuru-Chamarajangar District Central Co-operative) Bank has launched mobile ATM (Automated Teller Machine) services (ATM on wheels) to its customers. According to MCDCC Bank Director M.P. Sunil, the mobile ATM unit has been launched with help from NABARD. Pointing out…
Biker fakes scooter’s number plate; caught
February 15, 2022Scooterist gets wrong e-challan asking him to cough up Rs. 46,500 Mysore/Mysuru: As the crackdown against traffic and road safety violations has intensified, the enforcement authorities seem to have stumbled upon a new menace — using fake vehicle registration numbers to evade penalty. The number of vehicles with illegal minor variations is alarmingly on the…
PU and Degree Colleges to re-open from tomorrow
February 15, 2022Bengaluru: Home Minister Araga Jnanendra said that PU and Degree Colleges, which were ordered to shut down last week following the Hijab-saffron shawl row, will re-open from tomorrow (Feb.16). Speaking to presspersons after holding a meeting with Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in the State capital on Monday, Jnanendra said that with the High Court passing…
Relocation of NTM School: Students and staff happy on continuance of academic activities in new location
February 15, 2022By M.B. Pavan Murthy Mysore/Mysuru: Days after the decades-old NTM (New Type Model) School on N.S. Road in the heart of the city was shifted to Maharani Teacher Training Institute (MTTI) premises, also on N.S. Road, following a Government order, the School children and the staff seems to be happy that the School has been…
After trenches, solar fences, rail barricades, barbed wires and honeybee fences… Now, steel wires to stop jumbos from straying out of forests
February 15, 2022Bengaluru: Be it elephant trenches, solar-powered fences, Railway track barricades, chilli-tobacco rope fences, barbed wires, honeybee fences, wild elephants have always outsmarted all methods tried by the Forest Department to keep them inside reserve forests, national parks and wildlife sanctuaries. Elephants have continued to stray into human habitats and over the years, human-elephant conflict has…
Relief cheques distributed to families of COVID victims
February 15, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: MLA L. Nagendra distributed relief cheques of Rs.1 lakh each announced by the State Government to the family members of COVID victims at his office in Jaladarshini Guest House on Hunsur road here on Monday. Nagendra said that though the Government cannot provide lasting relief to the families of the COVID dead, it is…
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