Black jade granite stone brought from Telangana for 30-ft statue to be installed at India Gate in New Delhi Mysore/Mysuru: It’s official. City-based sculptor Arun Yogiraj will carve the 30-feet statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose which will be installed at India Gate under the grand canopy behind the erstwhile Amar Jawan Jyoti. It may…
Mysore/Mysuru: The ten-day-long 80th birthday celebrations of Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji, which were held with great enthusiasm at Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Ashram’s Nada Mantapa on Nanjangud Road, concluded last evening. On May 22, the inauguration of various programmes organised as part of Swamiji’s 80th birthday, Swamiji’s mother Jayalakshmi Mata’s 100th birth anniversary and 24th anniversary…
An advocate by profession, he guides candidates appearing for competitive exams Mysore/Mysuru: Mundanda Rajesh Ponnappa has cleared IAS by securing 222nd rank in UPSC exams, the results of which were announced on May 30. Rajesh Ponnappa is the son of Jaya Poovaiah and Sudha (Thamane – Sadera). Hailing from Nelaji in Kodagu, they are now…
Bengaluru: With six candidates filing their nomination papers for four seats to the Rajya Sabha (RS) from the State, the three main political parties are working out their gameplans to ensure the success of their candidates in the polls to take place on June 10. With their numerical strength in the State Assembly, the ruling…
Kolkata: Bollywood playback singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known as KK, who was in Kolkata for a concert, died yesterday (May 31). He was 53. The singer collapsed at the hotel where he was staying after the concert in Kolkata’s Nazrul Mancha auditorium. Doctors at Calcutta Medical Research Institute (CMRI) Hospital said the singer was brought…
Movement of chain snatchers captured on CCTV camera Mysore/Mysuru: Bike borne chain snatchers have managed to snatch a part of the gold chain from an elderly woman, who was on her evening walk in Vijayanagar here yesterday. The elderly woman who lost a part of her gold chain is 56-year-old Shashikala, a resident of Vijayanagar…
23rd Conservation Speak series held at Zoo Mysore/Mysuru: Deep J. Contractor, who is the first woman forest officer and the third forest officer to reach Antarctica, delivered a talk on her Antarctica expedition at the 23rd Conservation Speak that has been revived now by Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens, popular as Mysuru Zoo. The talk, ‘My…
Nanjangud: Nanjangud BJP MLA B. Harshavardhan has said if there is a BJP Government in the State, it is because of the role played by B.Y. Vijayendra in the 2019 Assembly by-elections to the 13 Constituencies. Vijayendra should have a bigger role to play in Karnataka politics than just being an MLC. When the media…
Mysore/Mysuru: More than 1.3 million people die of tobacco use every year in India and a majority of them are afflicted with cancer. The country, which is the second largest consumer of tobacco in the world, accounts for almost half of all oral cancers and the highest burden of tuberculosis globally. Not surprisingly, smoking will…
55 percent children badly affected by consumption of tobacco products, says DHO Mysore/Mysuru: Maintaining that creating awareness is vital in the anti-tobacco campaign, Senior Civil Judge and District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) Member-Secretary Devaraj Bhute said that people must be sensitised on the harmful effects of tobacco consumption. He was speaking at the ‘World Anti-Tobacco…
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