Mysore/Mysuru: With the second PUC supplementary exams scheduled to take place from Aug. 21 to Sept. 2, the City Police have clamped prohibitory orders in 200 mts radius around all the four exam centres in the city from 6 am to 6 pm on all days of the exam. The exam centres are Maharaja’s PU…
Celebration Mysuru Marathon on Aug. 27
August 19, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Life is Calling, a Sports Management Company, has organised the 13th edition of Celebration Mysuru Marathon on Aug. 27 (Sunday) from Balarama Gate of Mysore Palace. The event will be flagged off at 5.30 am and comprises a 30-km Run, 21-km Half Marathon and 10-km Run for participants who are 16 years and above…
KSCA to hold Selection Trials for U-15 Girls at Bengaluru
August 19, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: The Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA), Mysore Zone, has organised an Open Selection Trials to pick three/ four teams to participate in the selection matches (Under-15 Women) during the first or second week of September 2023 at KSCA-B Ground in Bengaluru on Aug. 27 (Sunday) from 9 am onwards. Girls interested to take part…
International Youth Day: GRAAM to host various events on Aug. 21
August 19, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Commemorating the International Youth Day (Aug. 12), under the aegis of the Youth for Governance (Y4G) Fellowship, Grassroots Research And Advocacy Movement (GRAAM) aims to bring out youth’s voice to community issues and sensitise more young people on participatory governance. Towards this initiative, GRAAM, in association with the Department of Social Work, Manasagangothri, University…
Rahul’s Kiss & our Kismat
August 19, 2023Every time there is kissing, someone is bound to start pressing charges and last week, the women MPs of the BJP did just that. They gave a written complaint to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had made an ‘inappropriate gesture’ by giving a ‘flying kiss.’ They demanded ‘stringent action’…
Why hue and cry for demolition of Devaraja Market?
August 19, 2023By Ravishankar Bale The front page report titled “God Save Devaraja Market” by K.B. Ganapathy, Senior Journalist, was timely and I liked the article because, it was objective and attachment-free, on the pathetic state-of-affairs with the Devaraja Market (Star of Mysore dated Aug. 16, 2023). India is a land of billion people, mostly poor by…
Heritage Structure Vs Human Lives
August 19, 2023Sir, Hats off to the High Court Division Bench for quashing the PIL against the demolition of Devaraja Market (Star of Mysore dated Aug. 10). From the news report it appears that the individuals who have filed the PIL against the demolition of this dilapidated market building have no direct stake in the building, but…
Devaraja Market PIL: Petitioner’s woes
August 19, 2023Sir, I draw your attention to the news item titled “High Court quashes PIL against demolition of Devaraja Market” (SOM dated Aug. 10, 2023) wherein your reporter has said: “A Division Bench, headed by Chief Justice Prasanna B. Varale and Justice M.G.S. Kamal, issued the ruling on Aug. 8 while rejecting a petition filed in…
Mohammed Sayeed Ulla Saheb
August 19, 2023Mohammed Sayeed Ulla Saheb (39), social worker and a resident of 2nd Stage, HUDCO (near Tippu Masjid), Bannimantap, passed away yesterday due to cardiac arrest. He is survived by his mother, wife, one son, one daughter, one brother, one sister and a host of relatives and friends. Namaz-e-Janaza was held yesterday after Isha Salath at…
Venkatamma
August 19, 2023Venkatamma (67), a resident of Gandhinagar, passed away here yesterday. She is survived by her husband Venkataiah, three sons, three daughters, daughters-in-law and a host of relatives and friends. Last rites were performed at Adijambava Burial Grounds in Gandhinagar this afternoon.
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