Mysuru: Senior Rotarian and Paul Harris Fellow Sunil Baliga of Mysuru was bestowed upon the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Trustees and Members of Rotary Avoidable Blindness Foundation. The award was presented to him at the 3rd Rotary National Conference on Community Ophthalmology held recently at Rotary House of Friendship in Bengaluru. The Trustees had…
Mysuru: Sugama Sangeetha Academy Trust, Mysuru, and Kannada & Culture Department have organised a unique music programme titled ‘Nalavattara Nalivu’ at Ramagovinda Kalavedike in Ganabharathi premises, Kuvempunagar, from Apr. 17 to 20 at 6 pm. The event commemorates Sugama Sangeetha Academy’s 40th anniversary. The brainchild of H.R. Leelavathi, a noted singer, music composer, poet and…
Bengaluru: Buckling under the pressure of parents to relax the age norm for admission of children to Class 1, the State Government has relaxed the age restrictions to 5. 5 years (5 years and 5 months), applicable only for the present academic year. This was announced by the School Education and Literacy Minister Madhu Bangarappa…
Mysuru: City Crime Branch (CCB) Police on Apr. 7 arrested a person near People’s Park on charges of committing chain snatching in Nazarbad Police limits on Mar. 30. During interrogation, the accused is said to have snatched two gold chains in Nazarbad Police limits and based on the information provided by the accused, the Police…
Mysuru: A 34-year-old woman has gone missing since Apr. 11 from Mysuru South Police limits in city. The missing woman is Nagaveni, daughter of Girimallaiah. She is 5 ft. tall, normal built, light brown complexioned, has the name ‘Vishali’ tattooed on her left hand, cannot speak and was wearing a yellow and white mixed colour…
Mysuru: An unidentified man, who was being treated as an inpatient at Kantharaj Ward in K.R. Hospital, had breathed his last at the Hospital on Apr. 15. The deceased is aged about 40 years, 5.6 ft. tall, normal built, dark complexioned, oval faced and sports beard and moustache. The kith and kin of the deceased,…
By Bhamy V. Shenoy April 13 is likely to be remembered as a black day in Mysuru’s environmental history. In the early hours of that morning, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), in an act shrouded in secrecy, carried out a green massacre by axing more than 40 fully grown, decades-old heritage trees lining Hyder Ali…
Sir, The news item published in Star of Mysore dated Apr. 13 about the merciless mowing down of more than three dozen fully grown avenue trees by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) for widening Hyder Ali Road between Nexus Mall and the SP Office — in connivance with the Forest Department — is nothing short…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Across India, the fish is a sacred symbol — all kinds of fish. The salt-water fish (Surmai), fresh-water fish (Goonch), fish of ponds (Rohu) and rivers (Mahseer, dolphins), fish of deltas that travel upstream to spawn (Palla, Hilsa). Fish is linked with autonomy as it cannot…
On Day-9 of the Ramotsava music series by Ramabhyudaya Sabha at Alammana Choultry in Srirampet on Apr. 14, Vid. Sunil Gargyan gave a vocal concert with Vid. H.N. Bhaskar on violin, Vid. K.V. Prasad on mridanga and Vid. Ranganath Chakravarthy on ghata. Sunil’s singing is marked for its deep-rooted classicism, thanks to PSN, the visionary,…
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