This morning I had three surprise visitors in my Office. Surprisingly all quadrupeds and naturally the security guard stopped them at the main gate and took down the details for his entry-exit register as per protocol including testing of temperature (thermal scanning) for COVID-19. All the three visitors were female and so the…
In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka Gandhi gives a checklist to call a rabbit healthy By Maneka Gandhi Does pasteurella kill rabbits? Yes, it can. Pasteurella multocida is a gram negative bacteria of which there are several strains. Signs and symptoms of pasteurella infection (pasteurellosis) usually involve the upper respiratory tract. Infected rabbits may have…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD October 24th was the 137th birth anniversary of Sir Mirza Ismail, one of the Dewans of the erstwhile Mysore State who later went on to become the Dewan of the Princely States of Jaipur and Hyderabad too. To mark this event, the Anjuman-E-Hadiqatul Adab, Mysuru, conducted a webinar that…
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC A big gathering of devotees. All Ram Bhakts. A Senior Guru was giving his pravachan and the full crowd was listening with rapt attention the discourse on Ramayan. The Guru, during the talks, casually mentioned that the organisers have kept 500 statues of Rama and 500 statues of…
In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka speaks about cows and the ways they have to be taken care of By Maneka Gandhi Do cows get lonely? Yes, cows do get lonely. Cows are herding animals and it is best for them to have a friend. What is the average amount of water a cow will…
For a few days now one video has been making the rounds on WhatsApp. The video shows some empty pizza boxes strewn alongside a road in Kodagu and you can hear a local Gram Panchayat’s (GP) former President angry with tourists from Mysuru who threw that trash. What happens next is interesting. The ex-GP member…
[Continued from yesterday] During 1975 Emergency, A.K. Subbaiah was the first Karnataka politician to be imprisoned and spent a total of 18 months in various jails before being released from the Bangalore Central Jail. D. Devaraj Urs was the Congress Chief Minister then. Probably, becoming a political prisoner was an important turning point in Subbaiah’s…
I first heard of and saw A.K. Subbaiah when I was in the first year BA at Madikeri First Grade College (Kodagu). I was staying in the upper hostel close to the College and I guess he too was in the hostel doing his BSc. He was a senior student in age compared to others…
Republic TV is in the dock as its senior editors have been booked for allegedly airing “false” news about a “revolt” within the force against Mumbai Police Commissioner. This TV channel has had repeated run-ins with the Mumbai Police over the last several months with its reportage. Though the Mumbai Police say it’s not “revenge”…
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