Cartoon exhibition titled ‘Gandhi 150 + Nadige’ by Star of Mysore cartoonist and Fulbrighter M.V. Nagendra Babu, organised by Amara Baapu Chintana (Kannada & English Bi-Monthly), Bengaluru, at Freedom Fighters Park in Subbarayanakere in Mysuru as part of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary, was inaugurated by social worker Dr. K. Raghuram Vajapayee this morning. Seen in…
Dry cannon drill begins at Palace
October 5, 2020With just 12 days left for the commencement of Dasara, ‘dry talim’ or rehearsal with unloaded cannons began at Mysore Palace this morning. The dry drill is undertaken to train members of ‘Pirangi Dala’ or Cannon Unit involved in this ritual of cannon firing. All 30 members of the Cannon Unit, supervised by R-ASI Siddaraju…
RT-PCR test for Corporators, MCC staff, vendors
October 5, 2020City Corporators Begum (Pallavi) and Vedavathi along with MCC staff and media persons registering their names for RT-PCR test at MCC premises this morning as it is mandatory for all those attending the MCC General Council Meeting tomorrow, to undergo the test. Picture below shows traders and roadside vendors undergoing COVID test in front of…
Police Officer’s Collection of Poems released
October 5, 2020‘Dhwanyaartha,’ a collection of Kannada poems written by Additional Director General of Police (ADGP – 1990-batch IPS Officer) Dr. S. Parashivamurthy (now retired), was released by Dr. Manu Baligar, President, Kannada Sahitya Parishat, recently at Police Head Quarters on Nrupatunga Road in Bengaluru, as DG&IGP Praveen Sood and others look on. The book contains a…
Vidyavardhaka Engg. College signs MoU with Excelsoft
October 5, 2020The Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering (VVCE), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Excelsoft Technologies Private Limited, Mysuru, very recently. The major objectives of this MoU is to impart and enhance training programmes, internship, field visits, technical talks, entrepreneurship, job opportunities and engineering projects. Seen in the picture are S. Shiva…
Plea to clean vacant site at Srirampura
October 5, 2020A vacant site measuring 50×100 near Brahmarambha Choultry in Srirampura 2nd Stage is filled with overgrown bushes and weeds making it a haven for reptiles and rodents. Residents said that it has become very scary to walk during night due to fear of snakes, which some time enter houses during day time too. Authorities concerned…
Garbage throwing, a menace at Jayanagar
October 5, 2020Throwing of garbage on the 20th cross in Jayanagar 2nd Main has become a nuisance to the residents living in the surroundings. They alleged that people throw garbage during midnight instead of handing over the same to pourakarmikas, who come to collect garbage in mornings. They also alleged that the civic workers who come to…
Closed school behind Lakshmi Talkies turns dumping yard
October 5, 2020Vidyani High School (National High School) behind Lakshmi Talkies has become a yard to dump all kinds of garbage and also a shelter to cattle, allege residents. They say that the school is closed since about three years and they have been suffering from unhygienic atmosphere since then besides stating that it has become very…
Traditional puja offered to Palace cannons
October 4, 2020City Police Commissioner Dr. Chandragupta, along with DCPs Dr. A.N. Prakash Gowda and M.S. Geetha Prasanna, City Armed Reserve (CAR) DCP Shivaraj and ACP Sudarshan, offered traditional puja to Palace Cannons this morning. The dry training in firing the cannons will commence tomorrow and for the first time, the Dasara elephants will stay inside the…
16th edition of ‘Bombe Mane’ dolls expo inaugurated
October 3, 2020R.G. Singh, Honorary Secretary, Ramsons Kala Pratishtana (RKP), Mysuru, is seen explaining about the dolls on display at the 16th edition of Bombe Mane, an exhibition of exquisite dolls organised by RKP, to city’s well-known Bharatanatyam artiste couple Dr. Anjana Bhushan and Badari Divya Bhushan, who inaugurated the expo last evening. The year-long expo, which…















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