City’s Prachodayath Viprasangha (Vidyaranyapuram-Vishweswaranagar), will be holding a mass Upanayana for Trimathastha Brahmin Community boys at Avani Sringeri Sharadapeetham, 4th main, 9th cross, Vidyaranyapuram on May 9 (Shankara Jayanti). Interested Trimathastha Brahmin boys can register at Maharshi Educational Institutions Office, J.P. Nagar road, between 10 am and 1 pm or at the Sharadapeetham office in…

City’s Yashaswini Mahila Sangha, the women’s wing of Babbur Kamme Sangha, will be celebrating Ramanavami at the Sangha Premises on Sahukar Channaiah Road, Saraswathipuram, at 11.30 am on Apr.17. The Sangha members are appealed to participate in the celebration, according to a release. For details, call Mob: 97412-11652.

Government Tool Room and Training Centre (GTTC) on KRS Road is offering free training in turning, milling, grinding and tool room machining trades for unemployed SC/ST people in the age group of 16 to 35 years who have passed SSLC. For details, call Ph: 0821-2582750, Mob: 91416-30315,/99454-42654.

Jnanabuthi is offering free coaching for candidates taking up competitive examination for the selection of Graduate Primary School Teacher to be held in May. Those interested can register their names at Jnanabuthi office in the premises of Lakshmipuram Government High School and Junior College between 5 pm and 7.30 pm before Apr. 20. For details,…

Tulu Shivalli Madhwa Brahmana Mahamandali, Mysuru Branch, has organised the following programmes at Sri Krishnadhama, Saraswathipuram, as part of Sauramana Ugadi celebrations on Apr.15: Sri Satyanarayana Puja and Prasadam Distribution at 4 pm; Prize distribution to the winners of Talent Hunt contest at 5 pm; Ugadi Fest Cultural Programme at 5.30 pm.

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s 128 birth anniversary celebrations, garlanding of Dr. Ambedkar’s bust installed in front of the University Library, 10 am.

Discourse on ‘Padmapurana’ by Vid. Aniruddachar Pandurangi, Mutt premises, Jayalakshmipuram, 5 pm to 6.30 pm.

Sri Ramanavami Cultural Programmes — Devotional Songs by Sri Shankara Bhajana Mandali, 5 pm to 5.45 pm; Kathak by Vidu. Upasana, Samudaya Bhavana, Tengina Topu (Coconut Grove), Saraswathipuram, 6 pm to 7.30 pm.

The sixth Graduation Day of Yuvaraja’s College (Autonomous), University of Mysore (UoM), is scheduled to be held at 10.30 am on Apr.25 at Platinum Jubilee Auditorium, Yuvaraja’s College. Gold medals, endowment prizes and certificates will be given to qualified students. Prof. K.G. Rao, Emeritus Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, will be the chief guest….

Liquor sale and transportation is banned from 6 pm on Apr.16 till midnight of Apr.18 in the district and again from May 22 midnight till May 23 midnight in the context of LS polls and counting of votes. Similar ban is imposed in 5 kms radius from Kerala border in H.D. Kote from 6 pm…