The District Tobacco Control Wing in association with de-addiction centres, will be conducting free diabetes, blood pressure, general cancer, oral & breast cancer check up camp from Feb.5 to 9 at all Taluk Hospitals and Community Health Centres of the district. For more details, call Ph: 0821-2443178, according to a press release.  

K. Shivakumar Doora has been elected as President of Basava Balagagala  Okkuta for the year 2018 at a meeting held in the presence of various Seers at Suttur Mutt in city recently. For details, contact Mob: 94482-72068.

The Department of Pre-University Education has extended the deadline for eligible Private Educational Institutions and Trust to  submit online applications seeking to establish unaided PUC Colleges in the 2018-19 academic year, to Feb.5. The application form can be downloaded from the Department website: www.pue.kar.nic.in. For details, call Ph: 0821-2440371, Mob:94805-77677.  

The Department of public Libraries has invited applications from Authors and Publishers, for supply of books in various subjects, topics in various languages etc., published for the first time between Aug. 1, 2017 and Dec. 31, 2017, to the Central Library, Bengaluru. The last date in Feb. 19. For details, contact the City Central Library,…

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) Ltd., has organised Bharat Darshan Rail Package tour (Punya Teerth Yatra) from Madurai to Puri, Konark, Kolkata, Gaya, Varanasi, Allahabad and back. This train will pass through Bengaluru (Whitefield) on Mar. 4, where pilgrims from Karnataka can board the train. The duration of the tour is 10 days….

The monthly KDP (Karnataka Development Programme) progress review meeting for the month of Jan. 2018, will be held at the ZP Hall here on Feb.15 at 10.30am. ZP President Nayeema Sulthana will preside.  

Marking Tyagaraja Aradhana Mahotsava, Mulakanadu Sabha Charitable Trust has organised a music contest on Feb. 11 at 10 am at Mulakanadu Sabha Bhavana on Hunsur Road here. The contest will be under three categories – sub junior (under 10 years), junior (11 to 15 years) and senior (16 to 25 years). The choice could be…

Vijayanagar 3rd Stage Residents Welfare Association has organised a meeting at the Association premises, opposite Sapthamathruka Chowdeshwari Temple, tomorrow (Feb.4) at 10.30 am. For details, contact Mob: 94482-93943, according to a press release from the Association.

Aimed at development of tribals residing in forest, forest fringes and border taluks of the district, the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation, Mysuru, has invited applications from ST community entrepreneurs for taking up horticulture, coffee plantation, silk rearing, vegetable & mushroom cultivation, bee-keeping, poultry, fishing  and establishment of cold storage. Last date to…

The Academic Council meeting of University of Mysore will be held on Feb. 7 at 11 am at the Crawford Hall in city, according to a press release from Deputy Registrar.