Syeda Shafiya, an 8th Std. student has secured 3rd rank in 7th -level and Syed Sameer, a 6th Std. student has completed the 2nd level with A+ grade. Both are studying at St. Marina’s English School, N.R. Mohalla, Mysuru and have excelled in the IQ Plus State-level Abacus competition organised by the IQ Plus Academy,…

The University of Mysore (UoM) has awarded Ph.D in Computer Science to K. S. Manjunatha for his thesis ‘Writer Dependent Online Signature Verification System’ submitted under the guidance of Dr. D.S. Guru. N.Manasa has been awarded Ph.D in Zoology for her thesis ‘Studies on Effect of Selected Herbaceous Species of Phyllanthus on Ageing in Drosophila…

The General Council Meeting of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) will be held at its Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar auditorium today from 3 pm onwards, according to a release.      

Installation of the Lord Sri Prasanna Mahaganapathy statute at the newly-constructed temple in the Apollo BGS Hospital premises will be held on Mar. 2 at 6 am. Adichunchanagiri Educational Trust President Dr. Nirmalanandanatha Swamji, BGS Group of Institutions and Hospitals Managing Director Sri Prakashnatha Swamiji, Adichunchanagiri Mutt Mysuru Branch Head Sri Someshwara Swamiji will grace…

Following have been elected as the office-bearers of Shri Vagdevi Souharda Credit Co-operative Limited for the year 2017: H.N. Naveen, R.C. Dilip, J.S. Sunil, Sudharshan, T.S. Venkataram, M. Basavaraju, M.K. Suresh Babu, Somashekar, Krishna, Saroja Chandrashekar, N. Sujatha, Chikkamma Basavaraju and Bhagya.

RUDSET Institute, Mysuru, has invited applications from the youth in the age group of 18 to 45 years for different skill training programmes — Computer TALLY  (30-day), Sheep & Goat Rearing (6-day) and Dress Designing for women (30-day) — on residential basis. The training programme will be free of cost including boarding and lodging. Unemployed…

The entrance exam for the admission to 6th standard in Morarji Desai / Kittur Rani Chennamma / Ekalavya Model / Atal Bihari Vajpayee Residential Schools, which was scheduled to be held on Feb. 19, has been postponed to Mar. 5 due to unavoidable circumstances, according to a press release from Social Welfare Department Joint Director.

The Arya Ediga Seva Samiti will be organising a mass marriage programme for community members on Mar.23 in the city. Prospective brides and grooms of Arya Ediga community from Mysuru and Chamarajanagar districts can register at the District Arya Edigara Sangha office located on New Kantharaj Urs Road before Mar.16, according to Samiti President P….

JSS Polytechnic for the Differently-Abled, Manasagangothri, has organised a quiz competition for the Mysuru Region Polytechnic Students on Mar. 5. Interested may register their names before Mar. 2 through e-mail: [email protected]. Only two teams (two candidates in a team) from each Polytechnic can participate in the contest. For details, contact Alumni Association Co-ordinator D.V. Nandini…

  The following were elected unopposed to the Managing Committee of Sri Bhuvaneshwari Credit Co-op. Society for a period of five years from 2016-17 to 2017-22 at the elections held on Feb.21: C.S. Nagaraj, R. Narayan, T.A. Madhukar, E.K.Rajan Babu, M. Vijayalakshmi, M.S.Shivakumaraswamy,   B.M. Shivashankar, K.Shivananda, Shanthi V.Hegde, C. Suresh and M. Subramanya Bhat.