Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS), in association with the Department of Women and Child Development, has brought out a toll-free helpline number for tele-counselling children who are in distress, amidst the current COVID pandemic. Children with any such issues can call the Tele-counselling Helpline No: 14499 for guidance, according to a press release.

Marking Teachers’ Day celebrations commemorating Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s birth anniversary, the Department of Public Instruction, in association with Zilla Panchayat, Mysuru, has organised a district-level programme at Teresian College auditorium in Siddarthanagar here tomorrow (Sept. 5) at 10 am. District Minister S.T. Somshekhar will inaugurate the function and MLA S.A. Ramdas will preside over the…

Regional Transport Office (RTO), Mysuru (East), has decided to dispose unclaimed vehicles through auction. The vehicles seized due to non-payment of tax and involved in other cases, will be disposed through auction on Sept. 21 at 11 am at RTO office, said RTO K.S. Soundarya. In all, 10 maxicabs, four autorickshaw cabs, a taxi, a…

Owing to emergency maintenance works, power supply will be disrupted on Sept. 6 between 10 am and 5 pm in the following areas: Hebbal Power Distribution Centre: Kumbara Koppal, Toll Gate, Vani Vilas Layout, Mahadeshwara Layout, Subhashnagar, Surya Bakery, Vijayanagar, Railway Layout, Abhishek Circle, Madegowda Circle, M.G. Koppal, Outer Ring Road, Hampi Circle, Sangam Circle,…

For the convenience of Airport passengers, KSRTC Central Division, Bengaluru, will resume the Fly Bus service between Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru and Mysuru from Sept. 10. The fare is Rs. 750 per person. The bus from KIA to Mysuru will leave at 9.30 am, 11.30 am, 6.30 pm and 8.30 pm. From Mysuru…

Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has implemented a new scheme called ‘Yogalakshmi’ from Apr. 1 last year which is applicable to women of BPL families, living in MCC limits for past five and above. MCC is offering the scheme for girl child born in a Government Hospital in such families. In such cases, MCC will be…

JSS Mahavidyapeetha has invited applications from eligible students for admission (2020-21) to JSS Hostel at Terakanambi in Gundlupet taluk of Chamarajanagar district. Students enrolled in fifth to tenth standards at Government-recognised Schools are eligible to apply. The application forms can be collected from the Hostel Warden. [Mob: 89710-67938].

JSS Mahavidyapeetha Employees Housing Co-operative Society has invited applications from meritorious children of the Society members who have scored more than 90 percent marks in SSLC and PUC (2019-20) for presentation of Pratibha Puraskar. The applications, which are to be hand written, should be submitted latest by Sept. 12 at the Society office in JSS…

Veteran writer and former Kuvempu Bhasha Bharathi Chairman Dr. Pradhana Gurudatta will release ‘Manukulada Adikavya,’ a collection of senior writer Dr. C.P. Krishnakumar’s articles and brought out by Vaidyavartha Prakashana, at a programme to take place at Institution of Engineers-India (IEI) on JLB Road at 10.30 am on Sept. 9. The work is edited by…

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Centre for Philosophy and Indian Culture, University of Mysore (UoM), has organised a special lecture programme at Vijnana Bhavan in Manasagangothri tomorrow (Sept. 5) at 11 am to mark Teachers’ Day. Swami Yukteshanandaji will inaugurate the event. Retd. Kannada Professor K. Anantaramu will talk on ‘Values of teacher’s life.’ Mysore University VC…