Mysore/Mysuru: The Government of India, through the National Medicinal Plants Board (an organisation of the AYUSH Department), encourages cultivation of medicinal plants for production of genuine good quality raw drugs for the Ayurveda and herbal industry. Also, farmers earn additional income from their farmland and provide livelihood support for many. One of the main constraints…
Bangalore University presents Hon. Doctorate to Dwarakish
December 6, 2022Bengaluru: Veteran Sandalwood actor, director and producer Dwarakish was among three distinguished personalities who were conferred with Honorary Doctorate degrees by Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot at the 57th Convocation of Bangalore University yesterday. Amarnath Gowda, Attorney and Counsellor at Law and Founder-President of The Law Offices of Amarnath Gowda in Farmington Hills, Michigan, US and T….
Dr. C.N. Manjunath selected for prestigious Nadoja Award
December 6, 2022Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot to present the Award during Nudi Habba on Dec. 8 Bengaluru: Dr. C.N. Manjunath, Director, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, Bengaluru, and two writers G. Krishnappa and S. Shadakshari have been chosen for this year’s Hampi Kannada University’s Nadoja Award. Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot will present the Award during the…
New Managing Committee of Jain Intl. Trade Organisation, Mysore Chapter
December 6, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: The installation ceremony of the new Managing Committee of Jain International Trade Organisation (JITO), Mysore Chapter Foundation, for the year 2022-24, was held in city recently. They are: Kantilal Chouhan (Chairman), Goutam Salecha (Chief Secretary), Rajesh Salecha (Vice-Chairman), Mahender Katariya (Vice-Chairman), Vinod Bakliwal (Treasurer), Prem Palrecha (Secretary), Abhishek Darla (Secretary), Nimichand Srimal (Joint Treasurer)…
Talk on ‘History of Elements’
December 6, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Kalasuruchi and Kutuhali have jointly organised a talk on ‘From Panchabhutas to Platinum – History of Elements’ by Praveen Kumar Sayyaparaju, Chief Strategy Officer and Head, Education, SVYM, Mysuru, on Dec. 10 between 6.30 pm and 7.30 pm. The talk, organised as part of ‘Science Sanje’ programme, will be in Kannada and English. After…
Senior Kannada Film Director Bhagavan hospitalised
December 6, 2022Bengaluru: Senior Kannada film director Srinivasa Krishna Iyengar Bhagavan, popularly known as Bhagavan, has been admitted to Jayadeva Hospital in Bengaluru, following age-related aliments. Born to a Tamil Iyengar family at Mysuru in 1933, Bhagavan started acting in dramas as a youth and entered the film industry as an assistant to Kanagal Prabhakar Shastri in…
Poor response to MCC’s one-time water bill plan
December 5, 2022Only 1,674 consumers utilise offer; interest waiver still pending with State Government Mysore/Mysuru: In July this year, the cash-strapped Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) launched a new plan to collect pending water bill dues that have reached a whopping Rs. 220 crore. As per the scheme, if the pending bills are paid in one go, the…
Non-visible traffic signages pose risk
December 5, 2022Vehicles come face-to-face, stop haphazardly on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway Motorists fail to observe faded and dusty ‘take diversion’ signboards Mysore/Mysuru: On the busy Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway where the works are in full swing to upgrade the road as a 10-lane Expressway, traffic signboards have faded and have turned non-visible due to dust, causing confusion among motorists. Vital…
District In-charge Secretary questions officials on delay in issuance of work order
December 5, 2022Mysore/Mysuru: Expressing disappointment over the delay in the execution of works undertaken by the Engineering Division of Mysuru Zilla Panchayat, District In-charge Secretary N. Jayaram took the officials to task for the inordinate delay. He was speaking at the District Progress Review Meeting held at ZP Hall here on Saturday. Noting that the officials have…
Forest staff step up efforts to catch elusive leopard
December 5, 2022Fresh pug marks, scats spotted; DC appealed to initiate early sugarcane harvest Mysore/Mysuru: Leopard menace since the last one-and-a-half-months on the periphery of the villages and two people falling victims to the feline has triggered panic in T. Narasipur Taluk even as the Forest Department has upped efforts to rescue the animal. The Forest Department…
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