High-capacity sewage treatment project to safeguard Cauvery water from contamination Mysore/Mysuru: Contamination of Cauvery water by sewage, affecting lakes and tanks in and around the city, has compelled residents to consume polluted water, while authorities have overlooked the critical issue till now. Finally, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has acknowledged the problem and formulated a…
Commitment, mindset change need of the hour: POCSO Judge
December 10, 2023Preventing female foeticide, sex determination tests Mysore/Mysuru: Even though determining the sex of the foetus before birth is illegal in India, sex-selective abortions persist due to a predominant cultural preference for sons. With the passing of the 1994 Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, India made it illegal to reveal the sex of an unborn…
‘Food scientists must think of doubling agri income’
December 10, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Padma Shri Dr. V. Prakash, former Director of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysuru, said: “The food scientists should ponder over doubling the income in agriculture sector.” He was delivering Dr. M.S Swaminathan Lecture Series of Padma Awardees and also Dr. Parpia Memorial Lecture on the topic ‘Fusion of Agriculture, Food Science, Innovations…
9th IFCoN-2023 expo, a crowd-puller at CFTRI
December 10, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: ‘Trim Safe,’ an exhibition of various food products and technologies, drew large crowds at Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) premises in the city. The expo was open from 1 pm to 5 pm on Dec. 8 and from 10 am to 5 pm on Dec. 9. CFTRI had organised the exhibition in association…
Provide facilities for Pourakarmikas
December 10, 2023DC directs officials Mysore/Mysuru: Deputy Commissioner Dr. K.V. Rajendra has directed the officials to provide all due facilities to Pourakarmikas at the earliest. He was speaking after presiding over the District-Level Awareness Committee (District Level Jagruti Samiti) on Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, at the DC’s Office here recently….
State Human Rights Commission Chief regrets lack of Social Justice
December 10, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Maintaining that caste census is vital for equal distribution of the nation’s wealth among the population, State Human Rights Commission Chairman L. Narayanaswamy, who is also a former High Court Judge, regretted that social justice in the country is not fulfilled. He was speaking after inaugurating ‘Odalu Trust’ at a programme organised at Rama…
Couple ‘kills’ daughter, ends lives at homestay
December 10, 2023Madikeri: Three of a family including a 10-year-old girl from Kerala were allegedly found dead at a homestay in Kaggodlu, Madikeri taluk in Kodagu district yesterday. The deceased have been identified as Vinod Babu (40), his wife Jiby Abraham (35) and their daughter. The couple is suspected to have killed their daughter, before taking their…
Allot Rs. 5,000 crore to MUDA: MLA GTD to Government
December 10, 2023Belagavi: Chamundeshwari MLA G.T. Devegowda (GTD) recently urged the State Government to allocate Rs. 5,000 crore for the development of residential layouts in Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) limits. Speaking during the question hour at the ongoing winter session of State Legislature at Suvarna Vidhana Soudha, Devegowda said “Like Bengaluru, Mysuru is also growing rapidly…
Assault on saloon owner at Hebbal; Police register case after 15 days
December 10, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: A salon owner was allegedly assaulted by a youth for no reason near Abhishek Circle on Nov. 25 afternoon and Hebbal Police have registered a case on Dec. 8, after a letter in this regard by a reader was published in Mysuru Mithra, the sister concern of Star of Mysore on Nov. 26. M….
C.M. Ibrahim and C.K. Nanu expelled from JD(S)
December 10, 2023Bengaluru: Former Union Minister C.M. Ibrahim (who was removed as Karnataka State JD(S) President) and JD(S) National Vice-President C.K. Nanu of Kerala have been expelled from the party on charges of anti-Party activities. JD(S) National President and former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda expelled the two leaders at the Party’s National Executive Meeting held here…















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