Mysore/Mysuru: Cleaner transportation and electrification in the mobility space holds immense potential for energy security and reduction of greenhouse gases. Battery and plug-in hybrid Electric Vehicles (EVs) are becoming a vital component of Mysuru’s transportation landscape, offering environmental, economic, and energy benefits. Adding to the electric two-wheelers that have already flooded the city’s roads, electric…
Robot to clean choked manholes in city soon
January 30, 2021It will put end to age-old practice of manual scavenging Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has procured a robotic scavenging machine — Bandicoot — that would effectively substitute manual scavenging of manholes and Underground Drainage (UGD) system. The cost of this machinery is Rs. 32 lakh and is manufactured by Pune-based company. Training on operative…
Shivanna moots hike in breakfast allowance for Pourakarmikas from Rs. 20 to Rs. 50 per day
January 30, 2021Expresses concern over 10-fold increase in manual scavengers in eight years Mysore/Mysuru: Karnataka State Safai Karmachari Commission Chairman M. Shivanna has said that the Commission would recommend the State Government to hike the breakfast allowance being given to Pourakarmikas from the present Rs. 20 to Rs. 50 per day and also to construct rest rooms…
Rs. 37 lakh Garden Project begins at Dasara Exhibition Grounds
January 30, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: An apology of a garden at Dasara Exhibition Grounds is set to get a new look as the Karnataka Exhibition Authority (KEA) is planning to beautify the campus to attract tourists who come there to take part in the annual Dasara Exhibition. The plan coincides with the intention of the KEA to make the…
Over 700 staff, students vaccinated at AIISH
January 30, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: The Covid vaccination programme for staff and students of All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) was held from Jan.27 to 29. During the 3-day vaccination programme, nearly 700 staff and students were vaccinated. N. Parimala, who is the senior most employee and also Assistant Registrar of the Institute, was the first to…
Tuition fee slashed by 30 percent in Pvt. Schools
January 30, 2021Bengaluru: The State Government has ordered all Private Schools, be it Central or State syllabi, to reduce tuition fees for the current academic year by 30 percent in view of COVID-19 pandemic. The Schools have been strictly told not to collect development fees or other fees apart from tuition fee. With this, the Government has…
Tentative time-table for II PU exam
January 30, 2021Bengaluru: Two days after announcing provisional dates for SSLC board examination, the Department of PU Education has rolled out the tentative time-table for the II PUC examination, which had been postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic. Accordingly, the examination would begin on May 24 and conclude on June 10. Examination timing would be from 10.30 am…
Yashodharamma Dasappa Memorial prog. on Feb. 1
January 30, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: As part of ‘Mareyalagada Mahaneeyaru‘ series, freedom fighter Yashodharamma Dasappa Memorial programme titled ‘Yashodharamma Dasappa – Ondu nenapu,’ has been organised at District Sahitya Bhavan in Vijayanagar First Stage here at 4.30 pm on Feb. 1. Announcing this at a press meet here yesterday, District Kannada Sahitya Parishat President Dr. Y.D. Rajanna said that…
Woman missing from Udayagiri
January 30, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: A 21-year-old woman going missing from her sister’s house has been reported at Udayagiri Police Station recently. Deepashree, who was staying at her sister’s residence on Mahadevapura Main Road in Udayagiri, left the house at 9 pm on Jan. 18 and has since not returned home, according to a complaint filed by her brother-in-law…
Mysore Armed Forces Ex-servicemen Association inauguration tomorrow
January 30, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: The newly- formed Mysore Armed Forces Ex-servicemen Association will be jointly inaugurated by Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha and Chamarajanagar MP V. Sreenivasa Prasad at a programme to take place at Kodagu Sahakara Sangha premises in Jayalakshmipuram tomorrow (Jan.31) at 10.30 am. Chamundeshwari MLA G.T. Devegowda and Association President Havildar (retd.) P.K. Biddappa will preside….
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