Mysore/Mysuru: Adding impetus to the battle against the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, the city’s Narayana Multispeciality Hospital has launched a special vaccination drive covering Corporate companies, Co-operative Societies, Women Self-Help Groups and other such organisations. The drive has been simultaneously launched in Mysuru, Chamarajanagar, Madikeri and Mandya cities, during which the staff of companies and organisations…
Accelerate vaccination for COVID-19: WHO
June 21, 2021New Delhi: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Sunday called upon countries in WHO South-East Asia Region to accelerate the vaccination for COVID-19 in order to prevent another surge. “We need to continuously strengthen our efforts to test, trace and isolate. Societal interventions such as physical distancing, hand hygiene and proper wearing of masks need…
Mysore Varsity ranked 38th in Education World Ranking
June 21, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Adding another feather to its cap, University of Mysore (UoM) has been ranked 38th in the Education World Ranking list-2020. The University has been ranked considering factors such as academic progress, research and innovation, teaching standards, curriculum, development of teaching and non-teaching staff, maintenance of international standards, infrastructure, administration etc. UoM scored 884 points…
Mysuru District COVID-19 War Room Report: June 20, 2021
June 20, 2021COVID-19 Positive Cases Analysis of Mysuru District as on 20/06/2021 | 8:00 PM.
45,000 jabs target in Mysuru tomorrow
June 20, 2021Prior registration or on-the-spot inoculation to be decided by evening Mysore/Mysuru: A mega vaccination drive will begin in Mysuru district from 10 am tomorrow (June 21) to inoculate all those between the target age group of 18 and 44 and the District Administration has geared up for the event that coincides with the International Day…
When Kodagu’s Aiyanna outran the Flying Sikh
June 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: No one flew like Milkha Singh. We all have heard about ‘Flying Sikh’ Milkha Singh but how many of us have heard about Kunjiyanda Aiyanna from Kodagu district who had defeated Milkha Singh? Aiyanna had trounced the Flying Sikh in a 100-metre race in 1951. While Aiyanna had clocked 10.69 seconds, Milkha Singh clocked 10.75…
Madikeri Raja’s Seat disfigured by development
June 20, 2021Lush green space destroyed; landslide threat looms large Madikeri: First it was ‘Coorg Village’ in the premises of Raja’s Seat at Madikeri that was built despite opposition from the local residents and now it is the overall development works taken up at the same venue. The Kodagu District Administration and the powers that be seems…
MLAs flay Women and Child Welfare Development officers for ‘negligence’
June 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Cutting across party lines, City and District legislators complained about lack of concern among officers of the Department of Women and Child Development and their utter negligence to inform the elected representatives about the number of kids orphaned due to second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in the district. At the COVID-19 review meeting held…
48 children lose both their parents in pandemic second wave
June 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: As many as 48 children have lost both their parents in the current second wave of Covid-19 pandemic in State, said Women and Child Development Minister Shashikala Jolle. Speaking to reporters here yesterday, she said that 947 kids have lost either one of their parents to the contagion which included 91 in Mysuru district….
Dark clouds over Dasara this year too ?
June 20, 2021By S.T. Ravikumar Mysore/Mysuru: With the second wave of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic causing untold havoc across the globe, with lakhs of people losing their lives and Mysuru being no exception to the deadly pandemic, dark clouds seems to be hovering around the conduct of the world famous Dasara in Mysuru this year too. Last…















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