Dr. C.N. Ashwathnarayan fixes 15-day deadline for VCs to submit Action Report Bengaluru: Deputy Chief Minister and Higher Education Minister Dr. C.N. Ashwathnarayan has directed all Vice-Chancellors (VCs) of Government Universities to submit their action plan within 15 days with regard to obtaining National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) accreditation and National Institutional Ranking Framework…
Calendar of events announced for Engineering, Degree and PG courses for 2021-22
January 20, 2021Bengaluru: The Department of Higher Education has prepared the draft calendar of events for Engineering, Degree and Post-Graduate (PG) courses for academic year 2021-22. Accordingly, classes will commence from Oct. 4, 2021, said Higher Education Minister Dr. C.N. Ashwathnarayan, who released the draft here yesterday. Details are as follows: Degree courses • 5th semester classes…
District Minister goes on an inspection-spree
January 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: District Minister S.T. Somashekar went on an inspection-spree in city yesterday to review civic amenities in newly-formed layouts. Somashekar first visited the 13 MLD capacity overhead tank built in Vijayanagar Fourth Stage for supply of water to the residents of the locality. As the officials explained that the height of the pumping motor fixed…
New Industrial Policy will create 20 lakh jobs in 5 years: Minister Shettar
January 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Karnataka’s New Industrial Policy has aimed at attracting Rs. 5 lakh crore investments that could create employment for 20 lakh people by 2025, said Large and Medium Scale Industries Minister Jagadish Shettar here yesterday. Releasing the New Industrial Policy 2020-25 handbook here, Shettar said that the State Government has decided to focus more on…
Farmers with weak mind commit suicide: Agri Minister B.C. Patil
January 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Agriculture Minister B.C. Patil has said farmers with weak mind will commit suicide and diversion of their mind will prevent them from taking such an extreme step. Talking to reporters here on Tuesday, he said that the need of the hour was to create self-confidence in farmers than going to houses of dead farmers…
Vegetable vendors to be evicted from Dasara Exhibition Grounds
January 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: The M.G. Road vegetable market that was shifted to Doddakere Maidan (Dasara Exhibition parking lot) will move back to its old place (M.G. Road) as the Karnataka Exhibition Authority (KEA) has decided to take back the space from vendors. A decision to this effect was taken at the Governing Council meeting of the KEA…
Work on Kootupole Bridge on Karnataka-Kerala border resumes
January 20, 2021Virajpet: Virajpet MLA K.G. Bopaiah recently inspected the work on a bridge across Kootupole near Makutta which provides connectivity between Karnataka and Kerala. The bridge is at the Karnataka-Kerala border and is part of the Kerala State Transport Project (KSTP) road between Thalassery and Valavupara. The bridge work has resumed as Karnataka Wildlife Board has…
Siddharamaiah urges for commissioning of ethnographic survey of Kurubas
January 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Opposition Leader and former Chief Minister Siddharamaiah has urged the State Government to commission an ethnographic survey of Kuruba community, which has been demanding inclusion in Scheduled Tribe (ST) category. He was speaking after releasing a booklet on ST reservation for Kuruba community brought out by Karnataka Pradesha Kurubara Sangha, at a programme jointly…
Concert at Ganabharathi
January 20, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Ganabharathi has organised a Vocal Concert by Vidu. M.R. Sudha at Veene Seshanna Bhavan on Adichunchanagiri Road in Kuvempunagar on Jan. 22 at 6 pm. She will be accompanied by Vid. C.N. Thyagarajan on violin, Vid. Sunil Subrahmanya on mridanga and Vid. V.S. Ramesh on morching. The Concert will also be available on both…
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birth anniversary is Parakram Diwas
January 20, 2021Prime Minister Modi would preside over the inauguration of the function in Kolkata New Delhi: The Union Culture Ministry yesterday announced that Jan. 23, birth anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose, would be celebrated as “Parakram Diwas” — day of courage — every year. In a notification, the Ministry said the Government had decided to celebrate…















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