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Mega Cold Storage Unit to come up at APMC Yard
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Mega Cold Storage Unit to come up at APMC Yard

December 26, 2025

Mysore/Mysuru: In a boon to the farming community, a farmer friendly mega Cold Storage Unit is coming up in APMC (Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee) yard at Bandipalya on Mysuru-Nanjangud Road. This cold storage will help the farmers to store their produce whenever crop prices crash and until the price shoots up. This facility will also…

Glanders equine disease scare: 598 blood samples sent for lab testing
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Glanders equine disease scare: 598 blood samples sent for lab testing

December 26, 2025

Horse owners advised to halt inter-district sale, movement Mysore/Mysuru: The death of a two-year-old horse at Mysore Race Club (MRC) after contracting the deadly Glanders — a zoonotic bacterial disease — has prompted animal health authorities to collect and dispatch 598 blood samples, including those from three donkeys and 595 horses, to National Research Centre…

Unsafe LPG use by roadside vendors comes into focus
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Unsafe LPG use by roadside vendors comes into focus

December 26, 2025

Mysore/Mysuru: The balloon gas-filling cylinder blast in front of the Jayamarthanda Gate of Mysore Palace has once again drawn attention to unsafe practices followed by roadside food vendors who use LPG cylinders to cook food in public spaces. Many such vendors neither follow safety instructions nor are fully aware of the dangers involved. Street food…

Temple to distribute two lakh laddus to devotees on Jan. 1
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Temple to distribute two lakh laddus to devotees on Jan. 1

December 26, 2025

Mysore/Mysuru: Sri Yoganarasimhaswamy Temple in Vijayanagar will be distributing two lakh laddus to devotees visiting the Temple on Jan. 1. Addressing the media persons at the temple premises, this morning, Prof. Bhashyam Swamiji, Founder of Sri Yoganarasimhaswamy Temple, said that preparations are underway to distribute two lakh laddus with a total of 135 cooks working…

Noopura Shree Award conferred on Dr. Vasundhara Doraswamy
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Noopura Shree Award conferred on Dr. Vasundhara Doraswamy

December 26, 2025

Mysore/Mysuru: International danseuse Dr. Vasundhara Doraswamy, who is also the  Central Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardee, was conferred Noopura Shree  Prashasthi (Award) for her yeomen service to Bharatanatyam during the Smt. K. Vanajakshamma Memorial 30th Nritya Aradhana  in memory of Natyacharya Prof. K. Ramamurthy  Rao’s mother at a function held at Ganabharathi’s  auditorium  in Kuvempunagar recently…

Centenarian dies
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Centenarian dies

December 26, 2025

Nanjangud: Centenarian Lingappa (Paradeshi Lingappa) passed away at Hulimavu in                                Nanjangud taluk yesterday. The 100-year-old is survived by his wife Chinnamma, 4 sons, including former Hulimavu Gram Panchayat President H.L.Somashekar and Hulimavu Milk Producers Co-operative Society Director H.L. Shivakumar, 2 daughters and a host of relatives and friends. Last rites were performed at Hulimavu this…

Youth dies of electrocution at Nanjangud taluk
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Youth dies of electrocution at Nanjangud taluk

December 26, 2025

Nanjangud: In a tragic incident, a 28-year-old youth died of electrocution at Hemmaragala in Nanjangud taluk on Thursday. The deceased youth has been identified as S. Mahesh (28), son of Somanna, a local BJP leader. Mahesh was cleaning his car near his farmhouse in Hemmaragala, when he accidentally trampled upon a fallen live wire and…

Madhuri Thathachari receives Rotary Margadarshak Award
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Madhuri Thathachari receives Rotary Margadarshak Award

December 26, 2025

Mysore/Mysuru: Rotary Ivory City Margadarshak Award was conferred on Madhuri Thathachari, Managing Trustee, Bhramara Trust, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to various community services. Immediate Past District Governor Rtn. Vikram Dutta presented the award at Rotary Ivory City Mysuru’s Charter Nite and Decennial celebrations recently. Speaking on the occasion, Vikram Dutta said that over…

Mysurean wins Literary Global Book Award for Art
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Mysurean wins Literary Global Book Award for Art

December 26, 2025

Mysore/Mysuru: Ganesh K. Shenoy, author and artist, has won the 2025 Literary Global Book Award in the Non-fiction – Art category for his book ‘Kinetic Pointillism: An Emerging Art Movement.’ The book previously earned recognition in the Golden Book of World Records in 2023 under the “First” category. It explores kinetic pointillism, an evolving art…

Free health check-up camp tomorrow
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Free health check-up camp tomorrow

December 26, 2025

Mysore/Mysuru: Virat Vishwa Global Foundation has organised a free health check-up camp for Vishwakarma community members at Town Hall in city at 9 am tomorrow (Dec. 27). Announcing this at a press meet here yesterday, Foundation’s C.A. Nagarajachar said that the camp has been organised in association with Narayana Multi-Speciality Hospital and all Vishwakarma Associations…

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