Mysore/Mysuru: Continuing their weekly protest seeking fulfilment of their various demands, Guest Lecturers, under the banner of Government First Grade Colleges Guest Lecturers State Co-ordination Committee and Athithi Upanyasakara Rakshana Vedike, staged a demonstration in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s (DC) office here yesterday. From the past seven weeks (every Tuesday), protesting Guest Lecturers have…
Three held for illegal stone mining at Bebi Betta
August 19, 2020Mandya: In a crackdown against illegal stone mining, a team of officials led by Pandavapura Assistant Commissioner (AC) raided a stone quarry at Bebi Betta on Tuesday and arrested three persons on charges of illegal quarrying. Following complaints that stone quarrying was going on illegally in Bebi Betta area despite the ban, especially during the…
Lay-off: DSS leaders stage protest
August 19, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Strongly opposing the Mysuru City Corporation’s (MCC) decision to lay-off 21 Pourakarmikas working in Zero Waste Management Units in city and terming it as unnecessary and unjustifiable, members of Dalit Sangharsha Samithi’s (DSS) pourakarmikas and unorganised workers unit held protest outside the Office of MCC yesterday morning. Protesters urged the MCC administration to immediately…
Man commits suicide
August 19, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: A 33-year-old man has committed suicide by hanging self at his house in city yesterday morning. The deceased is Siddapaji, a resident of 18th cross at Railway Layout in Vijayanagar. According to Police, Siddapaji was suffering from illness and depressed over this, he took the extreme step when his family members were away from…
Rotary Midtown donates for a cause
August 19, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Rotary Mysore Midtown has financially assisted an engineering graduate under its community service project towards his kidney treatment. The beneficiary is 24-year-old M.R. Prathap, son of M.B. Ramakrishna, a farmer from Malagaranahalli in Maddur taluk, Mandya district, and Sudha, a home-maker, who has donated her kidney to her ailing son. Prathap underwent kidney transplant…
ICAI Mysuru signs MoU with Chikkamagaluru Institution
August 19, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI – Statutory body under an Act of Parliament), Mysuru Chapter and Sri Sai Angels Educational Society has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for CMA Foundation Course. As per the MoU, Sri Sai Angels Educational Society, Chikkamagaluru, is authorised to conduct coaching classes in their…
Entries invited for Rotary Datta Teachers Award – 2020
August 19, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Entries have been invited for Rotary Datta Teachers Award – 2020. Rotary Mysore has been presenting this award to eminent teachers of Mysuru city from past 22 years to celebrate Teacher’s Day and commemorate Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s birthday. The award was instituted by Rtn. K. Dinesh Babu and Ann Lakshmi Dinesh of Datta Jewellers…
KSOU Academic Bhavan COVID Care Centre’s novel initiative
August 18, 2020Huge compost pit to recycle food waste Centre’s Nodal Officer Lt. Col. Dr. S.U. Ashok shows the way Mysore/Mysuru: The COVID Care Centre (CCC) established at the Academic Bhavan of Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) at Mandakalli, which has 526 in-patients as of today, has now got a huge compost pit to convert food and…
Trauma Centre as COVID Hospital: Works going on in full swing
August 18, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Works on the new and ultra-modern Mysuru Trauma Care Centre in PKTB premises on KRS Road to be utilised as another COVID-19 Hospital in the wake of rising Coronavirus cases is going on in full swing. At present, the works on Central Oxygen Supply System, false ceiling, screen partitions have been completed and the…
Open COVID Centre at Sathagalli Bus Stand Complex: MLA
August 18, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Narasimharaja MLA Tanveer Sait has suggested the district administration for a COVID Care Centre (CCC) at Sathagalli Bus Stand Complex in city. Speaking to Star of Mysore, Sait said that as COVID test is being conducted across the city daily, the number of positive cases too was increasing and it is necessary to establish…















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