New Delhi: The Central Board of Trustees of Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has recommended interest rate of 8.5 percent — the lowest interest rate in over five years — on Provident Fund deposits to around six crore subscribers for the current financial year (2019-20). This is lower than the 8.65 percent interest rate given…
Mysuru/Mysore: Noted theatre personality Addanda Anitha Cariappa has been selected for the prestigious ‘Kittur Rani Chennamma’ award given by the Department of Women and Child Development in recognition of her services for overall development of women. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 25,000 and a citation. Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa will present the…
Pack of dogs bites toddler in front of her house Nanjangud: A pack of stray dogs attacked a two-year-old girl at Thyagaraja Colony here yesterday injuring the toddler seriously. The injured child is Sukrutha, daughter of Savitha, a resident of the Colony. The little girl was playing in front of her house when a pack…
Mysuru/Mysore: The three-day State-level Para Games-2020, organised by Karnataka Sports Association for the Physically Handicapped, Bengaluru, began at Chamundi Vihar Stadium, Nazarbad in the city this morning. On the first-day today, the event was held for specially-abled children aged between 6 and 12 years of the district under four categories —Cerebral Palsy (CP), Deaf and…
Youth Exchange Programme Students from Kashmir attend Mysuru/Mysore: The NSS (National Service Scheme) Wing of JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research (JSS AHER), under the aegis of Youth Empowerment and Sports Department, Government of Karnataka, in association with Nehru Yuva Kendra (NYK), Mysuru, had organised a ‘National Integration Camp’ under the theme ‘Ek Bharath…
Mysuru/Mysore: “Due to lack of trust between banks and industrialists, in the last two years, more than 7,000 industrialists have left this country which is really not a good sign,” said Sri Ravishankar Guruji, founder of Art of Living Foundation, Bengaluru. He was addressing the participants during the ‘Corporate Wellness Conference 2020’ on the theme…
Training imparted for tribal and rural women Mysuru/Mysore: Baalya Trust, Global Kulture and Raagarashmi – Foundation for Art and Culture had jointly organised a training programme “Making sustainable and reusable Sanitary napkin for tribal and rural women” in Hunasekuppe Tribal Colony, H. D. Kote and Hunsur recently. Nearly 50 women and students from Sri Devaraj…
Mysuru/Mysore: The Second Karnataka State-level ISTE (Indian Society for Technical Education) Polytechnic Students’ Convention was organised by JSS Polytechnic for Women in Mysuru recently. N. Ravichandran, Joint Director-Exams, Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Bengaluru, inaugurated the function and stressed on the need for such conventions by educational institutions. Stating that technology is the need of…
Mysuru/Mysore: Mysuru ZP Vice-President Gowramma Somashekar said that rural students should follow their urban counterparts in learning Yoga. She was speaking after inaugurating a two-day Yoga Training Camp for High school Physical Education (PE) teachers organised jointly by the Zilla Panchayat and AYUSH Department at a private Hotel here on Thursday. Highlighting the various benefits…
H. D. Kote: In a ghastly road accident, the riders of two motorcycles were killed on the spot, while a pillion rider on one of the motorcycles sustained serious injuries, in a head-on collision on H.D.Kote-Hunsur road late last night. The deceased have been identified as Ubaid (24), a native of Kerala and Kantharaju(28) of…
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