Mysore/Mysuru: ‘Guru-Shishya’ parampara denotes a succession of teachers and disciples in traditional Vedic culture. It is the tradition of spiritual relationship and mentoring where teachings are transmitted from a ‘Guru’ (teacher) to a ‘Shishya’ (student). Shishya eventually masters the knowledge Guru embodies. City’s Nrityagiri Academy has initiated a special series ‘Guru-Shishya Nrityollasa,’ a dance recital…
Register FIRs against tea shops violating COTPA: ADC tells officials
February 14, 2020Rs. 8,000 worth cigarettes and gutka seized from three shops Three persons fined Rs. 200 each for smoking in public Mysore/Mysuru: In an effort to implement the COTPA ACT in city effectively, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) B.R. Poornima, along with the officials of the District Health and Family Welfare Department and the District Administration, conducted…
Extra-corporeal Radiotherapy performed on 9-year-old
February 14, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Doctors at Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Mysuru, Dr. K.R. Suhas, Dr. M.B. Suman and their team, have performed Extra-Corporeal Radiotherapy on a nine-year-old girl to save her from bone cancer. The successful completion of the treatment has made Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, the first hospital in the city to have performed this therapy. The girl came…
Libraries in all 65 Wards of the city soon: Mayor
February 14, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru Mayor Tasneem has assured that libraries will be set up in all the 65 Wards of the city soon with the provision of basic facilities including toilets and electricity. She was speaking at a meeting convened with the District Library Committee members at City Central Library, Government Ayurveda College Circle, recently. “Out of…
Five persons arrested while attempting to sell Sand Boa
February 14, 2020Madikeri: The Forest Mobile Squad personnel have arrested five persons, who were trying to sell a Sand Boa snake at Thithimathi in Virajpet taluk on Feb. 12 and have rescued the snake from them. The accused are 57-year-old Mulla Mehaboob Vali, 45-year-old Sheik Mulla Chand Pasha, 27-year-old S. Fayaz, 45-year-old Boya Rangaswamy and 29-year-old Sheik…
Water released to KRS Canals
February 14, 2020Mandya: Following demand from farmers, Cauvery Neeravari Nigama Ltd.(CNNL) authorities has released water to KRS canals starting from yesterday (Feb.13). CNNL Superintendent Engineer K.G. Vijaykumar said that following a Cauvery Tribunal order, water has been released in all canals of KRS reservoir to enable the farmers to irrigate sugarcane fields along the path of the…
No Bandh
February 13, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: The 12-hour Karnataka bandh called by several pro-Kannada organisations, under the banner of Karnataka Sanghatanegala Okkoota, turned out to be a damp squib this morning as buses and autos plied as usual in city. The organisations are demanding the implementation of a 1984 report by former Union Minister Sarojini Mahishi that recommends a certain…
Upload details of criminal cases against candidates: Apex Court
February 13, 2020Supreme Court asks political parties to list reasons for giving tickets to tainted candidates New Delhi: Exercising its Constitutional powers, the Supreme Court (SC) this morning put political parties on a tight leash and made mandatory for all political parties to give reasons for putting up candidates with criminal antecedents in General and Assembly polls….
Hospet car accident kills two
February 13, 2020Was Minister Ashoka’s son at the wheels? Bengaluru: After Mohammad Nalapad, son of Shantinagar Congress MLA N.A. Haris, was in the news for an accident in a high-end car in Bengaluru two days back, now Karnataka Revenue Minister R. Ashoka’s son is allegedly involved in a car accident that killed two people at Hospet in…
Decks cleared for Madappa’s 100-ft statue atop M.M. Hills
February 13, 2020Hanur: Decks are clear to build a 100-ft statue of Male Mahadeshwara Swamy on a 43-acre plot atop Male Mahadeshwara Hills (M.M. Hills), about 110 km from Mysuru. The land hurdle for the project has been cleared and the construction will begin soon. Sri Male Mahadeshwara Swamy Development Authority (MMDA) had planned to install the…















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