Mysuru: The following 14 personalities from different fields have been selected for Hoysala awards for the year 2018 given by city’s Hoysala Kannada Sangha and Savigannada Patrika Balaga: Dr. Jyothi Shankar (Vyaakhyaana), Dr. Geeta Seetharam (Music), Dr. C.G. Ushadevi (Literature), Vasantalakshmi Seetaramaiah (Gamaka), Chetana Bhat (Entrepreneur), Dr. D.S. Jayappa Gowda (Literature), Dr. N.M. Shyamsundar (Medical),…
Mysuru: A Cobra snake, which was injured after it came under a shovel of workers who were cleaning an empty place, was rescued, treated for injuries and released into a forest. On Saturday, about 15 migrant workers from Odisha and Maharashtra, who had come to city for road asphalting works, were cleaning an empty place…
Mysuru: Mysuru Rural Police, on May 3 have arrested a man on charges of stealing chilli bags worth Rs. 2 lakh from the shop he was working at Bandipalya APMC Yard and have recovered Rs. 1.5 lakh cash, five bags of chilli worth about Rs. 10,000 from him. The accused has been identified as Amjad…
Mysore: To identify young singers and promote them, the annual ‘National-level Akashavani Music Contest-2019’ will be held in two stages. The preliminary selection will be held at Mysore Akashavani Kendra. An entry fee of Rs. 500 should be paid through DD drawn in favour of the Station Director, All India Radio, Mysuru. The participant’s age…
Mysore: City girl T. Umme Ayman has been selected as one of the 200 outstanding ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’ to be part of the 49th St. Gallen Symposium to be held at St. Gallen, Switzerland, from May 8 to 10. Daughter of Asif Ali and grand-daughter of Rasheed Ahmed (ex-Vice President of KSFA), she is working…
Bans homework for Class 1 and 2 students; Every Third Saturday will be ‘No Bag Day’ Mysore: The State Government has stepped in to reduce homework for school students and restrict the weight of their school bags. The weight of the school bag has been in debate for years and experts have often opined that…
Mysuru: Renowned novelist from Mysuru R.K. Narayan had raised the issue of school bag weight in the Rajya Sabha in the late 1980s. Narayan, who created some of the most memorable stories about childhood, argued for abolition of the school bag. Such a measure should be the beginning of a wider reform in school education….
Mysore: Much ahead of the Department of Primary and Secondary Education issuing a circular stating that every third Saturday of a month must be observed as a ‘No Bag Day’, certain schools in Mysuru have already put this system into practice. Speaking to Star of Mysore, Principal of Vijaya Vittala School S.P. Asha said that…
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways submits affidavit in Supreme Court Wildlife activists hail move; Kerala seeks more time to look into affidavit Bengaluru: In a major relief to Karnataka that has been relentlessly fighting to keep roads through Bandipur Tiger Reserve closed at night, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) and Ministry…
20-member team from Madurai catches 30 pigs on first day Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) began a drive of catching stray pigs which cause health problems to the people and are also a nuisance as they dirty the surroundings, defeating the very purpose of the Swachh Bharat campaign of keeping the city clean. The…
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