New Delhi: By the year 2050, 68% of the world’s population will live in urban areas, the United Nations (UN) said on Wednesday. This boom is expected to be concentrated in India, China and Nigeria, according to a report on the world’s urbanisation prospects released by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic…
R.R. Nagar sees peaceful polling
May 28, 2018Bengaluru: The polling in the prestigious Raja Rajeswari Nagar (RR Nagar) Assembly Constituency began on a moderate note this morning even as the members of JD(S) and Congress coalition will be battling among themselves to improve their respective party’s tally in the Legislative Assembly, while the Opposition BJP is looking at snatching the Constituency from…
12 new e-Toilets to come up in Mysuru
May 28, 2018Mysuru: Mysuru city which had to be satisfied with the top cleanest city tag in the medium category in the country, is all set to add 12 new e-Toilets shortly. During the Swachh Survekshan survey conducted last year, 15 new e-toilets had been installed. The public, tourists and the locals are using this facility since…
Weekend Greeshma Rangotsava begins
May 28, 2018‘Amateur theatre needs due recognition and support’ Mysuru: Greeshma Rangotsava, an amateur theatre festival in memory of theatre artiste C.G. Krishnaswamy (CGK) organised by Rangayana commenced at Bhoomigeeta in Rangayana premises here on Saturday. Inaugurating the festival, senior theatre artiste S. Malathi Sagar opined that amateur theatre needed a good support and encouragement from the…
Council Polls: Candidates interact with Media
May 28, 2018Mysuru: With Legislative Council Polls from South Teacher’s Constituency scheduled on June 8, candidates of Congress, BJP and JD(S) interacted with the press at a programme organised by Mysore District Journalists Association (MDJA) at its premises here this morning. JD(S) candidate Marithibbegowda, Congress candidate M. Lakshmana and BJP candidate Niranjan Murthy assured to work for…
Nalwadi’s birth anniversary on June 4
May 28, 2018Mysuru: The Arasu Mandali Sangha, established in 1922, is celebrating the 134th birth anniversary of Rajarshi Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar on June 4 at its premises on Tyagaraja Road at 9 am. Former MLA M.K. Somashekar will offer floral tributes to the portrait of Nalwadi. Later a procession will be taken to K.R. Circle where the…
CM Kumaraswamy to meet PM Modi this evening
May 28, 2018New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister H. D. Kumaraswamy will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital this evening. Kumaraswamy will meet the Prime Minister for the first time after taking over as the Chief Minister of the JD(S)-Congress coalition government. He will also visit Raj Ghat in the afternoon to pay tribute to…
‘Venu Brahma’ title recipient
May 28, 2018From Tanpura to Jaguar, Raj Narayan’s Radel uses microprocessor digital technology. He was a performing musician, having played the flute at the national level on radio, and had developed an electronic sruti box. Thus was born his first venture in 1979 — Radel Systems that later became Radel Electronics, which makes electronic sruti box, digital…
‘Come up with concrete proposals on development’
May 28, 2018Mysuru: Former MLC D. Madegowda has asked newly-elected Chamaraja BJP MLA L. Nagendra to come up with concrete proposals on development and make honest efforts to implement them. Addressing a gathering of party workers to felicitate Nagendra at a function hall in Vijayanagar here on Saturday, Madegowda wished that Nagendra would meet the aspirations of…
Mammoth Convention of Ex-servicemen held at Gonikoppal in Kodagu
May 28, 2018Gonikoppal (Kodagu) : Lieutenant General Dewan Rabindranath Soni, the current General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C), Southern Command of the Indian Army, has called upon Ex-servicemen to come forward to find employment under Prime Minister’s Skill Development Project. He was addressing a massive rally of ex-servicemen of Indian Army’s Karnataka and Kerala Sub-Area Command at Cauvery College…
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