Mysuru: Hundreds of Second Year Pre-University (PU) students, who had written their Biology exam paper on Thursday, have demanded the PU Board to either conduct re-exam or provide grace marks to them as the paper was difficult to answer. Star of Mysore received many phone calls from parents and students of various PU Colleges in…
Sensitising voters in full swing
March 17, 2019Mysuru: The District-level Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) Committee has initiated a lot of steps to ensure maximum voter turnout for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls by initiating a series of voter awareness drives. While political parties have been making hectic preparations to field their candidates for the elections scheduled on Apr.18, the…
‘User fee at K.R. Hospital will badly hit poor patients’
March 17, 2019Mysuru: With user fee for all the treatments being imposed on patients at K.R. Hospital from Mar.1, the patients are obviously shocked at the sudden financial burden imposed by the Government. Medical professionals and others too have voiced their reactions on the order of the Government. When Star of Mysore contacted District in-Charge Minister G.T….
Murdered and Buried: Cops exhume body for post-mortem
March 17, 2019Mysuru: A large crowd including the family members and relatives of a murder victim and Police officials had gathered at the Jodi Tenginamara Burial Grounds this morning as the Cops were waiting for the permission to exhume the body for post-mortem. Details: The victim, identified as Raghavendra (24), a resident of Kumbarakoppal had gone missing…
Department Heads asked to give details of official vehicles
March 17, 2019Mysuru: As Government vehicles will be used for poll duty during the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar, who is also the District Electoral Officer and Returning Officer, has asked the Heads of all Government Departments to keep the official vehicles under their control in good running condition. Also, the Department Heads…
LS Polls: Friends turn rivals in Chamarajanagar
March 17, 2019Chamarajanagar: The Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha seat (SC) seems to be set for a battleground between senior BJP leader V. Sreenivasa Prasad and sitting Congress MP R. Dhruvanarayan, who were close friends and mutual well-wishers earlier. Both Sreenivasa Prasad and Dhruvanarayan, though not contemporaries, started their political career with the Congress and worked closely in the…
Make the world a better place to live: AICTE Chairman tells students, faculty
March 17, 201999th convocation of University of Mysore Mysuru: Chairman of All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi, Prof. Anil D. Sahasrabudhe wanted policy makers to give thrust for Industry-Academic collaboration as such initiatives is a must for overall development of the country. Delivering the 99th Convocation Address of University of Mysore (UoM) at Crawford…
Nikhil Kumaraswamy and mother meet Congress leaders
March 17, 2019Mandya/ Mysuru: Even as the Lok Sabha Polls is drawing near, Mandya politics is getting hotter with each passing day, hitting headlines almost every other day. On Saturday, JD(S) candidate Nikhil Kumaraswamy, son of Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy and his (Nikhil) MLA mother Anitha Kumaraswamy met senior Congress leader and former MP G. Madegowda at…
Yeddyurappa calls on S.M. Krishna
March 17, 2019Bengaluru: With the party yet to decide on fielding a candidate for the Mandya Lok Sabha seat, State BJP President and former CM B.S. Yeddyurappa held talks with former Union Minister S.M. Krishna on Saturday regarding the LS polls. The meeting follows after Krishna, a former Chief Minister who was associated with the Congress for…
Students, women take part in voters awareness drive at Yelwal
March 17, 2019Mysuru: Students of various High Schools and members of women Self Help Groups of Yelwal hobli formed a human chain at the hobli headquarters on Friday as part of voters awareness drive organised by the District-level and Taluk-level Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) Committee. They appealed the voters including first time voters to…















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