Fasting shows beneficial effects while there was no adverse impact on body composition or blood parameters Mysore: A study on the impact of fasting during the holy month of Ramzan taken up by the University of Mysore’s Department of Studies in Food Science and Nutrition, has shown a loss in body weight and fat. Sharing…
Youths asked to pay Rs.5,000 fine for sporting hairstyles, in defiance of Jamaat order
June 23, 2019Siddapura (Kodagu): It has become a fashion now a days for youths to sport hairstyles of various designs and colour. With more and more of them aspiring a career in modelling and fashion, youths are looking at the latest hair styles and even imitate western pop icons and singers in outsmarting each other, when it…
‘Onus of protecting environment rests with younger generation’
June 23, 2019Mysuru: Marking World Environment Day, St. Philomena’s College had organised a programme at its premises in Bannimantap here yesterday. Inaugurating the programme Pramoda Devi Wadiyar observed that the environment was getting more polluted day-by-day and opined that the onus of protecting the environment rests with the younger generation and contended that every species under biosphere…
Govt. should celebrate birth centenary of JC Wadiyar: Dr. Manu Baligar
June 23, 2019Mysore: State President of Kannada Sahitya Parishat Dr. Manu Baligar demanded that the State Government should celebrate the birth centenary celebrations of Sri Jayachamaraja Wadiyar by remembering his contributions in the field of music, art, culture, education, development of the modern State, wildlife, agriculture and sports. Speaking at the birth centenary celebration of Sri Jayachamaraja…
Elderly man from Mysuru makes hoax bomb call to Delhi BJP office
June 23, 2019Mysore: An 85-year-old man has been arrested for making a hoax bomb call to the BJP Office in New Delhi. The 85-year-old man has been identified as Sugandaraju, a resident of an apartment at Siddarthanagar. According to the Police, Sugandaraju had called the BJP office in Delhi and claimed that a bomb was planted inside…
Shoot-Out Case: CID detains two persons in Punjab
June 23, 2019Mysuru: The Crime Investigation Department (CID), have detained two persons in Punjab in connection with the May 16 Shoot-Out incident at Hebbal Ring Road junction in city, according to sources. In the shoot-out carried out by the then Vijayanagar Inspector B.G. Kumar, Punjab-based Sukwinder Singh was shot dead, while his two accomplices had fled from…
Pratibhe Vedike celebrates World Music Day
June 23, 2019Mysuru: Marking World Music Day, Pratibhe Vedike, Mysuru, had organised ‘Dasa Sahitya Chintane’ at Dr. Pradeep Kumar Hebri auditorium, Veerashaiva Sarvajanika Seva Samsthe, Vijaya College in Srirampura 2nd Stage here last evening. Delivering a lecture on ‘Dasa Sahitya,’ littérateur Dr. Pradeep Kumar Hebri opined that a good literature was essential for music along with rhythm….
Youth goes missing from city
June 23, 2019Mysuru: A 21-year-old youth has gone missing from his sister’s house at Giriyabovipalya since May 27. The missing youth is Girish, a labourer. He left his sister’s house on May 27 saying that he was going to work and has since gone missing, according to the complaint lodged by his father with Nazarbad Police. Those…
Workshop on Women Empowerment
June 23, 2019STHREE: The Blue Print to Success Mysuru: The Blue Print to Success, a two-day workshop was conducted on June 13 and 14 at the National Institute of Engineering (NIE) under TEQIP III sponsorship by Computer Science Division. Dr. Ratna Nanjundappa of Pittsburgh, USA, who inaugurated the workshop, highlighted on empowering women — a quest for…
“Focus more on socially relevant research”
June 23, 2019Mysuru: Researchers must focus more on socially relevant research to be useful for the development of the society, said Dr. N.N. Prahallada, former faculty, Regional Institute of Education, RIE, NCERT, Mysuru. He was addressing a group of faculty at the five-day Faculty Development Programme on the theme “Teaching, Research and Extension Education” at Vidyavardhaka First…













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