Mysuru: The National Institute of Engineering (NIE) is organising a one-day assessment workshop on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) on July 2 from 10 am to 1 pm at its Sarvepalli Radhakrishna Seminar Hall, Mysuru. The main objectives of the workshop are to collate the WASH issues in an urban milieu by involving all stakeholders…
Mysuru: Alleging total neglect of Kannada in the UGC’s Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) degree curriculum, the Kannada Professors Association will stage a demonstration in front of Crawford Hall here on July 2. Announcing this at a press meet here recently, Association Convenor Dr. M. Ramakrishna said that the UGC (University Grants Commission) has failed…
Mysuru: Udayagiri Police have arrested a 20-year-old youth on charges of attempting to rape a minor girl. The arrested youth has been identified as Hemanth Kumar, a resident of Gayatripuram in city. Hemanth Kumar is accused of luring the minor girl, who had gone missing for a couple of days and attempting to rape her….
Mysuru: Despite severe opposition from residents of Kodagu and Mysuru, elected representatives and environmentalists, the Government of Kerala is getting ready to prepare a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the Thalassery-Mysuru Railway line that will pass through lush green forests in South Kodagu. The line is among the ‘prioritised’ projects of Kerala. Certain reputed firms,…
Mysuru: Reacting on the preparation of the DPR and the opening of technical bids, Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha said that the Kerala government’s move was unconstitutional and anti-democratic. Speaking to Star of Mysore this morning from BJP office at Malleswaram in Bengaluru where the party is holding the State Executive Committee meeting, Simha said an…
Mysuru: As a Varamahalakshmi festival gift to women, State-owned Karnataka Silk Industries Corporation Ltd. (KSIC) will sell Mysore Silk sarees worth Rs. 6,500 at a discount price of Rs. 4,500 per saree. This move is to make sarees affordable to the poor and middle class families, announced Tourism and Sericulture Minister S.R. Mahesh. He also…
Mysuru: The issue of non-payment for the food contractor of Indira Canteens in city reverberated at the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Council meeting held at Nalwadi Krishnaraja Auditorium yesterday. The proposal of some Corporators to divert funds from infrastructure-related works and give it to run Indira Canteens led to chaotic scenes. It may be recalled…
Naming of public buildings after several personalities too figured in the Council meeting. Corporator J.S. Jagadish proposed the name of former Vice-Chancellor of University of Mysore Prof K.S. Rangappa for an auditorium built at a park in the city. It was one of the several proposals to name roads, Circles and parks after various personalities…
Mandya: It will be a unique contest for food-lovers to keep their taste buds tingling. A traditional District-level Ragi Mudde, Naati Koli Saaru (chicken curry) eating contest will be held on Sunday (July 1) at Mangala Village near Mandya. What’s more, participants of the competition will even get a chance to act in a cinema….
Bengaluru: The shadow-boxing and indirect taunts between Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy and his predecessor, Siddharamaiah over various issues in the coalition government has now acquired a caste colour with Seers of communities to which the two leaders belong to — Vokkaliga and Kuruba — taking sides. A day after the Vokkaliga Seer of Spatikapuri Mahasamsthana…
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