Mysuru: The Department of Electronics and Communication, SJCE, has organised a two-day workshop on ‘Internet Design Evolution from Data to Multimedia Application’ on Mar. 16 and 17 at its premises in city. The workshop will be inaugurated at 9.30 am at the E&C Seminar Hall. Dr. Dhadesugoor R. Vaman, Chief Technology Officer, Digital Compression Technology…
World Consumer Day celebration by MGP tomorrow
March 14, 2018Mysuru: March 15 is celebrated all over the world as Consumer Day. For Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP), it is a special day. It was on that day in 1989, MGP was inaugurated and since then it has been serving Mysureans to solve consumer problems. One such major area is food adulteration. Despite efforts by MGP…
Echo of trekking tragedy at Tamil Nadu : Karnataka Forest Department bans trekking till summer ends
March 13, 2018Mysuru: The Karnataka Forest Department has banned trekking in forests in the State till the end of summer. This decision was taken at a meeting of High-Level State Forest officials yesterday in Bengaluru in the wake of forest fire at Kurangini Hills in Theni district of Tamil Nadu where 10 trekkers perished. In a circular…
New Mysuru DC takes charge
March 13, 2018Mysuru: K.B. Sivakumar, a 2010 batch IAS Officer, took charge as the new Deputy Commissioner of Mysuru District here yesterday. Sivakumar took over from D. Randeep, who has been transferred as Hassan DC. A native of Tamil Nadu, Sivakumar had earlier served as the DC and ZP CEO at Vijayapura, as Assistant Commissioner at Indi…
Convocation over, fresh applications invited for Mysore Varsity VC post!
March 13, 2018Mysuru: Even as the 98th convocation of the University of Mysore was held yesterday in the absence of the Governor-Chancellor, Pro-Chancellor and a regular Vice-Chancellor, the selection to the post of the 25th Vice-Chancellor is going to be further delayed. The Higher Education Department, it is said, has called for reconstitution of the Search Committee…
Heart patient taken to swanky Jayadeva Hospital; sent back to old Hospital !
March 13, 2018Mysuru: The swanky new Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research on KRS Road in PKTB Sanatorium premises bereft of any facilities was inaugurated with much fanfare on Mar.10 by Chief Minister Siddharamaiah and it was covered extensively in the media. Thinking that it was fully operational, a patient was brought to the new hospital…
House burgled in broad daylight
March 13, 2018Mysuru: House burglars, who struck a locked house at Kalpavrukshanagar 3rd Stage, 1st Main, 2nd Cross, in broad daylight on Monday, have decamped with gold jewellery worth about Rs.2.5 lakh from the house. The burglary took place at the house of Moses Rajashekar, retired Joint Director at the Education Department. Moses, along with his family…
No ‘Breakfast Bhagya’ for Pourakarmikas yet
March 13, 2018Mysuru: The much-hyped ‘Upahara Bhagya’ (Breakfast scheme) mooted by Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) a year ago to provide morning breakfast to 2,300 Pourakarmikas engaged in cleaning work is yet to take off owing to policy issues. The MCC had announced that it would start serving breakfast to Pourakarmikas from Feb. 2017. With cleanliness taking the…
Gauri Lankesh murder: Court gives green signal for SIT to conduct tests on Naveen
March 13, 2018Bengaluru: The 3rd Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Court yesterday gave its permission to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Gauri Lankesh murder case to subject the accused in the case, K.T. Naveen Kumar, to Narco Analysis Test. The Magistrate also directed the Police that the test be carried out according to the guidelines…
K.R. Hospital to get more beds, facilities
March 13, 2018Mysuru: Here is some good news for the patients who visit K.R. Hospital and constantly complain of lack of beds and other facilities there. The hospital is likely to get the infrastructure that was set up for the Mysuru branch of Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research that will now move to its…















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