Mysuru: The election to the Legislative Council seat from South Teachers Constituency, comprising the districts of Mysuru, Mandya, Hassan and Chamarajanagar, on Friday, recorded a total voter turnout of 79.91 percent. The counting of votes will be taken up on June 12 at Maharani’s Women’s Commerce and Management College in city. While Chamarajanagar, which has…
Thalassery-Mysuru Railway Line via South Kodagu: Survey by Konkan Railway irks villagers
June 9, 2018Ponnampet: Even as the Central Government has been repeatedly saying that the controversial and environmentally destructive Thalassery-Mysuru Railway Line project via South Kodagu has been shelved, officials of Konkan Railway Corporation have been silently conducting a survey in South Kodagu and its green belt for Railway line to pass. Yesterday, a few officials of Konkan…
Brigade Homes Carnival begins
June 9, 2018Mysuru: This is the right time to invest in homes as the real estate market is picking up after a sluggish year,” said B.R. Suchendra, Head, Brigade Enterprises Limited, Mysuru Branch. Speaking to Star of Mysore at the two-day Brigade Easy Homes Carnival exhibition organised by the Brigade Group at Hotel Grand Mercure, here this…
Mysuru bags Best Award for waste segregation
June 9, 2018Mysuru: Mysuru city has been conferred with the ‘Four Leaves Award’ at the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) convention on Urban Solid Waste Management held in New Delhi on June 7. While Mysuru has performed well as the city with the best processes to remain clean, Bengaluru scores low in the assessment of the…
One crore seed ball production begins in State tomorrow
June 9, 2018Mysuru: Karnataka Navodaya Schools and Navodaya Old Students Association, in association with the Forest Department, is launching one crore seed balls project tomorrow (June 10), said Mandya Navodaya old student H.N. Bharath Kumar, Convenor of the Seed Ball Project 2018. He was addressing a press conference at Pathrakartara Bhavan here yesterday and said that this…
International Yoga Day in city on June 21
June 9, 2018Mysuru: Even though the city has lost a chance to host the International Day of Yoga (unofficially referred to as International Yoga Day), Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar has directed the officials of the District Administration to make all preparations for celebrating it on June 21 at the Race Course. The second rehearsal will be…
Body of 4-month baby boy found in garbage heap
June 9, 2018Mysuru: The body of a four-month-old baby boy was found dumped in a garbage heap between 9th and 10th cross near Annapoorneshwari Temple in Hebbal this morning. The body was discovered by MCC Pourakarmikas when they were cleaning the garbage heap early this morning. Hebbal Police, who rushed to the spot after receiving information, conducted…
Tumkur Varsity VC distributes certificates to 303 astrology graduates
June 9, 2018‘Sanctity of astrology should be preserved’ Mysuru: The Graduation Day of Bharathiya Jyotirvignana Samshodhana Kendra was held at Aradhya Mahasabha on JLB Road here recently. Certificates in various branches of astrology were distributed to 303 candidates who had successfully completed their courses during 2017-18. The certificates were distributed by Tumkur University Vice-Chancellor Dr. Y.S. Siddegowda…
Floral tributes to advocate, doctor and scholar
June 9, 2018Mysuru: Akhila Bharatha Veerashaiva Mahasabha, Veerashaiva Lingayat Associations and Basava Balaga Okkuta, Mysuru, had organised a programme at Rajendra Bhavan in JSS Hospital premises here recently to pay tributes to advocate H. Gangadharan, Dr. C.N. Mruthyunjayappa and scholar S. Nanjundaiah, who passed away in city recently. Floral tributes were paid to the portraits of the…
Awareness drive on COTPA held in H.D. Kote taluk
June 9, 2018H.D. Kote: District Department of Health and Family Welfare, District Surveillance Office and District Tobacco Control Cell together had organised an awareness drive on COTPA (Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act) – 2003 at Saragur in the taluk covering shops, hotels, bars and provision stores at public places recently. District Tobacco Control Cell Advisor Shivakumar…















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