MP Pratap Simha, KR MLA T. S. Srivatsa and DHO flag off the van adorned with huge mosquito model Mysore/Mysuru: Dengue Ratha, a van with boards on do’s and don’ts to create awareness on dengue fever in the district, was flagged off in city last evening. A joint initiative of National Health Mission (NHM), District…
Mysore/Mysuru: In order to sensitise people on the importance of eye donation, Rotary Panchsheel Mysore, in association with Rotary Mysore, Rotary International District 3181 (Zone 7&8) and Rotary Avoidable Blindness Foundation, had organised ‘Andha Nadige’ (Blind Walk), an eye donation awareness campaign in city this morning. The walk, in which several participants marched blindfolded, began…
Annual get-together event honours two accomplished authors, student achievers from the community Mysore/Mysuru: The 18th annual get-together of the Jayalakshmi Kodava Association was held recently at the Kodagu Sahakara Sangha, Jayalakshmipuram, Mysuru. Virajpet MLA Ajjikuttira S. Ponnanna was the chief guest. MLA Ponnanna was honoured with a custom-made marquetry art piece depicting Talacauvery, the birthplace…
Mysore/Mysuru: Dr. Venkatagiri Dalavai, Special Officer of the Department of Tribal Welfare, expressed deep concern about the encroachment of religion into the lives of tribal communities, which have long been regarded as the original inhabitants of the land. Speaking at a national-level seminar on the theme of ‘Tribal Transition in India: Issues and Challenges,’ organised…
Mysore/Mysuru: Udupi Pejawar Mutt Seer Sri Vishwaprasanna Teertha Swamiji released ‘Srimad Bhagavatam,’ a Kannada translation by Vidwan Vijayendra Acharya, at Sri Krishnadhama, Saraswathipuram in city last evening. The book was released as a part of ‘Srimad Ramayana’ discourse series, organised as part of 36th Chaturmasya Vratha of Sri Vishwaprasanna Teertha Swamiji by Chaturmasya Committee. Speaking…
Mysore/Mysuru: Dr. K.A. Anu Appaiah, retired Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-CFTRI, Mysuru, has been invited by the Government of India to be the Independent Member of Scientific Committee of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) for three years (2023-25). Scientific Committee is the highest scientific body of FSSAI, which frames all the regulations concerned…
Mysore/Mysuru: A 43-year-old resident of Gayathripuram in the city, M.S. Ramachandra, finds himself a victim of deception after paying an advance of Rs. 10.10 lakh for the purchase of a house. The deception unfolded when Ramachandra, acquainted with a real estate broker named Prabhu, was informed by Prabhu that a house (No. 267) owned by…
Mysore/Mysuru: Online fraudsters have cheated a woman of Rs. 1.68 lakh on the pretext of providing part time job to her. The woman, who was cheated, is 28-year-old Y.R. Soundarya, a resident of Judges Quarters in Kuvempunagar. Soundarya, who came across a part time job advertisement on ‘X’ (earlier Twitter), clicked on it and was…
Spacecraft to cover over 1.5 million kms in 4 months to reach a unique parking spot in space to study the sun Bengaluru: Nine days after India’s successful moon landing with Chandrayaan-3, India’s maiden space-based solar observation mission, Aditya L1, weighing 1,475 kg, was launched aboard the PSLV rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre…
Mysore/Mysuru: B.S. Ramachandra Rao (96), freedom fighter and a resident of Saraswathipuram, passed away here on Wednesday (Aug. 30) night. A Mechanical Engineer by profession, he had participated in Quit India Movement as a teenager and in the 1946 freedom struggle held at Hassan, he was jailed for flying the Indian flag atop a Police…
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