Mysuru: The Kannada Pustaka Pradhikara (Kannada Book Authority) has invited applications from young writers for granting subsidy for their first ever publication. The candidates must be in the age group of 18 to 35 years and the work must be their first one, which is not published elsewhere in any form. Subsidy for Kannada books…
BJS to hold Smart Girl training programme in city
June 14, 2018Mysuru: Bharatiya Jain Sanghatan (BJS) has been in the forefront of addressing national concerns in the areas of Disaster Response, Social Development and Educational Initiatives. BJS has worked with Central and many State Governments and NGOs to implement many of its projects. Smart Girl programme, formerly known as EOG (Empowerment of Girls), is a unique…
Liquor licence, renewal process to go online
June 14, 2018Mysuru: The Karnataka Excise Department has decided to streamline the process of issuing licences to all categories of liquor shops, wine stores, bars and restaurants, clubs and other places that serve liquor. And for this, the entire process will be made online to ensure transparency. The Department is mulling to implement the online system by…
Dalits to stage demonstration on June 15 in Bengaluru
June 14, 2018Mysuru: The Dalita Sanghatanegala Okkota will stage a demonstration in Bengaluru on June 15 to demand promotion, reservation in jobs and for continuing the Dalit Atrocities (Prevention) Act in its present form. Announcing this at a press meet here yesterday, Okkoota district President and former Mayor Purushottam said that the demonstration will be held at…
Prof. K. Ramdas commemoration on June 17
June 14, 2018Mysuru: City’s Desiranga Samskrutika Samsthe will be holding a programme in memory of late Writer Prof. K. Ramdas, at Maneyangala, Kalamandira, at 10.30 am on June 17. Samsthe Secretary Krishna Janamana said that the programme features interaction on Prof. Ramdas’s achievements, a seminar on communal harmony and release of book ‘Matiyavaadada Neralalli Prajaprabhutva’ and screening…
Organic Mango Mela on June 18, 19
June 14, 2018Mysuru: Karnataka Institute of Agricultural Marketing, Akashavani, Federation of Mysuru, Mandya, Chamarajanagar Districts Regional Co-operative Organic Farmers Association, Mysuru, along with Kolar and Chikkaballapur Regional Co-operative Organic Federation, have jointly organised an Organic Mango Mela on June 18 and 19 at Karnataka Institute of Agricultural Marketing on Hunsur Road in city from 10.30 am to…
City student bags LSAT Chancellor’s Scholarship
June 14, 2018Mysuru: Sriram D. Hemmige, a student of Vidyavardhaka PU College, Mysuru and an alumnus of Acharya Vidya Kula, has secured admission to O.P. Jindal Global University, one of the top-ranked private Law Universities in India, based on his meritorious performance in LSAT exam, and has been awarded the prestigious Chancellor’s Scholarship. This scholarship will be…
Indo-Sri Lankan Fellowship awarded to city professor
June 14, 2018Mysuru: Dr. M.S. Sapna, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Journalism, Mysore University, has been awarded the Indo-Sri Lankan Foundation Fellowship to visit Colombo for 10 days from June 14 to 24. During her visit, she will be working in collaboration with Sri Lankan Press Institute and will help the journalism school of the Institute…
Mysore Race Course likely to be shifted
June 13, 2018Mysuru: The Mysore Race Course (MRC) will be closed and shifted to a spacious land that will be beyond 25 kilometres from the city limits, said the newly-appointed Minister for Tourism and Sericulture S.R. Mahesh. He was addressing a press conference at the Central Sericulture Research and Training Institute on Manandawadi Road in city this…
Heavy rain in Kodagu severs Road link to Kerala
June 13, 2018Madikeri: Even as massive landslides leading to huge traffic pileups were reported in the Charmadi Ghats and coastal regions in Karnataka as the monsoon fury continued unabated yesterday, rivers and rivulets continue to overflow, blocking several roads in Kodagu. Trees have been uprooted at many places, cutting off power lines and roads have caved-in blocking…














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