Gundlupet: A Forest Officer, working at Bandipur Project Tiger as a Range Forest Officer (RFO), attempted suicide at the Forest Department Guest House on Monday over personal problems. The RFO, who attempted suicide, has been identified as 46-year-old K.R. Mukund, a native of Hunsur, who was staying alone at the guest house since four years….
Pharmacy student ends life
October 17, 2017Mysuru: A pharmacy student committed suicide by hanging self in his room here last night. The deceased student has been identified as Pavan Kumar (19), a first year pharmacy student at JSS College of Pharmacy and a native of Kanaganamaradi in Pandavapura taluk. Pavan was staying at a room in Shivarathreeshwara Nagar here and was…
Houses burgled: Gold ornaments, silver articles stolen
October 17, 2017Mysuru: In separate incidents, burglars who entered two houses in city, have decamped with gold ornaments and silver articles worth about Rs. 27 lakh from the houses. In the first case, burglars who broke into the house of one Syed Ameen in Subashnagar on Oct. 14, have decamped with gold ornament weighing about a kg….
Man held for poaching and sandalwood theft
October 17, 2017Periyapatna: The Forest sleuths arrested a person allegedly involved in poaching of wild animals and sandalwood theft here on Sunday. The accused has been identified as Suresh, a resident of Basaveshwara Colony in Bettadapura village. The Forest sleuths said, his brother Vijay, who was also involved in illegal activities, escaped from the spot. Forest sleuths…
ISHRAE@NIEIT inaugurated
October 17, 2017Mysuru: ISHRAE@NIEIT, the student chapter of ISHRAE — Indian Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning — was inaugurated by P.V. Bharadhwaj, President, ISHRAE Mysore Chapter, at a programme organised by the Department of Mechanical Engineering of NIE-IT at NIE-IT campus in city recently. Bharadwaj administered the oath of the Society. T.A. Prabhakar, Secretary of…
Feast of St. Teresa of Avila
October 17, 2017Mysuru: Teresianites celebrated the feast of St. Teresa of Avila, Patroness and Alma Mater of Teresian College and Institute, in the College premises recently. St. Teresa of Avila was born in Spain in the year 1515, a great Carmelite Saint and the first woman doctor of the Church. Pope John XXIII referred to her as…
Workshop on computers for Govt. employees on Oct. 25
October 17, 2017Mysuru: Aditya Institute of Management and Information Technology (AIMIT), Mysuru, in association with Computer Society of India, Mysore Local Chapter, has organised a day-long workshop on ‘Computer Basics and Internet’ for State Government employees who are not computer literates to orient them on how to face computer exams conducted by the State Government. The workshop…
MRC to conduct extra days of racing
October 17, 2017Mysuru: The Mysore Race Club (MRC) Limited has rescheduled the Mysore Races of Oct.13 (Friday), to Oct.19 (Thursday). The races were postponed on Oct.13, as the race track was not conducive for racing owing to heavy rains. The MRC has also announced three extra days of racing on Oct. 27 (Friday), Oct. 30 (Monday) and…
Orthodontists’ Week observed
October 17, 2017Mysuru: The Department of Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopaedics celebrated ‘Orthodontic Week’ recently. The celebrations began with various competitions for the students, like flower carpet competition, smile photography contest etc. The Orthodontic Week culminated with Orthodontists’ Day celebration along with two-day CDE programme and Clinical Photography Workshop. As a social responsibility initiative measure, three students were…
CM distributes Sites at R.T. Nagar: 1,683 sites allotted through lottery
October 16, 2017Mysuru: It was a long twenty-year wait for the MUDA site aspirants of R.T. Nagar, as Chief Minister Siddharamaiah symbolically picked up the lots from the manual rotating drum, at R.T. Nagar here this morning. He picked up the token of nearly 13 people, belonging to SC/ST and physically challenged category and distributed allotment letters…















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