Mysuru: A drama that one pens will gain importance or significance only when it is staged on an important stage, opined dramatist and retired BEML officer S.G. Shivashankar. He was speaking after being felicitated at Rangayana’s Vanaranga where the play ‘Nenapu Hasiru’ was staged here on Monday. Rangasangama and Kannada & Culture Department had jointly…
Veteran Yakshagana artiste Chittani passes away
October 4, 2017Mangaluru: Veteran Yakshagana artiste Chittani Ramachandra Hegde passed away at KMC Hospital in Manipal last night, due to pneumonia. He was 84. He was admitted to the ICU in Manipal on Friday. One of the most popular Yakshagana artistes, Chittani, as he was widely known, hailed from Honnavar in Uttara Kannada district. He was the…
City Lawyers boycott Court proceedings
October 4, 2017Mysuru: City lawyers, expressing dissatisfaction over the step-motherly attitude in appointing Judges to the Karnataka High Court, today boycotted the Court proceedings in response to the State-wide call given by the Karnataka State Bar Council. The lawyers abstained from Court proceedings as a mark of protest against the transfer of Justice Jayant Patel from Karnataka…
Activists stage demo against Goa CM
October 4, 2017Mysuru: Strongly condemning the Goa Government’s action of razing down homes of Kannadigas who were living in Goa for decades, nearly 50 Kannada activists under the banner of Mysuru Zilla Kannada Chaluvaligarara Sangha staged a demonstration in front of Mahatma Gandhi’s bust opposite the Law Courts Complex here this morning. The protestors hanged the effigy…
Pickpocket caught near CM’s house
October 4, 2017Mysuru: Even as people gathered near CM Siddharamaiah’s residence in Ramakrishnanagar here this morning were looking to meet the CM for redressal of their problems, a pickpocket, said to be in his mid-thirties, was caught by the public while attempting to pick the pocket a person in the crowd. The alleged pickpocket was handed over…
“To overcome accidents in factories, periodical training should be integrated”
October 4, 2017CII holds session with Deputy Director of Factories and Boilers Mysuru:“Complacent factors need to be eliminated to avoid accidents in factories,” said D. C. Jagadeesh, Deputy Director, Department of Factories, Boilers, Industrial Safety and Health. Speaking during a session on ‘Department Initiatives and Recent Amendments’ organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Mysuru, at a…
‘Hakkigala Jeevabhava’ children’s play launched
October 4, 2017Mysuru: State Award-winning child artiste Siri Vanalli launched the children’s play titled ‘Hakkigala Jeevabhava’ at a programme organised by Kannada and Culture Department in association with Kadamba Ranga Vedike at Sri Nadabrahma Sangeetha Sabha on JLB Road here on Monday. Speaking on the occasion, she said the play seeks to send a message that humans,…
KSOU fate hangs in balance: Special Board of Management meets
October 3, 2017Mysuru: Amidst growing concern regarding the future of lakhs of students studying in the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU), following de-recognition of courses, the Special Board of Management (BoM), met here this morning and decided to upload the application online for 2018-19 on the University Grants Commission (UGC) website by this evening and file a…
Selfie craze snuffs out three young lives
October 3, 2017Mandya/ Mysuru: Craze for a selfie in front of a moving train wiped out three young lives on the Mysuru-Bengaluru Railway track near Ramanagaram this morning. The young boys hailed from Bengaluru and were taking selfies when the speeding Mysuru-Solapur-Gol-Gumbaz Express ran over them. Their bodies were mangled beyond recognition and certain body parts were…
Mysuru-Bengaluru track to be electrified by month end
October 3, 2017Mysuru: The work on restoration of the translocated Tipu Armoury at Srirangapatna has begun on a war-footing and will be completed within a week. Simultaneously, the completion of electrification of the double track between Bengaluru and Mysuru that was pending due to the Armoury shifting will be completed by the end of October. The translocation…















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