By H.D. Ramesh Periyapatna: Every one of us would like to live on tree-tops for one or two days, far from the madding crowd and hustle and bustle of the city. But what if you are forced to live atop a tree, 365 days and 24/7, that too under the threat of wild elephants? Here…
Bengaluru: The Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has decided to introduce Kannada as a compulsory subject for all the first-year students. This means that engineering students will now have to mandatorily pass the Kannada language test to move into the next semester. Until now, Kannada had been an add-on subject (in which attendance was compulsory, but…
Bengaluru: The recent transfers affected in the Police Department has not gone down well with a section of IPS officers in the State and they are now blaming “Super Home Minister” Kempaiah (in pic) for the mess. Kempaiah, a retired Police officer, is the advisor to the Home Minister and Chief Minister Siddharamaiah holds the…
Bengaluru: Taking a strong objection to the Cabinet de-notifying around 1,500 dying lakes, State JD(S) President H.D. Kumaraswamy has sought the Governor’s intervention to stop the Government move. Quoting a Supreme Court order and recommendations by Committees headed by retired IAS officer N. Lakshman Rao on lakes in the city, as well as Committees of…
Mysuru: Members of ITC Limited Technical Staff Union, a unit of Mysuru District General Employees Union, have launched a morning to dusk breakfast, lunch and tea abstinence protest during work hours from Monday up to August 5. In a press statement, the members stated that technical officers and agriculture officers of the Karnataka Green Leaf…
Mysuru: To attract engineering students to the field of theatre, Abhiyenthararu – A Theatre for Engineers has organised a theatre training programme from Aug.6 to Sept. 15. Disclosing this at a press meet at Pathrakartara Bhavan here yesterday, Abhiyenthararu President H.S. Suresh Babu said that the organisation had been imparting training to engineers in theatre…
Mysuru: The fake marks card racket at KSOU is acquiring gargantuan proportions with each passing day. After KSOU Co-ordinator in Hubballi Manjunath Kulkarni and Health Department official Mallanna were arrested on Saturday last, KSOU Assistant Registrar (Evaluation) Siddaraju was suspended. And, added to this, an order has been passed to dismiss temporary employee Shivanna. As…
Mysuru: Participating in the Zilla Panchayat meeting yesterday, ZP member Venkataswamy sought the remedial measures taken to tackle dengue and chikungunya in rural areas. In his reply, ZP CEO P. Shivashankar said that 450 cases of suspected dengue were reported in the district and out of 19 deaths, only two were confirmed as dengue by…
Rush continues on second day Mysuru: Totally 4,732 applications have been issued by MUDA for site aspirants for Lalithadrinagar at eight branches of Vijaya Bank in city yesterday. Disclosing this to Star of Mysore, MUDA Chairman D. Dhruvakumar said that about 1,000 applications have been issued by 12 noon today at all the eight Vijaya…
Mysuru: A man who had come to his parents-in-law’s house to take back his wife was found dead with burns in a field near Makanapura village in Nanjangud taluk. The deceased Nagaraj Shetty (36) hailed from Kothanur village in Gundlupet and had married Mani from Makanapura in Nanjangud taluk six years ago in his second…
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