Mysuru: A person unable to pay his daughter’s college fees has ended his life, this morning in the city. The unfortunate victim is Gangadhar, a resident of Brindavan Extension, who used to make ‘Prasadams’ to the Ganapathy Temple in the area. His daughter was studying in B. Sc and he had to pay a fees…
KPSC selections: HC declines to vacate stay on appointing 362 candidates
June 22, 2017Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court yesterday refused to vacate the stay on the appointment of 362 candidates for the posts of Group ‘A’ and ‘B’ gazetted probationers from the 2011 batch of Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC). A division bench comprising Chief Justice S.K. Mukherjee and Justice P.S. Dinesh Kumar dismissed an Interlocutory Application (IA)…
Govt. opens new window for Banks, Post Offices to deposit old notes with RBI
June 22, 2017New Delhi: The Finance Ministry has opened a new one-month window for District Co-operative Banks, Commercial Banks and Post Offices to deposit demonetised Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 currency notes with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), provided these notes were collected from customers within the specified time period. While Post Offices and Commercial Banks…
Medical equipment donated
June 22, 2017Mysuru: Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited (BRBNMPL) has donated medical equipment under its CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) initiative to CSI Holdsworth Memorial. This will be used for poor and needy patients of the hospital. Thakur Desai, General Manager, BRBNMPL, had visited the hospital during 2015 Hospital Day and realising that the Hospital needed…
There is cure for clubfoot: Medical College Dean
June 22, 2017World Clubfoot Day observed at MMC&RI Mysuru: Mysore Medical College and Research Institute (MMC&RI) Dean Dr. B. Krishnamurthy said that those children suffering from clubfoot (a deformed foot, which is twisted so that the sole cannot be placed flat on the ground) can be cured, if proper treatment is given at the right time. He…
Screening of Kannada movie ‘Railway Children’ tomorrow
June 22, 2017Mysuru: Kannada movie ‘Railway Children,’ directed by Prithvi Konanur, will be screened at Kalamandira tomorrow (June 23) at 6 pm, as part of Cinema Samaya, organised under the aegis of the Department of Information and Public Relation, Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy and Mysore Film Society. Prior to the movie, a documentary produced by Dept. of Information…
Awareness programme on renewable energy held
June 22, 2017Mysuru: The Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited (KREDL) Branch Office, Mysuru, launched a drive to educate the staff and workers of N. Ranga Rao and Sons Pvt. Limited to adopt renewal energy systems. The aim of the KREDL is to create awareness about current energy crisis. D.K. Dinesh Kumar, Project Engineer, KREDL, explained about the…
Rangayana to conduct diploma in theatre
June 22, 2017Mysuru: Rangayana, Mysuru, has invited applications for two-year diploma course in acting affiliated to Hampi University. The two-year course will feature training in theatre activities in the first year and touring along with the unit throughout the State. Candidates in the age group of 18-28 years and having passed PUC or equivalent course may apply…
Day-long programme on “Traditional and Indigenous Indian Conventions”
June 22, 2017Mysuru: A programme titled “Traditional and Indigenous Indian Conventions — Its relevance to modern day world” has been organised by SRIAN ENVISIONS at Shivananda Jnanalaya, JLB Road, on June 25 (Sunday) from 9 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 8 pm. The event aims to highlight the meeting point between ancient practices followed…
Auto driver assaults passenger, flees with cash, mobile phone
June 22, 2017Nanjangud: An auto driver, along with his accomplice, assaulting a passenger travelling in the auto and fleeing with Rs. 11,000 cash and a mobile phone belonging to the passenger has come to light lately in Nanjangud town. The passenger, who was looted has been identified as Mahesh, a resident of Devarasanahalli village in Nanjangud taluk….















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