On a day when Chief Minister Siddharamaiah charged the Centre with targeting the Congress Ministers and leaders in Karnataka by misusing the Income-Tax Department, Energy Minister D.K. Shivakumar has claimed that his phone was being tapped. Speaking to press persons here on Saturday, Shivakumar claimed he strongly suspected his phone was under surveillance as he…
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CM lashes out at BJP for disrupting Assembly proceedings
March 19, 2017Assembly adjourned to Monday Demanding a debate on alleged ‘Diarygate scam,’ the Opposition BJP Legislators disrupted proceedings in the Assembly for the second day on Friday. As soon as the Assembly met in the morning, the BJP members continued with their demand and raised slogans demanding a CBI probe into the contents of the diary….
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Traffic improvement: Here’s your chance to air views
March 19, 2017The city Police have invited applications from the public for honorary association with Traffic Advisory Committee that is being formed to improve traffic management within the City Police Commissionerate. Preference will be given to those having experience in civil engineering, road safety and traffic management, urban development and urban transport system to become the members…
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Son sentenced to life for killing father
March 19, 2017Second District and Sessions Court Judge Vijaykumar M. Anand Shetty has sentenced a 47-year-old man for killing his father by cutting off the genitals on Aug. 7, 2015. While the son, who has been sentenced to life, has been identified as Rajesh, the father has been identified as Madaiah (82), a civil contractor and a…
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JSS Medical College convocation held
March 19, 2017Observing that medical graduates should not look at monetary benefits in order to achieve success in their profession, Dr. S. Rajasekaran, Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics of Ganga Hospital in Coimbatore, said that doctors should not get disinterested in their profession. He was speaking at the Graduation Day ceremony of JSS Medical College, Sri…
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Kindness & humility vital in medical profession
March 19, 2017152 receive degrees at MMC&RI Convocation Ceremony ‘Summer Dreams’ “Kindness and humility are vital components in Medical profession while treating patients,” opined Dr. C.N. Manjunath, Director, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences & Research, Bengaluru. He was delivering the address at the Convocation Ceremony ‘Summer Dreams’ of Mysore Medical College and Research Institute (MMC&RI) held…
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City Professor for Intl. Meet on Solid Waste Technology
March 19, 2017Belagali, Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Department of Studies in Environmental Science, University of Mysore, has been invited by the Widener University, Philadelphia, USA, to present a research paper titled: “Application and Validation of ED-XRF and SEM-EDX Techniques in the Study of Composting Process” at the 32nd International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management being…
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Training workshop in Gond art begins at IGRMS
March 19, 2017A workshop “Do and Learn” began at the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS), Southern Regional Centre (SRC), on Wellington House on Irwin Road in city yesterday where the famous Gond art is being taught by artists from Madhya Pradesh. This is for the first time that such a workshop is being organised by Gond…
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‘Science can be better understood in Kannada’ Prizes distributed to science competition winners
March 19, 2017Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishat (KRVP) together with the Department of Collegiate Education had organised a programme at Maharani’s Science College here yesterday to distribute prizes to the winners of Mysuru Division Science Exhibition for degree students. Speaking on the occasion, KRVP Member N.R. Manjunath opined that it was necessary to teach Science in Kannada for…
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Interaction programme with humourist Prof. Krishnegowda begins
March 19, 2017‘Prof. M. Krishnegowda Avarondige Ondu Dina-Haadu – Harate- Maatu – Manaranjane’, an interaction programme with city’s noted humourist Prof. M. Krishnegowda, who retired as the Principal of St. Philomena’s College recently, began at Chetan Garden, Golf Club Road behind Windflower Resorts and Spa, here this morning. The day-long event is organised by Prof. M. Krishnegowda…
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