Mysuru: The foundation stone laying ceremony for the new building of Chayadevi Composite College of Education (B.Ed College) will be held at Rajendranagar here on June 21 at 10.30 am. Disclosing this at a press meet at Pathrakartara Bhavan here on Tuesday, Secretary of the Institution Dr. Bhanuprakash said that District Minister G.T. Devegowda and…
Accident victim succumbs to injuries at Hospital
June 20, 2019Mysuru: A 38-year-old man, who had suffered serious injuries, when a speeding bike rammed into his bike from behind on the Ring Road and admitted to a private hospital, has succumbed to injuries at the hospital on Monday. The deceased is M. Ravi, a resident of Ambedkar Street at Sathagalli in city. On June 9,…
Domestic workers seek a better deal
June 20, 2019Mysuru: About 50 members of Akhila Karnataka Domestic Workers Trade Union (AKDWTU), under the aegis of Confederation of Free Trade Unions of India (CFTUI), took out a rally from Ramaswamy Circle to the DC’s office here yesterday and submitted a memorandum to the DC. The members demanded a national policy for domestic workers incorporating minimum…
Forum insists on Kannada name boards in schools
June 20, 2019Mysuru: Members of Karnataka Sena Pade staged a protest in front of Zilla Panchayat office here yesterday urging the Government to insist schools and colleges to install Kannada name boards in their institutions. They pointed out that even the buses of those schools and colleges do not carry names in Kannada. They alleged that most…
Man goes missing from city
June 20, 2019Mysuru: A 60-year-old man has gone missing from KSRTC Bus Stand in city on June 14. The missing person is Ningashetty, a native of Ajjur village in Arakalgud taluk, who was living with his son at Shidlaghatta. On June 14 at about 7 pm, Ningashetty, along with his son, had come to the KSRTC Bus…
Unidentified person dies
June 20, 2019Mysuru: An unidentified man, aged about 65 years, who was found lying sick near the Government School at Ramabai Nagar on June 13 and admitted to K.R. Hospital, has breathed his last at the hospital on Monday. The body has been shifted to MMC&RI mortuary and the kith and kin of the deceased, if any,…
Save Kodagu from over-tourism
June 20, 2019By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC Aaj ka taaja khabar: The tourist spots, Nainital, Rishikesh and Haridwar have been submerged. Not by nature but by tourists! The unusually hot weather conditions in North India combined with holidays, these Hill Stations have been completely submerged by tourists. All the hotels are overflowing so much so…
A temple for a dog
June 20, 2019By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist In the State of Chhattisgarh, in Khapri village of Durg district, there is a temple dedicated to a dog. It is called Kukur Dev. The story goes that there was once a banjara (gypsy) who had a dog. During a famine, he had no money, so…
Land’s Liveability Pride & Prejudice
June 20, 2019Patriotism, an unalloyed virtue of love for one’s country and nationalism, driven by the ideology of a sense of belonging to one’s country seems to be witnessing suffocation in the current dispensation of providing good governance to 135-plus crore people across the nation, identifying themselves with diverse badges of their multitude of lingo, faiths, ethnicity,…
Gangothri campus becoming an eyesore
June 20, 2019Sir, Every time during my morning walks with Prof. B. Sheik Ali, I walk on the footpath separated by steel fence adjacent to the University of Mysore Guest House and I see a lot of construction materials lying on the lawn. Since it has been lying in this state for many years, grass and other…















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