Bengaluru: In a surprise development, expelled BSP MLA from Kollegal, N. Mahesh, met Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa (BSY) at Vidhana Soudha on Thursday, giving rise to speculations that the MLA would join the BJP. Mahesh, who was accompanied by BJP MLAs Rajugouda and Govind Karjol, held talks with the CM for over half-an-hour. Later, Mahesh…
Mysuru City is incomplete without War Memorial: Ex-Servicemen Association
August 3, 2019Mysuru: Kodagu Ex-Servicemen Welfare Association, Mysore East, conducted its Annual General Body Meeting at Chamundeshwari Convention Hall, Bannur Road, recently. C.L. Anand, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Chamarajanagar District and Singri Gowda, a Social Worker, were the chief guests. President of the Association and an Army Veteran Kanjithanda Aiyappa, informed the members that the efforts of…
‘Education in mother-tongue evokes creativity among children’
August 3, 2019Mysuru: As part of the 57th Foundation Day celebrations, Regional Institute of Education (RIE), Mysuru had organised the Sardar Panikkar Memorial Lecture by Jnanpith awardee and Kendra Sahitya Academy Chairman Dr. Chandrashekara Kambara at RIE premises here on Aug. 1. Focussing on the medium of education, Dr. Kambara said “a child when taught in mother-tongue…
MCC will extend all help for promotion of handicrafts: Mayor
August 3, 2019Mysuru: Mayor Pushpalatha Jagannath has said that the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) will extend all help for promotion of handicraft products. She was speaking at the programme organised by Karnataka State Handicraft Products Makers Association to felicitate craftsmen at the Institution of Engineers Hall on JLB Road here on Sunday last. Regretting that handicrafts had…
Parking in ‘No Parking’ zones: 614 cases booked
August 3, 2019Mysuru: The Mysuru City Traffic Police, who have initiated ‘Operation Wheel Lock’ on vehicles parked in ‘No Parking’ zones have booked 614 cases, have collected a total of Rs. 6.14 lakh fine from the owners of vehicles in 12 days. The Government which hiked the fine from Rs. 100 to Rs. 1,000 had come into…
Fraudster arrested for online cheating
August 3, 2019Mysuru: Vijayanagar Police have arrested a person on charges of cheating hundreds of people to the tune of lakhs of rupees by falsely promising them work from home online jobs. Karthik alias Sharavana, 29, son of late Kannappan, a native of Tamil Nadu and a resident of Vijayanagar third stage in the one who is…
Labour organisations stage protest against Centre’s anti-labour policy
August 3, 2019Mysuru: Alleging that the Union Government has implemented the codification of Labour Laws and following anti-labour policy, the activists of labour organisations’ joint committee, following the nationwide protest call given by labour organisations, staged a protest in front of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s statue in Town Hall premises here yesterday. The activists of Indian National Trade…
Night-long play ‘Kurukshetra’ tomorrow
August 3, 2019Mysuru: Basaveshwara Krupaposhita Nataka Mandali in association with the Department of Kannada and Culture has organised a night-long mythological play Kurukshetra tomorrow commencing at 8 pm at Basavanagudi Circle, Bhyraveshwaranagar in Hebbal 1st stage here. The play was scheduled to be staged on July 22 coinciding with Chamundeshwari Festival but was postponed owing to rain….
Strength is Life, Weakness is Death
August 3, 2019The death of V.G. Siddhartha, Founder of Cafe Coffee Day (CCD), shocked everyone but the way he died was what made it disturbing, sombre and sad. Now it has been assumed that the “reclusive billionaire,” once ranked the 75th richest man in India by Forbes magazine-2015, gave up on life because of money problems !…
Dignity of Labour
August 3, 2019The expression Dignity of Labour reflects the philosophy that all types of jobs are respected equally without belittling any of them. No occupation is considered superior and none of the jobs should be discriminated on any basis. Paradox or absurd, some jobs that cannot be postponed and the workforce engaged on them are called menial,…















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