Even as the letters in the Letter Boxes are dropping by a whopping 50 per cent, here is an encouraging development that one of Star of Mysore readers Kitty Mandana shares regarding the New Year greetings that she almost decided to stop sending to her family and friends, which she had been doing for the…
Mysuru: A woman has reportedly committed suicide by setting herself ablaze following alleged dowry harassment by her husband and mother-in-law at Udbur in the taluk on Tuesday night. The deceased is Bhagya (26), wife of Suresh of Udbur. Bhagya was given in marriage to Suresh about five years ago and the couple has a son…
Mysuru: Jayapura Police have found the body of an unidentified man who has been murdered on Mysuru-H.D. Kote Road between Arasana Gate and Mahadevapura village. The unidentified man is said to be about 40 years of age and the Police have suspected that he may have been murdered elsewhere by miscreants and later dumped the…
SMS, Internet, WhatsApp hit oldest form of exchanging news By Rajkumar Bhavasar There was a time when there was a particular style of writing letters to one’s parents beginning with the words: ‘Respected father and mother, My deepest pranams to both of you, hope you are all well at your end, I am fine here…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist One of the popular images of Hanuman is one where he has five faces and five pairs of hands. It is known as the Panchmukhi, or five-faced, Hanuman. It reminds us of Krishna’s Vishwarupa described in the Bhagavad Gita, albeit a diminutive version. It transforms Hanuman…
Thanks to the two mutually competing factors namely, the limited total geographical area of the country and its steadily expanding population, resulting in gradually declining land needs per citizen, the issues of sharing the available spaces in their different make-up such as agricultural land, industrial establishments, forest cover, urban territories, hilly areas, deserts, barren lands,…
Sir, The Mysuru – Hazrat Nizamuddin Swarna Jayanti SF Express is the only train from Mysuru to connect to New Delhi via Hubballi, Dharwad, Belagaavi, Pune, Bhopal and Agra. The train runs via Mysuru-Hassan line but only on a Weekly basis. As there is no facility of a daily service connectivity to New Delhi from…
The women’s handball team of University of Mysore (UoM) has bagged bronze medal at the All India Inter-University Hanball Tournament 2018-19 held at Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, UP, recently. Seen in the picture are (from left – standing) B.S. Rakshitha, A. Ujwala, H.P. Ranjitha, Rakshitha, S. Tushara, C.G. Ashwini, P. Lavanya, M.P. Pallavi,…
National Adventure Foundation, Karnataka II Chapter, conducted an adventure programme for the Department of Youth Services and Sports, Kolar at Anthara Gange Hill in Kolar and for Bengaluru Urban at Kunthi Betta in Pandavapura recently. During the programme, sponsored by the Government of Karnataka, the youth underwent training in trekking, rock climbing and rappelling, river-crossing,…
Mahadev, son of Marinayaka and a resident of Hitna Colony in H.D. Kote taluk of Mysuru district, has been selected for the 43rd National Arm Wrestling Tournament to be held at Chhattisgarh from May 1 to 4. An employee at a private hotel in city, Mahadev is undergoing training in Arm Wrestling for the past…
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