Mysuru: After two months of summer vacation, schools across the district reopened from this morning. While some students attired in their new uniforms on the first day of reopening were happy to return to school after a long gap, students of kindergarten and various primary schools were seen crying and being pacified by their parents….
First State-level conference of Kannada doctor-writers held at Mangaluru
May 29, 2019Mysuru: The first ever State-level conference of doctors, who are also Kannada writers, was held under the aegis of IMA, Mangaluru chapter, at its IMA Hall on May 26. Dr. S.P. Yoganna of Mysuru was the Conference Chairman. Speaking after inaugurating the meet, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) Vice-Chancellor Dr. S. Sachidanand said…
Hark… the Larks…
May 29, 2019Larks, the very name makes one recall the story of ‘The Lark & Her Young Ones’ studied by all in the Middle Schools, as an English prose in the text books. The moral of the story was to do things when the time is right, neither late nor early. Larks, the Sparrow-sized birds, resembling the…
Gram Panchayat employees stage demonstration
May 29, 2019Mysuru: Seeking fulfilment of their various demands, over a hundred Gram Panchayat (GP) employees, under the banner of CITU-affiliated Karnataka State Gram Panchayat Employees Association, staged a demonstration in front of the Zilla Panchayat (ZP) office here this morning. Claiming that the Government owed Rs.830 crore as wages to over 61,000 GP employees of the…
Youth dies of snake bite
May 29, 2019Saragur: A 19-year-old youth, who had gone to his family’s agricultural field on Monday night and was bitten by a snake, died when being shifted to the hospital. The deceased youth is T.P. Umesh Kumar, son of T.P. Prakash, a resident of Puradasheddu village in Saragur taluk. On Monday night, Umesh had gone to the field…
Lest we forget their sacrifice-2 : The story of Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa
May 29, 2019By Dr. S.N. Bhagirath [Continued from yesterday] Many of the top officers were being short-listed by the British to be groomed into future Commanders of the Indian Army with Independence just round the corner. Among these were J.N. Choudary, N.N. Vandu, N.T. Naqvi and K.M. Cariappa. These chosen few were sent to ‘Imperial Defence College…
Pet talk
May 29, 2019In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka explains how to handle an abandoned baby bird & about treating bee sting By Maneka Gandhi I found an abandoned baby bird in our balcony. It has no feathers. I cannot identify it. How should I treat it? First task is to identify what type of baby bird is…
Elders-Youngsters distance
May 29, 2019Figuratively or otherwise, even as the huge distance between Planets of the universe is being made to look not as huge as the reality, the distance between the elderly members of the family in particular and society in general seems to have become huge on the mental plane. That distance, being often described as generation…
Unsafe practices on busy roads
May 29, 2019Sir, It is being observed regularly that many people are getting down the autos or cars when the vehicles are waiting for the green signal and walking towards the Circle along the road divider blocks (see photo) instead of proceeding towards the footpath and coming to the pedestrian crossing area. Sometimes people are coming in…
Indo International Premier Kabaddi League: Exciting win for Chennai over Haryana Heroes
May 29, 2019Inspiring attacking play by Sunil Kumar and Elayaraja for Chennai Challengers enabled their team to register an exciting 44-41 win over a fighting Haryana Heroes in the league match of the Indo International Premier Kabaddi match played at Chamundi Vihar Indoor Stadium here last night. In the last match of the day, spearheaded by attacked…















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