Mysuru: Seeking fulfilment of their various demands, more than 100 Gram Panchayat (GP) employees under the banner of CITU-affiliated Karnataka State Gram Panchayat Employees Association, staged a demonstration in front of ZP office here yesterday. The demands include implementation of Swamy Report which has recommended uniform regularisation of service of all GP employees, payment of…
Mysuru: With the President of India signing the Karnataka Government’s Debt Relief Act, eligible persons can apply to the Revenue Assistant Commissioner seeking debt relief. As per the order passed by the previous Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) during his last days as the CM, landless labourers of the State with less than two hectares…
Mysuru: Lashkar Police have handed over a woman from Kasaragod in Kerala to her family members in Kodagu. On Tuesday night, the woman, identified as Jaseela, was found standing alone on Chandragupta Road in city by the public, who in turn informed Lashkar Police. The Police, who arrived at the spot, took her to the…
Mysuru: The City’s Fifth Additional District and Sessions Court has sentenced a chain-snatcher to eight years rigorous imprisonment after the accused was found guilty of targeting elderly women and snatching more than 1.5 kg gold ornaments from them. The accused is 26-year-old Somashekara Achari alias Soma of Mylasandra in Bengaluru. The accused, who used to…
Like they say, good fences and good gates make good goats, good sheep will fetch you good returns… By V. Shourabh [Pics. by M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav] It is that time of the year and the season of festivity begins with Bakrid which will be most likely celebrated on Aug. 11 or 12. Bakrid or Eid…
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC Last week, I had the privilege of visiting Kanchipuram with my better half. The magnet, of course, was to see the famous “Atthi Varadar,” who was brought out of a pond for just 40 days and immersed back into the pond to be taken out after another 40…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist There is a big difference between the words ‘legend’ and ‘myth’. Legend is a story of a heroic figure that has some historical basis but is largely fantasy. Mythology is not just stories, but also symbols and rituals, which helps a culture make sense of the…
Going by the norm prescribed by World Health Organisation (WHO) for people-to-doctors ratio for a country, the number of doctors in India at present has to increase tenfold. About 70,000 admissions to the Medical Colleges across the country reported for this academic year as well as the existing infrastructure for training them to be medical…
Sir, I read with interest a news item (not in SOM) about the expectations of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) to maintain city’s cleanliness by Educational Institutions “AT THEIR EXPENSES.” Expecting community participation is most welcome, but in the name of instilling awareness about cleanliness, it is not justifiable that an organ of the responsible Government…
‘Miss Mysore’ Shwetha Gowda has bagged ‘Miss South India 1st Runner-Up’ position in the National Icon Model Hunt 2K19 organised by Fashzone and Thibba’s Group at Kings L den Resort in Mysuru recently.
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