Bengaluru: MMysuru-based artist and senior photographer S.M. Jambukeshwara, along with two other artists — Madhu Desai of Dharwad and Upadhyaya Moodubelle of Udupi — has been chosen for the coveted Lalit Kala Akademi Award – 2018 instituted by Karnataka State Lalit Kala Akademi. This was disclosed to press persons at Bengaluru recently by Chairperson…
Mysuru: Ex-officio Principal Secretary of the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (DPAR) Dr.G. Kalpana has been appointed as the new Mysuru District Incharge Secretary. She replaces senior IAS officer M. Lakshminarayana.
Periyapatna: In yet another calamity, crops grown in over 50 acres of land were destroyed, when an overflowing ground-level water tank bund breached in the taluk late on Tuesday night. Following heavy rains that lashed the taluk on Tuesday, Hunsekatte and Somanakatte water bodies at Benagalu village overflowed and breached, with water gusting into the…
Periyapatna: In a bizarre incident, the compound wall of a Government School at Bylakuppe in the taluk collapsed when the soil loosened while constructing an underground drainage just adjacent to the compound. The compound wall of Bylakuppe Government High School was built in 2015-16 at a cost of Rs.7 lakh, with Rajya Sabha Member D….
Mysuru: Priyadarshana Samskruthika Vedike, Srirangapatna had organised a seminar on ‘Uttarakhanda,’ a novel by noted novelist Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa, at Sarada Vilas College Centenary Hall in Krishnamurthypuram here this morning. Inaugurating the programme Dr. Pradhan Gurudath, former Chairman, Kuvempu Bhasha Bharathi, Bengaluru contended that every novel of Bhyrappa was an innovative piece where the author…
Tumakuru: In a gruesome murder, Tumakuru Corporator Ravi Kumar was brutally hacked to death by unidentified miscreants near Batawadi on the outskirts of Tumakuru city this morning. Ravi Kumar (48) was having tea at a roadside milk parlour, when a group of seven miscreants, who came in a tempo, threw chilli powder at him and…
Mysuru: In the second chain-snatching incident this week, a woman was robbed of her 80 gram gold chain in Nazarbad Police Station limits last evening. Sumathi, 35, wife of Manohar, a resident of Raghavendranagar, was on usual evening walk at a road close to Dr. Rajkumar Road near JSS Layout at about 6 pm, when…
Mandya: The Forest Department staff have arrested a person on charges of chopping sandalwood trees and smuggling it in broad daylight at Basavana Betta forest area in Mandya district. The arrested has been identified as Shantharaju, son of Bettaiah and a resident of Gundapura village in Malavalli taluk. DRFO Praveen and staff, who were patrolling…
Mysuru: As per the Railway Board directives, South Western Railway (SWR), Mysuru Division conducted Pan India – All India Pension Adalat recently in the Divisional Railway Manager’s Office, Mysuru. Aparna Garg, Divisional Railway…
New Delhi: Festivities marked the launch of Kalyan Jewellers flagship showroom in the upmarket South-Extension neighbourhood of New Delhi recently. This is the largest showroom of Kalyan Jewellers in North India. Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, the Brand Ambassador for Kalyan Jewellers along with Jaya Bachchan and his daughter, Shweta Bachchan Nanda were present for the…
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