Mysuru: Mysuru-Chamarajanagar District Central Co-operative Bank (MCDCC) President S. Chandrashekar has been invited to take part in a Co-operative Conclave to be held at Serbia’s capital Belgrade from Aug.19 to 23. S. Chandrashekar is the only representative from Karnataka to take part in this International Co-operative Meet, in which 23 other representatives of Co-operative Banks…
Nurses Award presentation ceremony postponed
August 18, 2018Mysuru: On account of National mourning following the demise of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Mysuru District unit of Karnataka Government Nurses Association has postponed Florence Nightingale Award presentation ceremony which was earlier scheduled to take place on Aug. 18. The next date will be announced soon, according to a press release. For details,…
BEML launches nation’s first 150T Electric Dump Truck
August 18, 2018Mysuru: Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML), a Public Sector Company under the Ministry of Defence and a premier manufacturer of mining and construction equipment, has launched an indigenously developed nation’s first 150T Electric Drive Rear Dump Truck. Deepak Kumar Hota, CMD BEML, flagged off the 150T Dump Truck on Aug.15 for its use in the…
Complaint registered against Varsity student
August 18, 2018Mysuru: University of Mysore (UoM) student Welfare Officer K.B. Praveen has filed a Police complaint against research student Mahesh Sosale for allegedly threatening him in convection with an administrative issue. Praveen his complaint lodged with Jayalakshmipuram Police on Aug.16, has accused Mahesh Sosale of verbally abusing him and threatening him when he (Sosale) entered his…
Violin concert at Nadabrahma tomorrow
August 18, 2018Mysuru: Sri Nadabrahma Sangeetha Sabha has organised a Violin solo concert tomorrow (Aug.19) at its premises on JLB Road in city at 5.30 pm. The accomplished artiste is multi-faceted Vid. Ravi Harikumar. He will be accompanied by Vid. G.S. Ramanujan on mridanga and Vid. C.A. Raghunandan Rao on ghata. Profile: Hari Ravikumar is a Karnatak…
Sravana Saturdays: Sri Datta Venkateshwara Temple timings extended
August 18, 2018Mysuru: A large number of general public are visiting Sri Datta Venkateshwara Temple during Sravana Masa, every year. To facilitate the general public, the Temple timings are extended on Sravana Shanivaras (Saturdays) — Aug.18, Aug.25, Sept.1 and Sept.8. Temple will be open from 6.30 am to 1.30 pm and 4.30 pm to 9.30 pm on…
Youth goes missing from city
August 18, 2018Mysuru: A 24-year-old youth, who left his house on Aug.14 at about 11 am on his Honda Activa scooter (KA-09 HG-6329) has since gone missing. The missing youth, identified as Ravikumar, is 5.5 ft. tall, fair complexioned, oval faced, normal built, speaks Kannada and was wearing a black jerkin and night pant at the time…
A Statesman and a Survivor
August 18, 2018Vajpayee is gone and everyone has good things to say about him, even the Opposition. He was the first Prime Minister with no connection to the Congress and coincidentally, it was Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister who, impressed with Vajpayee’s oratory skills, said in 1957: “This young man will one day become the country’s…
FOODPATHS: Pushing pedestrians off the footpath
August 18, 2018A photo feature by M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav Come evening and there is a Mela on certain city roads with vendors turning out in large numbers to sell everything from momos to gobi manchurian, egg, vegetarian and meat rolls to dosas, cut fruits, salted-and-peppered raw mangoes and pani-puris from their pushcarts. With people, especially youngsters and…
Painful Patriotism
August 18, 2018Spiritually driven philosophers of yore in our land have bequeathed to its people of all later generations words of wisdom, mostly laying down the rules of life to achieve a sense of purpose and fulfilment, in a virtual cornucopia from which anybody can draw while writing scholarly articles or speaking before audiences with varied backgrounds….















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