Hassan: The highly decomposed body of the fuel tanker driver has been retrieved from a 300 feet deep gorge near Doddathappale in Sakleshpur taluk yesterday. The mother and wife of the driver along with relatives had met Deputy Commissioner Rohini Sindhuri recently and had requested her to trace and retrieve the body. The driver identified…
Nanjangud: A 23-year-old youth, who reportedly went for a swim in Kapila River, has been washed away by the strong current near Devaraj Urs Bridge yesterday. The deceased youth has been identified as Siddaraju, son of late Nanjappa, a resident of Kanakanagar Layout in Nanjangud and was an employee of a factory. Yesterday being a…
Mysuru: Dr. C. Naganna, writer and academician, has been selected for Vardhamana Prashasti-2017 for his work “Kallalla Kamanabillu” (Not a Rock but a Rainbow), a collection of critical essays. The award, instituted under the aegis of ‘Mudubidare Vardhamana Prashasti Peetha’, will be conferred on him during the ‘Dasara Sahityotsava’ in October 2018 at Mudubidare. The…
Mysuru: P. Pushpa-vathi, a resident of Kumbarakoppal in the city, has been appointed as interim district President of the women’s wing of Akhila Karnataka Vishwakarma Mahasabha with immediate effect. The appointed has been made by the Mahasabha State President K.P. Nanjundi at a meeting of the Mahasabha office-bearers that took place in Bengaluru on Aug.5….
Mysuru: The University of Mysore (UoM) has awarded Ph.D in Chemistry to G. Chaya for her thesis ‘Studies on Removal of Toxic Dyes and Heavy Metals from Contaminated Water using low cost Biosorbents’ submitted under the guidance of Dr. Bibi Ahmadi Khatoon. K. Leelavathi has been awarded Ph.D in Philosophy by the UoM for her…
Mysuru: Hazrath Tipu Sultan Wakq Estate, Srirangapatna had organised the 226th Urus Shariff of Hazrath Tipu Sultan-e-Shaheed at Gumbad-e-Shahi in Srirangapatna recently. Former Minister and MLA Tanveer Sait, who is also the Chairman of Hazrath Tipu Sultan Waqf Estate offered floral tribute to Hazrath Tipu along with MLA Ravindra Srikantaiah, Chairman of Mysore District Waqf…
When Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s companion Rajkumari Kaur passed away in May 2014, Girish Nikam, who began his journalistic career with Star of Mysore and at that time working with Newstime, Hyderabad, had written an article titled “Mrs. Kaul here, you don’t know who I am?” which was published in Rediff.com. We are republishing that article…
Decorating the centre of the home to signify that it is the centre of the house, suspending faceted crystal lights or chandeliers, throwing in a rug or carpet on the floor preferably in shades of warmer colours would activate the energy of the centre grid. Feng Shui is a centuries-old Chinese art that uses placement…
The expression grin and bear it is attributed to a Hungarian pianist George Lichtenstein (1823-1893). The message in the expression is loud and clear: “You accept a different or unpleasant situation without complaining because you know there is nothing you can do to make things better” (in italics for emphasis). Readers of dailies, including this…
Sir, In continuation with the letters on need of street lights, of course Mysuru city is lacking with proper street lights. The roads are filled with lights of the shops decorated with hi-voltage LED lights, particularly on DD Urs Road, Shivarampet etc. Other than these roads, all other roads are lacking street lights. As rightly…
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