Cricket has always been a very popular game in the country. Many youngsters have taken up cricket as their career. Mysuru also has its share of producing talented cricketers who have gone on to represent the country. On these lines is all-rounder J. Suchith, who has been representing the State in the higher-level by making…
MCC Polls: Parties facing problem aplenty as filing of nomination papers ends tomorrow
August 19, 2018Mysuru: With just a day left for filing of nomination papers (Aug.20) for the Aug.31 MCC polls, all the three major parties — Congress JD(S) and BJP are facing a problems aplenty in their ranks, as unsuccessful ticket aspirants are mulling on contesting as rebel candidates. City JD(S) President K.T. Cheluvegowda said that the party…
Security in Railway Stations: Let Train Captains monitor CCTV cameras
August 19, 2018Sir, Recent e-mails on security of trains during night journey is due to lack of security in Railway Stations. It is very vaguely secured and monitored. Mysuru for example is totally insecure from CFTRI side. Anyone can walk down from CFTRI or down the track into Railway Station and get into trains. I had a…
Mysuru District Track & Field Meet: Lakshmana shines
August 19, 2018Mysuru: H.D. Lakshmana of Maharaja’s College hogged the limelight by winning gold in the U-20 boys 1500m with a timing of 4:18.75s, on the inaugural day of the two-day Mysuru District Track and Field Meet-2018 conducted by Mysore District Athletics Association (MDAA), under the aegis of the KAA, at Chamundi Vihar Stadium here yesterday. The…
Asian Games-2018: Shooters Apurvi Chandela, Ravi Kumar win bronze
August 19, 2018Jakarta: The duo of Apurvi Chandela and Ravi Kumar got India its first medal at the 2018 Asian Games with Bronze on Sunday. They won the medal in the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team event with a final score of 429.9. Chinese Taipei (494.1) and China (492.5) bagged the gold and silver medal respectively. India…
Ondu Preetiya Kathe: A ‘different’ kind of love
August 19, 2018During our teen and college years in the early and late 1970s, one word that we used to define the friendship whenever we were seen talking to a boy or a girl was ‘platonic.’ In majority of the friendships between two opposite sexes this was true because whether a boy or a girl would not…
Please locate my son’s body, pleads mother of truck driver
August 19, 2018Kikkeri: “Please locate my son’s body… please trace my husband’s body,” were the words that came out of truck driver Santosh’s mother and his wife Navya who were seen pleading with Hassan DC Rohini Sindhuri. Santosh, a resident near Kikkeri in K.R. Pet taluk who was driving a Gas Tanker via Shiradi Ghat from Mangaluru…
Retired Professor and writer Aravinda Malagatti felicitated
August 19, 2018Mysuru: Aravinda Malagatti Felicitation Committee had organised a function at Rani Bahadur auditorium in Manasagangothri here recently for the release of three books and to felicitate retired Professor and writer Aravinda Malagatti. Speaking on the occasion, former Minister H.K. Patil contended that it was a good development in not isolating writers to regions of their…
Book talk: Wealth from waste
August 19, 2018Title : Utilisation of agricultural waste for the production of high-valued products Author : Dr. Renu Agrawal Pages : 140+XIV Price : INR 2,700.00 Publisher : New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi Considering the references, numbering 480, cited it in the concluding section of the publication over 40 pages as well as information and data…
Forest Department launches operation to trap elusive tiger
August 19, 2018Hanagodu: Even as a tiger has caused scare among the villages of K.J. Habbanakuppe near Hanagodu, located at the edge of Nagarahole National Park, the Forest Department has launched an operation to trap the elusive tiger. The tiger which is said to have surfaced at an estate in K.J. Habbanakuppe a week ago, is also…















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