A Nationwide trial to identify budding track and field athletes for the GAIL Indian Speed Star Season III culminated with the selection of 10 youngsters in the grand finale at the Thyagaraj Sports Complex in New Delhi. GAIL Indian Speed Star is an initiative to search national talent in athletics and groom future stars for…
Helping Hands donate air beds to K.R. Hospital
March 5, 2018Mysuru, Mar. 5 (KS) – Helping Hands, a Jain youth organisation, donated Air Beds to K.R. Hospital in city recently. The Air Beds were sponsored by Krishnamurthy on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Speaking on the occasion, Secretary of Helping Hands Anand Patwa stated that instead of wasting money on parties etc. on the…
Assembly polls: State Govt. effects Police transfers
March 5, 2018Mysuru: In the wake of Assembly polls, the State Government on Saturday, has transferred 79 Dy. SPs and 207 Police Inspectors across the State. As per the transfer order, T.K. Muralidhar, who was serving as Dy. SP at Somwarpet, has been posted as Devaraja ACP while B.L. Venugopal, who was serving at Tiptur has been…
Traffic Police launch Friendly enforcement drive
March 5, 2018Mysuru, Mar.5- With a view to sensitise the public on following Traffic Rules and Regulations and also to make the motorists Traffic rules compliant, the City Police have launched a new initiative named as ‘Friendly Enforcement Drive.’ As part of the drive, the Police conducted a day-long operation on Mar. 2 (9 am to 9…
Contract nurses oppose cut in stipend
March 5, 2018Mysuru: Contract Nurses serving in K.R, Cheluvamba, PKTB and ED Hospitals, have strongly opposed the abrupt reduction in their stipend. Addressing a press conference here yesterday, the contract Nurses claimed that their stipend had been reduced by half, which has severely disappointed them. Pointing out that they felt happy when their stipend was hiked to…
Graft-Garbage gets goings
March 5, 2018Economists have defined money as a medium of exchange in daily life and have also described it in many words. The maxim “Money is what money does,” described with utmost brevity, is attributed to Prof. Francis Amasa Walker (1840-1897), American economist, statistician, journalist, educator, academic administrator and military officer. The idiom ‘money makes the mare…
Vasundhara to Australia and Hong Kong
March 5, 2018Mysuru, Mar.5- Dr. Vasundhara Doraswamy has left for Australia on Mar.3 for a two-month cultural tour. She has been invited to present with Live Music “Spiritual Aspect of Sanmarga” in Vasundhara Bani at Melborne on Mar.10. She has also been invited by various Social and Cultural organisations to give solo programme, Lecture-Demo and to conduct…
Provide commercial stoppage to three more Express trains at Kengeri
March 5, 2018Sir, We understand that doubling of tracks between Bengaluru and Mysuru has been completed along with electrification of Chennai-Bengaluru-Mysuru corridor. We are also happy to note the introduction of new Humsafar Express and extension of Anubhuti service till May for Shatabdi. As doubling of the tracks and electrification is now successfully completed, the Railway authorities…
Mysore Varsity Ph.D awardees
March 5, 2018Mysuru: The University of Mysore (UoM) has awarded Ph.D in Geographical Information System to Giridhar V. Thayoor for his thesis ‘An assessment of the sewage system using GIS and remote sensing-case study at Hunsur Town,’ submitted under the guidance of Dr. Ramu. G. R. Namratha has been awarded Ph.D in Library and Information Science by…
R.K. Ashrama a blessing for our city
March 5, 2018Sir, Our City Ramakrishna Ashrama, just celebrated its annual celebrations last week, conducting a series of lectures in all the professional colleges and University of Mysore. Well known, senior monks of the order from Belur Math, Hyderabad, Tirupati rendered talks of interest to the students. In the ashram, a number of musical concerts were organised…















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