Mysuru: An all-women expedition to Himalayas was launched by Tiger Adventure Foundation on Mar.8 as part of Women’s Day in city. The expedition, called as Nari Shakti-2018, is set to ascend the Baraadsar Pass at a height of 14,500 feet in Uttarakhand from April 17 to May 2. The team consists of 26 women from…
2,63,480 children to be immunised in district Mysuru: With World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring India as a Polio-free nation on Mar.24, 2014, the Department of Health and Family Planning has been effectively carrying on pulse polio drive in the district. District Health Officer (DHO) Dr. B.Basavaraj has appealed people to take their children to the…
Mysuru: In a reported incident, a 23-year-old housewife ended life by hanging self at her residence in Bogadi late last night. Akshata (23), wife of Mahesh, an electrician and a resident of Bogadi, is the deceased. Domestic disharmony is said to because of her extreme step. The couple had a 3-year-old child. Soon as the…
By V. Shourabh Soppina Sannamma is no ordinary woman. She is a centenarian and still counting. All 105 years, she has been selling greens from the age of ten. The frail looking woman who is slightly hard of hearing, lives on Ramanuja Road in a house close to Yelethota (the old beetle farm) with her…
By N. Niranjan Nikam She was looking quite different from a distance. All I could see was a grey-haired lady, who was holding a plastic bag with a purse inside it, walking in the sprawling, beautiful, serene campus of Kalamandira. Curiosity got the better of me, as she went and sat near the steps of…
By V. Shourabh Dr. Ruth Shantha Kumari, a Professor in Zoology and the Principal of St. Philomena’s College, Mysuru is of the viewpoint that womanhood is a chosen gift and feels proud to be a woman. Teaching has been her passion and she has been guiding students and paving their lives and careers in the…
By V. Shourabh An old lady sits on the platform in the city market and earns her livelihood by selling betel leaves all through the day. With a responsibility on her shoulders of earning her livelihood, 73-year-old Jamamma who finds difficulty in walking, manages to make it to the market daily without fail. With age…
By V. Shourabh Pics by M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav While Mysuru launched ‘Pink Raksha’ teams on the International Day for Women on March 8 to protect the interests of rural women and children who are abused and tormented, people across the globe celebrated the Day with the theme ‘Push for Progress’. The message “We need power…
World Women’s Day was observed, nay celebrated this week witnessing spirited calls in the cause of welfare of the girl child as well as women by people in high posts in the government and others who counted in society at large across the country. The air has already been abuzz in many regions of the…
March 8 was International Women’s Day. The day has been celebrated as International Women’s Day since 1917 when Russian women gained suffrage. Later in 1975, the United Nations adopted it. In India, it has become popular since the past decade. Women’s Day is indeed a good reminder to reflect on how far we have come…
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