Mysuru: The Tiger census conducted at Bandipur Tiger Reserve since a week has concluded. The census was conducted at all 111 beats in 13 ranges with 60 volunteers and more than 250 forest staff participating from 6 am to 10 am everyday. The volunteers and the forest staff who set off on foot collected data…
Sankranti in Mysuru: The first festival of the year celebrated with traditional fervour and gaiety
January 16, 2018Mysuru: With women and children dressed in traditional attires visiting temples in the morning and distributing ‘Yellu-Bella’ to friends and relatives in the evening, Mysureans celebrated Makara Sankranti (Harvest Festival), the first festival of the year with traditional fervour and gaiety. As part of the festival, people visited various temples in city and offered puja…
Swachh Survekshan-2018: Cleanliness awareness fortnight launched
January 16, 2018Mysuru: Directorate of Field Publicity, Mysuru, in association with District Administration, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) and Citizens Forum for Swachha Mysuru, launched a fortnight-long programmes to create awareness among people as part of Swachha Mysuru Survekshan-2018 in front of Kote Anjaneyaswamy Temple here this morning. Deputy Commissioner D. Randeep launched the programme by offering puja…
Bahuroopi food fete draws good crowd
January 16, 2018Mysuru: As if the fare served on the stage by some of the most talented drama troupes in the country is not enough, the connoisseurs, visitors, and the stray people who walk into the Rangayana premises to watch the plays and films at the National Theatre Festival Bahuroopi, are in for another delectable treat —gourmet’s…
Colourful start to Bahuroopi Theatre Festival
January 16, 2018Mysuru: The eight-day National Theatre Festival-2018, Bahuroopi, with the theme ‘Migration’ organised by Rangayana, got off to a colourful start on Jan.14 at Vanaranga. Jnanpith awardee and veteran theatre personality Dr. Girish Karnad inaugurated the festival in a novel way by offering a umbrella, water, jaggery and a book to a migrant family. Later, speaking…
Divided people are easy targets
January 16, 2018By T.J.S. George Way back in 1857, a foreign journalist described India in words that seem eerily relevant today. (That is going a really long way back because 1857 was the year Indian soldiers rebelled against their British overlords in what came to be known, in Indian terms, as the first war of Independence and,…
Pata Kunita, theatre songs and street play captivate audience
January 16, 2018Mysuru: The second day of Bahuroopi at Rangayana yesterday featured thought-provoking plays with depiction of contemporary social problems. Ranga Sangama troupe from Mysuru presented a street play focussing on migration of farmers to city, facing the hardships there and returning to villages at Kindarijogi premises in Rangayana. At Vanaranga, students of Vishwashanthi PU College, Mysuru,…
Train MBBS students and grads on Airway Management: Medical Education Director
January 16, 2018Mysuru: Cauvery Heart and Multispeciality Hospital, Siddarthanagar, had organised a Continuing Medical Education (CME) Programme and workshop on “Airway management” for doctors in the hospital conference hall recently. Airway Management is a crucial skill required for people working in sensitive and critical areas like Emergency Department, Intensive Care Units and Operation Theatre. A small lapse…
Symposium on latest trends in management of heart failure held
January 16, 2018Mysuru: Cardiological Society of India (CSI), Mysore Chapter, had organised a symposium on ‘Latest Trends in Management of Heart Failure’ during a CME programme held at Hotel Lalitha Mahal in city recently. Dr. Carsten Tschope, Professor of Cardiology at University of Berlin, who was the chief guest, gave an insight into the new concepts in…
Anti-Tobacco activists welcome SC stay on Karnataka HC decision
January 16, 2018Mysuru: Anti-Tobacco Forum and Cancer Patients AIDS Association, Mysuru have welcomed the Supreme Court stay on the orders of the High Court of Karnataka, that had quashed the 2014 government regulation made under Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003, to the…















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