By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC [Continued from Jan. 4] I was always under a wrong impression that we Indians believed in bhootha, pretha, superstitions, ghosts etc., but I was in for a surprise on this US visit. Westerners too believe on all the above as much as we do and the only difference…
Bengaluru: The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has clarified that there are no restrictions on half helmets as long as they have an ISI mark. In response to a letter by Bengaluru Police, seeking details on standard parameters prescribed by it for helmets, BIS yesterday said all helmets with ISI mark are approved by it….
Mysuru: With no respite from the stink of the garbage piled up enormously at the Excel Solid Waste Management Plant or Sewage Farm at Vidyaranyapuram, Federation of Mysuru South Apartment Owners and Welfare Association has decided to boycott the forthcoming Assembly elections and also garner support of all the residents in Vidyaranyapuram and Chamundipuram through…
Rs. 1.7 lakh worth gold ornaments, bike and mobile phones recovered Mysuru: Vijayanagar Police, with the help of women staff and following instructions from City Police Commissioner Dr. A. Subrahmanyeswara Rao, who conducted ‘Operation Decoy’ near Vidyavardhaka College on Jan.8, have nabbed two vanity bag snatchers and have recovered gold ornaments and two mobile phones…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist A thousand years ago, India was very different from what it is today. North India had yet to face significant conquest by Muslim warlords from Central Asia. Sailors travelled from India’s coast to South East Asia taking advantage of the summer monsoon winds. When the winds…
Mysuru: Security to Primary and Secondary Education Minister Tanveer Sait has been increased with two additional Policemen posted at his house on M.G. Road in Udyagiri, in city. This measure follows, after Sait complained receiving threat calls by underworld don Ravi Poojary. DCP N. Vishnuvardhana told SOM here this morning that there was a gunman…
By K.C. Biddappa, Retd. Senior Vice-President, ITC Ltd. This has reference to K.B. Ganapathy’s Abracadabra in Star of Mysore dated Jan.3 regarding the perpetuation of dynastic politics in Indian democracy. How true! Dynastic politics is in the DNA of Indian political system. For a common, hard-working, honest and tax-paying citizen, democracy in India has very…
Mysuru: The five-day Swadeshi and Organic Farming Expo- 2018, organised by Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, Mysuru, will be inaugurated at Maharaja’s College Ground here at 6 pm today. While the expo will be inaugurated by K. Sriram, Vice-President of CREDAI, Mysuru, Swadeshi Mela will be inaugurated by Vishwaprasad Alva, Managing Director of Skanray Technologies, Mysuru. RSS…
Mysuru: Nazarbad Police have arrested eight youths including minors on charges of riot and assaulting a person in Siddarthanagar here. The arrested have been identified as Sunil, Shivadatta, Nanjunda, Yeshwanth, Nivedan and others. It is learnt that Sunil and Shivadatta were enemies and had earlier indulged in a fight near JSS Ayurveda College and Devegowda…
Mysuru: The Third Additional District and Sessions Court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering a man on May 3, 2012 in Nanjangud. The person who has been sentenced for life has been identified as Mahadevaprasad. On May 3, 2012, Mahadevaprasad had asked for a beedi from one Murali at the Nestle factory…
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