Mysuru: Gujarat MLA and Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani has issued a challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a four-minute debate on the achievements of his four-year-old NDA government at the Centre. “I am a Gujarati and he (Modi) is a Gujarati. I challenge him for an open debate on his government’s contributions. I’m sure…
Appointed as State JD(S) General Secretary Gonikoppal: Congress party leader and Chairperson of Karnataka Forest Development Corporation Limited Mangera Padmini Ponnappa has quit the party to join Janata Dal (Secular), thereby severing her 33-year-old link with the Congress. She has now been given the post of State JD(S) General Secretary. Padmini, after ticket denial, rebelled…
Mysuru: The Federation of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Wards Parliament has urged all the candidates contesting the Assembly polls from the city, to come up with their agenda on city development. Addressing a press meet here recently, the Federation President and former MLC D. Madegowda said that Mysuru is facing some complex issues with the…
Mysuru: ‘Always targeting Chief Minister Siddharamaiah during public speeches by PM Narendra Modi is inappropriate and meaningless’ asserted former Minister and Congress leader B.K. Chandrashekar. Addressing a press meet at Pathrakartara Bhavan here this morning Chandrashekar pointed out that Modi was keeping silent on rampant atrocities on women and children. He claimed that in that…
Mysuru: Independent candidate from Chamaraja Constituency K. Harish Gowda released the election manifesto, the first of its kind by any independent candidate, at a press meet at Pathrakartara Bhavan here this morning. Briefing on the salient points of his manifesto, Harish Gowda said that he proposed to set up a public service centre at every…
Mysuru: Dr. J. Rajesh, Head, Department of Biochemistry, Yuvaraja’s College, University of Mysore, has been invited to participate in the ongoing two-day 3rd ISANH Middle East Antioxidants World Congress – Amman Antioxidants-2018 in Amman, Jordan. He will deliver a talk and present his research findings on protective role of Indian flaxseed bioactive components in several…
Mysuru: Unable to repay the debts, a 30-year-old man reportedly ended his life by hanging self at his residence in Hinkal here on Tuesday night. The deceased has been identified as Sundaresh (30), a resident of Hinkal. Sundaresh was into gambling and had fallen into debt trap, it is learnt. Vijayanagar Police, who have registered…
A couple of days back I learnt from Dr. Shyam Prasad Shetty, Head of Cardiothoracic, JSS Hospital, Mysuru, that his cousin Dr. B. Satish Rai and my family doctor was admitted to Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bengaluru, in a serious condition. Yesterday around 4 pm he again called me to give the sad news. I first saw…
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC Just one look at the stats released by the Ministry of Tourism for the year 2016 says it all. Surprise, surprise, Tamil Nadu has emerged as the premium destination for both domestic and international tourists, beating the much-touted Uttar Pradesh with its Taj Mahal and other talked about…
By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Valmiki composed the Ramayana and it is still popular though no one reads the old 2,000-year-old Sanskrit version nor the 1,000-year-old regional classics in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Assamese, Awadhi. What we usually access as colloquial folk versions, often transmitted orally, known as the Ramakatha….
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