Gundlupet: In what could be termed as an inhuman act, a group of villagers not only disturbed a herd of elephants which had come to the village border but also separated a mother elephant from her calf and got busy clicking selfies with the calf while it was crying for its mother. The incident took…
3 personalities conferred awards
January 2, 2018Mysuru: Three eminent personalities were conferred awards at a programme jointly organised by Kuvempu Vidyavardhaka Trust and Dejagow Trust, marking the 114th birth anniversary of Kuvempu and Vishwamanava Day at Kuvempu Vidyavaradhaka Trust, Jayalakshmipuram, here on Sunday. Tarini Chidanandagowda, daughter of Kuvempu, was conferred Vishwamanava Award, woman farmer activist K.S. Nandini Jayaram was conferred Savithramma…
New Foreign Secretary
January 2, 2018New Delhi: Seasoned diplomat Vijay Keshav Gokhale, considered an expert on China, was yesterday named the next Foreign Secretary succeeding S. Jaishankar, who completes his extended tenure later this month. Gokhale, a 1981-batch officer of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS), had played a key role in India-China negotiations last year to resolve the 73-day standoff…
PMO website in Kannada
January 2, 2018New Delhi: The website of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) www.pmindia.gov.in is now available in eleven regional languages, including Kannada. The Kannada website can be accessed through http://www.pmindia.gov.in/kn. The other languages are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu, in addition to English and Hindi.
Into a mixed-up, convoluted 2018
January 2, 2018By TJS George Machimanda Deviah caught the spirit of our times when he posted: The black buck who was driving Salman Khan’s car had killed Arushi Talwar because she did 2G scam which jumped to death from the Adarsh building. He might have added that Adarsh, caught in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter killing, was arrested for…
Rajini’s politics debut picks up pace with website launch
January 2, 2018Chennai: Just a day into his announcement, superstar Rajinikanth yesterday got down to the task of registering members of his yet-to-be launched political party right away. The 67-year-old actor asked people — his legion of followers and everyone else yearning for change in Tamil Nadu — to enrol themselves on his website. “I have launched…
Back in Time: A Hawaiian Airlines flight took off in 2018 and landed in 2017!
January 2, 2018Auckland: Passengers on Hawaiian Airlines’s flight 446 experienced a bit of time travel to start off their New Year. The flight, which travelled between Auckland, New Zealand and Honolulu, Hawaii, was scheduled to depart at 11.55 pm on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017. However, because of a 10-minute delay, the flight didn’t end up taking off…
Carrying the lineage
January 2, 2018By Dr. Padmavathi Narasimhan Maharajapuram Ramachandran performed for Nadabrahma Sangeeta Sabha on the 10th of December. He was accompanied by C.N. Chandrashekhar on violin, H.S. Sudheendra on mridanga and G.S.Ramanujam on ghata. Ramachandran has a strong, bold voice, which initially took some time to settle down. As the concert was in memory of late Lalita…
New Year musical extravaganza at Nadabrahma from Jan.3
January 2, 2018The New Year at Nadabrahma Sangeeta Sabha, JLB Road, will kickstart with three concerts during the first week of January 2018. The first concert is on 3rd (Wednesday) at 6 pm. Padma Shri awardee Violin legend Parur MSG Memorial Concert will be presented by veteran Sangeeta Kalanidhi T.V. Sankaranarayanan, sponsored by Vid. H.K. Narasimha Murthy…
CDE prog. on ‘3D Printing and its Applications for Health Care’
January 2, 2018Mysuru: A CDE programme on ‘3D Printing and its applications for Health Care” was organised by the Department of Prosthodontics and Crown and Bridge, JSS Dental College and Hospital, recently. At the inauguration, Dr. B. Manjunatha, Registrar, JSS University and Dr. S. Ravindra, Principal, addressed the gathering. The speakers for the scientific session were Guru…















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