Mysuru: With Assembly election date announced, taking a break from his ‘Kumara Parva’ rally, former Chief Minister and State JD(S) President H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) visited Suttur Mutt in city yesterday and sought blessings of Suttur Seer Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Swamiji. Speaking to press persons later, Kumaraswamy said that he launched ‘Kumara Parva’ rally from Chamundeshwari…
DC asks licensed gun owners to deposit firearms
March 29, 2018Mysuru: The Mysuru District Administration has asked all those who have a licence to keep guns, to deposit them with the Police ahead of the Assembly polls. Deputy Commissioner K.B. Sivakumar, who is also the District Electoral Officer, has issued an order to this effect that will be implemented in Mysuru district and city limits….
Graduation and Awards ceremony of Gopala Gowda Nursing School
March 29, 2018Mysuru: The graduation and awards ceremony of the 16th and 11th batches of B.Sc Nursing and oath ceremony to the freshers of Gopala Gowda Shanthaveri Memorial Nursing School and College were held at the Raj Gopalrao Rashinkar Kalyana Mantap here yesterday. Cauvery Group of Institutions Chairman Dr. G.R. Chandrashekar, speaking after presenting degrees to the…
Wake up before Namma Mysuru figures in the list of “Zero Water Cities”
March 29, 2018By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC First Cape Town, South Africa and now our own Bengaluru. The latest research has revealed some shocking facts: Bengaluru is going to face an acute water shortage and may face the same problem like Cape Town “Day Zero.” The scenario is grim, water shortage in a Garden City…
‘Uniform Civil Code is the only answer for country’s social disparities’
March 29, 2018Mysuru: “A uniform Civil Code may be the only solution for the social disparities that is prevalent in the country,” opined Sri Trinetra Mahantha Shivayogi Swamiji of Baby Mutt. He was speaking at a seminar on ‘Opportunities and challenges for women,’ jointly organised by Akhila Bharat Sharana Sahitya Parishat and Kadali Mahila Vedike as part…
NGOs groomed on child rights
March 29, 2018Mysuru: District Administration, together with the Department of Women and Child Welfare, had organised a workshop on ‘Child rights and laws protecting children’ for members of NGOs at Sthree Shakti Bhavan in Vijayanagar 2nd Stage here on Tuesday. About 100 members of 17 organisations participated in the workshop who were groomed on child rights, Right…
Descendants of Chitragupta
March 29, 2018By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist As an Odia child raised in Mumbai, I am often asked about my roots. My parents told me we belong to the ‘karana’ caste. No one in Mumbai had heard of this caste. Later, I learned that karana caste is what is known as karanam in…
Codava National Council to hold Satyagraha from April 1
March 29, 2018Madikeri: The Codava National Council (CNC) will hold overnight Satyagraha from April 1 pressing for various demands including the political goal attaining for the Autonomous Codava Land (Autonomy) and the inclusion of Kodavas as tribals in the Constitution. In a press release, CNC President N.U. Nachappa said that CNC does not claim or advocate the…
II PU evaluation: PU Board serves notices to absentees
March 29, 2018Mysuru: PU Education Board is said to have served notices to evaluators who have absented for evaluation work of second PU examination answer scripts which commenced from Monday last. A shortage of evaluators was reportedly observed on the first day of evaluation work itself which commenced simultaneously at 53 centres in the State. Totally, 24,054…
Haunting habits
March 29, 2018A regular tendency or practice that is hard to give up, briefly defining the term habit, invariably either draws people close to one another or drives them apart. People of different countries and also those of different regions within a country, such as in India, are not only marked by but also stereotyped on the…















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