Mysuru: 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…
Intl. Meet on ‘Data Analytics’ from Mar. 30
March 29, 2018Mysuru: The Department of Studies in Computer Science, University of Mysore (UoM) in association with University Computer Science Alumni Association, has organised a two-day International Conference on ‘Data Analytics and Learning-2018’ on Mar. 30 and 31 at Vijnana Bhavan auditorium, Manasagangothri. The conference will be inaugurated tomorrow at 10 am by Padma Shri Prof. Sankar…
Tackle ‘ground level’ corruption with an iron hand
March 29, 2018Sir, It is difficult to fathom how deeply and steeply we have been sucked in the quicksand and drowned ourselves in the sea of corruption. Just three individuals — Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya and Kothari — have plundered the banks to the tune of roughly Rs. 25,000 crore! This trio is just a sample. There…
Mass Upanayana on Apr.22
March 29, 2018Mysuru: Prachodayat Vipra Sangha has organised Mass Upanayana for the Trimatastha Vipra Vatus at Sri Avani Shringeri Shankaracharya Mahasamsthanao, Sharadapeetam, Mysuru Branch, 4th Main Road, 9th Cross, Vidyaranyapuram on Apr.22. Interested may register their names before Apr.15 with J. Ramesh on Mob: 97413-12562 or Bhavanishankar on Mob: 94480-63766 or contact Office of Maharshi Educational Institutions,…
Mysore Varsity Ph.D awardees
March 29, 2018Mysuru: The University of Mysore (UoM) has awarded Ph.D degree in Communication and Journalism to Ravi Kumar Ganta for his thesis ‘The Role of Media in Weather Communication: A Comparative Study of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh’ submitted under the guidance of Dr. N. Mamatha. B. Jayashree has been awarded Ph.D in English by the UoM…
New office-bearers of CII – Yi Mysuru
March 29, 2018Mysuru: D. Ravi Shankar, Founder of Orange Media, has taken over as Chair of Young Indians (Yi), Mysuru chapter for 2018-2019 while Ghanashyam Murali has been elected as Co-chair of Yi, Mysuru. Ravi Shankar, proprietor of Orange Media, an advertising agency for outdoor and Airport media, completed his executive MBA from Magnus school of Business…













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