Mysuru: Women’s issues dominated Day-2 of the 83rd Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana at Maharaja’s College Grounds. At the morning session today, speaker after speaker spoke on various issues facing women, with a packed audience listening to them with rapt attention. Professor from Mangalore University Dr. Sabhia Bhoomi Gowda speaking on “Exploitation of women under…
Mysuru: With 83rd Kannada Sahitya Sammelana being celebrated in city with a lot of fanfare, it is sad to see District Kannada Sahitya Bhavana at Vijayanagar First Stage lying in a state of total neglect and crying for attention. The Bhavana was inaugurated with a lot of pomp in Sept. 2004 by the then Deputy…
Mysuru: The 83rd edition of Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana began with great fervour at Maharaja’s College Grounds in city yesterday. The Sammelana was inaugurated by Chief Minister Siddharamaiah in the presence of Sammelana President Prof. Chandrashekar Patil, popular as Champa, Mysuru District in-Charge Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa, Mayor M.J. Ravikumar, MLA M.K. Somashekar, Kannada…
Mysuru: Environmentalists and devotees are seeing red as the beautiful backdrop to the City, Chamundi Hill is quietly being destroyed in the name of development. In the precincts of Chamundeshwari Temple atop the Hill, PWD has taken up works worth Rs. 80 crore, building commercial complex, bus stand and other development works. The works are…
Midnight telephone calls are like midnight knocks on the door. Often unpleasant — either the Police or an unexpected guest. So also the early morning telephone calls. One such early morning call came to me from K. Shivakumar, Senior Special Correspondent of The New Indian Express at 6.30 am on Thursday, November 23, 2017. It…
Udupi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat made it clear yesterday stating that only Ram Mandir would be built at the Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya and that it was “not a populist declaration but a matter of faith”. He was addressing a gathering after taking part in the inauguration of three-day ‘Dharma Sansad’ organised…
Mysuru: The plans of Mysuru Zoo authorities to send giraffes to Bannerghatta Biological Park and the faraway Nandankanan Zoological Gardens, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, hit a roadblock following the death of Krishnaraja, the oldest Giraffe early this morning. Krishnaraja was the centre of attraction at the Mysuru Zoo and was 21-years-old. Krishnaraja was the fourth calf born…
Mysuru: Several speakers on the inaugural day of the mega literary festival recalled the contributions of Wadiyars in the formation of Karnataka and development of Kannada language. Retired Kannada Professor and Scholar Dr. N.S. Taranath who spoke on the contributions of Wadiyars, said that the Wadiyars patronised fine arts and literature and helped in the…
Mysuru: People for Animals (PFA), Mysuru, launched ‘Circle of Life’, a mass social campaign of putting reflective collars to community dogs at PFA premises in Roopanagar, here this morning. The programme was launched by Deputy Commissioner D. Randeep by putting a reflective collars to one of the community dogs. Speaking on the occasion, he said…
Mysuru: It was time to enter the ethereal world after the mind was exercised sufficiently with the Akshara Jatre (festival of letters) on the first day of the 83rd Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana. As the Sun set (and one can watch the most beautiful sun sets in the cultural capital), there was cultural treat…
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