The Bahujan Vidyarthi Sangha (BVS) will be holding a convention of students at Freedom Park in Bengaluru at 10 am tomorrow (Mar.4), according to BVS State Convenor Sosale Siddaraju. The convention will focus on ‘Reservation, essential for the success of democracy campaign’. Former Backward Classes Commission Chairman C.S. Dwarakanath and others will address the convention.
In Briefs
Employees meet
March 3, 2017The Mysuru District Unit of All India SC/ST, Backward Classes and Minorities Labour Unions Federation, has convened a meeting at Jaladarshini Guest House, Hunsur Road in city at 11.30 am, on Mar. 5 (Sunday) to discuss the recent Supreme Court ruling on Government SC/ST employees promotion and to deliberate on filing a review petition on…
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Seminar
March 3, 2017The Middle School Teachers Association will be hosting a seminar on ‘Text Book Revision’ at Madhava Krupa Hall on JLB road in the city at 6 pm tomorrow (Mar.4). Association State President Shivananda Sindhanakera said that the State Government’s urgency for text book revision for the academic year 2017-18 had raised many eyebrows. The seminar…
Feature Articles
So many mothers, and tongues
March 2, 2017By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik -Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist The devas were threatened, as usual, by the rise of yet another asura. This time it was Taraka, and he was exceptionally powerful. He had declared that only a six-day-old child could kill him. The devas wondered who could father such a powerful child and they concluded it…
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Bengaluru Steel Bridge Project scrapped
March 2, 2017The State Government’s ambitious and controversy-ridden Steel Bridge project in Bengaluru has been scrapped. The Congress Government was all set to begin the 6.7 km steel bridge in the IT Capital between Basaveshwara Circle (near Raj Bhavan) and Hebbal flyover at an estimated cost of a whopping Rs. 1,761 crore. The project had met severe…
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Minister Roshan Baig holds MUDA review meet
March 2, 2017Discusses R.T. Nagar, Ballahalli Layouts and Hale Unduvadi drinking water project Karnataka Urban Development Minister R. Roshan Baig held a closed-door review meeting at the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) this morning. The Minister discussed about the complications related to Ballahalli Layout and regarding a possible out-of-court settlement regarding legal complications related to R.T. Nagar…
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National Science Day celebrated at CFTRI
March 2, 2017“The Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) has been contributing immensely to science by inventing new technologies which will help the future generation in food conservation,” said Deputy Commissioner D. Randeep here recently. He was speaking after inaugurating the National Science Day Celebrations-2017 and a colloquium on ‘Current Food Safety and Regulatory Concerns’ at CFTRI…
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RTE: Govt. to hike fees paid to schools
March 2, 2017Law Minister T.B. Jayachandra yesterday said that the tuition fee for seats under Right to Education (RTE) Act in private unaided schools will be hiked from the academic year 2017-18. Reimbursement for primary classes has been increased to Rs. 16,000 from Rs. 11,000 per child per year. For nursery classes, the refund would go up…
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Classical Kannada Centre stays in Mysuru
March 2, 2017To be housed temporarily in Mysore University campus The issue over shifting the Centre of Excellence for Studies in Classical Kannada from Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) in Mysuru to Bengaluru has ended with the Centre being retained in Mysuru by CIIL authorities. Announcing this during the inauguration of the two-day ‘Visioning Workshop and…
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Bandipur Forest Fire: Injured staff discharged from hospital
March 2, 2017Three Forest Staffers including a Range Forest Officer (RFO), who suffered burn injuries while trying to extinguish fire that had broke out at Bandipur recently and were admitted to a private hospital in city for treatment on Feb. 19, have been discharged from the hospital on Feb. 27. The forest staff, who were discharged, are…
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