RUDSET Institute, Mysuru, has invited applications from the youth in the age group of 18 to 45 years for different skill training programmes — Computer TALLY (30-day), Sheep & Goat Rearing (6-day) and Dress Designing for women (30-day) — on residential basis. The training programme will be free of cost including boarding and lodging. Unemployed…
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Entrance exam postponed
February 27, 2017The entrance exam for the admission to 6th standard in Morarji Desai / Kittur Rani Chennamma / Ekalavya Model / Atal Bihari Vajpayee Residential Schools, which was scheduled to be held on Feb. 19, has been postponed to Mar. 5 due to unavoidable circumstances, according to a press release from Social Welfare Department Joint Director.
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Arya Ediga mass marriage
February 27, 2017The Arya Ediga Seva Samiti will be organising a mass marriage programme for community members on Mar.23 in the city. Prospective brides and grooms of Arya Ediga community from Mysuru and Chamarajanagar districts can register at the District Arya Edigara Sangha office located on New Kantharaj Urs Road before Mar.16, according to Samiti President P….
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Quiz contest
February 27, 2017JSS Polytechnic for the Differently-Abled, Manasagangothri, has organised a quiz competition for the Mysuru Region Polytechnic Students on Mar. 5. Interested may register their names before Mar. 2 through e-mail: [email protected]. Only two teams (two candidates in a team) from each Polytechnic can participate in the contest. For details, contact Alumni Association Co-ordinator D.V. Nandini…
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Elected
February 27, 2017The following were elected unopposed to the Managing Committee of Sri Bhuvaneshwari Credit Co-op. Society for a period of five years from 2016-17 to 2017-22 at the elections held on Feb.21: C.S. Nagaraj, R. Narayan, T.A. Madhukar, E.K.Rajan Babu, M. Vijayalakshmi, M.S.Shivakumaraswamy, B.M. Shivashankar, K.Shivananda, Shanthi V.Hegde, C. Suresh and M. Subramanya Bhat.
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Maha Shivaratri – Pious night of Shiva
February 27, 2017Maha Shivaratri which means The Great Night of Shiva is a Hindu festival celebrated annually in honour of the God Shiva. It is a major festival in Hinduism and marks a remembrance of overcoming darkness and ignorance in life and the world. It is observed by remembering Shiva and chanting prayers, fasting, doing Yoga and…
Sports
TechNIEks Run for a cause
February 26, 2017Nearly 1,000 enthusiasts took part in the TechNIEKs Run organised by the city’s National Institute of Engineering (NIE) as part of its TechNIEks-2017 in city this morning. The event featuring 10K run and 5K run was organised in aid of special children and was held under three categories — Men, Women and Veterans (above 50…
Voice of The Reader
Thank you SOM
February 26, 2017Sir, I wish to express sincere thanks and gratitude to Star of Mysore on its 40th anniversary. I am a senior citizen, settled in Malappuram district, Kerala. Since 2002, we are visiting Mysuru twice or thrice a year as our daughter and family are settled here. She came to Mysuru in connection with employment in…
Voice of The Reader
Mission Hospital’s mission…
February 26, 2017Sir, I read with interest, your Abracadabra titled “Mission Hospital: Mission Continues” (SOM dated Feb. 20). Living in the West after leaving Mysuru 40 years ago, because of the casteism, politics, endemic corruption and the downgrading of meritocracy, the Mission Hospital stood out then as a rare gem when even the poor could approach the…
Down the Memory Lane
BRAHMA KUMARIS: 80th anniversary at Mount Abu
February 26, 2017By K. Vijaya Kumar, Former Jt. Director of Information & Publicity. The 15-Day Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Brahma Kumaris Organisation of Mysore Sub Zone, organised at Maharaja College Grounds in city, which will conclude this evening, took my memory back to 50 years when Mysore Centre was started in 1966 by a young Brahma Kumari…
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