Mysuru: Directorate of Field Publicity, Mysuru, in association with District Administration, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) and Citizens Forum for Swachha Mysuru, launched a fortnight-long programmes to create awareness among people as part of Swachha Mysuru Survekshan-2018 in front of Kote Anjaneyaswamy Temple here this morning. Deputy Commissioner D. Randeep launched the programme by offering puja…
Bahuroopi food fete draws good crowd
January 16, 2018Mysuru: As if the fare served on the stage by some of the most talented drama troupes in the country is not enough, the connoisseurs, visitors, and the stray people who walk into the Rangayana premises to watch the plays and films at the National Theatre Festival Bahuroopi, are in for another delectable treat —gourmet’s…
Colourful start to Bahuroopi Theatre Festival
January 16, 2018Mysuru: The eight-day National Theatre Festival-2018, Bahuroopi, with the theme ‘Migration’ organised by Rangayana, got off to a colourful start on Jan.14 at Vanaranga. Jnanpith awardee and veteran theatre personality Dr. Girish Karnad inaugurated the festival in a novel way by offering a umbrella, water, jaggery and a book to a migrant family. Later, speaking…
Divided people are easy targets
January 16, 2018By T.J.S. George Way back in 1857, a foreign journalist described India in words that seem eerily relevant today. (That is going a really long way back because 1857 was the year Indian soldiers rebelled against their British overlords in what came to be known, in Indian terms, as the first war of Independence and,…
Pata Kunita, theatre songs and street play captivate audience
January 16, 2018Mysuru: The second day of Bahuroopi at Rangayana yesterday featured thought-provoking plays with depiction of contemporary social problems. Ranga Sangama troupe from Mysuru presented a street play focussing on migration of farmers to city, facing the hardships there and returning to villages at Kindarijogi premises in Rangayana. At Vanaranga, students of Vishwashanthi PU College, Mysuru,…
Train MBBS students and grads on Airway Management: Medical Education Director
January 16, 2018Mysuru: Cauvery Heart and Multispeciality Hospital, Siddarthanagar, had organised a Continuing Medical Education (CME) Programme and workshop on “Airway management” for doctors in the hospital conference hall recently. Airway Management is a crucial skill required for people working in sensitive and critical areas like Emergency Department, Intensive Care Units and Operation Theatre. A small lapse…
Symposium on latest trends in management of heart failure held
January 16, 2018Mysuru: Cardiological Society of India (CSI), Mysore Chapter, had organised a symposium on ‘Latest Trends in Management of Heart Failure’ during a CME programme held at Hotel Lalitha Mahal in city recently. Dr. Carsten Tschope, Professor of Cardiology at University of Berlin, who was the chief guest, gave an insight into the new concepts in…
Anti-Tobacco activists welcome SC stay on Karnataka HC decision
January 16, 2018Mysuru: Anti-Tobacco Forum and Cancer Patients AIDS Association, Mysuru have welcomed the Supreme Court stay on the orders of the High Court of Karnataka, that had quashed the 2014 government regulation made under Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003, to the…
Banks accused of delay in releasing funds for beneficiaries
January 16, 2018Mysuru: The lethargic attitude of Banks in releasing funds and subsidies to beneficiaries of various Government schemes came to the fore at the Zilla Panchayat’s (ZP) monthly KDP Progress review meeting at the ZP Hall here recently. ZP Social Welfare Standing Committee Chairman Beerihundi Basavanna who raised the issue at the meeting, said there were…
Commissioning of ESI Hospital new building urged
January 16, 2018Mysuru: Seeking immediate commissioning of medical services at the newly constructed ESI Hospital building on KRS Road, members of SBM Manju Sneha Balaga staged a demonstration in front of the hospital here recently. Addressing the protestors, Corporator SBM Manju said that there has been undue delay in the inauguration of the new hospital building and…













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