Mysuru: Even as the NGO Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP) is struggling to find a public spirited lawyer to file a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the High Court to stop the construction of Public Library in park, the works on the Rs. 4.99 crore worth library building has already begun at the People’s Park in…
Mysuru: Mayor M.J. Ravikumar and Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner G. Jagadeesha have appealed to the people of the city to participate in Swachh Survekshan to help Mysuru regain the top spot in the country for cleanliness for the third time. Motivating the people to download Swachhata app and participate in the survey by registering…
Mysuru: The Mysuru Zoo has come up with a new Android app MyZoo provide information and facilities in the Zoo. In the light of the zoo celebrating 125 years, the app which will help guide visitors inside the zoo was launched yesterday at Hotel Radisson Blu during the inauguration of ‘Annual Conference of Indian Zoos’…
By N. Niranjan Nikam [Continued from yesterday] Star of Mysore (SOM): What were the other things that impressed you at Mysuru Zoo? Anne Knapp: Plastic-free zones. No one has taken it as seriously as Mysuru Zoo. When you enter the Zoo they check your bags and if you have plastic bags, they put a barcode…
Mysuru: Christian Social Welfare Association President Harry D’Souza has said that the Christian community was rendered injustice in spending of funds granted by the State Government for the Welfare of Minorities. He was speaking at the Mysuru District Christian Convention ‘Our Share Our Right’ organised by the Association at St. Phenomena’s College premises in Bannimantap…
Mysuru: Government Chief whip in the Legislative Council, Ivan D’Souza, who also head a Monitoring Committee on spending of Christian Minority Welfare Funds, held a progress review meeting at the CSI Wesley Church on B.N. Road here this morning. Later speaking to presspersons, Ivan D’Souza said that the Government has allotted Rs. 175 crore for…
Mysuru:“Music and dance should be relished as art and just speaking at length on them appears inappropriate,” opined renowned Sarod Maestro Pt. Rajeev Taranath. He was speaking after launching ‘Parangathotsava-2017,’ a National-level 31st edition four-day Classical Music and Dance Festival at Sri Nadabrahma Sangeetha Sabha on JLB Road here recently which was organised by Vasundhara…
By TJS George Small minds can create big dislocations in a democracy. When Prakash Karat says that the CPM’s purity cannot be diluted by association with bourgeois parties, when Sharad Pawar fields 72 candidates in Gujarat knowing that he cannot go beyond single digits, when Mayawati, who put up 163 candidates in 2012 and scored 0…
Mysuru: Lighting a lamp in the beginning of any function is a tradition in our country. It exudes positivity and supposed to bring in prosperity, peace and happiness to the people. It has a spiritual significance. Lamp is a representative of the fire or light and light symbolises knowledge that removes darkness, said Prof. P.K…
Mysuru: Dakshina Kesari Kannada Sahitya Prashasti-2017, the Kannada Literary Award instituted by Lions Club of Mysore South, was presented to Dr. M.S. Veda, Professor in Kannada Studies and Littérateur, as part of Kannada Rajyotsava celebration held at a private hotel in city recently. The award was presented by MLA Ln. M.K. Somashekar in the presence…
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