Mysuru: The City Police and the District Administration have taken measures for the effective enforcement of the Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act (COTPA). An investigation team, led by COTPA Surveillance Officers, District Surveillance Officer and Programme Officer Dr. Kusuma, recently conducted…
Bengaluru: Even as there are widespread protests by the farming community demanding the State Government to release Cauvery water to their canals for them to take up agricultural activities, the Government has indicated that it will not be releasing water to the fields in the basin areas. Water Resources Minister M.B. Patil said yesterday that…
Mysuru: It was an hour of grief for Hunsur advocate N.P.R. Pawar when he lost his eldest son yesterday. However, in spite of this irreparable loss, the family of Pawar showed their presence of mind and donated the organs of the young man to Apollo Hospital. Shiva Pawar (34), is the person who died. He…
Mysuru: Deepshika Arun, a 12th pass out from NPS, Mysuru, has been nominated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India and the Ministry of Human Capacities of Hungary for Indo- Hungarian Educational Exchange Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme to pursue a three-year undergraduate course in Biological Sciences at the University of Debrecen, Hungary….
Mysuru: As part of the World Breast-feeding Week-2017, a day-long health exhibition on breast-feeding practices and its advantages was organised by JSS College of Nursing at the Paediatrics Out-Patient Department at JSS Hospital here on Tuesday. The expo featured information on nutritional benefits of breast milk for infants and advantages for mothers. Inaugurating the expo,…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam Food subsidisation and public distribution systems are the cornerstone for the assessment and eradication of food insecurity in India. While the Government of India passed the National Food Security Bill, the Government of Karnataka has implemented a revised food distribution system, known as the Anna Bhagya Yojana from May 2015. Under…
BARC Visiting Faculty inaugurates seminar at St. Philos Mysuru: A one-day State-level seminar on ‘Innovations and Challenges in Nuclear, Chemical and Bio-Chemical Sciences’ was organised by the Departments of Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry (UG) at St.Philomena’s College auditorium here recently. The seminar aimed at educating and enriching the students, faculty and research scholars in exploring the…
Mysuru: The mobile phones among the many devices that humans have invented is causing lot of problems to mankind. The use or misuse of this instrument has led to people not even lifting their heads to talk and they have also lost the courage to speak in public, said Rangayana Director Bhagirathi Bai Kadam. She…
Mysuru: A student, who had lost her bag that contained a laptop and cash got it back intact, thanks to the Good Samaritans — a Police Constable and a Home Guard attached to the Lakshmipuram Police Station. They spotted the student speeding away on her two-wheeler without realising that her bag had fallen off the…
Mandya: More than 100 farmers under the banner of KRRS this morning laid siege to the entry of KRS Dam at Srirangapatna Taluk in the district, demanding immediate release of water to all canals of the Dam and stoppage of water to Tamil Nadu. But tight security prevented the farmers from entering into the Dam…
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