All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) is organising an inter-collegiate cultural festival “AIISH Aawaaz-2017” from Mar.17 to Mar.19 at Panchavati Campus of the institute on Bogadi Road here. This festival is open for all college students to showcase their cultural talents. The fest will host various cultural events and literary competitions such…
Street Food
March 16, 2017By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC About two years back, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) had taken a decision to relocate the food vendors, spread all over the city. The reasoning behind such a move was two-folded. Firstly, licence was to be issued to vendors who adhered to basic hygiene principles and secondly, to…
Poacher killed as Forest Guards open fire
March 16, 2017An alleged poacher was killed on the spot when the Forest Guards opened fire on a group of five people, who were seen suspiciously hiding inside the shrubs waiting to hunt wild animals at Uyamballi Forest Area located at Kanakapura Taluk in Ramanagar early this morning. The deceased has been identified as Guru (24), a…
Three persons including two students commit suicide
March 16, 2017In three separate incidents, two students and a housewife have committed suicide in city. In the first incident, a 22-year-old Mechanical Engineering student of SJCE and a resident of Hullina Beedhi near Agrahara, committed suicide by hanging self in a room on the first floor of his house here yesterday. The deceased student has been…
Help me get back my hubby: Woman to Police
March 16, 2017A woman from Bengaluru is said to have sought help from Mysuru Police to get back her husband. The woman, identified as Navya A.K. Urs, from Malleshwaram, Bengaluru, arrived at Lakshmipuram Police Station here yesterday and complained that her husband Vinod Urs was missing for the last couple of days. She alleged that Vinod was…
Classifying Jati
March 16, 2017By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik -Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist For thousands of years, Indians have followed the jati system. By this system, your birth determines your vocation, hence your status in society, and only members of your jati will share food (roti, in Hindi) with you and give their daughters (beti) to marry into your household. This…
Two-day Intl. Symposium on Cloud Computing
March 16, 2017The National Institute of Engineering, Computer Science Division in association with Computer Society of India – Bengaluru and Mysuru chapter has organised a two-day ‘International Symposium on ‘Cloud Computing and Data Analytics’ (ISCCDA-2017) at Bharat Ratna Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan seminar Hall, NIE Administrative Block on Mar. 17 and 18. Dr. Anirban Basu, President of Computer Society…
Retired MCC Commissioner gets extortion call from fake IT officer
March 16, 2017An incident of a person, claiming to be the Commissioner of the Income Tax (IT) Department, calling a retired KAS officer over the phone and demanding Rs. 10 lakh to close a ‘case’ has been reported in city. Retired Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner Dr. C.G. Betsurmath, who is now the Executive Secretary of JSS…
Philanthropist H.V. Shankar Rao no more
March 16, 2017H.V. Shankar Rao (95), a Philanthropist, who had served in various organisations, passed away at his Jayalakshmipuram residence here yesterday following brief illness. He leaves behind his wife, a son, two daughters and a host of relatives and friends. Last rites at Chirashantidhama today at 3 pm, according to family sources. Shankar, who had served…
Life-size statue of Paramahamsa to adorn R.K. Nagar Circle
March 16, 2017White marble sculpture at a cost of Rs. 50 lakh A statue of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa carved out of white marble stone will come up at Ramakrishnanagar Circle. It will be a life-size statue of the 19th century Saint and will be carved at a cost of Rs. 50 lakh. The Circle is located at…















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