The Annual General Body Meeting (AGM) of the city’s Brahmana Dharma Sahaya Sabha will be held at 11 am on Dec. 21 at the Sabha premises located at Kalyana Bhavan on Thyagaraja Road, K.R. Mohalla. The AGM will be chaired by the Sabha President N. Srinivas. For details, contact Mob: 94496-06311 according to a press…
Mahila Utsava at Dasara expo
December 19, 2025The Karnataka Exhibition Authority (KEA) has organised ‘Mahila Utsava’ at Dasara Exhibition premises from 4 pm to 9.30 pm on Dec. 21. Women entrepreneurs can exhibit and sell their products at the Utsava. As part of the event, mehendi art and fireless cooking contests have been organised. Interested women can register their names at the…
Staging of plays at Dasara expo
December 19, 2025The Dasara Women and Children’s Sub-Committee will be organising two plays at P. Kalingarao Rangamantapa in Dasara Exhibition premises from 5 pm to 7 pm tomorrow (Dec. 20). Artistes will perform a play focussing on atrocities against women from 5 pm to 6 pm, followed by a play on the 5 Guarantees of State Government…
6 years on… Wait continues!
December 18, 2025Mysore/Mysuru: The long-pending renovation and restoration of the 126-year-old heritage Fire Station on Kantharaj Urs Road in Saraswathipuram has been pushed further into uncertainty, with the State Finance Department citing financial constraints and the absence of budgetary allocation. Responding to a question by Chamaraja MLA K. Harishgowda, Home Minister Dr. G. Parameshwar informed the Legislative…
Mysuru-based Skanray plans regional airline
December 18, 2025Services proposed from Mysuru with three ATR-72 aircraft by mid-April 2026 Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru-based Skanray Technologies is set to diversify into aviation. The company is preparing to launch ‘Skanjet Aviation’ from Mysuru, with a Rs. 150-200 crore regional airline plan, positioning the city as its operational base to tap growing demand for regional air travel and…
Pramoda Devi releases two books of Dr. CDS
December 18, 2025Mysore/Mysuru: City’s senior physician and Cardiologist Dr. C.D. Sreenivasa Murthy (Dr. CDS) has brought out a English book titled ‘Dr. CDS Writes,’ a collection of his columns published in Star of Mysore and write-ups which appeared in conference magazines. The book was released by the Pramoda Devi Wadiyar, Member of Erstwhile Mysore Royal Family, along…
‘Restore Doddakere, shift Unity Mall elsewhere’
December 18, 2025Mysuru Rakshana Vedike says Unity Mall would damage Mysore Palace’s aesthetics Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru Rakshana Vedike has urged the State Government to reclaim the historic Doddakere Maidan, restore it as a full-fledged lake and shift the proposed Unity Mall to an alternative location in the city. Vedike President M.K. Premkumar made this appeal while addressing…
Varying weight: Gold loan customers throng bank
December 18, 2025Mysore/Mysuru: Tension prevailed for sometime as hundreds of customers thronged Canara Bank, Hinkal branch, alleging difference in the weight of gold valuables pledged for loan, yesterday. The frantic customers, including men and women, complained that the total weight of the valuables received was found varying at the time of closure of loan, when compared to…
Drunken brawl claims youth’s life in H.D. Kote
December 18, 2025H.D. Kote: A drunken brawl in H.D. Kote taluk bordering Kerala has allegedly culminated in the murder of a youth on Tuesday night. The incident occurred in H.D. Kote town limits. The deceased has been identified as Kalam (20), while the accused, Taveed, is absconding, according to the H.D. Kote Town Police. According to the…
Nodal Officers to curb female foeticide in State: Minister
December 18, 2025Belagavi: Accepting that acts of female foeticide has not stopped in Karnataka, Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said the State Government was taking strict measures to prevent it. He said the Government was appointing separate Nodal Officers in all districts and tightening measures to prevent foeticide, which he called a “social evil.” He also assured…












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