Mysore/Mysuru: Chamarajanagar MP V. Sreenivasa Prasad has expressed his anguish about the state of affairs in the present Universities of the country and said that the standard of Universities has slumped to ridiculously low levels.” There is no University in the country which can compete at the international level,” bemoaned the Chamarajanagar MP. He was…
First S.L. Bhyrappa Sahitya Pratisthana Award presented to critic Prof. L.V. Shantakumari
March 7, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Literary criticism during navodaya times in Kannada literature was inclined to bring out the salient features of a work and also identify its limitations though later it took a different course, said well-known litterateur Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa. He was speaking at ‘S.L. BhyrappaSahityaPratisthanaPrashasti’ presentation ceremony in Bengaluru recently. Dr.Bhyrappa said during that period Prof….
Yesh Developers wins ‘Best Residential Layout’ Award
March 7, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Yesh Developers luxury plotted development project “YeshSpoorthy” on Bogadi Road, Mysuru, has won the prestigious NAREDCO Best Residential Layout Project Award at a gala event held in city recently. YeshSpoorthy is a luxury gated community project with state-of-the-art infrastructure and is ideal for immediate construction and investment. Speaking on the occasion, M. Manoj Lodha,…
KSGH Music University accused of non-payment of pending wages
March 7, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Former Mayor Purushottam has accused the city’s Karnataka State Gangubai Hangal (KSGH) Music and Performing Arts University of non-payment of pending wages of 21 non-teaching staff of the Varsity. Addressing a press meet here yesterday, Purushottam said that the Government has released Rs. 87 lakh for payment of wage dues of 21 sacked non-teaching…
CFTRI research scholar bags prize
March 7, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: B. Rohini, a Doctoral research scholar of Food Engineering Department at the Mysuru-based CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CSIR-CFTRI), has won third prize under Ph.D category in the ‘Augmenting writing skills for articulating research (AWSAR)’ award. AWSAR is a National level competition for Popular Science story writing organised at the National level by the…
Child sale racket thrives unabated in Mysuru
March 7, 2023Poverty-stricken woman sells three-month-old girl child to a couple in Tamil Nadu; case booked Nanjangud: Less than a year after the Mysuru Police busted a child sale racket in Nanjangud, H.D. Kote and Holenarasipur where babies were rescued from the illegal adoptive parents, the gang still thrives. Though arrests are made, there have been repeated…
Transport Corporations staff to launch indefinite stir from Mar. 24
March 7, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Seeking fulfillment of their long standing and just demands, workers and staff of all the four State-run Road Transport Corporations (KSTRC, NWKRTC, KKRTC, BMTC) will launch an indefinite stir from Mar. 24. Speaking to Star of Mysore, KSRTC Staff and Workers Union Mysuru District Convenor C.D. Vishwanath said that thousands of KSRTC workers staged…
Man befriends woman on FB, swindles Rs. 25 lakh
March 7, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: A man allegedly befriended a 36-year-old divorcee woman on Facebook (FB), later blackmailed and swindled Rs. 25 lakh from her, besides carrying out a murder attempt on the woman’s son recently. Following a complaint from the woman, Kuvempunagar Police have booked a case against the accused, identified as Sumanth, his girlfriend (name not known)…
Sale of duplicate cigarettes: Case registered against 4 shop ownersworking
March 7, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Devaraja and Mandi Police have registered separate cases against shop owners on charges of selling fake cigarettes of ITC company. On Mar. 3, M.K. Shivakumaraswamy, Manager of ITC company in Bengaluru, arrived in city along with others and went to a store in Shivarampet in the guise of customers and found duplicate cigarettes of…
Student submits fake marks card for cash prize
March 7, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: A girl student created a fake marks card and submitted the same along with an application for the special cash prize given by the Social Welfare Department. The Department gives Rs. 25,000 cash prize to SC/ST students for scoring high marks and the girl student, studying in Yuvaraja’s College, had submitted a copy of…















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