Bengaluru: With six candidates filing their nomination papers for four seats to the Rajya Sabha (RS) from the State, the three main political parties are working out their gameplans to ensure the success of their candidates in the polls to take place on June 10. With their numerical strength in the State Assembly, the ruling…
Kolkata: Bollywood playback singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known as KK, who was in Kolkata for a concert, died yesterday (May 31). He was 53. The singer collapsed at the hotel where he was staying after the concert in Kolkata’s Nazrul Mancha auditorium. Doctors at Calcutta Medical Research Institute (CMRI) Hospital said the singer was brought…
Movement of chain snatchers captured on CCTV camera Mysore/Mysuru: Bike borne chain snatchers have managed to snatch a part of the gold chain from an elderly woman, who was on her evening walk in Vijayanagar here yesterday. The elderly woman who lost a part of her gold chain is 56-year-old Shashikala, a resident of Vijayanagar…
23rd Conservation Speak series held at Zoo Mysore/Mysuru: Deep J. Contractor, who is the first woman forest officer and the third forest officer to reach Antarctica, delivered a talk on her Antarctica expedition at the 23rd Conservation Speak that has been revived now by Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens, popular as Mysuru Zoo. The talk, ‘My…
Nanjangud: Nanjangud BJP MLA B. Harshavardhan has said if there is a BJP Government in the State, it is because of the role played by B.Y. Vijayendra in the 2019 Assembly by-elections to the 13 Constituencies. Vijayendra should have a bigger role to play in Karnataka politics than just being an MLC. When the media…
Mysore/Mysuru: More than 1.3 million people die of tobacco use every year in India and a majority of them are afflicted with cancer. The country, which is the second largest consumer of tobacco in the world, accounts for almost half of all oral cancers and the highest burden of tuberculosis globally. Not surprisingly, smoking will…
55 percent children badly affected by consumption of tobacco products, says DHO Mysore/Mysuru: Maintaining that creating awareness is vital in the anti-tobacco campaign, Senior Civil Judge and District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) Member-Secretary Devaraj Bhute said that people must be sensitised on the harmful effects of tobacco consumption. He was speaking at the ‘World Anti-Tobacco…
Mysore/Mysuru: “Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji, after becoming a sanyasi, has travelled across the country including Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and has spread the light of knowledge,” opined Vishakapattanam’s Vishaka Sri Sharada Peeta Seer Sri Swaroopanandendra Saraswati. The Seer was speaking at a function organised to mark the 80th birthday celebrations of Sri Ganapathy Swamiji organised…
New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday said the online nominations and recommendations for the Padma Awards-2023 to be announced on the occasion of Republic Day 2023 opened on May 1, 2022. The last date for nominations for Padma Awards is Sept. 15, 2022. The nominations/ recommendations for Padma Awards will be received online…
Mysore/Mysuru: “The dignity and respect which teachers get from society, is not found in anybody else,” opined veteran writer Bannur K. Raju. He was speaking after inaugurating a function jointly organised by Kaveri Balaga and Hiranmayee Pratishtana at Namana Kala Mantap in Krishnamurthypuram on Sunday to confer Jeevanadi Cauvery Awards to primary school teachers. Terming…
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