Bengaluru: Deputy Chief Minister and Higher Education Minister Dr. C.N. Ashwathnarayan has asked all Vice-Chancellors of Universities to ensure vaccination of students above 18 years at the earliest. Holding a virtual meet with Vice-Chancellors yesterday, he said as per schedule, the College students need to be inoculated before July 7 and the VCs must try…
12,863 UoM staff, students yet to receive first dose
July 2, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: University of Mysore (UoM) authorities have informed the District Administration that as many as 12,863 students, teaching and non-teaching staff of all Degree Colleges are yet to receive the first dose of vaccination. So far, six vaccination drives have been held in which 2,868 have been vaccinated. On June 21, a special drive was…
Venkaiah Naidu calls for removing vaccine hesitancy among people
July 2, 2021Chennai: Vice- President M. Venkaiah Naidu has emphasised the need to educate people on the importance of Covid-19 vaccination and urged all stakeholders to work collectively to achieve the target of full vaccination by the year end. Speaking at a book presentation function on the occasion of Doctors’ Day here yesterday, he underlined the need…
Clash of Commissioners in public: Siddu unhappy
July 2, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Former CM and Leader of Opposition in the State Legislative Assembly Siddharamaiah expressed serious displeasure over previous Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner Shilpa Nag going before media to hurl charges against former Deputy Commissioner Rohini Sindhuri recently. “The IAS Officers can talk to media only about the Government programmes but not personal matters of…
Grocery kits distributed Zoo employees
July 2, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Grocery kits were distributed to Mysuru Zoo employees by Bank of Baroda at an event organised at the Zoo’s Amphitheatre recently. Speaking on the occasion, Zoo Authority of Karnataka (ZAK) Chairman L.R. Mahadevaswamy said that the erstwhile Mysuru rulers used to catch wild animals and keep them in the Zoo to display them to…
Vaccinate hair-dressers on priority: Savitha Samaja urges officials
July 2, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Members of Savitha Samaja met Backward Classes Welfare Department officials recently and urged them to vaccinate barbers and hair-dressers on priority. Members of Savitha Samaja led by its President N.R. Nagesh met Backward Classes Welfare Department District Officer Bindiya and conveyed the importance of vaccinating barbers and hair-dressers of the district on priority. “All…
Plea to release COVID package for Masjids, Imams and other staff
July 2, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Khwaja Mohammed Musheer Chishti, Organising Secretary of Masjid-e-Moula Hussain at Sathyanagar in city, has urged the Chief Minister, District Minister and other elected representatives to release COVID-19 relief package to Masjids, Imams and Mouzan staff as announced by the CM early this month. In a press release, he has stated that following COVID-induced lockdown,…
CA exams from July 5, SC modifies opt-out scheme
July 2, 2021New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to modify the opt-out facility provided to the students for the examinations beginning on July 5. A Bench of Justices A.M. Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Aniruddha Bose was hearing three separate petitions seeking exam postponement, opt-out options, more centres and…
Hunsur’s Hakki-Pikki tribes lose incomes, stare at hunger
July 2, 2021Tribal and Hakki-Pikki communities living on the forest fringes and small hamlets of Hunsur and Hanagodu might stay safe from COVID infection but they are pushed into poverty and starvation as their lone source of livelihood, passed on from generations has been cut off, thanks to lockdown. The lockdown has not only made the urban…
What ails electricity supply in some areas of Mysuru?
July 2, 2021Sir, It has been very obviously observed that at least three times a week from morning 11 am till 5 pm or 6 pm there is no power supply in Lakshmipuram. Most often out of 10 calls hardly 1-2 calls get answered. The standard answer is cable laying work is going on and since it…















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