Mysore/Mysuru: COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up unseen challenges on the Health Sciences based Higher Education programmes. The challenges came up both in the form of curriculum practice, teaching-learning, and evaluation. The health science-based education such as Medicine/ Dentistry/ Pharmacy/Allied Health Sciences has always been a high comprehension programme with practical and clinical experiential training. During…
Virtual Education Fair for students
August 29, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Studying overseas is a life-changing decision, not only for students but for their families too. Due to the disruption of services caused by COVID-19, students were facing great difficulty in the decision-making process. To address the various challenges faced by the students and their families, IDP Education, a global leader in international education services,…
Mysuru Literature Festival-2020: Virtual session tomorrow
August 29, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The fourth edition of Mysuru Literature Festival-2020 organised by Mysuru Literary Forum Charitable Trust and Mysuru Book Clubs-2015 being held virtually on every weekend from Aug. 14, will conclude on Sept. 5. This edition has a wide range of authors and speakers as Panellists. Today, SOM features tomorrow’s Panellist Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and…
Theft at shops on Devaraj Urs Road: Two arrested
August 29, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Devaraja Police have cracked the recent serial theft of shops on D. Devaraj Urs Road in city with the arrest of two burglars. The arrested have been identified as Syed Mohammad Faizal alias Ismail alias Nadeem, 23, a resident of Bengaluru and Junaid Ahmed, 26, a resident of Sultan Palya Main Road, R.T. Nagar,…
Girls go missing from Balamandira
August 29, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Two girls have gone missing from the Girls’ Balamandira in Nazarbad Police limits in city. The missing girls are 17-year-old Jayashree, daughter of Jayanna, a resident of Bylakuppe in Periyapatna taluk and 17-year-old Muskan, daughter of Mohammed Arif of Bannikuppe village in Hunsur taluk. They went missing from the Balamandira on Aug. 15 after…
Out of syllabus questions; grace marks for students
August 29, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Higher Education Department is planning to give grace marks to students who wrote final semester examination following the complaints of ‘out of syllabus’ questions. The students had a shock of their life when they saw some out of syllabus questions in final semester exam held on Friday. They brought this to the notice of…
‘Code Igniter-2020’ Coding Contest on Sept. 9
August 29, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The Department of Information Science & Engineering of GSSS Institute of Engineering and Technology for Women, KRS Road, in association with Computer Society of India, Mysuru Chapter, has jointly organised the 5th Online National-level Coding Competition ‘Code Igniter-2020’ on Sept. 9 from 10 am at the College premises. The purpose of this competition is…
Basking in Reflected Glory
August 29, 2020Kamala Harris is the Vice-Presidential candidate pick for the Democratic Party in the United States which is going in for elections in November. And the moment it was announced, as usual we Indians went gaga. No sooner was Kamala Harris named the Democrats’ VP pick, villagers in Painganadu, Harris’ mother’s village, in Tamil Nadu, put…
Rendezvous of Jupiter and Saturn with Moon tonight
August 29, 2020By Dr. S.A. Mohan Krishna Amateur Astronomer Yesterday, we were privileged to see the closeness of three celestial objects namely Moon, Jupiter and Saturn. Tonight (Aug. 29) too in southeastern direction, one can clearly witness these objects with ease, provided the sky should be absolutely clear. Moon, Jupiter and Saturn can be seen tonight in…
Astrological predictions another reason for defeat of native kings by invaders in “Bharatavarsha”
August 29, 2020Sir, This is with reference to KBG’s Abracadabra titled “India acquires ‘Shakti’ with Rafale: Remembering Ajit Doval’s Speech” in SOM dated July 30, 2020. He has rightly pointed out two reasons for the defeats of Hindu kings in different parts of what was called “Bharata” or “Bharatavarsha” by the invaders in the past — that…















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