Mysore/Mysuru: A memorial for late actor “Sahasa Simha” Dr. Vishnuvardhan in Mysuru will finally be a reality and the foundation stone will be laid in August. In July last year, Dr. Vishnuvardhan’s wife Bharathi Vishnuvardhan performed Bhoomi Puja at Halalu village, Kasaba Hobli near Udbur on Manandawadi Road where the State Government has sanctioned 6.5…
COVID steals sound of music, anklets in cultural capital
July 6, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Our city is popularly known as cultural capital of Karnataka, but ever since pandemic outbreak, art and cultural activities in city have come to a standstill. Most of the auditoriums and music halls have locked their doors while the income of artistes has plummeted. Not long ago, music halls in city were filled with…
Don’t leave Bengaluru, appeals Home Minister
July 6, 2020Bengaluru: With hundreds of people exiting Bengaluru a day before Sunday curfew fearing a second lockdown as the number of COVID-19 cases continued to increase, the Karnataka government on Sunday asked people to remain calm, not harbour apprehensions and urged them to continue living in the city. “We are seeing reports that a lot of…
Law for mandatory home isolation of people aged above 60
July 6, 2020Bengaluru: Rising number of COVID cases in Bengaluru has forced Karnataka Government to come up with a law to make home isolation of people aged above 60 years mandatory. Priority is now for people with symptoms. And people aged above 60 years and are asymptomatic will have to be quarantined, Medical Education Minister Dr. K….
D. Banumaiah generously donated hard-earned money for social service and education: Former MLA
July 6, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Former MLA M.K. Somashekar said that Banumaiah Educational Institutions Founder Dharmaprakasha D. Banumaiah has moulded hundreds of achievers by setting up an excellent educational institution even before Independence. He was speaking at the birth anniversary celebrations of D. Banumaiah organised at D. Banumaiah College premises on Sayyaji Rao Road here yesterday. Pointing out that…
CFTRI signs MoU with Schevaran Labs
July 6, 2020To develop efficient environment-friendly and cost-effective quality products post-COVID Mysore/Mysuru: CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysuru, has signed an MoU with Schevaran Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., Mysuru, recently making way forward for collaborative avenues towards the development of personal hygiene, cleaning and related industrial products and solutions. In the post-COVID scenario, both the organisations have…
Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar’s 116th birth anniversary celebrated
July 6, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: City-based Samarpana Educational and Endowment Charitable Trust celebrated the 116th birth anniversary of well-known writer Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar here recently. Dr. K. Anantharamu, Retired Kannada Professor of Mysore University Maharaja Evening College and writer, inaugurated the programme by offering floral tributes to the portrait of Gorur. Speaking on the occasion, he said that Gorur…
SDM Institute gets Business School Impact System Certification
July 6, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: SDM Institute for Management Development (SDM-IMD), Mysuru, is the first institute in Southern India and second in the country to secure Business School Impact System (BSIS) Certification from European Federation for Management Development (EFMD). The expert team from BSIS headed by Dr. Michael Kalika examined the impact made by the Institute on the education,…
COVID-19 effect in Bengaluru: Lalbagh Flower Show cancelled
July 6, 2020Bengaluru: With the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continuing to cause havoc across the globe, the Government has decided to cancel the Independence Day Flower Show at Bengaluru’s Lalbagh next month. Even as COVID-19 positive cases continue to rise alarmingly in Bengaluru, the Horticulture Department which organises the popular Lalbagh Flower Show for about a week…
Artistes’ welfare during pandemic
July 6, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Ganabharathi has been a familiar landmark in the cultural landscape of Mysuru for the last four decades. It was registered as a cultural institution in the year 1978 for the promotion of “Fine Arts and other Performing Arts”. It has a strength of 850 Life Members on its roster now. A music and dance…















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