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Alumni appeal: ‘Save heritage Maharaja’s High School building’
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Alumni appeal: ‘Save heritage Maharaja’s High School building’

November 16, 2025

Mysore/Mysuru: President of Maharaja’s High School & PU College Alumni Association, B.S. Sridhar Raje Urs, has appealed to philanthropists to generously support the restoration of historic Maharaja’s High School building on JLB Road, a recognised heritage structure. Addressing reporters at the college auditorium yesterday, Urs, a former Director of PU Education, expressed concern that the…

Maharaja’s High School Alumni Assn. vows to restore past glory
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Maharaja’s High School Alumni Assn. vows to restore past glory

June 17, 2025

Mysuru: Expressing deep disappointment over low admission in the over a century old Maharaja’s High School, JLB Road in city, the Maharaja High School Alumni Association has unveiled a road map to rejuvenate the school. Addressing a press meet at Maharaja’s High School library this morning, the Maharaja’s High School Alumni Association President B.S. Sridhar…

MCC delays permission for Venugopalaswamy Temple Raja Gopura works: Temple Committee President Sridhar Raje Urs begins indefinite hunger strike
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MCC delays permission for Venugopalaswamy Temple Raja Gopura works: Temple Committee President Sridhar Raje Urs begins indefinite hunger strike

March 13, 2025

Mysuru: Alleging harassment of Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner Shaikh Tanveer Asif, by not granting permission for the construction of Raja Gopura of Sri Venugopalaswamy Temple on Thyagaraja Road in city, Temple Committee President B.S. Sridhar Raje Urs launched an indefinite hunger strike in front of MCC Main Office on Sayyaji Rao Road this morning….

Delay in granting permission to construct temple tower:  Temple President Sridhar Raje Urs to go on hunger strike from Dec. 23
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Delay in granting permission to construct temple tower:  Temple President Sridhar Raje Urs to go on hunger strike from Dec. 23

December 19, 2024

Mysuru: The President of Sri Venugopala Swamy Temple Committee B.S. Sridhar Raje Urs will sit on a hunger strike in front Deputy Commissioner’s (DC) Office in Siddarthanagar demanding permission to construct temple tower (gopura) from 9.30 am on Dec. 23. Speaking to Star of Mysore, Sridhar Raje Urs said this Sri Venugopalaswamy Temple is a…

One-man hunger strike for God’s cause
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One-man hunger strike for God’s cause

February 5, 2024

At age 82, B.S. Sridhar Raje Urs was forced to take this step owing to shopkeeper’s refusal to vacate shop for facilitating construction of Sri Venugopalaswamy Temple Rajagopura Mysore/Mysuru: Disgusted with the adjacent shopkeeper’s refusal and defiance to vacate the shop for facilitating the construction of a bigger temple Rajagopura, the city’s Sri Venugopalaswamy Temple…

Karnataka Sambhrama-50: Ursu Trust sore over ignoring Devaraj Urs
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Karnataka Sambhrama-50: Ursu Trust sore over ignoring Devaraj Urs

October 31, 2023

Mysore/Mysuru: B.S. Sridhar Raje Urs, President of Karnataka Ursu Mahamandali Trust, has bemoaned over State Government neglecting former Chief Minister D. Devaraj Urs, who was instrumental in renaming the State as Karnataka, during the 50-year celebrations of the monumental occasion as ‘Karnataka Sambhrama.’ Upon the completion of 50 years of rechristening the State as Karnataka,…

Release Rs. 1.40 crore to repair Maharaja High School
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Release Rs. 1.40 crore to repair Maharaja High School

August 19, 2021

Alumni Association threatens hunger strike from Oct. 2 if demands are not met  Mysore/Mysuru: The dilapidated condition of the 188-year-old Maharaja High School in the city came to the fore again yesterday with the alumni of the School threatening to go on a hunger strike if a grant of Rs. 1.40 crore is not released…

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