New Delhi: India’s Armed Forces will conduct fly-pasts, light up ships at sea and shower flower petals on hospitals in an elaborate display on Sunday (May 3) to thank doctors, medical staff and other frontline workers battling the COVID-19 outbreak, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat said on Friday. “The Air Force will…
Rajasthan’s 170 migrant workers wait for their special train from Mysuru
May 2, 2020By Rajkumar Bhavasar Mysore/Mysuru: Thousands of migrant workers have been stranded in places across the country since the nationwide lockdown was enforced on Mar. 25. To ease the situation, the Centre on Friday gave its nod for stranded migrant workers, students and others to return home by “Shramik Special” trains that will be run by…
Hundreds benefit from COVID-19 Mobile Clinics
May 2, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Everyday hundreds of people are being benefited by the COVID-19 Mobile Clinics, launched by the Mysuru District Administration on Apr.29, with the motto ‘Doctors at your doorstep.’ Thermal screening being a mandatory procedure in the Mobile Clinic service, so far no COVID-19 symptoms have been reported. Elderly citizens are making most of the service…
Mysuru youth travels to Bengaluru to get cancer drugs for a stranger!
May 2, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Who ever thought that there would come a day when groceries, vegetables, medicines and other essential goods are to be bought online, at the click of a button? Thanks to Coronavirus, now almost everyone knows online transactions, online shopping, making ‘Digital India’ a reality, but at such a desperate time! Even in Mysuru, there…
No face masks: MCC officials collect Rs. 18,400 fine from flouters
May 2, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The MCC Health officials, who conducted an operation in all nine MCC Zones against those not wearing face masks, have collected a total fine of Rs. 18, 400 yesterday. The details of fines collected in all nine zones is as follows: Zone1-Rs.1,000; Zone 2-Rs. 3,900; Zone 3-Rs. 800; Zone 4-Rs.1,100; Zone 5-Rs. 3,000; Zone…
Digital Learning at Sharada Vidya Mandir
May 2, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Sharada Vidya Mandir (SVM), Sri Jayachamarajendra PU College, Mysuru, has begun digital learning classes to provide education solution to students through its new video-taped (digitalised classes). Technology should be utilised in such difficult times (COVID-19) which could be a simple solution for a number of students who can be educated by staying at home…
District Minister visits kitchen set up by MLA
May 2, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: District Minister S.T. Somashekar, this morning, visited the kitchen set up by MLA S.A. Ramdas near Vivekananda Circle in Vivekananda Nagar here to provide food to labourers who are rendered jobless due to COVID-19 lockdown. Every day, 4,000 people are served food from this kitchen where hundreds of volunteers are preparing and packing food…
Mysuru Railway Workshop manufactures Personal Protective Equipment
May 2, 20208 Mysuru Division employees manufacture 200 PPE suits under strict quality control Hubballi/Mysuru: To supplement healthcare efforts of the Government in its fight against COVID-19, Railway Workshops across the nation including the one in Mysuru have started manufacturing PPEs suits (Personal Protective Equipment) to equip doctors and paramedical staff at Hospitals. These PPEs are being…
Ration kits to porters and house-keeping staff at City Railway Station
May 2, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Licensed luggage porters and contractual house-keeping employees at Mysuru Railway Station are among the worst affected daily wage earners because of COVID-19 pandemic prompting a country-wide lockdown with total suspension of passenger-carrying trains across India. Sensing the gravity of the situation, Mysuru Division Railway Officers’ Association has already distributed over 300 ration kits on…
Sthanakvasi Jain Yuvas distribute grocery kits to physically challenged
May 2, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Sri Sthanakvasi Jain Yuva Sanghtan, Mysuru, distributed grocery kits to the needy physically challenged in Kuvempunagar on Thursday amidst COVID -19 lockdown. This was the 29th phase of distribution since Mahaveer Jayanti. Each kit contains daily essential grocery including Ragi, Wheat Flour, Ragi Flour, Dal, Edible Oil, Sugar, Coffee Powder, Tea Powder, Pickles etc….
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