Mysore/Mysuru: With the print media facing a crisis following the COVID-19 lockdown and the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) dashing off a letter to the Centre seeking announcement of an urgent stimulus package, City Congress leader M. Lakshmana has urged the Government to come up with an exclusive print media and job security policy to bail…
Boys… COVID is no fun!
April 28, 2020In India, which is known to have great following for Cricket rather than any other sports, ‘Galli Cricket’ is no new thing. But at this hour of crisis, when even the daily wager, who might be the only bread earner to his family, is forced to stay home to make sure we win the war…
Doorstep Thermal Screening Drive against Pandemic in Mysuru
April 27, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: As per directions from the Central Government, the Mysuru District Administration, jointly with Health and Family Welfare Department, has launched a drive to conduct Thermal Screening of all those living in hotspot areas across the district since Apr.24. A total of 28 areas, including 13 in city, have been declared as hotspots within the…
43 of 89 COVID-19 positive patients recover in Mysuru
April 27, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: In a remarkable achievement, 43 Coronavirus positive patients have been discharged so far from the designated COVID-19 Hospital on KRS Road after they have fully recovered from the disease. This is an indication to the fact that Mysuru District is slowly returning to normalcy from the killer epidemic. In all, 89 positive cases were…
Mysuru’s veteran RSS leader gets phone call from Modi
April 27, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is making a special effort to check on the health of his senior colleagues in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in keeping with his reminder to people on Apr. 14 to take special care of senior citizens in their homes. The PM is calling on several…
Lockdown will stay in Red Zones, says PM
April 27, 2020States asked to demarcate districts as Red, Green and Orange Zones based on level of infection New Delhi: As India enters the final week of nationwide lockdown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a video conference with the Chief Ministers this morning to discuss the road ahead. This was the fourth such meeting between Narendra Modi and State Chief…
M.G. Road Market vendors stay put
April 27, 2020Refuse to move to Dasara Expo venue; no veggie sales today Mysore/Mysuru: In a curious turn of events this morning, vegetable vendors of the M.G. Road Market who were asked to either move to Dasara Exhibition venue or the Lalitha Mahal Grounds Market refused to budge from their places and squatted on their designated places….
Mysuru Railway Hospital too contributes its mite to battle COVID-19
April 27, 2020Ground-level works led by Chief Medical Superintendent Dr. Meera Patil Mysore/Mysuru: “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail,” a quote attributed to Philosopher-Statesman Benjamin Franklin, could not have been more appropriate than now as the world is grappling with the scourge of Coronavirus. The Indian Railways has massively contributed to the battle against…
Love will have to wait: Kerala quintuplets’ wedding delayed
April 27, 2020Thiruvananthapuram: If there was no lockdown, the quintuplets (five children in one birth) of ‘Pancharatnam’ House at Nannattukavu in Pothencode in Kerala would have entered a new phase of life as four of them were to enter wedlock the same day and at the same venue on Sunday, Apr. 26. The four girls of the…
Lockdown downs cardiac cases in Mysuru: Dr. Sadananda
April 27, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: COVID-19 lockdown has given room for healthy habits among people due to which incidents of heart attack and heart-related ailments have come down drastically, said Dr. K.S. Sadananda, Medical Superintendent of Jayadeva Hospital, Mysuru. Speaking to ‘Star of Mysore,’ Dr. Sadananda said that many people were suffering from heart attack due to stress, consumption…















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