Mysore/Mysuru: Maintaining that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political will and the courage of the Indian Army, drove the Chinese Army from the country’s borders, BJP Yuva Morcha National President Tejasvi Surya, who is also Bengaluru South MP, said that Modi has scripted a new horizon for the country through his work. He was speaking at…
Major C.G. Rohith promoted as Lieutenant Colonel
February 18, 2021Mysore/Mysuru: Major Cheranda Ganapathy Rohith, a resident of Bogadi in Mysuru, has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel on Feb. 15. He has been serving in the Indian Army (AMC) and at present, he is serving as an Administrative Officer with Military Hospital, Wellington. An alumnus of SBRR Mahajana Pre-University College, he graduated…
Denial of Central Civil Family Pension for 20 years to 85-year-old widow of World War-II Veteran
February 4, 2021Mysuru-based VeKare Ex-Servicemen Trust writes to President of India, the Supreme Commander of Indian Armed Forces Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru-based VeKare Ex-Servicemen Trust has sought the intervention of the President of India, who is also the Supreme Commander of Indian Armed Forces, towards the denial of Central Civil Family Pension for 20-long-years to 85-year-old Kaveriamma alias Rani…
Morale booster: PM Modi flies to Ladakh, meets soldiers
July 3, 2020Ladakh/ New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an unannounced visit to a forward post in Ladakh this morning and interacted with troops days after the June 15 border clash with China in which 20 soldiers were killed in the line of duty. The Prime Minister’s visit served as a morale booster for the forces…
Skies clear for Mysuru girl to become State’s second woman fighter pilot
July 3, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Everyone has some or the other ambition or dream to achieve when they are in college but very few of them live their dreams or choose the career they wished. Mysuru-based Coluvanda Punya Nanjappa has achieved her childhood dream or call it passion to be a fighter jet pilot. She has been selected for…
Colonel Ashutosh Sharma SM: A terror to the terrorists
May 7, 2020Coursemate recalls time spent with him during training at Officers Training Academy, Chennai Mysore/Mysuru: Col. Ashutosh Sharma SM, who was killed in action in the recent Handwara Terrorists Operations, had undergone training at the Officers Training Academy (OTA), Chennai and was from the 2001 batch. Disclosing this to ‘Star of Mysore,’ Major (Retd.) Nayakanda Cariappa,…
Promoted as Subedar
May 5, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Kuttanda Ranjan Cariappa, Athletic Coach at the Madras Regiment Centre of Indian Army in Wellington, Ooty, has been promoted to the post of Subedar. He will discharge his duty as Subedar at Wellington. He hails from Hadageri village of Madapura in Kodagu and is the son of late Cariappa and Kasturi.
Armed Forces to conduct fly-pasts to thank COVID-19 Warriors tomorrow
May 2, 2020New 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…
Lt. Gen. P.C. Thimayya retires as GOC-in-C Army Training Command (ARTRAC)
May 2, 2020Shimla: Lieutenant General P.C. Thimayya, who was serving as the 21st General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Army Training Command (GOC-in-C, ARTRAC) here, retired from service after duty hours on April 30, 2020, an Army official said. Lieutenant General Pattacheruvanda Chengappa Thimayya, PVSM, VSM, ADC, had assumed office on Nov. 1, 2018 from Lt. Gen. Manoj…
Lt. Gen. Codanda P. Cariappa is General Officer Commanding of elite First Strike Corps
April 4, 2020Agra: Lieutenant General Codanda Poovaiah Cariappa assumed charge as General Officer Commanding of the elite First Strike Corps at Mathura yesterday. Alumnus of National Defence Academy and Indian Military Academy, Cariappa was commissioned on June 9, 1984 into the 4th Battalion of the Rajputana Rifles. He is an expert in manoeuvre warfare, counter terrorism and…
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