City’s Purna Chetana School entered the record books with 525 students performing mass sports drills blindfolded holding the National Flag and for creating the largest Indian National Flag, measuring 96 square metres (12 metres x 8 metres), completed in 4 hours and 5 minutes using 96,000 origami balls crafted from recycled paper. The world records…
MCC begins raids to check sale of plastic flags ahead of Republic Day
January 11, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation, anticipating sales of banned plastic National Flags ahead of Republic Day celebration on Jan. 26, have begun conducting raids on shops to check the sales of National Flags in city from yesterday. Following instruction from MCC Additional Commissioner M.J. Roopa, Zonal Commissioners of all nine MCC Zones began a seizure…
Spirit of freedom permeates University of Mysore campus
August 11, 2022Tricolour, freedom symbols, posters, buntings, flags at every nook and corner Mysore/Mysuru: The University of Mysore (UoM), the seat of learning for tens and thousands of youths, is dominated by the Indian Tricolour. Every nook and corner of the vast and green campus is filled with flags, symbols, buntings and banners depicting the colour of…
I-Day amidst Corona Pandemic: Sale of Flags comes down by 80-90%, rues shopkeepers
August 13, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Patriotic fervour reaches an all time high as we enter the month of August and Tricolour flutters across the Nation as world’s largest democracy celebrates Independence Day on Aug.15. Educational and Business establishments, Associations and Organisations and general public in their respective areas hoist the National Flag and celebrate the day each year. Those…
Don’t use National Flag made of plastic: DC Abhiram G. Sankar
January 22, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: Using plastic made National Flag will be considered as violation of rules and regulations and it will be taken as insult to the Tricolour. Ahead of the Republic Day celebrations, Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar has issued advisory and also urged that awareness programmes be carried out among the masses. The advisory asks officials…
Hoisting National Flag on I-Day: Follow code and norms strictly
August 12, 2019Mysuru: The District Committee of Bharat Seva Dal had organised an informative camp on National Flag and National Anthem at the Seva Dal District Office in Gangothri Layout here on Saturday. Speaking on the occasion, former Commandant of Bharat Seva Dal H.S. Kashinakunti said that the specified code and norms should be strictly followed while…
Aggressive Patriotism: From National Flag to… National Microbe !
July 29, 2017We have become aggressive about the symbolisms of our Nation rather than the Nation itself. We are more worried about how we wave our Flag and how often we sing our Anthem than worry about how to build a better Nation and be better citizens. This comes to mind because of two incidents that happened…
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