Mysore: Starting tomorrow (July 1st), 14 trains of Mysuru Railway Division will be speeded up. The speed of Mysuru-Chennai Shatabdi Express has been increased by five minutes. The other major trains which have been speeded up include – Train No.1066: Renigunta-Mysuru Express by 10 minutes. Accordingly, the train will arrive at Mysuru at 3 am,…
All Railway lines in the country to be electrified: Minister
June 30, 2019Bengaluru: Union Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi has said that all Railway lines in the country will be electrified. Speaking to press persons at KSR Bengaluru Railway Station here yesterday, Angadi said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has planned to link all Railway Divisions by electrifying all Railway tracks in the country. The…
Book on legendary Forest Officer K.M. Chinnappa to be out on July 2
June 30, 2019Mysuru: ‘Kaadinolagondu Jeeva,’ a book based on first-hand experiences of the famed Forest Ranger K.M. Chinnappa (now retired) will be released in city on July 2 by Tejaswini Ananth Kumar, President and driving force behind Adamya Chethana Trust, Bengaluru, and the wife of late H.N. Ananth Kumar, Union Minister. The event will be held at…
Youth murdered in broad daylight in city
June 30, 2019Mysore: A fight for petty reasons in the morning has resulted in the murder of a youth by a group of youths at Gowrishankar Nagar on Nanjangud Road here yesterday afternoon. The deceased youth is Sunil Kumar (29), a resident of Gundu Rao Nagar. Sunil was stabbed with a dagger and assaulted with machetes by…
Mega tree-planting drive taken up in city
June 30, 2019350 saplings to be planted in a week; Raghulal & Co. donates Tree Guards Mysuru: In a bid to protect Mysuru from rising temperature and to conserve the environment of the Heritage City, a mega tree-planting drive was taken up in the surroundings of the helipad near Lalitha Mahal Palace Hotel in city this morning….
‘Metamorph’ skill development at MYRA
June 30, 2019Mysur: Acer, one of the largest technology brands in the world, successfully conducted ‘The Metamorph’ programme in partnership with MYRA School of Business at the latter’s premises here recently. The two-week programme was developed with the aim of training the newly-recruited Acer retail sales force in critical retailing and career skills. The programme is a…
‘There is no parallel to education’
June 30, 2019Mysuru: City-based ‘Samarpana Educational and Endowment Trust’ recently distributed free school and college books along with stationery items to the children of Sadanahalli Sapthashree Gurukula Ashram, located on KRS Road here. Dr. K. Anantharamu, retired Professor of Kannada Professor, Evening College, Mysore University, who spoke after distributing books, said that there was no parallel to…
Seminar on ‘Srirangapatna’ at Bengaluru
June 30, 2019Mysuru: National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) Heritage, Science and Society Programme, Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) campus, Bengaluru, in association with University of Liverpool, Archiam Centre and Mysore School of Architecture, has organised a one-day seminar on ‘Interweavings of Tangible and Intangible Heritage: A case study of the historic town of Srirangapatna’ at NIAS…
JSS signs MoU with University of California
June 30, 2019Mysore: JSS Science and Technology University officials recently visited University of California, Riverside, USA. The team was led by Prof. B.G. Sangameshwara, Vice- Chancellor, JSS STU, Prof. T.N. Nagabhushan, Principal & Dean (Engineering) and Dr. B S Harish, Associate Professor, Department of Information Science & Engineering, JSS STU. The two Universities signed MoU for various…
Kannada Book Authority must make efforts to increase Kannada readership
June 30, 2019Mysuru: Senior JD(S) MLA and Writer A.H. Vishwanath has said that Kannada Book Authority must make serious efforts to enhance Kannada readership. He was speaking after releasing Writer and Columnist Gubbigoodu Ramesh’s work Saamanyanobbana Swagatha, a collection of his (Ramesh) articles published n Kannada daily Mysooru Mithra, a sister concern of Star of Mysore, at…
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