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No to Kambala 

Stop cluttering Dasara to make money  IN BLACK AND WHITE BY VIKRAM MUTHANNA  Every few years, just before Dasara, someone gets a bright idea, which is, “Ah, let’s add one more event to Mysuru Dasara.”  This year, it is Kambala, the spectacular buffalo race of Coastal Karnataka.   The Kambala is undoubtedly a magnificent tradition and deserves to be celebrated, but… not in Mysuru Dasara.  The...
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Survey exposes poor state of public toilets 

23% unfit for use; some turn home for caretakers; women use men’s toilets in MCC Wards 25, 49  Mysuru: Despite being one of India’s preferred tourist destinations, Mysuru continues to struggle with inadequate public sanitation facilities.  While public toilets have been constructed at several locations, poor maintenance has rendered many of them unusable. Some have even been converted into living...
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Mysuru Lit Fest begins 

Mysuru: The 10th edition of the Mysuru Literature Festival began at Hotel Southern Star on Vinoba Road this morning, bringing together eminent authors, historians, journalists, artistes, entrepreneurs and intellectuals from across the country.  The two-day festival, jointly organised by the Mysuru Literary Forum Charitable Trust and Mysuru Book Clubs Charitable Trust, was inaugurated by Pramoda Devi Wadiyar, member of the erstwhile Mysore Royal Family. Bestselling author Amish Tripathi and author-entrepreneur Aroon Raman were the...




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Headless MDA 

Commissioner’s post still vacant; DC, as MDA Chairman, tied up with administering the district   Mysuru: The State Government dissolved the Mysuru Urb...

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Kathe Kelona Banni-939, story-telling by M.R. Anitha, Head Mistress, Government Higher Primary School, Kadanahalli, Mysuru taluk, Suruchi Rangamane, K...

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‘Devudu avara Mahabrahmana’ Vaachana-Vyakhyana / Lecture programme, senior writer and retd. Kannada Professor Nadoja Prof. T.V. Venkatachala Sastry in...

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It was this day, nay this very evening, 45 years ago that Star of Mysore was born in this city as an Evening English Newspaper. Happily it continues t...
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It was this day, nay this very evening, 43 years ago that Star of Mysore was born in this city as an Evening English Newspaper. Happily it continues t...

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Pratibha Puraskar

Yashaswini Mahila Sangha (Women’s unit of Babbur Kamme Sangha), having office on Sahukar Chennaiah Road in Saraswathipuram, has invited applications f...
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Ph.D awardee

N. Ashwini has been awarded Ph.D in Library and Information Science by the University of Mysore (UoM), Mysuru, for her thesis ‘Content Analysis of Web...

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