G. Murthy

G Murthy's next, Halliya Makkalu, deals with social issues

Karnataka swimmer Srihari Natraj was the star in the pool on the opening day of swimming at the Khelo India School Games, shaving off 0.09 seconds from his own national record in the 100m boys' backstroke event.

PUNE: The city will play host to a big career exhibition for college students, "Career 2003', on the Garware College campus from May 17 to 19.

Children of Mysore can treat themselves to movies at a three-day film festival that begins at Olympia theatre on Wednesday.

After announcing the state film awards, information minister said the selection committee after viewing 46 movies, adjudged the films.

VADODARA: Little Master Sunil Gavaskar's name has figured in a police complaint filed by the Registrar of Companies (RoC) against a vanishing foot-wear company here on Wednesday.

Following the Supreme Court’s ruling, preparations got underway to immerse Khairatabad’s jumbo Plaster-of-Paris Ganesh, weighing about 30 tonnes. Members of the Khairatabad Ganesh Utsav Committee welcomed the apex court’s ruling, and said that they have resumed work for September 19.

A special Railway Protection Force (RPF) team has arrested 15 drug addicts who over the last two years regularly pelted stones at commuters at suburban railway stations between Mambalam and Tambaram at night. Several persons, including a TTE, were injured in a recent incident involving the gang, RPF sources said. Most of the injured in these incidents were women, they added.

BANGALORE: Kannada hit Chigurida Kanasu, based on Jnanpith winner K. Shivaram Karanth's novel, and bearing the same name, bagged four state awards for 2003-2004.

There was a concerted rush at select cell phone outlets in the city on Monday, the deadline set by the government for installa-tion of the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers on handsets that do not have it mainly Chinese and Taiwanese-made ones.

Two of the tallest Ganesh idols in the country, measuring 117 feet and 112 feet, have been set up in Visakhapatnam. The idols have attracted devotees from across the country. The Sri Ananta Panchamukha Maha Ganapati idol, standing at 117 feet, was created by 26 artisans from West Bengal over a two-month period. The organisers were inspired by the famous Khairatabad Ganesh idol in Hyderabad. The immersion of the idols will take place on October 8, 21 days after Vinayaka Chaturthi.

A 56-year-old Bengaluru man, Ramesh G Murthy, has been running from pillar to post for the last three years to get the custody of his three-year-old daughter, Bhavitha Murthy, who was “illegally” taken away to Bhagalpur by his in-laws within a month of her birth. Murthy’s wife Mridula Lata had died just 11 days after giving birth to the child through in vitro fertilization (IVF).