Date: August 17th, 2017

Dasara JUMBOS Reach Palace
Dasara 2017, News

Dasara JUMBOS Reach Palace

August 17, 2017

Mysuru: The first batch of eight Dasara elephants were accorded a warm welcome at the iconic Mysore Palace this noon. A shower of flower petals from the balconies of the Palace, traditional music, Police Band performance and a large number of tourists marked the occasion. The eight elephants that were stationed at Aloka Palace were…

Poet Prof. K.S. Nissar Ahmed to inaugurate Dasara on Sept. 21
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Poet Prof. K.S. Nissar Ahmed to inaugurate Dasara on Sept. 21

August 17, 2017

Mysuru: Noted Kannada poet of Navya Movement and Padmashree Awardee Kokkare Hosahalli Shekh Haider Nissar Ahmed, popular as Prof. K.S. Nissar Ahmed, will inaugurate this year’s Dasara celebrations atop the Chamundi Hill on Sept. 21. The announcement was made by Mysuru District In-charge Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa here this morning. Prof. Nissar Ahmed is loved…

Union Minister Piyush Goyal in city tomorrow
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Union Minister Piyush Goyal in city tomorrow

August 17, 2017

Mysuru: Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State with Independent Charge for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, will be arriving in city tomorrow. 10 am: The Minister will fly from Bengaluru in a helicopter and land at Mandakalli Airport in Mysuru. 10.30 am: Goyal will address a press meet at V.K. Function Hall…

Kumaraswamy seeks Suttur Seer’s blessings
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Kumaraswamy seeks Suttur Seer’s blessings

August 17, 2017

Mysuru: Former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy visited Suttur Mutt yesterday and sought the blessings of Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Swamiji. He spoke to the Seer for about 30 minutes about the present political scenario in Karnataka, directions of JD(S) and his future moves. Former Mysuru-Kodagu MP A.H. Vishwanath, who joined the JD(S) recently after quitting Congress,…

City Palace ticketing goes hi-tech
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City Palace ticketing goes hi-tech

August 17, 2017

Mysuru: District in-charge Minister Dr. H.C. Mahadevappa has said that the entry to the Mysore Palace has been made easy for the tourists across the world with the introduction of  hi-tech ticketing system and opening of extra ticket counters. He was addressing the media after inaugurating the ticket counters at Amba Vilas Gate opposite the…

Jackal dies in roadkill near Manasagangothri
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Jackal dies in roadkill near Manasagangothri

August 17, 2017

Mysuru: An Indian Jackal was killed in a road accident (roadkill) on Tuesday night, near the Amphi Theatre outside the Manasagangothri Campus on the road connecting Bogadi and Hunsur Roads. (Incidentally, this road was proposed to be named Rashtrapati Road, to mark the visit of President Pranab Mukherjee to inaugurate the year-long Centenary Celebrations of…

Guru of Gurus
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Guru of Gurus

August 17, 2017

By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik – Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Datta, the son of Atri and Anasuya, is considered Adi Guru, the first teacher. He is visualised as under a banyan tree with a cow (who provides) and four dogs (who protect), while he enlightens. Who was his teacher? Nature, he replies. In the Avadhuta Gita,…

Woman thief caught on camera stealing purse of devotee
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Woman thief caught on camera stealing purse of devotee

August 17, 2017

Mysuru: A woman thief, stealing a purse of a devotee, has been caught on the CCTV camera installed at Sri Chamundeshwari Temple atop Chamundi Hill here. On Aug. 13, a woman devotee had come to the temple and was standing in the queue to have darshan of the Goddess inside the Temple. As there was…

Chamaraja candidate will be finalised within a week: HDK
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Chamaraja candidate will be finalised within a week: HDK

August 17, 2017

Mysuru: Confusion among party workers regarding the Chamaraja Constituency JD(S) candidate for the forthcoming Assembly elections will be cleared within a week when the party candidate will be officially announced, said JD(S) State President H.D. Kumaraswamy. Addressing a party workers’ meet at a private hotel in Hebbal after his visit to Suttur Mutt to seek…

Bag President’s Medal
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Bag President’s Medal

August 17, 2017

Mysuru: M. Babu, In-charge Sub-Inspector, Mysuru District Police Bomb Squad and Sharavana, Armed Reserve Sub-Inspector, DAR, have been selected for the President’s Medal to be given as part of Independence Day. Babu, son of M. Muniswamy and Durgammal, hails from Bengaluru and joined Police Department in 1978 and worked in Police Dog Squad. He got…

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