Sarang team to miss display due to packed schedule; Surya Kiran team yet to confirm Mysuru: Even as the State Government has written to the Defence Ministry seeking an Air Show for this year’s Dasara, the event remains highly uncertain, with the Sarang Helicopter Display Team’s schedule already packed. Highly placed IAF sources told Star…

Mysuru: In a bid to reduce rising temperatures, curb air pollution and enhance biodiversity, a mini-forest developed using the Miyawaki method was inaugurated at a park in front of Shine International School in Rajivnagar recently. Mysuru City Corporation Commissioner M.K. Savitha formally launched the project by planting saplings and watering them. The initiative is being…

Mysuru: District Minister Dr. Yathindra Siddaramaiah this morning visited the illegal waste dumping site along Lalithadripura Road (Lalithadrinagar) at the foot of Chamundi Hill and pulled up officials of Rammanahalli Town Panchayat & Alanahalli Gram Panchayat for allowing the area to turn into a dumping ground. Walking along the stretch where garbage has been dumped…

DCF to issue notices to MCC, CESC seeking explanation Mysuru: Following the Star of Mysore report, ‘NAILED…!’, published yesterday on Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC) contractors driving nails, iron clamps and metal pegs into trees to install Dasara illumination, the work has been abruptly stopped today. The report had highlighted how the contractors were using…

Jasmine Sandlas of Dhurandhar-fame, Vishal Mishra of Tabaahi-fame, Shaan, Ajaneesh Loknath, Sid Sriram to perform? Mysuru: Renowned actor, choreographer and director Prabhu Deva will be inaugurating this year’s Yuva Dasara to be held at the sprawling 100-acre open ground located near Uttanahalli, off the Mysuru-Nanjangud Road on the outskirts of Mysuru. Yuva Dasara Sub-Committee Working…

Mysuru: Mysuru city is getting a bridal makeover ahead of this year’s grand Dasara festivities, with the Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC) and its electrical contractors taking up large-scale illumination and decoration works along key arterial roads. While the illumination is expected to add to the city’s festive appeal, with circles, junctions and landmark buildings…

All South Indian Chief Ministers to be invited; short films on Mysuru’s attractions; static displays of Defence Forces Bengaluru: Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, who has already announced plans to give the Mysuru Dasara festival a fresh identity, offered several suggestions at a progress review meeting held at Shakti Bhavan on Race Course Road in Bengaluru…

Mysuru: As part of preparations for this year’s 11-day Dasara festivities at the Mysore Palace, the erstwhile Mysore Royal Family has finalised the ceremonial elephants that will take part in the Palace rituals. Last evening, Pramoda Devi Wadiyar personally inspected the nine elephants of the first batch housed at the Palace premises, seven males and…

Poaching continues in Hanur Range despite Aug. 15 encounter with alleged poachers Chamarajanagar: Poachers appear to be undeterred by the law despite three suspected poachers being killed in an exchange of fire with Forest Department personnel in the Holemuridatti beat of Chikkalluru Reserved Forest under the Hanur Wildlife Range in the early hours of Aug….

Surveillance on kitchen, public access as Jumboo Savari training picks up pace Mysuru: The Forest Department has placed the Dasara elephant team under strict surveillance, installing 14 CCTV cameras around the Palace premises to monitor the animals round-the-clock. Training sessions for the elephants have begun and their health is being closely monitored. Public entry into…