Bengaluru: With 20-million-odd Indian tourists travelling abroad on vacation every year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged them to visit 15 tourist destinations within the country by 2022 to give a fillip to the domestic tourism sector. He was addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 73rd Independence Day on…
Suspected terror attack: Entry to Chamundi Hill during night banned
August 19, 2019Mysuru: The Police Department, which has announced high alert over terror attack, has banned entry of tourists and devotees to Chamundi Hill after 9 pm. The Police Department is taking all steps to avert any untoward incidents atop the Hill as the Naada Habba is fast approaching. The Police are collecting information of those entering…
Man climbing Chamundi Hill steps on his birthday dies
August 2, 2019Mysuru: A 40-year-old man, who was climbing the steps of Chamundi Hill to visit the Temple on his birthday, died on Wednesday morning. The deceased is Suchith, a resident of J.P. Nagar in city. Suchith, who left his home on Wednesday morning, parked his two-wheeler at the foot of the Hill and was climbing the…
Cleanliness drive atop Chamundi Hill
July 29, 2019Mysuru: Namma Mysuru Foundation carried out a cleanliness drive atop Chamundi Hill yesterday. The drive was carried out in the wake of large number devotees visiting the Hill temple on the occasion of last Ashada Friday and weekend. Members of the Foundation, joined by NSS volunteers of Kuvempunagar Govt. College, collected plastic bags, water bottles,…
Gold chain, cash stolen atop Chamundi Hill
July 28, 2019Mysuru: Miscreants have stolen a gold chain and a purse containing cash from a woman, who was boarding the bus atop Chamundi Hill on the last Ashada Friday. The woman, who lost her eight grams gold earrings, five grams finger ring, 15 grams gold chain and a purse with Rs.4,000 cash, is Sumalatha. Sumalatha, who…
Devotees throng Chamundi Hill temple on last Ashada Friday
July 26, 2019Mysuru: Braving early morning intermittent drizzle, thousands of devotees from the city, thronged the Chamundeshwari Temple atop Chamundi Hill to seek blessings of the deity on the auspicious last Ashada Friday today. There was a serpentine queue at Lalitha Mahal helipad much before the KSRTC started operating free buses to reach the hill top. The…
Elderly woman’s gold chain robbed atop Chamundi Hill
July 25, 2019Mysuru: Miscreants, taking advantage of the huge crowd atop Chamundi Hill during Chamundeshwari Utsav, have managed to steal a gold chain of an elderly woman yesterday. The elderly woman, who lost her gold chain weighing about 35 grams, is 75-year-old Chamamma, a resident of Siddarthanagar in city. A case has been registered at K.R. Police…
Grand Chamundeshwari Vardhanti
July 24, 2019Mysuru: Today is Mysuru’s presiding deity Goddess Chamundeshwari’s birthday — Sri Chamundeshwari Vardhanti Mahotsava. Though the main celebrations was atop the Chamundi Hill, the abode of the Goddess, the entire city came together to celebrate the birthday of their favourite Goddess by distributing Prasadam since early in the morning. Devotees and those who have taken…
Chamundeshwari Vardhanti on July 24
July 22, 2019Mysuru: The KSRTC will operate free bus service for the devotees from Lalitha Mahal helipad to Chamundi Hill for Chamundeshwari Vardhanti Mahotsava to take place at the Hill Temple on July 24. KSRTC will ply free buses from 6 am to 8 pm on that day. The rituals will begin with the performance of Mahanyasa…
Revanna drives to Chamundi temple; Shobha climbs 1,008 hill steps
July 19, 2019Who will Goddess Chamundeshwari Bless this Ashada Friday? Mysuru:Even as the JD(S)-Congress Coalition Government is seeking a Vote of Confidence today in the Assembly, PWD Minister H.D. Revanna, who is also the elder brother of Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, took time from the fluid political situation in the State capital and visited Chamundeshwari Temple atop…
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