Mysuru: India is a country of festivals and holidays. If the holidays fall at the end of the week, then everyone plans on long weekend holidays. Luckily, August has two long weekends and Mysuru being a tourist city, there is a rush of visitors that began two days ago. It was second Saturday (a holiday on…
Mysuru: Shubharamba, the free mass marriage organised by the District Administration at the Chamundi Hill in city, which was scheduled to be held today (Aug. 2), has been postponed due to unavoidable circumstances, according to a press release from the Deputy Commissioner D. Randeep. Meeting postponed: Also, the District Development Coordination and In-Charge Committee Meeting,…
Mysuru: After a record entry ticket collection of Rs. 1,03,83,030 during the four Ashada Shukravaras (Fridays) and Chamundeshwari Vardhanti (birthday of Goddess Chamundeshwari) this year, the Chamundeshwari Temple atop the Chamundi Hill has recorded an Ashada hundi collection of Rs. 1,74,32,412. The hundis were counted on July 26 and 27. Interestingly, the hundi collection this…
25 grams gold chain snatched from woman Mysuru: With incidents of chain-snatchings being reported atop Chamundi Hill during Ashada Fridays, chain-snatchers are now targeting devotees and snatching chains during rush and in crowded places. Last Friday (July 14), chain-snatchers snatched a chain from a woman near Dasoha Bhavan atop the Hill. The woman, who lost…
Mysuru: In separate incidents, miscreants have snatched gold chains from women devotees who were boarding a bus after having the darshan of Goddess Sri Chamundeshwari. In the first incident, which took place on July 18, Hamsa, a housewife after having the darshan of the Goddess in Sri Chamundeshwari Temple atop Chamundi Hill, was boarding a…
Mysuru: Entry ticket collections on the four Ashada Shukravara (Friday) and Chamundeshwari Vardhanti (birthday of Goddess Sri Chamundeshwari) this year stood at Rs. 1,03,83,030. Last year, the collection was Rs. 38,73,300 and in 2015, the entry ticket collection stood at Rs. 29,67,550. This year, the first Ashada Friday fell on June 30 and the subsequent Ashada…
Mysuru: Thousands of devotees thronged the Chamundeshwari Temple atop the Chamundi Hill on the occasion of last Ashada Friday this morning. Devotees reached the hill-top as early as 2 am and stood in queues till 5.30 am before the temple doors were open for darshan of Goddess Chamundeshwari. As usual, special puja rituals began at…
Mysuru: State JD(S) Women Brigade Members offered special puja to Goddess Sri Chamundeshwari at the Temple atop Chamundi Hill here yesterday morning seeking H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) back as the Chief Minister. About 200 women JD(S) leaders from Mysuru, Tumakuru, Bengaluru, Kalaburagi, Raichur and other districts climbed the steps to reach the Hill Temple. Earlier to…
On the occasion of Vardhanti Mahotsava of Goddess Sri Chamundeshwari on July 16, S.V. Poornashree and Aparna Kodankiri, disciples of Vid. M.S. Naveen, presented a Classical Music Concert in Raga Ragini Mantapa atop Chamundi Hill under the aegis of the Department of Kannada and Culture.
Mysuru: On the day of Sri Chamundeshwari Vardhanti Mahotsav, on July 16, the Chamundi Hill Temple recorded a collection of Rs. 15,36,340 from the entry ticket fee. The total amount collected on three Ashada Fridays and Vardhanti stands at Rs. 80,06,370 while last year it stood at Rs. 30,30,950 and in 2015 it was Rs….
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