Mysuru: The city is witnessing a large number of tourist footfalls. Visitors are flooding Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens, Mysore Palace, Chamundi Hill and Brindavan Gardens at Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Reservoir even after two days of the culmination of Dasara festivities. As schools and colleges will be reopened from tomorrow after Dasara vacation, visitors thronged the…
Mysuru: With the ten-day Dasara festival ending with the grand Vijayadashami procession yesterday, the KRS Dam and its Brindavan Gardens in Srirangapatna taluk is expected to see a huge jump in footfalls this weekend (today and tomorrow). While the KRS recorded 19,000 visitors on Ayudha Puja Day (Oct.18), 22,000 tourists visited the Dam on Vijayadashami…
Mysuru: It was an altogether different world that was marked by colourful lighting explaining the history of Mysuru and Mandya, contributions of Wadiyars and people like Sir Mirza Ismail and Sir M. Visvesvaraya — all through lightings with associated imagery and its verdant colours. The lights were projected on water and concrete structures as people…
Mysuru: The Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam will come alive with 3D projection mapping and other special lighting arrangements for 9 days from this evening. The Mandya District Administration and Cauvery Neeravari Nigam Limited (CNNL) have made this arrangement till Oct. 24, to attract tourists as lakhs of them flock the historic Nada Habba Dasara…
Srirangapatna: MLA A.S. Ravindra Srikantaiah informed that he had sought Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy to release Rs. 2 crore exclusively to celebrate Dasara festivities at Srirangapatna and KRS this year. Chairing the preliminary meeting to discuss the preparations for Dasara festivities held at Sri Ranganatha Kalyana Mantap in Srirangapatna yesterday,he said that he had…
Mandya: A Senior Police Officer’s report that rampant and uncontrolled mining-cum-stone quarrying activities at Baby Betta Reserve Forests in Pandavapura Taluk here is posing great danger to Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) has raised safety concerns of the Dam itself. The Dam, built by Sir M. Visvesvaraya and the gift of Mysore Wadiyars, is a lifeline…
Mysuru: Even as the State government is yet to take action on the report of illegal quarrying near KRS, here is a report of tourists spoiling the beauty of the Dam that is a lifeline of the region. Khalid Ahmed Khan, a reader of Star of Mysore, has sent us this news along with pictures…
State released 310 tmcft of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu against scheduled 82 tmcft Bengaluru: Heavy rain and floods along the Cauvery Basin have resulted in Karnataka releasing 310 tmcft of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu since the beginning of this water year (since June) as against the scheduled 82 tmcft. This is because Karnataka…
Mandya: With the intensity of rain coming down in Kodagu district, the outflow from KRS Dam in Srirangapatna taluk of Mandya district to the river has been stopped from today morning after a gap of 40 days. However, water is being released from the dam to canals. With heavy rains in Cauvery River catchment areas…
The historical Wellesley Bridge, built by the British, across River Cauvery at Srirangapatna which remains neglected and dilapidated, now is withstanding the pressure of strong water force as more than one lakh cusecs of water is being let out to the river from KRS reservoir which is receiving huge inflow since a week. Picture below…
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