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Jumboo Savari: Reserve major chunk of seats to tourists
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Jumboo Savari: Reserve major chunk of seats to tourists

September 17, 2021

Instead of VIPs, tourist arrival will boost hospitality sector, feel stakeholders Mysore/Mysuru: Citing heavy losses to the tourism and hospitality sector, the Federation of Organisations and Associations of Mysuru has urged the State Government to reserve a major percentage of the seats of this year’s Jumboo Savari exclusively for tourists.  Like last year, this year…

Dasara elephants enter Mysore Palace
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Dasara elephants enter Mysore Palace

September 16, 2021

With less than a month for a scaled-down Dasara, a total of eight Dasara elephants — Ashwathama, Dhananjaya, Vikrama, Kaveri, Chaitra, Lakshmi and Gopalaswamy — led by Golden Howdah-bearer Abhimanyu, were accorded a traditional welcome at the Mysore Palace this morning. The caparisoned elephants were accorded a warm welcome by showering flower petals on them….

Dasara jumbos make grand entry into Palace
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Dasara jumbos make grand entry into Palace

September 16, 2021

First-timer Ashwathama panics on road seeing buses, trucks Mysore/Mysuru: The eight Dasara elephants led by 55-year-old Abhimanyu, who will be carrying the 750-kg Golden Howdah that will house the idol of Goddess Chamundeshwari on Vijayadashami day, were accorded a traditional ‘Poornakumbha’ welcome into the Mysore Palace this morning. The others in the team were Ashwathama,…

Traditional welcome to Dasara jumbos at Palace tomorrow
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Traditional welcome to Dasara jumbos at Palace tomorrow

September 15, 2021

Mysore/Mysuru: All the eight Dasara elephants — Howdah elephant Abhimanyu, Ashwathama, Dhananjaya, Vikrama, Kaveri, Chaitra, Lakshmi and Gopalaswamy — selected to participate in this year’s simple Dasara celebration, will be accorded a traditional welcome at Mysore Palace tomorrow morning.  These elephants embarked on Gajapayana, their journey from Veeranahosahalli to Mysuru, on Sept. 13 and are…

U.S. Consulate General Officers visit Palace
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U.S. Consulate General Officers visit Palace

September 14, 2021

Anne Lee Seshadri (left), Public Affairs Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Chennai and Ratna Mukherjee, Public Engagement Specialist, Office of Public Affairs, US Consulate General, visited the Mysore Palace this morning. They also called on Pramoda Devi Wadiyar after going around the Palace. Picture shows the dignitaries with Palace Board Deputy Director T.S….

Gajapayana on Sept.13
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Gajapayana on Sept.13

September 9, 2021

Traditional welcome to jumbos at Mysore Palace on Sept. 16 Dasara inauguration atop Chamundi Hill on Oct. 7 ‘Utsavamurthy’ procession from Hill temple to Palace ‘Jumboo Savari’ procession in Palace premises on Oct. 15 Palace to be illuminated from 7 pm to 9.30 pm during Navarathri  Mysore/Mysuru: With ‘Nada Habba’ Dasara festival, which is to…

Lights, Palace, People…
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Lights, Palace, People…

September 6, 2021

Mysore/Mysuru: After a long gap, hundreds of weekend tourists had a glimpse of the illuminated Mysore Palace last evening.  Though illumination had resumed on July 25, after a three-month ban imposed on April 10 due to the rising COVID crisis, illumination was again suspended following the imposition of weekend curfew. Even the Sound and Light…

Mysore Palace gold-leafing case: Cabinet junks Lokayukta probe report
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Mysore Palace gold-leafing case: Cabinet junks Lokayukta probe report

September 5, 2021

Bengaluru/Mysuru: The Karnataka Cabinet has decided to close the Lokayukta investigations into the gold-leafing work of Durbar Hall and other inner areas of Mysore Palace, alleged misappropriation of funds on the works undertaken to lay concrete floor for elephant sheds inside the Palace and also the charges of allowing a pre-wedding photoshoot inside the   …

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