As festivities restricted to Palace, even training is confined to Palace fortress Mysore/Mysuru: This year too, the Vijayadashami procession will be confined to Mysore Palace thanks to COVID pandemic and there will be no full rehearsals. All the eight elephants will be taken out within the Palace premises and the question of taking them till…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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 …
Bengaluru/Mysuru: The Cabinet has decided to close the Lokayukta investigation against Mysuru Palace Board Deputy Director T.S. Subramanya on charges that he allowed a VIP pre-wedding photoshoot inside the Palace premises though photo-shooting is banned there. In 2016, the son of a retired IAS officer Nandakumar B.N. Aditya, his fiancé Navyatha and Venkatesh, the photographer…
Enthralling Sound and Light Show from today between 7 pm and 8 pm Mysore/Mysuru: Signalling the end of Mysuru’s battle with the second wave of killer COVID-19, the Mysore Palace was illuminated last evening after a gap of three months. With the illumination, the spectacular structure got even more spectacular. As the illumination event was widely…
Mysore/Mysuru: For the record, Mysuru, a city’s economy that is driven by tourism, received only 7.08 lakh tourists flow in 2020-21 (April 2020 and March 31, 2021) when compared to 2019-2020 where 36.28 lakh tourists descended on the city. On an average, Mysuru gets 35 lakh to 37 lakh tourists every year. Mysore Palace Board…
Mysore/Mysuru: Deputy Director of Mysore Palace Board T.S. Subramanya has clarified that there will be no illumination of Palace on Sundays and public holidays and sound and light programme till further orders. He told SOM that hundreds of people gather at the Palace to witness the illumination. But, the State Government has not given permission…
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