Mysuru: With tourists yet to come out of this year’s Dasara hangover, the Mysuru District Administration has extend a cordial invite for the tourists and Mysureans to be a part of Mysuru Winter Festival – 2017. You read it right! The City of Palaces will be hosting a 10-day spectacle from Dec.23, 2017 to Jan.1,…
Green Toilets at Mysore Palace soon
December 13, 2017Mysuru: Mysore Palace is one of the most beautiful Palaces in the world which has maximum number of footfalls. Sadly, it lacks good toilet facilities. However, it will be a thing of the past, as it will soon have green toilets. Deputy Commissioner D. Randeep, who is also the Executive Officer of Mysore Palace Board…
Flower Show at Mysore Palace from Dec.23 to Jan.1
December 2, 2017Mysuru: A ten-day Flower Show has been organised at the Varaha Garden in the Mysore Palace from Dec.23. Along with it, photography and dolls exhibition and children’s festival has also been organised. Flower Show: Mysore Palace Board, Horticulture Department and a few other organisations are jointly organising the Flower Show. The Horticulture Department is arranging…
Palace gold leafing case: High Court disposes of PIL
November 23, 2017Bengaluru: Terming it a “commercial interest litigation,” the Karnataka High Court yesterday disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking directions from the court to order the government to complete the Gold Leafing work at Mysore Palace. The PIL was filed by K. Basavaraje Urs, a resident of Kuvempunagar in Mysuru and he had sought…
Fire Station Unit at Mysore Palace soon
November 22, 2017Mysuru: The Mysore Palace will soon have a Fire Station Unit of its own. In recent times, fire mishaps have occurred in different parts of the country and keeping in view the Palace security, the district administration has decided to set up a Fire Station in the Palace. The officials of the Fire Department visited…
Prelude to 83rd Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana: 2,000 students stand to form Kannada words at Palace
November 20, 2017Mysuru: Over 2,000 students from 22 schools across city stood in formation to form the words: 83ನೇ ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಮ್ಮೇಳನ – ಮೈಸೂರು ಶ್ರೀ ರಾಮಾಯಣ ದರ್ಶನಂ – 50 (83rd Kannada Sahitya Sammelana – Mysuru and ‘Sri Ramayana Darshanam – 50’). The students stood in formation holding yellow and red colour cards above their heads (symbolising the colours…
Flower Show at Palace from Dec. 23
November 17, 2017Mysuru: After successfully conducting flower shows at Mysore Palace premises since the last two years, the Palace Board has decided to continue the tradition this year too with a ten-day flower show from Dec. 23 to Jan. 1. The Palace Board’s move is to provide an add-on attraction to tourists visiting Mysuru during Christmas season….
3D mapping projection at Mysore Palace
November 14, 2017Mysuru: Deputy Commissioner D. Randeep has written a letter to the Tourism Department Secretary drawing his attention to introduce a permanent 3-D Mapping projection at the world famous Mysore Palace. Buoyed with the success of the 3D mapping projection on the 133-year-old Town Hall since the last two years during Dasara, he has said that…
No compromise in Palace security, says Palace Board Dy. Director
November 11, 2017Mysuru: There is no compromise on security system at the Mysore Palace and a fool-proof system is in place to prevent any untoward incident where every visitor is under watch, said Mysore Palace Board Deputy Director T.S. Subramanya. Dismissing reports in social media that the security has been compromised at the Palace and most of…
Mysore Palace will soon get fire management system
October 30, 2017Mysuru: The iconic century-old Mysore Palace will soon get a full-fledged and fool-proof fire management system and a Technical Committee has been formed to look into the existing fire safety equipment and recommend purchase of new and advanced fire handling and control machinery. The Palace is a monument of national importance frequented by over three-and-a-half-million…
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