News related to Mysore

• Palace: Wadiyar, govt talk
  Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, the erstwhile ruler of Mysore, has submitted before the Supreme Court that discussion is on with the Karnataka government to sort out the contentious issue of renting out the Bangalore Palace for commercial events.
  
  
• Wadiyar performs Ayudha Pooja in Mysore Palace
  A slice of ancient tradition unfolds on the world famous Mysore Palace premises during the nine day Navaratri festivities bringing alive memories of a bygone era.
  
  The Mysore Royal family had always played a significant role in the rituals and festivities, even today the family members performed the Ayudha Pooja inside the courtyard of the palace.
  
  
• Info on Dasara festival on website from Oct 12
  Information pertaining to the Dasara festival from October 12 to 21 was expected to be posted on the Website in eight International languages.

  In a bid to woo tourists from across the world and to festival make the event truly Global, the district authorities were planning to provide information about the festival in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Arabic, apart from Kannada, Hindi and English.
  
  

• Preparations for Dasara 2007 on in full swing
  The preparations for the famous Mysore Dasara festivities would commence from September six with the district administration bringing elephants from the Veerahoshalli camp in Nagarahole National Park, District In-charge Minister G T Deve Gowda said. Talking to newspersons yesterday after the official level meeting of Dasara Festival Committee, he said as per the traditional process the administration would welcome the first batch of six elephants with a traditional 'puja'. The pachyderms would arrive here on September nine. The officials had been asked to enlist the programmes for the conduct of Dasara festivities in advance and kep everything ready for inauguration on October 12, he said.
  
  
• Mysore Airport to be ready by October 2009
  Mysore Airport will be ready for operation by October 2009, Union Ministry of Civil Aviation Joint Secretary K N Srivatsava said today.

  Speaking to newsmen after inspecting the works at Mandakali Airport, near here, he said that the works were expected to be completed by January 2009 and after trail run and testing the runway it would be ready for operation by Dasara Festivities in 2009.
  
  

• Work in swift pace for Mysore Airport upgradation
  This city of palaces, emerging a logical extension of Bangalore for IT sector expansion, will soon find its lost place in the aviation map of the country following the development of a full fledged Airport.

  Work on upgrading the airport at Mandakalli on the outskirts of the city has picked up steam following the urgency of it exhibited by the IT sector as the city had emerged the second in the State in IT exports, which had crossed Rs 760 crore last year.
  
  

• Karnataka: Thalacauvery opened for pilgrims
  Thalacauvery was closed since April for renovation of the bathing pond and the Holy 'Kundike'.

  The delicate repair works were guided by the Neeleshwara Padmanabha Thanthri to Kushanlnagar's PG Construction Company workers. He followed the religious and traditional ways for the reconstruction with laterite stones and instructed the contractors to leave the sources of water from various regions, including the Brahmagiri Hills and Shri Agastyeshwara temple centre.
  
  

• Brindavan Gardens opened for public
  The famous Brindavan Gardens at Krishnaraja Sagar reservoir across river Cauvery near here was opened after 84 days due to agitation launched by farmers against the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal. The famous gardens beneath the dam had been closed since February 5 after the tribunal came out with its verdict.
  
  
• Chamundi Hills, Mysore Palace set to be developed
  Buoyed by the boom in tourism and growing popularity of Chamundi Hills and the famous Mysore palace, the Karnataka Government has taken up long term measures to promote tourism to cope with the projected influx of tourists in the coming years.

  A detailed project report (DPR) for the development of Chamundi Hills was ready and would be submitted to the Centre for approval. A similar exercise was in progress for the Mysore palace too. Both the projects would be taken up under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), a Centrally-sponsored project in 63 cities across the country.
  
  

• Swanky 'Palace on Wheels' to be ready by Dasara
  'Palace on Wheels' aimed at attracting the foreign tourists, is likely to be introduced by the beginning of Dasara Festivities in October.

  The swanky train service will help several towns of the state figure among the most preferred destination in the international tourism circuit, according to Tourism Commissioner G Kumara Naik.
  
  

• Memorial for Swami Vivekananda in Mysore
  A meeting of top officials and experts has decided to construct a memorial for Swami Vivekananda in the city at a cost of Rs five crore. The decision was taken at a meeting, convened by Lok Sabha member C H Vijayashankar at the Palace Board to review the development of heritage structures and temples in the district.
  
  
• CWDT verdict on Cauvery to hit new projects
  The final award of Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT), that has triggered large scale agitation in Cauvery basin in Karnataka, has cast a dark shadow on implementation of Kabini II stage lift irrigation project that could bring water to 1.23 lakh hectares of parched land Mysore and Chamarajanagara districts.
  
  
• Land prices on the rise in and around Mysore
  Thousands of acres of farm land around this heritage city of Mysore has been converted into sites and prices have skyrocketed since the city became a hot-spot for industrial investment. The land has become a precious commodity in and around the city, ever since it has become a top IT city in the country.
  
  
• Submerged temple's reincarnation almost complete
  Once submerged in the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) reservoir waters of river Cauvery, the magnificent 12th century Venugopalaswamy temple, relocated on the backwaters of Hosakannabadi village, will be rededicated in the coming months.
  
  
• Mysore-Bangalore highway to be opened on Aug 31
  Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy will formally inaugurate the four-lane Mysore-Bangalore highway from this end tomorrow. The 134-km stretch, which had been upgraded into a four-lane highway, would ensure a hassle-free, smooth ride for passengers in just two hours. Work on upgrading the Srirangapatna-Mysore stretch of the highway into a six-lane road would commence tomorrow at a cost of Rs 18 crore. It was expected to be completed in 15 months.
  
  
• Steps assured to promote Mysore as IT destination
  Karnataka IT, BT and Science and Technology Principal Secretary Anup K Pujari today assured necessary help to project Mysore as the best destination for IT development. Inaugurating a seminar on 'Technology Adoption for Increased Productivity', organised jointly by the Mysore Chamber of Commerce and Industdries and Processware System Pvt Ltd here, he recalled the Chief Minister's 'Brand Bangalore is the best' slogan, under which plans were afoot to develop not only Bangalore but also Mysore as IT destinations. The IT industry must also be taken to the rural sector and its benefits must reach the people, he opined.
  
  
• Mysore ideal for Film City
  Noted Kannada film director and producer Rajendra Singh Babu on Monday urged the State government to consider Kannada film industry as an ‘industry’ and accord subsidy to films based on novels in order to encourage Kannada films.
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• Mysore airport MoU may be signed on Oct 6, 2005
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• Bangalore-Jaipur train extended to Mysore
• Facelift for KRS hotel done: Jungle Lodges MD
• Gallery work not to harm palace's image
• Mysore Palace apartments to get face-lift soon
• Son et lumiere show at Mysore palace unlikely before Dasara 2005
• Tradition bows out; Dasara jumbos to ride to Mysore
• British plans Mysore's heritage management