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India uses only one time zone (even though it spans two geographical time zones) across the whole nation and all its territories, called Indian Standard Time (IST), which equates to UTC+05:30, i.e. five and a half hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). India does not currently observe daylight saving time (DST or summer time). The ...
Lord Dufferin was the Viceroy of India during 1884–1888. What is popularly known as Chikkagadiyara seen at the end of Devaraja Market close to Krishna Rajendra Circle was commissioned in his honor. He was the first Viceroy of the colonial India to pay a ceremonial and friendly visit to Mysore on invitation of Maharaja Chamaraja Wadeyar X in 1886.
The Indian Standard Time was adopted on 1 January 1906 during the British era with the phasing out of its precursor Madras Time (Railway Time), [2] and after Independence in 1947, the Union government established IST as the official time for the whole country, although Kolkata and Mumbai retained their own local time (known as Calcutta Time and Bombay Time) until 1948 and 1955, respectively. [3]
Mysore: Time zone: UTC+5:30 : PIN: 570009 [1] Chandramowleshwara Temple. Saraswathipuram is a residential suburb of Mysore city in Karnataka State, India.
The name Mysore is an anglicised form of Mahiṣūru, [11] which means "the abode of Mahiṣa" in the vernacular Kannada.The common noun Mahiṣa, in Sanskrit, means buffalo; in this context, however, Mahiṣa refers to Mahishasura, a mythical demon who could assume the form of either a human or a buffalo, and who, according to Hindu mythology, ruled the ancient parts of Mysore Kingdom, known ...
In 1960, the Government of Mysore (as Karnataka was called at that time) allotted nearly 3,000 acres (12 km 2) of land at Bylakuppe in Mysore district in Karnataka and the first ever Tibetan exile settlement, Lugsung Samdupling came into existence in 1961.
Hullahalli has a rich historical background, home to ancient temples as well as folk art and culture. The village is an integral part of Old Mysore region.Here lives Parivar race that are called the family of Wodeyars, kings of Mysore, they are the royal servant and a warrior community.
A peace treaty was concluded between the Mysore and Keladi rulers in 1694. [7] The district remained part of the Mysore Kingdom at the conclusion of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War in 1799. Hassan District and its current boundaries date to the 1860s, when the Mysore Kingdom was organised into 8 districts, and the districts further divided into ...