Category: Coorg News

The defiling of the statue of Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa at Madikeri on Tuesday morning by miscreants is a reflection on the prevailing state of affairs in Kodagu. A shoe was found hanging from...

The organizers of the Storm Music Festival should reconsider their decision to go ahead with the festival in January, 2012, in the wake of protests over apprehensions that the festival could lead to drug...

N.A. Uthappa, Managing Director, Liquidspace Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., the organizers of the Storm Music Festival slated to be held on Novermber 11 in Coorg (Kodagu), has clarified that action would be taken to prevent...

Coorg will become a haven for drugs like Goa if the Storm Music Festival on the lines of Woodstock is held as planned for two days from November 11. The mega rock festival is...

Fear grips the residents of south Kodagu, especially around Srimangala, after an elusive tiger went on a killing spree. In the past week, the tiger has mauled 16 domestic animals, including cows, goats and...

Dr S.V. Narasimhan, a medical practitioner of Virajpet in Kodagu, who is a well-known birdwatcher, sends out individually hand-painted wildlife message cards every year to mark the wildlife week. The editor of this portal...

International Kodava cricket player Aiydua Robin Uthappa has formally embraced Christianity. The hard-hitting batsman, aged 25, was baptised by Bangalore archbishop Bernard Moras at a ceremony in the Holy Ghost Church at Pillana Garden...

In a shocking development, whistle blower Sarita Poonacha, who has been exposing the corruption in the BJP-ruled Kodagu Zilla Panchayat, was forced to leave the meeting hall when she tried to level corruption charges...

‘Coorg State: Udaya-Pathana’ is the Kannada translation of journalist P.T. Bopanna’s most successful book ‘Rise and Fall of the Coorg State’, which mainly deals with the circumstances leading to the unpopular merger of the...

In a major crackdown on illegal sale of land in Kodagu, the Karnataka government has ordered mass suspension of revenue officials in the district for facilitating sale of agriculture land to outsiders in violation...