Category: Coorg News

Apparanda Chitra (40), of Kakkabe Yavakapadi in Kodagu, and her husband Jayaram Kotian (42) of Mangalore, and their four-year-old son Rahul, were killed in the air crash at Mangalore on Saturday in which 158...

Is the Kodava family hockey festival turning out to be another ‘IPL’ in the making? The just concluded Maneyapanda Twenty 10 Cup played at Ponnampet was a case of commercial interests taking over the...

Novelist Puttichanda Sarita Mandanna’s recently released novel ‘Tiger Hills’, set in Kodagu (Coorg), has started making waves. Sarita is scheduled to speak on her book this week in London. New York-based Sarita was in...

The 14th edition of the Kodava family hockey festival was inaugurated on April 18 by Union Sports Minister M.S. Gill at Ponnampet in Kodagu district. The tournament known as Maneyapanda Twenty 10, being hosted...

The Karnataka government has once again triggered a controversy over the Jamma tenure in Kodagu by claiming that Jamma Bane lands belong to the government. A circular issued by Revenue Department on February 11,...

Several Kodagu organizations, including the Kodava Samaja at Balele town in Virajpet taluk, have called a ‘Balele bandh’ on March 29 to protest against the alleged derogatory references to the Kodava community (Coorgs) in...

Prohibitory orders have been clamped on Madikeri town following group clashes between the major and minority communities in the past few days. The clashes were preceded by certain unsavory developments where suspected members of...

It is encouraging to note that the civic infrastructure in Madikeri town has shown marked improvement in the last few months with the authorities, especially the City Municipal Council (CMC), taking a number of...

Kalengada Muthanna Cariappa of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), has been conferred the Indian Police Medal for Meritorious Service by the President of India on the occasion of this year’s Republic Day celebrations. Cariappa...