Virajpet court grants bail to Pramod Muthalik
A Virajpet court has given bail to Pramod Muthalik who had recently hogged national limelight after the activists of his Sri Rama Sene assaulted women at a pub in Mangalore. The Kodagu police had...
Category: Coorg News
Karthik Somaiah’s speeding car mows down 4 in Bangalore
Kundhira Karthik Somaiah (29), marketing operations manager at Sercon, driving his Honda Accord car in a rash manner, mowed down four persons in Bangalore’s Indiranagar on Saturday morning. Karthik, a self-confessed party animal, son...
Kodava movie release on January 30 at Gonikoppal
The first full length cinemascope colour movie in Kodava thak will be released at Gonikoppal’s Nayana Theatre on January 30. Ponnera Manas will be the first Kodava movie to be released after a gap...
Cricket captain Dhoni visits village near Suntikoppa
Cricket fever of a different kind swept across the remote Nakoor village near Suntikoppa in Kodagu during the week-end as Indian Cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni landed up there to visit fellow cricketer Robin...
Top Kodagu officials back illegal road formation across Pushpagiri reserve forest
In a blatant violation of law, the Kodagu district administration and people’s representatives have supported villagers to lay a road through the Pushpagiri reserve forest, amid opposition from Karnataka forest officials. The controversial road...
MIT scientist Dr Moodera Jagadeesh Coorg Person of the Year
Dr Jagadeesh Subbaiah Moodera, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and winner of Oliver E. Buckley Prize, is Coorg Person of the Year, 2008. The Kodagu-born Dr Jagadeesh, who did his Ph.D in...
Anonymous threat letters to Kodava planters
Anonymous letters, especially threatening Kodava planters in Kodagu (Coorg) district in Karnataka has led to apprehensions among the peace-loving Kodava community. Besides warning the planters against their “lavish lifestyle”, the letters have “prescribed” minimum...
CNC to approach UN for Kodava autonomous region
The Codava National Council (CNC) headed by N.U. Nachappa on Friday passed a resolution to take their demand for autonomous status for Kodava region in Karnataka to the United Nations if the Karnataka Government...
Ponanna pays Rs 47,000 to watch horror movie alone
A Bangalore-based advertising professional Pavin Ponanna has won the challenge posed by Bollywood producer Ram Gopal Verma to watch his horror film ‘Phoonk’ all alone. Thirty-year-old Ponanna from Kodagu district bought all the tickets...
