Category: Coorg News

‘Discover Coorg Video’, the first full-fledged DVD on Coorg, has been launched. The DVD features tourist spots, homestays, Coorg jewellery, Kodava family hockey festival, facilities for golf in Coorg, and the unique culture of...

Dr. Kanathanda Manjula Aiyappa (in picture), an agriculture scientist, explains in simple language all that you wanted to know about the coffee ‘out-turn test’ which has become a sort of headache for the coffee...

In a major victory for the social media, one of the sustained campaigns on Facebook has led to the rebuilding of the Hunsur-Gonikoppal Road. The 45-km road bordering Mysore and Kodagu districts was in...

It was a dream come true for Konganda Charamanna Cariappa, a 20-year-old leg-spinner from Coorg who was playing “tennis ball” cricket two seasons ago, was purchased by defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) for...

Coorg-born Joshna Chinappa, winner of the gold medal at the last Commonwealth Games in women’s squash doubles, is the ‘Coorg Person of the Year, 2014’. Joshna along with Dipika Pallikal won the squash women’s...

In a record of sorts, the membership of the Facebook group Coorg/Kodagu books, a virtual encyclopaedia on Coorg, has crossed 5,000. Started in May, 2012, by journalist P.T. Bopanna, the group page has one...

A new Coorg website www.coorgnews.in to cover news exclusively on Kodagu (Coorg) has been launched by journalist P.T. Bopanna. In 2005, Bopanna launched his first website www.coorgtourisminfo.com, Kodagu’s first news and tourism portal, featuring...

By P.T. Bopanna This year’s Kannada Rajyotsava will be a bitter pill for Kodagu which merged with Karnataka on November 1, 1956. It was exactly 58 years ago that the independent Coorg State merged...

The role of the Coffee Board chairman Javed Akhtar, IAS (in picture) has come under the scanner following the recent scathing attack on the Coffee Board launched by Union Commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Mr...