Category: Coorg News

Virajpet, the second most important town in Kodagu, has become the gangland of Kodagu, where shootouts involving high-profile targets have become a regular feature over the years. It all started with Kunjanda Ravi Chengappa,...

By P.T. Bopanna The much-awaited book on ‘Ainmanes of Kodagu’, authored by Boverianda Chinnappa and Nanjamma Chinnappa, researcher couple, has hit the stands. The authors wrote the book after extensive fieldwork in the Kodagu...

A video reflecting the various facets of Kodagu has been put up on Youtube. The video titled ‘Discover Coorg – Land of the Brave and the Beautiful’, has been produced by freelance journalist and...

OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI TO SCRAP THE MYSORE-KUSHALANAGAR RAILWAY LINE PROJECT, THE RAILWAY MINISTER’S ‘GIFT’ TO WIFE DATTY While it is laudable that the Prime Minister wants the railways to help...

Is the newly elected Mysore-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha doing more harm than good to Kodagu? Ever since his victory in the Lok Sabha elections, this journalist-turned politician has been on a celebration mode. Nothing...

In a tragic accident, two brothers – Dr Akhil Kuttappa, and Ashwath Aiyappa (in picture), sons of Kodimaniyanda Raghu Madappa and Anita, of Madikeri, drowned at Chiklihole near Kushalanagar on Thursday evening. It is...

The Karnataka High Court has admitted a writ petition seeking the quashing of the recent Amendment to allow the partitioning of Jamma lands in Kodagu district of Karnataka. Bangalore-based journalist and author P.T. Bopanna...

A medical college in Bangalore set up under the category of Kodava minority institution has blatantly violated rules by admitting only one student from the Kodava-speaking community, though it is supposed to fill 66...

The war of words between the Congress and BJP leaders took a new turn with home minister K.J. George rejecting the demand made by Madikeri MLA Appachu Ranjan for withdrawing police cases against the...

Hired hit-men were behind the attempt to murder Kodagu unit BJP president Suja Kushalappa, in a revenge attack for the death of a Congress leader under mysterious circumstances last year, according to Kodagu police...