Category: Coorg News

Here comes a ‘chill pill’ for those with the verve to laugh at life. If that’s not you, pick up a copy along with your choice of beverage and learn to. And if in...

Dr S.V. Narasimhan, a medical practitioner and bird-watcher from Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka, features in the 2013 edition of the Limca Book of Records under two categories. The author of “Feathered Jewels of Coorg”...

One fine day last year, a gentleman from Holland mailed me over a dozen black and white photographs he had taken nearly forty years ago. One of the photographs was that of our Cariappa...

In a first for someone from Kodagu, Natasha Bopaiah has been awarded the ‘Pemanda Monappa Scholarship’ in Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. Natasha, daughter of Biddanda Ram and Divia Bopaiah has had the...

Thambanda Vijay Poonacha (in picture, left), Registrar, Kannada University, Hampi, released journalist P.T. Bopanna’s book ‘Coorg State: Udaya-Pathana’ on Sunday at the Bangalore Press Club. ‘Coorg State: Udaya-Pathana’ is the Kannada translation of Bopanna’s...

The BJP has retained both the Virajpet and Madikeri seats in the elections to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Kodagu. While the outgoing minister Appachu Ranjan won from Madikeri constituency, Speaker K.G. Bopaiah romped...

A public interest litigation has been filed in the Karnataka High Court to quash the recent amendments to the law involving the Jamma lands in Kodagu district of Karnataka. The petition has been signed...

Preeth Ganapathy, the first woman IPS officer from Kodagu, who is undergoing training at the National Police Academy in Hyderabad, has secured the 161st rank in the recent civil services examination conducted by the...

The 17th edition of the annual Kodava hockey festival hosted this year by the Madanda clan , began at the Kodava Sports and Cultural Centre at Balugodu near Virajpet on Sunday. The festival got...

Work on the Hunsur-Gonikoppal road has commenced. During the past couple of weeks, work on the road has been going on from Kalbetta, near Hunsur, the point where the road bifurcates – one going...