Gonikoppal: A clash between Congress and BJP workers during campaigning at Gonikoppal in Kodagu on May 9 night has left three persons including a student in critical condition. The injured have been identified as Gram Panchayat Member Jammanda Somanna, Gonikoppal Town Youth Congress President Karthanda Somanna and student Puneeth who have been admitted to a…
Kodagu woman goes missing from city
May 4, 2018Mysuru: A 27-year-old woman from Gonikoppal in Kodagu, who had come to Mysuru to her parents’ house, has been reported missing after she boarded a bus to Gonikoppal on Apr. 28 from Mysuru bus stand. The missing woman has been identified as B.M. Chandini, wife of B.J. Muthappa of Gonikoppal. According to the complaint lodged…
Padmini Ponnappa quits Congress to join JD(S)
May 3, 2018Appointed as State JD(S) General Secretary Gonikoppal: Congress party leader and Chairperson of Karnataka Forest Development Corporation Limited Mangera Padmini Ponnappa has quit the party to join Janata Dal (Secular), thereby severing her 33-year-old link with the Congress. She has now been given the post of State JD(S) General Secretary. Padmini, after ticket denial, rebelled…
Operation to capture elusive tiger in Kodagu continues
April 11, 2018Gonikoppal: The operation by the Forest Department personnel, who have stayed put at Devarakaadu and Kottageri in Kodagu to capture the elusive tiger which had killed livestock of villagers and escaped by a whisker from being trapped, continued yesterday also, with morning mist hampering the operation due to low visibility. The Forest personnel had placed…
Combing operation to capture elusive tiger in Kodagu
April 10, 2018Gonikoppal: The elusive tiger, which had killed some cattle of the villagers living in and around Kottageri near Balele in Kodagu and was playing hide and seek with forest personnel, has killed the bait which was tied inside the cage by the Forest Department, which is conducting combing operations to capture it. The cage was…
Medal winners in National Shooting Competition
January 31, 2018Nine shooters of Ashwini Sports Foundation (ASF)-KALS here represented Karnataka and bagged 25 medals in all and exhibited splendid shooting skills in 10 m Open Sight Air Rifle at the First Hubballi National Open Shooting Championship held at Hubballi recently. They contested against 500 odd shooters from States like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Telengana and…
Annual Sports Day of Gonikoppal Cauvery College
January 30, 2018The Annual Sports Day and prize distribution ceremony of Cauvery College, Gonikoppal, will be held on Jan.31 from 10.30 am onwards at its premises here. Jammada Joyappa, of Karate International, Gonikoppal and Maneyapanda Dechamma, Member, Virajpet Town Panchayat, both alumni of the College, will be the chief guests. K.P. Bopanna, Director, Cauvery Education Society and…
Coffee Board launches soil testing centre at Gonikoppal
December 28, 2017Mysuru: Thousands of farmers in South Kodagu now look forward to better yield as Gonikoppal gets a new digital soil testing centre. The Coffee Board launched the testing centre last week following demands of farmers and growers. Earlier, farmers of Virajpet taluk had to travel 50 to 70 kms to give soil for testing centres…
Reputed gynaecologist Dr. Gowramma’s house set on fire at Gonikoppal
November 7, 2017Gonikoppal: Miscreants have set fire to the house of Dr. Gowramma, a gynaecologist of repute at Gonikoppal in South Kodagu. Valuables including property documents have been destroyed in the fire. The incident that occurred on the morning of Oct. 17 came to light yesterday when Dr. Gowramma who came home after visiting her daughter in…
Army Chief recommends Bharat Ratna to Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa
November 4, 2017Gonikoppal: Over 15,000 people, most of them in their traditional Kodava attire, were a witness to the unveiling of bronze statues of Field Marshal Kodandera M. Cariappa and General Kodandera S. Thimayya by Chief of the Army Staff General Bipin Rawat at Cauvery College in Gonikoppal, South Kodagu, this morning. After unveiling the statues, Gen….
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