He was abducted from Mysuru in 2019 to learn secrets of his medicine Mysore/Mysuru: A traditional piles healing practitioner from Mysuru, who was missing since August 2019, was reportedly killed by a gang at Malappuram district in Kerala in October 2020. The gang had abducted him with the intention of learning his healing techniques with…
Tomato fever: High alert at Bavali check-post
May 13, 2022Taluk Health Officer, Police, Forest staff visit border; screen Kerala visitors, heighten vigil H.D. Kote: With several cases of tomato flu being reported in children in Kerala, a high alert has been issued at borders and the State Government has instructed the health officials to keep a vigil on daily travellers from the State entering…
Kootupole Bridge opens to public
February 3, 2022The newly-constructed bridge connects Kodagu and Kerala; facilitates travel to Kannur Airport Virajpet: The newly constructed Kootupole bridge that links Kodagu district with neighbouring Kerala was formally thrown open for public travel last Monday. Kerala PWD Minister P.A. Mohammad Riaz, Peravoor MLA Sanni Joseph, Kodagu’s Virajpet MLA K.G. Bopaiah, MLC M.P. SujaKushalappa and other dignitaries…
Kerala nun’s rape case: Bishop Franco Mulakkal acquitted
January 14, 2022Thiruvananthapuram: Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun several times between 2014 and 2016, has been acquitted by a Kottayam Court in Kerala. Franco Mulakkal, 57, was the first Catholic Bishop in India to be arrested for assaulting a nun. The Court acquitted him of all charges after a trial that lasted for more…
New highway from Kerala to Kodagu endangers River Cauvery
December 5, 2021Proposed highway to pass through Greater Talacauvery National Park and Reserve Forest Kasaragod MP raises question in Lok Sabha; Minister Nitin Gadkari cold-shoulders move Kushalnagar: A new highway from Kerala to Talacauvery in Kodagu district, the birthplace of River Cauvery, has been proposed by the neighbouring State that will threaten the very existence of the…
Kerala, Thalassery Mysuru Railway Network: Hi-tech Aerial Survey begins in Wayanad
November 25, 2021Karnataka Govt. wake up. Don’t allow Karnataka air-space for survey The proposed Railway line from Thalassery via Wayanad in Kerala to Mysuru via H.D. Kote, Kadakola and Mysuru will destroy pristine forests of Western Ghats causing irreparable and permanent damage to the ecology of the rain-bearing forests and destabilising the earth-crust of the geographical area…
Kodagu origin Maoist leader surrenders in Kerala
October 29, 2021Madikeri: A Naxal movement leader, who has his roots in Kodagu, has surrendered before the Kerala Police in Wayanad. He is 37-year-old Lijesh, alias Ramu alias Raman Lijesh, a senior leader of the proscribed Communist Party of India (Maoist). He lived at Perumbadi-Arji village near Virajpet and was an agriculturist before he took up arms….
Kerala bride and groom use cauldron to sail to wedding venue
October 19, 2021Alappuzha: Amidst news of landslides and floods after the heavy rains which lashed across Kerala in the last three days, a couple — both health workers — braving flooded roads, reached their wedding venue by sailing in a large cooking vessel to get married yesterday. The couple had borrowed the cauldron from another local temple…
Border Knot!
October 6, 2021Couple gets married at Kodagu-Kerala border as groom not allowed to cross into Karnataka amid COVID curbs Kushalnagar: When COVID restrictions made it difficult for a Kerala groom to travel to Kodagu along with his relatives to fetch his bride, the bride did the next best thing — she along with her family brought the…
Nipah virus threat: Entry Check
September 9, 2021Government Advisory: Defer plans to visit Kerala or enter Karnataka till October end Mysuru and Kodagu health officials say no need to worry as of now Mysuru/Madikeri: With Nipah virus cases rising in Kerala, the Health, Police and Forest Departments have strengthened its surveillance and preparedness in the districts bordering Kerala and the main focus…
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