Chennai tourist gets too close to two warring jumbos, crushed in between Kushalnagar: A woman tourist from Chennai was trampled to death by Dasara elephant Kanjan at the Dubare Elephant Camp in Kodagu district this morning. The deceased has been identified as S. Juneshe (33), a home-maker from Chennai, who had come to Dubare with…
Visits Dubare Elephant Camp, Cauvery Nisargadhama Madikeri: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren arrived in Kodagu district along with his family for a three-day private visit and is currently staying at a luxury resort near Madikeri. Soren reached Madikeri on Sunday evening and was received by Assistant Commissioner Mithun Chakravarthy on behalf of the District Administration….
Over 2,000 coffee plants, 250 pepper vines cut down at Kalakooru village Madikeri: In a shocking incident of large-scale vandalism, unidentified miscreants entered a coffee plantation at Kalakooru village near Birunani in Ponnampet taluk of Kodagu district and destroyed more than 2,000 coffee plants and 250 pepper vines, causing losses estimated to run into several…
Victim to record her statement before a Magistrate in Mysuru Mysore/Mysuru: The Kodagu Deputy Commissioner, who is also Chairman of the District Tourism Committee, has cancelled the licence of a homestay at Kutta following allegations of rape made by a woman tourist from the United States. The homestay, operated by P.A. Ponnappa of Faith Cinchona…
Incident in Kodagu homestay; cook arrested on rape charges; homestay owner held for suppressing the offence Mysuru/Madikeri: A woman from the United States of America (USA) has alleged that she was raped at a homestay in Kutta village of Kodagu district after being given a drug-laced drink by a worker. Based on her complaint, Kodagu…
Kodagu residents urge Forest Dept. to drive away the jumbos Ponnampet: Man-animal conflicts have increased in Kodagu region with a coffee planter killed by a wild elephant at Srimangala hobli in Ponnampet taluk in the early hours of today. The deceased has been identified as Mokalamada Rathu, a resident of Kaiemani. Today morning, Rathu was…
Siddapura (Kodagu): In some relief for coffee planters, estate workers and the general public in the Siddapura, Guhya and surrounding areas in Kodagu district, the Forest officials yesterday captured a wild tusker that had killed coffee planter Ganapathy (Gappu) at Siddapura. According to villagers and officials, the tusker had killed three people in the region, …
Third death in 12 days; five people killed by wild elephants in three months Siddapura (Kodagu):There seems to be no respite for man-animal conflict as in yet another case, a 49-year-old coffee planter was trampled to death by a wild elephant at a coffee estate in Siddapura, Virajpet taluk of Kodagu district yesterday. The deceased…
Siddapura (Kodagu): A four-wheeler sustained damages to its front portion when a bison rammed into the car at Karadigodu village in Siddapura Gram Panchayat limits of Kodagu district on Wednesday. The car, belonging to Orange County was proceeding towards the town, when the bison, which was running from one estate to another rammed into the…
Kushalnagar: A first-year Pre-University student was trampled to death by a wild elephant near Bettathur village in Kodagu district last evening. The victim has been identified as Pooja (19), daughter of Changappa and Devaki, residents of Bettathur near Madikeri. She was a student of St. Michael’s Composite PU College. According to family members, Pooja was…
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