Madikeri: Kodagu Deputy Commissioner Dr. B.C. Satish has asked the Department of Youth Empowerment and Sports (DYES) to submit a proposal to the Government to establish a Sports University in Kodagu District. He was chairing a meeting of the District Stadium Committee at the Office of Assistant Director, DYES in Madikeri yesterday. He said that…
Madikeri: Environmentalist and green crusader Dr. A.K. Malhotra (79), a resident of Teralu village at Birunani in South Kodagu, passed away yesterday. Dr. Malhotra and his wife Pamela Malhotra had bought 55-acres of land in the Western Ghats in Kodagu district, with the intention of reforesting the land that had fallen into various states of…
Mysore/Mysuru: ‘Puthari Namme’, the harvest festival of Kodagu, marking the first harvest of paddy crop, was celebrated in a grand manner in the city yesterday at Kodava Samaja in Vijayanagar First Stage. It featured a variety of Kodava cultural events which drew applause from the audience. The festival began with the performance of puja to…
Virus mainly comes from stale food and contaminated water Mysuru: Health officers in Mysuru, Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada are on alert after at least 13 confirmed cases of Norovirus have been recorded in Kerala’s Wayanad district. The disease was first reported in some students of a veterinary college in Pookode two weeks ago. Norovirus is…
Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha has appealed to PWD Minister C.C.Patil to develop Hunsur-Virajpet-Talacauvery (State Highway 90) and Madikeri-Kutta roads on a Public-Private-Partnership model. In a memorandum submitted to the Minister who visited Mysuru yesterday for an inspection of damaged Chamundi Hill road, Pratap Simha said that the development of roads can be taken up…
Madikeri: In a retribution to CESC (Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation) for its callousness and casual approach to the grievances of its consumers, the Karnataka Consumers Forum has ordered the State-run Power Company to pay Rs. 6 lakh as compensation to a power consumer in Somwarpet taluk, Kodagu district, who lost his household articles due to…
Mysore/Mysuru: Bengaluru-based Freelance Journalist and author P.T. Bopanna has launched his new website www.kodavas.in, featuring the unique culture of the Kodavas (Coorgs) who belong to Kodagu district. Speaking to Star of Mysore, Bopanna, who put together his first website www.coorgtourism.com way back in 2005 and owns five more websites, said, “My main intention of starting…
Child’s parents, now no more, had borrowed a loan; FIR ordered against Bank Manager Mysore/Mysuru: How far can banks go to recover loans? Shockingly, a bank in Kodagu District has issued notices to a child for loan repayment and also has asked the child to report to the bank branch to put signatures on documents….
‘It should be a living museum, a conservatory of information on Kodavas, a place where researchers can seek knowledge’ A Kodava Heritage Centre is being constructed at Vidyanagar near Madikeri, Kodagu District and construction has picked up only now though the idea was conceptualised way back in early 2000 when Rathi Vinay Jha, an IAS…
Madikeri: Popular Kodava film ‘Naada Peda Asha’ (My name is Asha) will be screened at Kodava Samaja in Mysuru on Nov. 6 and 7. The film is based on a story written by senior writer Nagesh Kaloor and published by Kodava Makkada Koota. The book had won Karnataka Kodava Sahitya Academy’s best book award in…
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