Experts’ team submits primary report; blames excessive human intervention in eco-sensitive area Madikeri: The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has submitted its primary report on the devastating landslip on the night of Aug. 5 this year where two houses at the foothills of Gajagiri Hill (Brahmagiri Hill Range) with its residents, including the chief priest…
Kodava Samaja Youth Wing demands registering a murder case; warns of protests Ponnampet: Akhila Kodava Samaja Youth Wing President Chammattira Praveen Uthappa has demanded impartial probe into the death of social activist and well-known resident of Balele Podamada Uthappa. He alleged that attempts were made by certain vested interests to twist the facts of the…
Popular tourist activity was closed since March following COVID outbreak Kushalnagar: River rafting, a popular activity among tourists coming to Dubare near Kushalnagar in Kodagu, has resumed after a long break. This comes in the wake of Deputy Commissioner Annies Kanmani Joy permitting operators to resume rafting after stringently following COVID precautions. The activity began…
Mysore/Mysuru: In separate incidents, a Kodagu woman and her kid are among four persons, who have gone missing from city. In the first case, a woman from Kodagu has gone missing along with her three-year-old daughter from city. The missing woman and her kid have been identified as 26-year-old Latha, wife of Devaraj and their…
Madikeri (Kodagu): The 10th Annual Codava National Council (CNC) Thok Namme (Gun Carnival) will be held Dec. 18 at 10.30 am at Kolakeri in Napoklu to mark “World Minorities Rights Day.” Gun is a part and parcel of Kodavas and to showcase the valour and rich folkloric cultural heritage of the community. The Thok Namme…
Madikeri: With the works on Kodava Heritage Centre near Vidyanagar on the outskirts of Madikeri having resumed recently, Madikeri Kodava Samaja President Konganda S. Devaiah and Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa – General K.S. Thimayya Forum Convenor Col. Kandrathanda C. Subbaiah visited the site on Monday and inspected the ongoing works. The two received inputs on…
Madikeri: Lieutenant General Channira Bansi Ponnappa, AVSM (Ati Vishisht Seva Medal) has been appointed as 11th Corps Commander. He took charge at Jalandhar in Punjab recently. With this appointment, the hilly Kodagu district, which has a long and illustrious history of courageous top Defence Officers, for which it is known as the ‘Land of Army…
Two persons were killed on the spot when a speeding truck collided head-on with an Omni van at Bethri village near Murnad in Kodagu this morning. The deceased have been identified as Ramesh and Subramani. Two more persons inside the van have been seriously injured and they have been shifted to a hospital. More details…
Madikeri/Mysuru: Puthari, the harvest festival of Kodagu, was celebrated by Kodava and Kodagu Gowda communities in a grand manner yesterday in most parts of Kodagu and in Mysuru. Puthari, which translates to new rice, is a festival of harvest and getting the harvested paddy crop home, highlighting the relationship and close bond between mother earth…
Kushalnagar: The State Government has rejected the proposal of repairing the hanging bridge located at Abbey Falls in Madikeri due to safety concerns. Very different from other hanging bridges of Kodagu is the one at Abbey Falls. While the other hanging bridges in the hilly district are built for people to cross from one river…
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