Bengaluru/Mysuru: The Karnataka Cabinet has accorded administrative approval to release Rs. 130 crore to remove silt from Harangi Dam at Somwarpet Taluk in Kodagu District. Harangi is the main Cauvery water supply reservoir from the catchment areas to Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam in Mandya, the lifeline of South Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The Cabinet…
Madikeri: With used water bottles, plastic covers, cups and such other wastes littered all along the roads leading to popular tourist spots in the district, here is a veteran environmentalist who stands guard to keep the ‘Kote Abbey Falls‘ in Makkandur Gram Panchayat (GP) limits always free of wastes and garbage. The splendorous Kote Abbey…
Two years ago, a lady from Kodagu, the land of warriors, came to Mysuru to witness a circus with her family members. She was very much inspired by a person who hit the target by aiming the gun backwards. After going back to her native Tavalageri village in Virajpet taluk, she literally took up the…
Virajpet: Months after it notified the formation of Ponnampet taluk, carved out of Virajpet taluk in Kodagu district, the Government is yet to inaugurate the newly formed taluk, which has become a cause of worry for the residents of the new taluk. The State Government had issued an official notification on the formation of Ponnampet…
Madikeri: Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said that as Mysuru and Kodagu districts are repeatedly facing natural calamities over the past few years, it has been decided to form a SDRF (State Disaster Response Force) unit that is specific to the two districts. He was speaking to press persons after holding a meeting at Kodagu SP…
Mysore/Mysuru: Coorg Wildlife Society former President Col. (retd.) C.P. Muthanna sustained a fracture when a wild tusker attacked him at his estate in Ammathi, South Kodagu this morning. Col. Muthanna was on his usual morning walk at his estate, when the tusker attacked him. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was provided…
Alert ex-GP President in Kodagu makes Mysuru youths return to Madikeri to pick up their trash Thanks the tourists for responding positively Madikeri: A vigilant Kodava has made the entire Kodagu District proud by making a group of tourists from Mysuru, who had thrown garbage on roadside, to come back and pick it up. His…
Madikeri: In a surprise move, the State Government on Friday transferred Kodagu Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Dr. C.V. Sneha and posted her as Kolar ADC. Dr. Sneha, a Senior Grade KAS Officer, was serving as Kodagu ADC for the past one-and-a-half years. Now she has been transferred as ADC of Kolar with immediate effect. However,…
For a few days now one video has been making the rounds on WhatsApp. The video shows some empty pizza boxes strewn alongside a road in Kodagu and you can hear a local Gram Panchayat’s (GP) former President angry with tourists from Mysuru who threw that trash. What happens next is interesting. The ex-GP member…
Kushalnagar: With heavy downpour, landslides and floods ravaging Kodagu district for the past couple of years, Madikeri MLA M.P. Appachu Ranjan said that the Centre will be appealed for constructing flood walls along River Cauvery for preventing floods. He was speaking after releasing ‘Namami Cauvery’ volume at a programme jointly organised by Cauvery River Swachhata…
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