Three test positive in Mandya district; Malavalli, Nagamangala on high alert Mysuru / Madikeri: Amidst the news of extension or relaxing the lockdown after Apr. 14, here comes a good news. The first patient who tested positive for Coronavirus in Mysuru and the sole positive patient in Kodagu have been cured and have been tested…
Rain, hailstorms bring respite from sweltering heat
April 6, 2020Mysuru/Madikeri: Rain brought some relief from sweltering heat and several parts of State including Mysuru and Kodagu received light to moderate rainfall coupled with thunderstorms and hailstorms last midnight. It began raining at around 12.20 am and the intermittent showers lasted for over an hour. Police, Home Guards and other enforcement forces that were on…
Pepper harvest, coffee processing badly hit in Kodagu
April 6, 2020Madikeri: Following the Novel Coronavirus and imposition of lockdown in the country and departure of the migrant labour force to their hometowns, the harvest of pepper and post-harvest process of coffee have taken a hit in Kodagu. In the coffee land of Kodagu, most of the workers at these estates are primarily from north Karnataka…
Kerala wants to lift blockade; Kodagu MLAs, MP say no
March 29, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention to lift the blockade of the Thalassery-Kodagu State Highway-30 by the Karnataka Police. However, this move is opposed by the MLAs and MP of Kodagu who have urged the Karnataka Government not to lift the blockade as there is…
Kodagu man tests COVID-19 positive: Contact-tracing in full swing; Containment Zone declared
March 20, 2020Efforts on to track 38 passengers who had travelled with patient from Bengaluru to Murnad Madikeri: A 35-year-old man from Kodagu district tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, taking the count to 15 in the State. He had returned from Dubai to Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru on Mar. 15 and travelled to Kodagu by bus…
Bird Flu scare amidst Coronavirus in Kodagu
March 20, 2020More than 20 crows found dead at Kottamudi Napoklu: Residents of Kodagu, who are panicked following a man being tested positive for Coronavirus, are now a worried lot after more than 20 crows were found dead behind the Anganwadi Centre at Kottamudi in Hodduru Gram Panchayat limits yesterday, which has triggered Bird Flu scare. Dead…
Man from Kodagu tests positive
March 19, 2020Kodagu DC asks hotels, home stays, resorts, dormitories to shut till Mar. 31 Madikeri, Bengaluru: One person tested positive for COVID-19 in Kodagu this morning, taking the tally of confirmed cases in the State to 15. Health Minister B. Sriramulu, in a post on Twitter said, the State’s 15th patient is from Kodagu district and…
Poachers with deer meat nabbed
March 19, 2020Siddapura (Kodagu): Meenukolli Division Forest personnel have arrested three poachers, who had hunted a Sambar in the Reserve Forest area and were transporting th meat illegally. The arrested are 42-year-old Mahesh, 60-year-old Vishwanath and 38-year-old Chandrashekar, all residents of Hosapatna near Nanjarayapatna. The accused had hunted the Sambar at Dubare Reserve Forest and were transporting…
Crops grown in 86,000 hectares washed away in Kodagu floods
March 18, 2020Madikeri: The Kodagu district which was devastated by last year’s floods, lost crops grown in over 86,000 hectares due to the floods. Replying to a question by Madikeri MLA Appachhu Ranjan in the Legislative assembly recently, Agriculture Minister B.C. Patil said that agriculture crops grown in 2,460 hectares, horticulture crops grown in 10,331 hectares and…
Kodagu man issued notice for violating home quarantine orders
March 18, 2020Madikeri: The Kodagu District Administration has served a notice to a person in Siddapura village for allegedly violating the home quarantine orders. A statement issued by Annies Kanmani Joy, Deputy Commissioner of Kodagu district, stated that the Administration had identified a total of 131 residents of the district, who had returned from foreign visits and…
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