Mysuru: KSRTC has resumed bus service on a trial basis from Mysuru to Madikeri on Saturday. The service had been stopped since Thursday following landslides owing to heavy rain around Suntikoppa town. The first bus to Madikeri left city at 1 pm. One more left in the afternoon. Speaking to Star of Mysore KSRTC Divisional…
Identify land to build houses for victims in Kodagu: HDK
August 20, 2018Madikeri: Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy has directed the District Administration to identity land to construct houses for flood-affected victims on a priority basis. He was chairing a meeting on natural disaster relief operations at the Deputy Commissioner’s office here yesterday and said that the officials should come forward to identify land along with providing them…
Former PM Deve Gowda to donate two months’ salary for flood relief
August 20, 2018Mysuru/Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister and JD(S) Supremo H.D. Deve Gowda has announced that he will be donating his two months salary for flood relief funds in Kodagu and Kerala. Announcing this at a private function in city yesterday, the former PM said that he had never seen such a heavy rainfall in the last 60…
DFRL, CFTRI send food packets to Kodagu, Kerala
August 20, 2018Mysuru: Mysuru- based Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) and Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL) are despatching ready-to-eat meals and other food items that have long shelf-life to rain-ravaged Kodagu and Kerala. DFRL has sent three tonnes of food items for flood-affected people and the loads were despatched on Saturday. The consignment was airlifted from…
Eighty Pourakarmikas from Mysuru leave for Kodagu
August 20, 2018MCC Pourakarmikas seen at work in one of the Relief Centres in Kodagu this morning. Mysuru: Even as Kodagu continues to reel under the havoc caused by rain fury, over 80 Pourakarmikas (civic workers) from the city left for Kodagu yesterday to be part of rescue and relief operations going on there. MCC Commissioner K.H….
BBMP Pourakarmikas leave for Kodagu with 100 bio toilets
August 20, 2018Bengaluru: Three hundred Pourakarmikas of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) have left for Kodagu to render help in relief works. BBMP Additional Commissioner D. Randeep, speaking to Star of Mysore this morning, said that the first batch of 150 Pourakarmikas left Bengaluru last evening and stayed overnight at Nanjaraja Bahadur Choultry in Mysuru and left…
Shortage of toilets, doctors hits Kodagu relief centres
August 19, 2018Madikeri: Over 9,000 displaced and homeless people have been sheltered at more than 600 Ganji Kendras (Gruel Centres) established at various parts of Kodagu district, especially in Madikeri and Somwarpet taluks that have witnessed the worst floods in the district so far. The Ganji Kendras have been established in towns, village and hobli-levels and local…
CM H.D. Kumaraswamy surveys Kodagu by air
August 19, 2018Madikeri: Even as rescue and relief operations gained momentum in Kodagu district on Saturday, Chief Minister (CM) H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) conducted an aerial survey of Kodagu district and took stock of the situation. The CM flew in an IAF helicopter from HAL Airport in Bengaluru for the aerial survey of flood-ravaged Kodagu district and landed…
Army steps up rescue operations in Kodagu
August 19, 2018Madikeri: Even as the entire Kodagu district continues to reel under natural calamities caused by rain fury, the Army has stepped up the rescue and relief operations in the district. The Army, along with National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Police personnel continued the rescue operation on Saturday, evacuating several residents stranded in high altitude…
Massive Rescue operations in Kodagu
August 18, 2018Madikeri: Massive relief and rescue operations are on in Kodagu that has been ravaged by floods, landslides, house collapse and by the rivers flowing in full spate. Many villages, especially in Madikeri taluk, have been erased from the map and on ground they now look like mounds of mud and debris. Truckloads of relief materials…
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