Canteens at Virajpet and Madikeri get a raw deal always, says IAF Veteran Sergeant Kushalnagar: Long queues were seen at military canteens in Virajpet and Madikeri this morning as ex-servicemen and their family members lined up to buy groceries and their quota of liquor. Shops selling essential items in Kodagu are allowed to open only…
Kodagu COVID Hospital’s mobile thief caught
May 25, 2021Madikeri: One person has been arrested from Kodagu Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), the designated COVID Hospital of Kodagu District in Madikeri for theft of mobile phones from the Hospital. He was caught along with proof, based on information passed on to the Police by the wife of a COVID victim. The nabbing operation was…
Little girl gets a new phone; but her mother’s old phone?
May 24, 2021Kushalnagar: The story of a little girl who made an appeal through an open letter to Kodagu Deputy Commissioner, MLAs and to the staff of Kodagu Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) to find her late mother’s mobile phone which has been stolen from a KIMS ward has gone viral. This has drawn the attention of…
‘My late mother’s phone is filled with her memories’: Girl pleads with Kodagu DC, MLAs to find stolen phone from COVID Hospital
May 23, 2021Kushalnagar: A little girl who lost her mother to killer Corona has made a fervent appeal to the Kodagu Deputy Commissioner (DC) Charulata Somal, two MLAs of the district K.G. Bopaiah and M.P. Appachu Ranjan and also to the staff of Kodagu Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) to find her mother’s mobile phone which has…
Seva Bharati team volunteers to perform last rites in Kodagu
May 20, 2021Giving a dignified closure to unclaimed, untouched bodies Kushalnagar: COVID-19 is a lonely disease where last rites have become a tragic, solitary affair. At times, families who have lost their loved ones to the contagion are reluctant to perform the final rites and even refuse to claim the bodies of their kin. That’s where volunteers…
Tusker falls into pit in Kodagu, trench dug to rescue
May 19, 2021Kushalnagar: A wild elephant which strayed into a village near Siddapura in Kodagu District and fell into an elephant trench was rescued by the Forest Department staff yesterday morning. The elephant was stuck for four hours before a trench-like passage was dug to get it out and save it from the deep pit and to…
Six medicos in soup for violating lockdown
May 13, 2021Asked to work at Madikeri District Hospital for one week as punishment Kushalnagar: Six students of Kodagu Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) have landed in trouble for violating COVID-induced lockdown by roaming around on a pleasure trip and entering a village near Kaloor, a landslide-prone area. As a punishment, they have been put to duty…
Banning visitors for 400-odd days saved Bylakuppe from virus
April 30, 2021Bylakuppe: There is an exponential increase in COVID-19 cases across the country and even in a place like Mysuru that is considered relatively safe tier-2 city. However, the Bylakuppe Tibetan Settlement, located at the border of Mysuru district towards Kodagu has not been affected by the virus. Thanks to the stringent measures taken by the…
Road caves in near Madikeri; trucks from Mysuru stranded
April 25, 2021Kushalnagar: Heavy vehicle (goods vehicles) movement on the Mysuru-Bantwal National Highway (National Highway 275) on the Madikeri-Sullia stretch has been banned after soil caved in on a road linking Jodupala and Second Monnangeri that had witnessed massive landslides in 2018 and 2019. As such, hundreds of goods trucks that have left Mysuru are stranded in…
Shocked by grandson’s drowning, woman dies of heart attack
April 9, 2021Kushalnagar: Unable to bear the shocking news of her grandson’s death, a 62-year-old woman died of a massive heart attack at Hosathota village in Somwarpet Taluk of Kodagu district last evening. Eighteen-year-old Mubasheer, son of Ramlan, a resident of Second Igoor village in Somwarpet Taluk had been to Harangi backwaters at Hosathota near Suntikoppa yesterday…















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