Mysore/Mysuru: The city-based VeKare Ex-Servicemen Trust has urged the State Government to give exemption from entry fee to the armed and paramilitary forces personnel visiting ‘Sunny Side’ that houses General K.S. Thimayya Museum in Madikeri, Kodagu district. Trust President Mandetira N. Subramani has written a letter to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai urging to fulfill this…
Madikeri: An exquisitely carved ivory trophy with a face of a woman wearing beads and a headgear has been seized in Madikeri last evening and two persons have been arrested. They were trying to sell the ivory on the Mysuru-Madikeri Highway. Acting on a tip-off, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Forest Cell raided a location…
Madikeri: The Madikeri CID Police of the Forest unit have arrested two while they were trying to sell tiger claws and have recovered four tiger claws from them. The arrested are Kumar and Vinu of Gundlupet. The accused on May 6 were trying to sell the tiger claws near the bus stand, close to Madikeri-Mysuru…
Madikeri: In separate cases, the Virajpet Forest Mobile Squad personnel have arrested four persons who were trying to sell the endangered Red Sand Boa snake and Pangolin scales in Kodagu. In the first case, Virajpet Forest Mobile Squad personnel have arrested two persons who were trying to sell Red Sand Boa snake. Those arrested are…
Madikeri: The Kodagu Forest Mobile Squad personnel have arrested seven persons for attempting to sell tiger nails and teeth. The arrests were made based on a tip off. The arrested are Naveen, Shekar, Ganesh, Yogesh, Ramesh, Doresh and Natesh. Officials recovered 17 nails, one canine tooth, six pieces of teeth, a portion of pelt, two…
Madikeri: The Madikeri Forest Mobile Squad of CID Police have arrested three persons while they were trying to sell two elephant tusks and have seized the tusks from them. Those arrested are Ujjair Ahmed, Nayazuddin Khan and M.A. Ashraf. On Apr. 1, the CID Police, acting on a tip off that three persons were trying…
Says Kannada and Culture Minister Sunil Kumar in Legislative Council Madikeri: The Kodava Heritage Centre that is being constructed at Vidyanagar near Madikeri will be completed by the end of this July. This was stated by the Kannada and Culture Minister Sunil Kumar in the Legislative Council on behalf of Tourism Minister Anand Singh. Sunil…
Madikeri: In an appeal to the people to resist highways and rail lines passing through Kodagu that will ultimately result in drying up of River Cauvery, former President of Coorg Wildlife Society Col. (Retd.) C.P. Muthanna said that people must support environmentalists who are fighting for the cause of Kodagu district and for the larger…
Madikeri: A soldier from Kodagu, who was on duty at Srinagar, was martyred after he was caught in a blizzard (a very bad storm with strong winds and a lot of snow) in the early hours on Wednesday. The deceased soldier is Havaldar Altaf Ahmed (37), son of late Ummar and Ashiya couple, native of…
Madikeri: A Forest Guard, shocked over his wife committing suicide by hanging herself, followed her by ending his life moments later. The incident took place at Birunani in South Kodagu on Sunday. The deceased are Shilpa (22) and her husband Yuvaraj (25). A native of Shivamogga, Yuvaraj had married Shilpa 10 months ago. He was…
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