Madikeri: Telangana-based mining businessman Maruthi Prasad’s son 26-year-old Vinay who had come to Kodagu on a tour is missing since Jan 17. His car has been found abandoned in Madikeri on Jan. 19. According to Madikeri Police sources, Vinay, hailing from Saroornagar in Telangana, who runs a garment business, had taken loans up to Rs….
Home Stay Rave Party: All five accused get bail
January 16, 2019Madikeri: All the five accused persons in the Kodagu Rave Party incident, where a huge quantity of ganja (marijuana) and other banned substances were seized at a Home Stay, have been released on bail. The bail was granted on Jan. 13. The accused are M.A. Appanna, the owner of the Home Stay, Jude Pereira of…
Three-day Kodagu Pravasi Utsav begins: Floral Cauvery Statue beckons tourists
January 12, 2019Madikeri: A three-day Kodagu Pravasi Utsav, the first-ever tourism promotional event held after floods-and-landslide-ravaged Kodagu district, began at Madikeri last evening. Karnataka Tourism Department and Kodagu District Administration are jointly organising the event with support from various stakeholders to boost tourist arrivals. Tourism Minister S.R. Mahesh, who is also the Kodagu District Minister, inaugurated the…
Kodagu Pravasi Utsav at Madikeri from tomorrow
January 10, 201912 feet floral statue of Goddess Cauvery to be main attraction Madikeri: To attract tourists to Kodagu that was ravaged by flash floods and landslides, the Tourism Department and the District Administration have organised a three-day ‘Kodagu Pravasi Utsav-2019’ from Jan. 11 to 13 at Gandhi Maidan in Madikeri. The intention of the festival is…
Dr. Veerendra Heggade distributes cheques to flood victims in Kodagu
January 10, 2019Madikeri: Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari Dr. D. Veerendra Heggade distributed a total of Rs. 8 crore as relief to flood and landslide victims of Kodagu at a programme organised at Gandhi Maidan in Madikeri this afternoon. He distributed cheques to 1,106 victims. Following the natural calamity in August last year, the Srikshetra Dharmasthala Gramabhivruddhi Yojane had carried…
Massive protest in Madikeri held to Save River Cauvery
December 8, 2018Another group agitates to demand National Highway expansion Madikeri: A massive protest by environmentally concerned citizens was organised under the banner of “Save Kodagu, Save Cauvery” in Madikeri this morning where over 1,500 people participated. They agitated against the proposed expansion of National Highway 275 (Bengaluru-Bantwal via Kushalnagar, Suntikoppa, Madikeri and Sampaje) and implementation of…
Public Square at old private bus stand in Madikeri
November 20, 2018Madikeri: Kodagu District Minister S.R. Mahesh, who is also the Tourism Minister, after taking note of suggestions made by Star of Mysore Editor-in-Chief K.B. Ganapathy in his column ‘Choomantra,’ published in Mysooru Mithra, sister concern of SOM on Nov.1, held talks with Deputy Commissioner P.I. Sreevidya, City Municipal Council President Kaveramma Somanna and former City…
Congested Madikeri down-town needs a lung space
November 16, 2018Madikeri Private Bus Stand can be transformed into Field Marshal Square on the lines of Trafalgar Square Rainfall, mist and fog in Kodagu are not occasional. Every year it rains and even if there is a change in weather pattern, it rains for sure. And this is the reason for verdant greenery all over Kodagu…
Old private bus stand at Madikeri likely to be an open public space
November 11, 2018Madikeri: Taking note of suggestions made by Star of Mysore Editor-in-Chief K.B. Ganapathy in his column ‘Choomantra,’ published in Mysooru Mithra, sister concern of Star of Mysore on Nov.1, Kodagu District Minister S.R. Mahesh, who is also the Tourism Minister held a meeting with officials to chalk out a plan to construct a tourist-friendly park…
Landslide aftershocks continue to haunt Kodagu: Two women buried alive at Madikeri as earth caves in
November 7, 2018Madikeri: Four months after catastrophic floods and landslides struck the northern hilly areas of Madikeri and Somwarpet Taluks in Kodagu district, landslides due to loose soil continue to take lives. Two women were buried alive when earth caved in while they were doing some digging work to construct a compound wall of a house at…
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