Virajpet: Former Assembly Speaker and sitting MLA K.G. Bopaiah filed nomination as the BJP candidate from Virajpet Assembly segment yesterday. Bopaiah was accompanied by fellow BJP candidate from Madikeri Appachu Ranjan and other party leaders. Tuesday, the last day of filing nomination papers, also saw the filing of nomination of five other candidates who included…
Madikeri: The State Government has given permission to capture four elephants for creating havoc by killing human beings and destroying crops. DFO Manjunath said that the operation to capture the four elephants will be taken up soon. Speaking to SOM, the DFO said that directions have been given to capture two rogue elephants each in…
Virajpet: International Badminton player Ashwini Ponnappa yesterday got married to businessman and model Karan Medappa at a ceremony in Coorg. The marriage was commemorated as per the rituals of Kodava tradition. In the morning, ‘Eka Muhurtha’ was held at Kodava Samja, Ammathi, Virajapet taluk and later in the evening ‘Dampathi Muhartha’ was held. Ponnappa was…
Mysuru: The 22nd Annual Conference of Karnataka Urology Association (KUACON- 2017) will be hosted by MYSOGUS (Mysore Society of Genitourinary Surgeons) from Nov.3 to 5 at Club Mahindra Resort, Virajpet, Coorg. Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar will inaugurate the Conference. A souvenir will be released by M.L. Varchuswee S.S. Urs, Matthadhipathi, Manteswamy Mutt, Adihonnanayakanahalli, Malavalli and…
Virajpet: The BJP staged a demonstration in the town on Saturday demanding the resignation of Bengaluru Development Minister K.J. George, who has been named as the first accused in the FIR registered by the CBI in connection with the suicide case of Dy.SP M.K. Ganapathy. The BJP activists, who gathered at the town’s Clock Tower,…
A memorandum will be submitted to the State government to name the Kodagu District Central Library and Government First Grade College in Napoklu after Appacha Kavi, along with establishing a study chair on Appacha Kavi either in the University of Mysore or in Mangalore University. Virajpet: Haradasa Appaneravanda Appacha Kavi has done notable contributions to…
Virajpet/Mysuru: Heavy rains lashing Virajpet taluk in Kodagu since Saturday has prompted the authorities to close down schools and colleges in the taluk today (Sept. 18). Rains, which escalated on Sunday, continued to lash today too. Following the downpour, water level in Lakshmantheertha River has increased. Heavy rains in the taluk has also rendered many…
Virajpet: The Perumbadi Road near here linking Kodagu and Kerala, which had caved-in owing to incessant rains last month, has been repaired and buses were allowed to ply on the road from yesterday. Five days ago, the road was thrown upon for Light Motor Vehicles. However, a ban continues on movement of huge trucks and…
Virajpet: Perumbadi Road near here connecting Kodagu-Kerala Inter-State Highway, which had caved-in owing to heavy downpour, would be restored in four days, according to Kaddaniyanda Harish Bopanna, Personal Secretary to District in-charge Minister Sitharam. Bopanna, along with PWD officials, visited the spot yesterday. PWD Superintending Engineer Prabhu said that the road had no stay wall…
Mysuru: Close on the heels of six elephants dying due to electrocution near Virajpet in Kodagu recently, another incident of an elephant being electrocuted was reported from Bommanahalli in Gundlupet coming under Kundakere Forest Range of Bandipur, this morning. The Forest officials, who conducted mahazar, said that the male elephant, which came in search of…
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