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…
Rain pounds Virajpet Taluk
September 18, 2017Virajpet/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…
Perumbadi Road opened for movement of buses after repair
August 6, 2017Virajpet: 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…
Repair work begins on caved-in Perumbadi Road: To be opened for LMVs in four days
July 24, 2017Virajpet: 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…
Tusker electrocuted
July 8, 2017Mysuru: 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…
Hanagodu Dam full after a gap of 20 years
June 29, 2017Thanks to heavy rain in Virajpet Taluk of Kodagu district, the Lakshmanatheertha River has filled up with water. Heavy rain in Kutta, Brahmagiri ranges, Nagarahole National Park, Balele and Nittoor in Kodagu has increased the water flow. The Hanagodu Dam that is about 14 kms from Hunsur has been filled after a gap of over…
PG Sports Council clinches MI7s Hockey Cup: Cauvery College, Virajpet emerge runners-up
April 12, 2017Mysore Institute of Commerce and Arts (MICA) hosted its first ever MI7s Hockey tournament at the University Hockey Grounds from Apr.6 to 8. Seventeen teams from Mysuru, Kodagu and Hubballi participated in the three-day tournament which was inaugurated by Dr. P. Krishnaiah, In-charge Director, UoM PE Department and Dr. Pulikeshi Y. Shetteppanavar, Deputy Director, along…
MICA Inter-collegiate Hockey Tournament: Bopanna scores for Cauvery College
April 8, 2017Centre-forward C.M. Bopanna scored a brace for Cauvery College, Virajpet and helped his team enter the semi-finals with a resounding 2-1 win over Cauvery College, Gonikoppal, in the Inter-collegiate Hockey Tournament conducted by MICA at the University Hockey Grounds here yesterday. The Result: Quarter-finals Cauvery College, Virajpet 2 (C.M. Bopanna 5 (FG), 28 (PC) bt…
Missing Virajpet girl found in Bengaluru; reunited with family
April 7, 2017Virajpet – A teenage girl, who had gone missing from Bittangala in Virajpet Taluk on Apr. 3, was found in Bengaluru yesterday. The 17-year-old P.S. Deekshitha, a resident of Bittangala near Virajpet, who went missing along with her father’s Maruti Alto car, was traced at Mallasandra in Bengaluru. She has now been reunited with her…
Bus topples near Virajpet: 43 Kerala students injured
March 5, 2017Forty-three girl students from a Kerala highschool, who had come to Kodagu on a tour, were injured in a road accident at Perumbadi near here yesterday. In all, 68 students had come to Kodagu from Pulil Village of Iritti in Kerala in a Kerala-registered private bus. They were asked to board another bus (KA-12 B-4272)…
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