Thanks 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)…
Teenager killed in road mishap
February 26, 2017In a tragic road mishap a teenage student was killed when the motorcycle he was riding collided head on with a car at Ambatti in the taluk yesterday. The deceased has been identified as Akash (16), son of TV 1 reporter Ravikumar and a resident of Jain Street in Virajpet town. Akash, a first PU…
Advantage Karnataka
February 14, 2017The new airport is just 90 minutes drive from Virajpet and the connecting road is being upgraded. Kerala Government has already proposed a rail link from Mysuru to Thalassery via Kodagu and a green signal has been obtained to commence the survey work. Roads connecting Mysuru-Virajpet-Kannur and Hassan-Virajpet-Mattanur are being widened. It is proposed to…
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