Author: Coorg News

By P.T. Bopanna Though Coorg is a BJP fortress, the Modi government has been an unmitigated disaster for Coorg, especially the planters. The steep fall in the price of pepper, triggered reportedly by the...

By P.T. Bopanna If merit is the criterion, then Congress leader Brijesh Kalappa (in picture) is the right candidate to represent the Mysuru-Kodagu seat. Brijesh is a Supreme Court advocate and has been an...

By P.T. Bopanna Coorg-born pilots have been the flavour of the season ever since Wing Commander Abhinandan shot down the Pakistan Air Force’s F-16 last month, proving the point that it is not the...

By P.T. Bopanna Is Kodagu MP Pratap Simha playing fraud on the people by getting approval for the Mysuru-Kushalanagar railway line just to garner votes in the coming Lok Sabha election? There is reason...

By P.T. Bopanna After playing a game of ‘musical chair’ by shuffling top officials of the Kodagu (Coorg) administration, the Karnataka government finally appointed Annies Kanmani Joy (in picture), a qualified nurse-turned IAS officer...

By P.T. Bopanna Even as Kodagu deputy commissioner P.I. Sreevidya has proceeded on two months leave under suspicious circumstances, Karnataka chief secretary T.M. Vijay Bhaskar (in picture) owes an explanation as to how he...

By P.T. Bopanna Has Kodagu Lok Sabha member Pratap Simha done more harm than good to Kodagu (Coorg)? A performance appraisal of Simha in the last four and half years makes it clear that...

By P.T. Bopanna In the wake of the August landslides that devastated vast areas in Kodagu (Coorg), permission should not be granted for massive structures in the district. Work on the new Kodagu district...

By P.T. Bopanna Two extraordinary individuals who went out of their way to face the challenges posed by the unprecedented floods and landslides which struck Karnataka’s Kodagu (Coorg) district this August, have shared the...