In a shot in the arm for the Congress party in Kodagu, its candidate Shantheyanda Veena Achaiah was on Friday elected to the Karnataka Legislative Council. Veena Achaiah, 55, was reportedly hand-picked by Congress...
To give representation to Kodavas and to check the growing clout of the BJP in Kodagu, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has hand-picked Shantheyanda Veena Achaiah as an MLC candidate. Though Veena’s name was not...
M. A. Ganapathy, IPS, will take over as the new DGP of Uttarakhand from May 1. Manepanda Appaiah Ganapathy, an officer of the 1986 batch, was earlier on the personal staff of Union Home...
Coorg’s first news and tourism portal has a brand new look. www.CoorgTourismInfo.Com has been redesigned to make it user-friendly and tourist-centric in keeping with the fact that Coorg has emerged as the top tourist...
By P.T. Bopanna The ‘Daty Express’ between Mysuru and Kushalanagar is going to be a reality as the project has been earmarked Rs 677 core in the railway budget announced on Thursday. This is...
Indian author P.T. Bopanna’s book ‘The Romance of Indian Coffee’ has been shortlisted for the finals of the ‘Best in the World’ Gourmand International Award. According to an e-mail received recently by the...
Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah is partly to be blamed for the incidents which erupted in the tranquil town of Madikeri in Kodagu (Coorg) district on Tuesday over the Congress government’s decision to celebrate for...
By P.T. Bopanna Why November 1 is a black day for Coorg? Prior to November 1, 1956, when the erstwhile Coorg State merged with Karnataka, Coorg (Kodagu) had its own Lok Sabha seat. Subsequent...
Audi-A6, costing Rs 1.3 crore is going to be the most talked about subject at Friday’s wedding of Karthik Gowda, son of Union minister Sadananda Gowda in Coorg. The system of dowry is almost...
By P.T. Bopanna Is the Kodagu MP Prathap Simha missing in action even as the people of Kodagu are on the verge of losing their privilege to own guns without license? The silence...
