But for a British writer, the heroics of the Coorg-born Ajjamada Boppayya Devayya, the only Indian Air Force officer to be awarded the Maha Vir Chakra (MVC) posthumously so far, would have remained unsung. It...
By P.T. Bopanna C.V. Shankar, veteran sports coach of Kodagu district, popularly known as ‘Shankar Swamy’, passed away at Madikeri in Coorg, on Thursday. Shankar, aged 85 (in picture above with cricketer Robin...
Coorg-born Kaveri Kalanithi, of Sun TV Networks Ltd., is India’s highest paid corporate executive, surpassing the salary of even the richest Indian Mukesh Ambani. This is the third time in a row that Kaveri...
#CoorgAllGirlsTrip Why should only men have all the fun? These women from Pachat village near Ammathi town in Coorg go on a week’s holiday every year. This time it is Kochi, Alleppy, Tiruvananthapuram, and...
By P.T. Bopanna With the investigators deciding to use DNA test in the sensational Sheena Bora murder case, it is of interest to note that the first major case where DNA test was used...
By P.T. Bopanna Even as the water level in the KRS reservoir supplying drinking water to Bengaluru and Mysuru plunged, Karnataka government has declared Virajpet taluk in Kodagu (Coorg) as drought-hit. Kodagu district which...
The full length video of ‘Discover Coorg – A Video’ can now be downloaded from amazon.com by customers in the United States from the following link: www.amazon.com/dp/B010T13KLU Due to content licensing restrictions, the Amazon...
With the Karnataka forest department failing to tackle the wild elephant menace in Kodagu, the jumbos which have been running amok across the hill district, has not even spared the famous garden of former...
By P.T. Bopanna The dream of former railway minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda to start a train service to Kushalanagar, the home town of his wife Datty in Kodagu, has been derailed by the Siddaramaiah-led...
In what could be considered a matter of pride for Kodagu, Yashoda Somanna Padeyanda has been conferred Ph.D in environmental engineering by the Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea. Yashoda, a first rank-holder...
