Author: Coorg News

By P.T. Bopanna The decision of the Kumaraswamy government to reject the Kasturirangan committee on Western Ghats amounts to rubbing salt in the wound of the people of Kodagu who are yet to recover...

By P.T. Bopanna This is the first person account of a lady planter living alone who survived the killer landslides that hit Coorg recently. Muddura Vani Belliappa (aged 66), abandoned her house (in picture)...

By Manjula Devaiah Manjula (in picture) is a legal expert and corporate compliance manager with a US multi-national company.   Chief minister H.D. Kumarasway who visited Kodagu in July following the telecast of a...

By P.T. Bopanna With over 20,000 members/followers on Facebook, quite often I am told that I should avoid skin-shows. More so whenever I feature Coorg-born supermodel Dayana Erappa (in picture) in bikini. I thought...

By P.T. Bopanna Taking advantage of an order passed by Kodagu deputy commissioner P.I. Sreevidya, to prune dangerous trees in the route to be taken by chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy during his Kodagu visit,...

By P.T. Bopanna Close on the heels of a viral video in which a Kodagu (Coorg) teenager faulted chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy for his partisan budget neglecting Kodagu district, the chief minister is paying...

By P.T. Bopanna While welcoming Kodagu Lok Sabha member Pratap Simha’s meeting with chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy against permitting the Thaassery-Mysuru rail line, Simha’s silence on the Mysuru-Kushalanagar-Madikeri line is worrisome. When people of...

By P.T. Bopanna The step-motherly treatment meted out to Kodagu (Coorg) in the Karnataka budget presented by chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy (in picture), has led to the demand for separate statehood for Kodagu.  Kumaraswamy’s...

 By P.T. Bopanna Is the scam-tainted Congress general secretary in-charge of Karnataka K.C. Venugopal (in picture) who hails from Kerala, is behind the move to push for Thalassery-Mysuru railway line through Coorg? Venugopal, who...