WHEN COORG HAD A BEAUTIFUL LADY IAS OFFICER
By P.T. Bopanna Even as D. Roopa, IPS, and Rohini Sindhuri, IAS, are engaged in a catfight on Facebook, I recall with fondness my first day as a journalist which involved interviewing the beautiful...
Category: General News
PAID NEWS: IS DECCAN HERALD INDULGING IN UNETHICAL PRACTICES?
By P.T. Bopanna Being a journalist, I was shocked to go through the Bengaluru-headquartered Deccan Herald newspaper published on February 6. In the guise of news, the paper had published an advertisement on page...
KODAGU (COORG) DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION IS IN ‘ICU’. ‘DOUBLE ENGINE’ IS AN EMPTY SLOGAN
P.T. Bopanna Though Karnataka has a ‘double engine’ government, the Kodagu (Coorg) district administration is in the ICU. This despite the fact that Kodagu is a bastion of the saffron party. For those who...
SHAME ON YOU ZEE KANNADA: CHEAP GIMMICKS TO MALIGN ACTRESS RASHMIKA MANDANNA
By P.T. Bopanna Zee Kannada television channel has stooped low by resorting to cheap gimmicks to target popular Indian actress Rashmika Mandanna who hails from Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka. In one of their...
SHRADDHA STYLE MURDER: WHEN A BENGALURU PROFESSOR CHOPPED BODY OF A PREGNANT COORG WOMAN
By P.T. Bopanna This reporter who used to cover the crime beat for The Times of India in the 1980s, recalls how a Bengaluru court created judicial history in India by accepting DNA fingerprinting...
HUMOUR: WILL COORG EGG ‘MISSILE’ CATAPULT SIDDARAMAIAH TO CM POST AGAIN?
By P.T. Bopanna If Congress leader Siddaramaiah gets elected as chief minister of Karnataka in 2023 Assembly polls, he should be ‘thankful’ to the egg thrown at his car by a miscreant in Kodagu...
HAS BRIJESH KALAPPA COMMITTED POLITICAL HARAKIRI BY RESIGNING FROM CONGRESS?
By P.T. Bopanna Has Brijesh Kalappa (in picture), former Congress spokesperson, committed political harakiri by resigning from the Congress? The recent surprise resignation of Brijesh who has considerable following in the social media, took...
SAFFRON FORTRESS: HAS A.S. PONNANNA RUN OUT OF STEAM TO REGAIN COORG FROM THE BJP?
By P.T. Bopanna Has Congress leader A.S. Ponnanna (in picture) run out of steam in his battle to dislodge the unpopular BJP MLAs in the saffron bastion of Kodagu (Coorg) in Karnataka? Son of...
EXIT FROM CONGRESS: IS BRIJESH KALAPPA AN ‘OPPORTUNIST’?
By P.T. Bopanna Is the decision of the Congress leader Brijesh Kalappa (in picture) to resign from the party an opportunistic move? Having followed his career path, I would say the move is nothing...
POWER SUPPLY: IS ‘CESC’ DEAD IN COORG? A CASE OF MISSING BJP MLAs IN ACTION
By P.T. Bopanna The power supply situation in Kodagu (Coorg) district in Karnataka is pathetic because the Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC) has utterly failed to manage power supply in the district which is...
