MANEPANDA GANAPATHY, IPS, APPOINTED DGP UTTARAKHAND
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...
Category: Features/Newsmakers
YOGA GURU YAMINI MUTHANNA TO CONDUCT YOGA CLASSES ON TATASKY
By P.T. Bopanna One of India’s leading exponents and teacher of Bharathanatyam and Hatha yoga, Yamini Muthanna, has been roped in by Tatasky TV channel to conduct daily yoga lessons. Yamini said she has...
ATHLETE M.R.POOVAMMA IS ‘COORG PERSON OF THE YEAR, 2015’
Kodagu-born M.R. Poovamma, winner of the 2015 Arjuna award for her contributions in the field of athletics, is the ‘Coorg Person of the Year, 2015”. Machettira Raju Poovamma, aged 25, won the gold medal...
AUTHOR P.T.BOPANNA SELECTED FOR GOURMAND INTERNATIONAL AWARD
Indian writer P.T. Bopanna (in picture) has been selected for the Gourmand International Award for his book ‘The Romance of Indian Coffee’. An e-mail received by the author from the President of the Gourmand...
COORG-BORN RAJ CHENGAPPA IS PRESIDENT OF THE EDITORS GUILD OF INDIA
Raj Chengappa, Group Editorial Director of India Today, was on Saturday elected President of the Editors Guild of India. Hailing from the Baddana Kodagu Gowda family, Chengappa started his journalistic career in a Bengaluru...
1965 INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR: HERO FROM COORG EMERGES FROM A BOOK
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...
COORG-BORN KAVERI KALANITHI IS INDIA’S HIGHEST PAID CORPORATE
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...
LOVELY LADIES OF PACHAT VILLAGE IN COORG
#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...
#YASHODA SOMANNA PADEYANDA CONFERRED PH.D BY KOREAN UNIVERSITY
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...
Dayana Erappa Style Advice For Men
In her latest interview to GQ India, India’s leading style & fashion magazine, Coorg-born supermodel Dayana Erappa, talks about what men should know about style. “A classic, well-fitted black suit is my favourite...
