By P.T. Bopanna Is the Kodagu district administration in Karnataka riding roughshod over planters, particularly ex-servicemen, to evict them from their land to make way for rehabilitating the Diddahalli tribals? The Virajpet tashildar Mahadevaswamy...
Renowned Indian cartoonist Nala Ponnappa, known for his offbeat tongue-in-cheek humour, is the ‘Coorg Person of the Year, 2016’. Ponnappa, whose cartoons appear in The Times of India, Bengaluru edition, was selected ‘Coorg Person...
By P.T. Bopanna By staying the ethnographic and socio-economic survey of Kodavas under way in Kodagu, Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah has given the impression that he is dancing to the tune of maverick politician...
By P.T. Bopanna The Modi government’s demonetization has come as a blessing in disguise for Kodagu, though it has caused a lot of distress to the people. The only silver lining is the...
By P.T. Bopanna The Siddaramaiah-led Congress government in Karnataka has clamped prohibitory orders in Kodagu district for celebrating at gun point the birth anniversary of 18th century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan on November...
To appease the Muslims, the Congress government in Karnataka led by chief minister Siddaramaiah has decided to make the controversial Tipu Sultan Jayanthi an annual affair and celebrate the event across the state,...
By P.T. Bopanna Is there a hidden hand working behind-the-scenes to dilute the case involving the alleged suicide by Dy SP M.K. Ganapathi? The people of Coorg who came on to the streets to...
By P.T. Bopanna Chief Minister Siddaramaiah re-inducted K.J. George into his ministry on Monday even before the latter was given a ‘clean chit’ by the court in the case involving the alleged suicide of...
The Modi-led BJP government at the Centre is all set to implement the Mysore-Kushalanagar-Madikeri railway line which could spell an ecological disaster in the Cauvery basin. Though the project was found to be economically...
By P.T. Bopanna As suspected in the Dy SP M.K. Ganapathi suicide case, the Karnataka police have given a clean chit to former minister K.J. George and two other IPS officers in their investigation...
