Category: General News

By P.T. Bopanna Will the renewed demand for Gorkhaland in West Bengal have its echo in Kodagu (Coorg) district of Karnataka? Though the demand for a separate Coorg State is unlikely to pick up...

By P.T. Bopanna The Congress-led Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka which had rejected the Kasturirangan report apparently to mobilise funds from the timber lobby for Assembly polls, has been cornered by the Modi government at...

By P.T. Bopanna Probably for the first time, gentlemen planters and their lovely ladies, participated in a protest march in Kodagu (Coorg). Normally, the hurly-burly of protest politics is not their cup of tea,...

By P.T. Bopanna Apparently bowing to pressure from the Kerala timber lobby, the Congress government in Karnataka headed by chief minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday decided to reject the Kasturirangan report on preserving the Western...

By P.T. Bopanna  The ongoing agitation by tribals at Diddalli in Kodagu (Coorg) took a new turn on Friday with Gujarat-based social activist Jignesh Mevani (in picture) joining the agitation. Mevani, who has led...

By P.T. Bopanna It looks like Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah has played a joke on the people of Kodagu (Coorg) by announcing in his budget to develop an airstrip at Madikeri.  In the first...

  By P.T. Bopanna The politicians of Kodagu (Coorg) who were vocal during the agitation against the Kasturirangan report, have deserted the people when the district is facing its worst drought. The politicians had...

The popular homestays website www.coorghomestays.co.in, has been redesigned to make it more responsive and user-friendly for tourists visiting Coorg, the homestay capital of India.  The website, started in 2010, is one of the five...

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...