Mangaluru :  After a week of flood affect in Coorge the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) Putturu has commenced services by mini buses between Madikeri in Kodagu district and Sullia in Dakshina Kannada district on an alternative route From Thursday. The Corporation has decided to operate the services through Panathur-Karike and Bhagamandala (91 km). Puttur […]

Mangaluru : The Public Works Department (PWD) has commenced restoration work of the Sampaje Ghat from both the ends, Madikeri and Sampaje. A major portion of the 30-km Ghat stretch of National Highway 275 (Mani-Mysuru-Bengaluru) was damaged owing to landslips during the torrential rains from August 13 completely severing connectivity between Mysuru and the coast. […]

Madikeri: Fresh rain lashed new challenges to the flood Kodagu district. The rescue operations continued helping people in distress and saved around 90 people from two places in Mukkodlu and Makkanduru villages on Sunday. They had been stranded since Thursday. At least four persons were rescued from Jodupala and shifted to Madenadu. The National Disaster […]

Sullia: Due to heavy rains, a landslide has cut-off traffic movement along the Mangaluru-Madikeri state highway since Monday morning, August 13th. Alternate arrangements have been made for traffic passage after soil from a hilly area in between Talattamane and Madikeri caved in. However, landslide was reported even on the alternate route near Madenadu since Sunday […]

Madikeri: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy advised the authorities to understand the local issues minutely and work genuinely to over come them. He was talking on July 20, at the meeting called for reviewing the damages caused in the district because of substantial rains at the DC’s Office here. “Every district has its own problems. […]

Mysuru: Following incessant rains, cracks have developed on on Madikeri-Mangaluru Road at about 500 meters from the General Thimmaiah Statue and there is a danger of the land caving in. The cracks have compelling the Kodagu District Administration to ban the movement of trucks along the road from July 13th. However, buses have been allowed […]

Madikeri: District In-charge Minister M R Seetharam inaugurated the Indira canteen at Race Course Road in Madikeri on Thursday. Minister Seetharam, MLC Veena Acchaiah, CMC president Kaveramma Somanna and others tasted the food at the canteen on the first day. The menu consisted of idly, pulao and kesari baath. The canteen evoked a good response […]

Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada district police arrested a person after 24 years on Tuesday, who was accused in molestation case registered in Puttur Town police station in 1993. The arrested has been identified as Anand, aged about 50 and resident of Madikeri. Police said accused who was working at a hotel in Puttur in 1993, tried to […]

Madikeri: Former Rajya Sabha member Faiz Mohammed Khan (85) died due to age related illness in a private hospital at Madikeri on Thursday. It is reported that his final rituals will be held at Rasulpur on Friday. He survived by his wife and three children. He got name and fame during 1960s anti-Hindi agitation, which […]

Mangaluru : Deputy Commissioner A.B. Ibrahim said here on Saturday that steps were being taken against the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) for holding a protest meeting without permission in Bantwal on Thursday. It later led to tension as stones were thrown at the protestors. He told reporters that the SDPI activists had informed […]