Coorg Wire

15 Clans from Chickpet(Virajpet) to clash in Rink Hockey Tournament at Bangalore

Staff Reporter — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:50:13 +0000

15 Clans from Chicket, Virajpet have come together to organise 5-a-side (Rink Hockey) Tournament in Bangalore. The matches will be played from Jan 24 to 26 at the KSHA Stadium in Richmond Town. Speaking to Bangalore Mirror, K D Ganapathy said;

We are a team of 30 members from 15 different families of Chickpet in Virajpet. We call ourselves the Coorg Challengers Chickpet Association (CCCA). The families’ motive is to revive interest in hockey among Bangaloreans and donate the profit from these tournaments to orphanages and blind schools. Today, we are what we are because of hockey and we want to give back to the sport by instilling that spirit in as many youngsters as we can.

Further adding that;

Last year, 24 teams participated and the profits were handed over to Thejaswi Seva Trust in Kumaraswamy Layout and Field Marshal Cariappa Hockey Trust in Virajpet to nurture potential hockey-players.

Major Madhusudan B S & Lance Nayak K B Lava awarded the Sena Medal

Staff Reporter — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:10:10 +0000

In the recently concluded Army’s investiture ceremony on the occasion of Army Day, at Bangalore, Major Madhusudan B S and Lance Nayak K B Lava were awarded the gallantry award – Sena Medal. Both the Army men are from Coorg. TOI is reporting;

Among the awardees were four from Karnataka and both the gallantry award winners were from Kodagu. Major Madhusudhan BS won a medal for leading his team to ambush a militant group in Manipur in April.

Lance Nayak KB Lava bagged the Sena Medal for gallantry for shooting down an insurgent at close quarters in Assam, 2010. Lava was part of a team involved in a search operation. As the team was proceeding, an insurgent jumped out of a house to attack them. Lava, however, shot him before he could pull the trigger.

Apart from these two, Major General Mohan Prahlad Rao Muttagikar (retd) and Brigadier Mangal Murthi Prasad were presented with Vishisht Seva Medal.

Iychettira Clan to host the 16th Edition of Kodava Hockey Festival

Staff Reporter — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:24:57 +0000

The festival will be inaugurated on April 21 and will be ending on may 13. Speaking to the Press in Madikeri, The president of the Tournament Committee Mr.I.K.Anil said the main aim of the tournament is to promote the sport of hockey and celebrate fellowship, culture and sport.

Govt decides to convert General Thimayya’s home into a musuem

Staff Reporter — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:12:25 +0000

This time the Kannada & Culture Department has decided to take over the house and convert it into a musuem. They have also given the RTO 3 Months time to vacate the premises. It will be interesting to see how far this one goes.

The project has been jinxed since long. Decided in 2005, and though 1 crore was sanctioned for the project, nor was the amount released or did the RTO move out.

In 2010, frustrated with Govt’s attitude, The Convener of the ‘General K.S.Thimmaiah Memorial Project’, Major (Rtd.) Nanjappa resigned after his repeated pleas to release the amount and request the RTO to shift, fell to deaf ears.

CM Sadananda Gowda to visit Coorg on Jan 2 to unveil Guddemane Appaya Gowda’s statue

Staff Reporter — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:06:54 +0000

Preparations are on full swing to greet CM Sadananda Gowda who will visit Coorg on Jan 2 to unveil the statue of freedom fighter Guddemane Appayya Gowda.

Virajpet MLA & Assembly speaker K G Bopaiah inspected the works on friday to make sure all the arrangements are in place to receive the CM.

New Bus Depot at Kushalnagar & Virajpet. Appachu bats for separate Madikeri Division

Staff Reporter — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 04:35:44 +0000

Virajpet MLA & Assembly Speaker K.G.Bopaiah informed that Karnataka State Transport Corporation has agreed for a new bus depot for Kushalnagar . While the Kushalnagar depot may see the light of the day soon, the earlier sanctioned depot at Virajpet will have a to wait due to a land dispute.

Madikeri MLA Appachu Ranjan has demanded a separate division for Madikeri and a proposal for the same is with the state government. Madikeri is currently served by Puttur division.

3 Kids arrested for defiling Field Marshal’s statue

Staff Reporter — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:34:34 +0000

The police yesterday arrested 3 youngsters for defiling Field Marshal Cariappa’s statue on November 15. The police state that the youngsters were drunk and high on drugs while they did the act and the youngsters have said that they did it just as a mischief.

Supreme Court Grants bail to 2G Scam accused Corporates

Staff Reporter — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:19:10 +0000

The Supreme Court today granted bail to the five company executives charged in the 2G Scam. Sanjay Chandra(Unitech), Vinod Goenka(DB Realty), Guatam Doshi(Reliance), Surendra Pipara(Reliance) Hari Nair(Reliance) were granted conditional bail by the court. All were charged with criminal conspiracty, cheating, etc. All the accused have been asked to furnish a bail bond of Rs 5,00,000 and 2 sureties each.

Noticing the move by Supreme Court A.Raja’s lawyer said that if five can get bail, then all the 14 accused should also be entitled to bail.

Share price of Unitech Wirless, Reliance Communications & DB Realty shot up after the news.

CMC plans to increase water tax to Rs 90. Opposition against it

Staff Reporter — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:48:58 +0000

The Madikeri CMC meeting yesterday saw opposition up in arms against the CMC’s move to increase the water tax from Rs. 45 to Rs.90. The opposition charged the move as burdening the common man with more when the CMC was not even capable of providing regular water supply in most of the areas.

Madikeri is facing acute water shortage now and then. The CMC is banking on the Kunda Maistry Reservoir Project to be completed, to tide over the water crisis in future.

Stating that they are increasing the water tax after a decades, CMC president Nandakumar said ” the people can afford the hike”.

High Court: Animals should live in their natural habitat and it is up to humans to adjust

Tony Chengappa — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:22:47 +0000

The State Govt plan to mitigate the man-elephant by trans-locating the elephants from Coorg & Hassan to the forests near Bangalore has been turned down by the High Court. The high court said;

“Animals should live in their natural habitat and it is up to humans to adjust. ”

The Govt has been instructed to seek advise from experts in India & Africa before they plan for such an exercise.

The past decade has seen a drastic rise in man-elephant conflict in Hassan & Coorg. Elephants entering farms and plantations has been a common sight in many parts of Coorg. Encroachment by humans of reserve forest, pysari land and revenue forest near their villages, which the elephants had been foraging for long, has only escalated the conflict.

According to the last census 260 elephants were counted in Virajpet circle and 245 in Madikeri. Nagarhole National Park had a maximum of 792 elephants and a minimum of 443 elephants with a mean population of 617 elephants.