http://coorg.com/blog Coorg, Karnataka, India. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:50:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://coorg.com/blog/15-clans-from-chickpetvirajpet-to-clash-in-rink-hockey-tournament-at-bangalore/ 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 ... http://coorg.com/blog/major-madhusudan-b-s-lance-nayak-k-b-lava-awarded-the-sena-medal/ 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. http://coorg.com/blog/iychettira-clan-to-host-the-16th-edition-of-kodava-hockey-festival/ 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 ... http://coorg.com/blog/govt-decides-to-convert-general-thimayyas-home-into-a-musuem/ 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. http://coorg.com/blog/cm-sadananda-gowda-to-visit-coorg-on-jan-2-to-unveil-guddemane-appaya-gowdas-statue/ 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 ... http://coorg.com/blog/new-bus-depot-at-kushalnagar-virajpet-appachu-bats-for-separate-madikeri-division/ 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. http://coorg.com/blog/3-kids-arrested-for-defiling-field-marshals-statue/ 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 ... http://coorg.com/blog/supreme-court-grants-bail-to-2g-scam-accused-corporates/ 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 ... http://coorg.com/blog/cmc-plans-to-increase-water-tax-to-rs-90-opposition-against-it/ 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 ... http://coorg.com/blog/high-court-animals-should-live-in-their-natural-habitat-and-it-is-up-to-humans-to-adjust/