Archive for October, 2009
Orange Scam hits Coorg
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009MLC M.C.Nanaiah and former MLC A.K.Subbaiah have pointed out that the governor would be updated shortly with the issue of Nagpur variety of Oranges samplings being
distributed in the district. The issue has already snowballed into a controversy cum possible scam.
NGO’s had previously taken up the issue of the Nagpur Orange samplings being distributed in the [...]
Indian Railways & Karnataka Tourism Department in love with Coorg Traditional Attire.
Friday, October 16th, 2009The male waiters of The Golden Chariot to serve the guests in Kuppya and Chele, Coorg Style ?.
What next? Female attendants in Coorg Saree ?
But any Coorg(Kodava) is not going to like this one for sure. The Kuppya and Chele are sacrosanct to the Kodava People..
The Karnataka Tourism Department or the Indian Railways [...]
C B Muthamma passes away
Thursday, October 15th, 2009Chonira Belliappa Muthamma, the First women IFS ( India Foreign Service ) Officer passed away in Bangalore on Wednesday. She was 85.
Born at Virajpet in Coorg on Jan 24, 1929, she was the first women to appear for the Indian Civil services examination in 1948. She joined the Foreign Service in 1949.
She took the [...]
The Forest Dept and Timber Mafia Party busted
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009If we thought the threat to rape Coorg forests is only from the Mafia, we must have been day dreaming. Some of our very own, who are there to protect the forests of Coorg were caught red handed colluding with the Timber Mafia. And they are not some small fish.
The DCF ( Deputy Conservator of [...]
Kodagu BJP goes after NGO’s
Friday, October 9th, 2009Cauvery Sene and few other NGO’s are the receiving end of BJP’s anger, after the sene alleged that bribe had exchanged hands in the Nagpur Variety of Oranges being distrubed in Coorg by the Horticulture Department.
The BJP even threathed Cauvery Sene and Other NGO’s “with severe action” if they do not stop opposing development activities [...]