The Latest Breaking News from Chikkamagaluru

Heavy rains in Malnad region cause flooding, landslides, tree uprooting, bridge submerging. Minister K.J. George inspects rain-hit areas, assures sufficient funds for restoration. Average of 55mm rainfall in 24hrs, highest of 216mm at Agumbe. Rivers Tunga, Bhadra, Hemavati in spate, water level in reservoirs rising.

Forest department officials rescued a female leopard trapped in a snare near Chikkamagaluru. The department promised action against those who placed the snares.

Hundreds of arecanut growers in the Malnad region, badly hit by the leaf-spot disease, are worried that their problem might intensify with the onset of the monsoon, expected in a few days. As scientists have not come up with a medicine to stop the spread of the disease, the growers…

Jademma from Ballari recently visited religious hill stations like Bababudangiri, Mullayanagiri, Sitalayyanagiri in Chikkamagaluru district along with her family. What she took away from it was not just good memories. Faced with the issue of absence of public toilets despite lakhs of visitors, she wrote an emotional letter to President…

A woman plantation worker suffered injuries in a tiger attack at Pandaravalli near Chikkamagaluru on Tuesday. Maikan Mess, 35, a native of Assam, was working in a coffee estate when she encountered the tiger.

A programme to felicitate newly elected MLA G. H. Srinivas ended with a murder in Tarikere of Chikkamagaluru late on June 3. Following a heated argument over playing a song on the sound system, a 28-year-old was stabbed to death. 

Naresh, a snake-catcher of Chikkamagaluru, died after he was bitten by a cobra that he had caught, on Tuesday.

The body of a girl, who drowned in the Bhadra canal near Lakkavalli in Tarikere taluk of Chikkamagaluru district on Sunday evening, was traced on Tuesday afternoon. Shamaveni’s body was found near Nayisatta Halla, about five kilometres from the place where she had drowned along with two relatives.

Chikkamagaluru Deputy Commissioner K.N. Ramesh, on Tuesday, handed over the letter granting compensation of ₹5 lakh to the family of Venugopal, 60, who died after a tree fell on him during heavy rains on May 21.