HOUSEWIFE MURDERED AT KUSHALNAGAR;

Robbers at Kushalnagar, who made away with jewelry and other items, strangled a housewife to death.

Parvatamma, 58, who was alone at her house at Adi Shankara extension at Kushalnagar was strangled to death by robbers who removed jewelry from her body, lifted VCR and other electronic equipments.

The murder took place yesterday during daytime as her husband Mr.Subba Rao had been to a coffee curing works where he is working.

SP Mr.Devjyothi Ray visited the spot. Dog squad smelling the spot lead police upto KSRTC bustand and returned.

200 YEAR OLD PAINTING TRACED;

A team renovating the old palace at Nalknad bumped against paintings done atleast 200 years ago.

The Intech team from Bangalore, which is giving new shape to the dilapidating Palace of Kodagu Kings at a cost of rupees 22 lakhs discovered paintings inside the walls, dating back to 1793. The artists from Intech group, discovered the old paintings inside the rooms of the palace after scrapping the wall in search of them.

According to the contractors, it’s a great task to preserve the paintings as it involves atleast twenty lakhs. It is yet to decide what has to be done with the wall paintings. The Nalaknad palace is being renovated at the behest of tourism department.

NANAIAH URGES ACADEMY TO CONDUCT HOCKEY FESTIVAL;

Former minister Mr.M.C.Nanaiah has urged the Kodagu Hockey Academy to conduct family hockey festival each year.

Talking to this correspondent in the hockey grounds at Madikeri, he said that hockey should be conducted in a particular place each year to avoid wastage on preparing the ground.

He said that all families in Kodagu will not be able to rise 20 – 25 lakhs each year to conduct the family Hockey tournament and academy can come to their rescue on such occasions. He opined that most of the money is spent on preparing the grounds. Grounds are prepared each year in different parts of Kodagu by different families and they get neglected after one event. Stating that this wastage could be avoided by holding hockey in only one or two grounds, Mr.Nanaiah said that Madikeri and Ammathi are most suited for this.

He opined that extra fund raised during this event could be utilized to build an Astro Turf.

HORSE TRADE OR HORSE RIDE?

The attached picture depicts Mr.M.C.Nanaiah raiding a horse! Sure, the matured politician is not into horse-trading! He is only riding the horse for fun at Biddanda Cup Hockey grounds, Madikeri.