Veerappan

The bilingual movie Attahasa, biopic on the life of slain forest brigand Veerappan, will be telecasted in Suvarna channel on June 23. It is the first television premiere for the film, which has Kishore, Arjun Janya and Ravi Kale in the lead roles.

According to data provided by the state forest department under an RTI application, at least 107 elephants have been found dead in this sanctuary, recently declared a tiger reserve, in four years between 2008 and 2012. No, poachers are not to be blamed for ...

Acting on a tip-off, the CID Forest Cell on Wednesday arrested an alleged Veerapan's aide Venkataraman (58) from Venkataiahna Chatra and seized an elephant tusk measuring three kilo. A case has been registered at Chamarajanagar police station. The ...

Determined to get back at the Maoists, the Centre has decided to recall the Jharkhand governor’s adviser K Vijay Kumar to the home ministry to give anti-Maoist operations by central police forces a hard push. A retired IPS officer, Kumar — who led the ...

He was last seen playing Veerappan on the big screen. While Kishore has always played either the baddie or a tough cop before, he will now play the typical romantic hero in actor-director Rakshit Shetty's Ulidavaru Kandante. The film, set in Udupi, ...

Black granite in Chamarajanagar and Veerappan links are in the news again, with a politician in Kollegal accused of grabbing 17 acres land allegedly belonging to dalits in Ponnachi village. Further, a senior revenue official, A B Basavaraj, has been ...

He gained fame as the man who predicted Kannada cine icon Rajkumar's kidnap by sandalwood smuggler Veerappan, much before it actually happened. The Arkesh report identified a clear threat from Veerappan to Rajkumar, H Nagappa (both of whom were ...

He was asked to appeal to the President of India against the death penalty given to the four. Thiruvananthapuram: A Tamil Nadu-based people's movement has urged Cardinal Mar Baselios Cleemis to intervene in the case of four Veerappan aides, who are ...

AIADMK leader and Chief Minister J Jayalalitha on Monday slammed the PMK and its social base, the OBC-based Vanniyar Sangam, for projecting the slain forest brigand Veerappan, a Vanniyar, as an youth icon at the Vanniyar Youth Cultural Festival at ...