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NILGIRIS: A gaur was spotted roaming with injuries, as a sharp object could have stuck on its right leg, at Karumpalam-Sogathurai road near Coonoor in the district. Nilgiris forest department staff are taking steps to treat the animal, which is roaming with a herd. Coonoor forest range officer N Ravindranath has formed a ten-member team to trace the animal, and …

Snaking its way up the steep Coonoor slopes, the engineering marvel that is the more than 125-year-old Nilgiri Mountain Railway line has become one of the primary drivers of tourism in the picturesque hill district of Udhagamandalam. One of the oldest mountain railway lines in India and among the three mountain railways that still run in the country, the 46.6-kilometre …

The Indian Air Force MI-17V5 helicopter crash on December 8, Wednesday afternoon, in the Coonoor ghat area of the Nilgiris that claimed the lives of the Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 other Army personnel is the second worst aviation accident in the district. Seven decades earlier, on December 13, 1950, in another …

Coonoor

"After Pongal,” said tea friends in Coonoor, when I asked if the frost teas were ready. Rajesh Thomas, the deputy general manager of this storied estate, paints a pretty picture of tea fields on freezing winter mornings, covered in a layer of ice, “giving the appearance of having snowed”. Both Gopal Krishnan and Thomas say the green tea leaves are …

Coonoor Heritage Gallery showcasing the history and development of Coonoor opened

History begins with a road in the planters’ town of Coonoor in the Nilgiris. “The need for a proper road arose when Udhagamandalam gained popularity as a military sanatorium and a summer retreat, and that is when Coonoor came into existence in 1833,” says Dr PJ Vasanthan, trustee of the NGO, Clean Coonoor. “Coonoor was just a stopover,” says K …