The Kalakar Puraskar of the Carvalho Ghoranne (family) and Mandd Sobhann, will be conferred on famous singer and Sony TV Indian Idol reality show finalist, Nihal Hanson Tauro, Alangar.
The award will be presented by cine lyricist and Kannada litterateur Jayant Kaikini at the awarding ceremony, to be held in Kalangann on Sunday November 7 at 6.00 pm. He will be honoured with a cash prize of Rs 25,000, a memento, shawl, floral bouquet, fruits and a felicitation certificate.
This year’s awardees are Dr Anuradha M Annaswamy, a senior research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Professor Sajal K Das of Missouri University of Science and Technology, Professor T Pradeep of IIT Madras, Professor C S Raghavendra of the University of Southern California and Dr Ritu Shrivastava, a former vice president of Technology Development at SanDisk Corporation.
The state government on Monday announced the results of the supplementary examinations and Greeshma Nayak from Koratagere, who was studying at Alvas English Medium School in Moodbidri, Dakshina Kannada, has secured 599 marks out of 625.
The Institute of Gastroenterology and Organ Transplant (IGOT), which opened on the Victoria Hospital campus on Sunday, is India’s second government facility dedicated to the treatment of the disorders of the stomach and intestines.
Delhi’s Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), run by that state government, was the only state-run gastroenterology facility in the country
Vidyun R Hebbar.
A fifth grader from the city who snapped the picture of a web-weaving spider against a splash of colours has won the international ‘Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year’ award.
ndian youth will soon be skilled to capitalise on developments in the drone industry. The Aerospace and Aviation Sector Skill Council (AASSC) apex body set-up under the Government-led initiative of “Skill India” to train the Indian workforce has signed an MoU with a Bengaluru-based Drone Learning and Research Company.
“With Drones being one of the fastest growing industries in India , AASSC and we have jointly developed a Drone professional certificate course for our youth to get them ready for future jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities,” said Capt Gaurav Nath, Founder & CEO, ClearSkies Aviation OPC Pvt Ltd, a Drone Learning & Research Company founded by Industry leaders and academician focused on Unmanned Aviation sector.
Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) felicitated Sub Kashinath Naik- an Ekalavya Awardee and 2010 Commonwealth games medallist who has also trained the Olympian medallist Neeraj Chopra.
Noted Yakshagana ‘bhagavatha’ (singer-cum-director) Padyana Ganapathi Bhat passed away on October 12. He was 66, and is survived by his wife and two sons. Mr. Bhat resided at Kalmadkka, Sullia taluk in Dakshina Kannada. He breathed his last at his residence around 7 a.m., sources said.
Through his articles in periodicals, Jnanpith award winner late Kota Shivaram Karanth espoused values required for children and youth to succeed in life, said Managing Editor of Kannada weekly magazine, Taranga, Sandhya Pai here on Sunday.
Speaking after receiving the Shivaram Karanth Award on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the late writer, Ms. Pai said that Taranga was the only Kannada magazine in which the legendary writer answered simple queries of children on science.
With the threat of Yellow Leaf Disease spreading to vast tracts of arecanut plantations looming large, farmers in the State’s coastal belt have now begun commercial cultivation of bamboo in a small way.
The Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, which has taken the lead, has distributed 10,000 tissue cultured plants of bamboo from Bhatkal to Kasaragod (Kerala) in the last one year, according to sangh director and convener M.G. Sathyanarayana. Except a farmer who has cultivated them as an orchard, a majority of them have taken it up as border cultivation.