The first ‘Namma Metro-Kannadiga of the Year’ award instituted by the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited was conferred on noted Kannada novelist Kumbara Veerabhadrappa.
Category: Leaders
** Chandrakanth Bellad elected KVS president
Shankar Halagatti is sangha general secretary
The former MLA and former Chairman of Border Area Development Authority Chandrakanth Bellad was on Monday elected president of the more-than-a-century-old Karnatak Vidyavardhak Sangha. He defeated his nearest rival by a margin of 1,650 votes.
** Mangaluru: Nandagopal Shenoy elected president of World Konkani Centre
The newly elected board of trustees of Konkani Bhas Ani Sanskriti Prathistan popularly known as World Konkani Centre, took charge at the meeting of board of trustees which was held immediately after the annual general meeting of Konkani Bhas Ani Sanskriti Prathistan held on Thursday November 25 at World Konkani Centre here.
Eminent chartered accountant and philanthropist Nandagopal Shenoy has been elected unanimously as the president for the term of 2021-2024.
** Bharat Biotech founder Krishnamurty Ella gets honorary doctorate
Ella’s firm is conducting research on two more vaccines against Covid-19
** Andaru Deviprasad Shetty elected president of Udupi CCI
Andaru Deviprasad Shetty was unanimously elected as the president of Udupi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI).
Deviprasad was elected as president and the new office bearers to the chamber were also elected during the meeting, held on Saturday November 20.
Subhas Kamath, Ln Jayakar Shetty Indrali, Muralidhar Baliga, Ln V G Shetty, Chitharanjan Bhat, Walter Saldanha, Shubhashit Kumar and Chandrakanth were elected the directors of Udupi CCI.
** CM confers Ramanashri Sharana Literary Awards
Dr Gururaja Karajagi was conferred the Ramanashri Lifetime Achievement Award while Dr Shantha Imrapoor, Dr Pradeep Kumar Hebri, Dr Nanda Patil, Dr Bhagyamma G Smitarao Bellur, Swami Vivekananda Integrated Rural Health Centre and Pantanjali Yoga Education Committee were other recipients of the Ramanashri Sharana Awards.
** Bengaluru: Sr Maria Nirmalini A C elected as national president of CRI
Sr Maria Nirmalini A C was elected as the national president of the Conference of Religious, India (CRI). Earlier, Sr Nirmalini was elected the president of the Women’s Section of the CRI.
** Mangaluru’s Ananya Singh, Nahush Sharan bring laurels to city in top beauty pageant
Two youngsters from Mangaluru have made the city proud in a beauty pageant.
Ananya Singh emerged the winner of Global Miss International India Universe 2021, while Nahush Sharan bagged the second runner-up spot in Global Mr International India Universe 2021. The pageant was held in New Delhi on November 11.
Ananya Singh is the daughter of Rajpal Singh and Pramila Belthangadi Sheshagiri born in Mangaluru. She was brought up in Dehradun. She did her graduation from Delhi University, and at present pursuing her masters at School of Social work Roshini Nilaya.
Nahush Sharan hails from Marnamikatte. He is pursing BBA in Jain University through correspondence. Nahush is son of Dilip Kumar and Sanjana N M.
** Karnataka Ratna for Puneeth: Chief Minister
** Basava Yoga Mantapa seer passes away
Sri Sangana Basava Swami, head of Basava Yoga Mantapa of Balobal mutt near Gokak in Belagavi district of Karnataka, died of a heart attack on November 6.
We are monks and our focus is philosophy. We left home at a young age to spread Basavanna’s ideology. We don’t know anything about administration. But after coming here, we were thrust with administrative responsibilities.