Category: Records

Karnataka State Law University’s (KSLU) First Convocation : November 2014

Karnataka State Law University (KSLU), Navanagar, Hubballi

Saturday – November 22nd, 2014. Governor and Chancellor of Universities – Vajubhai Vala conferred Honorary Doctorates at KSLU’s First Convocation held at D Veerendra Heggade Kalakshetra at Suttur near Dharwad

The convocation address was delivered by former Attorney General of India and Rajya Sabha member K. Parasaran

Honorary Doctorates were awarded to former Chief Justices of India – Justice S Rajendra Babu and Professor Emeritus Prof. G.V. Ajjappa. Former Chief Justice of India – Justice M. Venkatachalaiah was also awarded Honorary Doctorate in absentia

Degrees were awarded to the First batch of the 5-year B.A, LLB and BBA, LLB and Honours courses. Gold medals were presented to the first rank holders of the LLM courses and PG Diplomas.

Also present at the event were Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T.B. Jayachandra, KSLU Vice-Chancellor T.R. Subramanya, Registrar T.V. Manjunatha and Registrar (Evaluation) B.S.Reddy and others.

First Karnataka Player to Win ‘National B Chess’ Title : 2013

M.S. Thej Kumar , International Master (IM), Mysuru

The only player from Karnataka who has achieved the 3 Grand Master norms . Thej Kumar is the highest ranked player in Karnataka

2013. Triple Grand Master Norm holder and seeded 20th in the tournament, Thej’s 8th move draw with GM Deepan Chakravarthy, gave him his maiden National B Chess Title. Consequently he lifted the coveted Trophy at Bhopan with 10.5 points from 13 rounds

With this win, Thej also qualified for the National A Championships scheduled at Jalgaon, Maharashtra

Awarded the IM title by FIDE in 2009

Thej Kumar a post graduate from Mysore is an employee of South Western Railways, Mysore. The soft spoken Chess Champ lives with his wife M K Jayashree. He also coaches upcoming players at the Mysore Professional Chess Academy

First State University in Karnataka to Launch ‘Global Document Verification System’ : November 2014

Mangalore University, Mangaluru

November 12th, 2014 – Wednesday.   Mangalore University has launched the Global Document Verification System for Certificates and Mark List. Consequently making it the First State University to implement this in Karnataka

Advantages to Students and Global Alumni :

Faster verification, cost effective, transparent and efficient and prevents document frauds

Verification :

www.mangaloreuniversity.directverify.in . To verify any of the documents, the user only needs to upload the said documents to the portal above and make an online payment for processing. Replies will be sent using appropriate security measures

e-Governance :

Paperless verification of degrees/mark sheets online. This e-governance initiative will reduce the use of paper and exchange of couriers. Savings on paper usage, savings on time and savings on courier services.