Month: April 2021
** Winning bells: Bengaluru’s short play festival announces prizes
The ‘best actor’ award was bagged by Viveka for the play Sikdaurga Seerunde, while Vedika won the ‘best actor–female’ for Hannondane Deepavali, staged by ShuddiRanga group. According to Hanu Ramasanjeeva, artistic director of the Bengaluru Short Play Festival, the event aimed to bring new writers to the limelight. “The objective was to bring new writers and new stories. Usually, we find very similar plots and run-of-mill storylines. This event definitely gave scope to the new writers I believe.”
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** RDPR University’s first convocation on April 10
Karnataka State Rural Development and Panchayat Raj University, which was established in Gadag with an objective of realising the vision of Mahatma Gandhi’s Gram Swaraj, is all set to hold its first convocation on April 10.
** 40-year-old clocks 1 lakh km on cycle in seven years
40-year-old jeweller-turned-builder Anil Shet completed this feat on Saturday when he rode along with fellow cyclists to Tannirbhavi from Mangaluru and back
** Patient’s tongue reconstructed using stomach flap
To stop the spread of cancer, doctors at Trustwell Hospital in the city recently performed a radical surgery that involved removal of three-fourth of the tongue and lymph nodes from both sides of the neck.
Satish C., Consultant Surgical Oncologist
** Kodagu girl wins the UN H2021 Water Summit storytelling competition
During the lockdown situation, when the world took the virtual path, Yashmi was introduced to the UN Ocean Decade Summit and she took part in the virtual programs conducted by the initiative.
“The earth is already in a bad state and it will be inherited by us tomorrow. We want to breathe the same pristine air that our grandparents breathed,” shared Manavattira Yashmi Dechamma, a ninth-grade student who has been selected for the UN Ocean Decade Summit to be hosted in Hawaii soon.