The prestigious ‘PaGo’ award for the year 2020 was conferred on journalist Pradesh H Marody, reporter/sub-editor at Prajavani in rural reporting here at Press Club on Tuesday March 30.
The award has been instituted in memory of P Gopalakrishna by PaGo Memorial Trust and is presented annually by the Dakshina Kannada Working Journalists’ Union (DKWJU).
The award was presented for his article ‘Kelutila Male Makkala Alalu’ published on June 25, 2020.
Only 137 Covid samples from Karnataka were received for genome sequencing, till March 10, although the combined capacity of the two labs in Bengaluru – NIMHANS and NCBS-InStem – that are part of INSACOG (Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium) is 2,400 samples per month.
Breaking the tradition of appointing a male as head of Koraneshwar Sansthan Mutt at Khajuri village in Aland taluk of the district, Murughendra Koranesahwar Shivayogi (61), the pontiff of the mutt, appointed a 40-year-old woman as his successor, term…
This appointment has been made to the mutt a year after a Muslim youth was appointed head of a branch of a lingayat mutt in Asuti village in Gadag district.
Murughendra Koraneshwar Swamiji on Monday announced the appointment of Neelalochana Taayi as his successor in a simple function held on the mutt’s premises in Khajuri village which borders Maharashtra.
The inscription that was found in Hassan district’s Arsikere taluk.
An inscription possibly belonging to that of the Jain religion was found during construction work at the Government Engineering College, near Kallangere Gate, on the outskirts of Arsikere town in Hassan district.
Drawing up plans for water conservation in Karnataka, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister K S Eshwarappa flagged off the Jal Shakti programme on Monday.
Learn more about one of namma ooru’s oldest surviving bookstore through this new documentary, which features the 92-year-old owner of Select Book Shop.
It is also the star of city-based documentary filmmaker Adithyaa Sadashiv’s latest film, The Selected Book, which released on March 28 on his YouTube channel Vinayas Studios.
The former MLA from Kalghatgi and Rajyotsava Award winner Reverend P.J. Jacob passed away on Tuesday. He was 90.
He was the founder-president of Good News Welfare Society, which runs various educational institutions, from anganwadi to degree colleges.
He led several agitations for development of the backward taluk.
He used his good offices to get drinking water to villages, roads and other facilities to Dalit colonies and helped in efforts to set up vocational training colleges.
Indic Crosswords has now tied up with noted Kannada crossword writer A.N. Prahlad Rao, who has begun publishing a 7X7 crossword on the app daily. “Sadly, solving crosswords is a vanishing habit. Earlier, elders and women at home used to regularly solve them, while children were prescribed to do so to improve their language. But nowadays, that doesn’t seem to be the case. I hope that taking crosswords to mobile phones will encourage the youth,” he hoped.
Rajat Dixith, a visually-impaired student of Sahyadri College in Shivamogga, has secured the first rank in M.A. English literature. He scored Cumulative Grade Point Achievement (CGPA) of 6.9, the highest in Kuvempu University this year.
There’s only one team in 88 years of Indian domestic cricket that’s won back-to-back trebles (Ranji, Irani and Vijay Hazare Trophies): Karnataka .
Evidently, it was Vinay Kumar’s shrewd captaincy that helped his team achieve this unprecedented fea