Monthly Archives: February 2017

Media Academy Awards Announced

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Records, All, Uncategorized

‘Mysooru Mithra’ Sub-Editor A.C. Prabhakar among 15 awardees

Prabhakar, Shantala, Chandru & Rajeev
Prabhakar, Shantala, Chandru & Rajeev

Mysuru :

‘Mysooru Mithra’ Sub-Editor A.C. Prabhakar and photo journalist K.H. Chandru of Mysuru are among the 15 journalists who have been selected for Karnataka Media Academy awards (2016).

Other awardees are senior journalist H.R. Sreesha of Bengaluru, Shantala Dharmaraj of Samyukta Karnataka, Mysuru, G. Veeranna of Vijayavani, Ballari, Siddiqui, Alduri of Chikkamagaluru, Ronald Fernandes of Deccan Herald, Mangaluru, Chini Purushotham of Tumakuru, Ujjini Rudrappa of Koppal, Hemanth Kumar of Bengaluru, Ramaswamy of Ramanagaram, Shankarappa Chalavadi of Bagalkot, Nagaraj Sunagar of Dharwad, Anil Kumar Hosamani of Vijayapura and Malatesh Angur of Haveri.

The award carries a purse of Rs. 20,000 and a citation.

Shivamogga Times has bagged the ‘Andolana’ award, while Chandrashekar More of Udayavani has bagged ‘Abhimani’ award, C.J. Ravi of Vijaya Karnataka has bagged ‘Mysuru Digantha’ award, Cinema Journalist Snehapriya Nagaraj has bagged ‘Aragini’ award and senior journalist Dr. Nataraj Huliyar has bagged ‘Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Mookanayaka’ award.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / February 04th, 2017

Manish, Vineet emerge as YW Quiz winners

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Students hail from Chinamaya Vidyalaya, Hubballi

Manish H. Bhojedar and Vineet S. Hiremani of Chinmaya Vidyala, Hubballi, emerged as winners of the 17th edition of The Hindu Young World Quiz regional finals held here on Wednesday.

In the annual event held at Samskrutika Bhavan located at New Cotton Market, the team secured 51 points. They picked up after the first round, and increased it in the final round to bag the winners’ trophy and BSA Ladybird and Hercules bicycles.

Sutej R.T. and Saloni S.P. of SBI Officers Association Education Society’s English Medium School too started slow, faltered once, but managed to beat others to secure the second position to clinch the first runner-up trophy.

Siddharth Bhatt and J. Manoj of The Jindal Vidyamandir, Ballari, came next to them to bag the second runner-up trophy.

Last year’s champions from Lion’s English Medium School, Sirsi, Chinmay V. Hegde and Prajwal M. Yaji started off well to take lead in the first round, subsequently faltered twice with the buzzer to lose points and ended in the fourth position. Preetish and Shreesh of Chetan Public School, Hubballi, and Srujan S. K. and Shekhar Suman of Sainik School, Vijayapura, ended up in the fifth and sixth positions.

Commissioner of Hubballi Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) Major Siddhalingaih Hiremath, gave away trophies and gift hampers to the winners and finalists.

Lauding the efforts of The Hindu in organising the event, he said such programmes would help in instilling competitive spirit among the children.

Major Hiremath called upon the students to develop love for reading. “During the school days we have to read the maximum. Read newspapers, comics and read whatever interests you to develop reading habit”, he told the students.

A total of 230 teams of schools of north Karnataka participated in this programme, which is an integral part of The Hindu in School (THiS) initiative. After the preliminary round of written test, six teams made it to the final and played the quiz. Conducting the quiz in his typical style with peppy interventions, quizmaster V.V. Ramanan engaged the children throughout the event and gave away prizes to those among the audience who answered the questions correctly.

Sponsors

BSA Ladybird and Hercules is the national gift sponsor. This event was supported by KLE Technological University of Hubballi and BASE Educational Services Pvt.Ltd. was the regional sponsor. Other sponsors of the event were Swarna Groups of Hotels (food sponsor) and JBM Industries, Hubballi (gift sponsor) and Srikrishna Milks Pvt. Ltd(gift and beverages sponsor).

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Karnataka / by Staff Reporter / Hubballi – February 01st, 2017

‘An award places a greater responsibility on a winner’

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Deputy Commissioner N. Jayaram presenting the Karnataka State Jeeva Rakshak Prashasti to Rajesh Gopalrao Khatavkar on the occasion of Republic Day celebrations in Belagavi.
Deputy Commissioner N. Jayaram presenting the Karnataka State Jeeva Rakshak Prashasti to Rajesh Gopalrao Khatavkar on the occasion of Republic Day celebrations in Belagavi.

“An award in recognition of social service or contribution to society is not an end in itself. Instead, it implies a greater responsibility on the part of the recipient,” said Karnataka State Jeeva Rakshak Prashati awardee Rajesh Gopalrao Khatavkar. Deputy Commissioner N. Jayaram had presented him with the award during the Republic Day celebrations in Belagavi.

A few months ago, two senior citizens were seriously injured in an accident on Fort Road in the city. They were hit by a reckless motorcycle rider. Mr. Khatavkar, who was passing by then, rushed them to the district government hospital and ensured that they received immediate medical help. He did not wait for the ambulance to arrive. The injured victims survived the accident, which could have been fatal.

What followed, however, were days of unexpected ordeal from the police, who kept calling him in connection with the accident. Finally, his name was recommended to the district administration for the award.

Mr. Khatavkar, an engineer and a social activist, is also the winner of the Godfrey Philips National Bravery Award. He was recently conferred with the CID Gallantary Award that carried a cash prize of ₹1 lakh, a gold medal and a memento. He has received several awards for his acts of bravery, including stopping a bank robbery a few years ago. These were conferred upon him by the President, the Prime Minister and Chief Ministers of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

Speaking to a section of the media here on Tuesday, he appealed to citizens to play a proactive role instead of being mute spectators to various unexpected happenings, or looking at someone else to do or lead.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Karnataka / by Special Correspondent / Belagavi – February 01st, 2017