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12 including Prof Ananthamurthy, Kinhanna Rai bag state awards

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May 22, 2014

ananthmurthyBangalore, May 22: As many as 12 eminent personalities including internationally acclaimed thinker Prof U?R?Ananthamurthy, musician Prof R?Vishveshwaran and writer Kayyara Kinhanna Rai have been chosen for the Kannada and Culture Department's annual awards for the year 2012.

The awards will be presented by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on May 23 at Ravindra Kalakshetra, according to Kannada and Culture Minister Umashree.

The Basava Puraskara, for which Ananthamurthy has been chosen, carries a purse of Rs 10 lakh.

Other recipients of various awards are: Kayyara Kinhanna Rai (Pampa award) R?Vishveshwaran (T?Chowdaiah award); B?N?Sumitra Bai (Danachintamani Attimabbe), Kum Veerabhadrappa (Prof K?G Kundanagar Gadinada Sahitya Prashasti), Markandeya Avadhani (Kumvaravyasa), Pandit Sangameshwara Guruva (Nijaguna Purandara), Somasundaram (Santa Shishunala Sharif), Vasundhara Doreswamy (Natyarani Shantala), Lakshmibai Enagi (Gubbi Veeranna), U?Bhaskar Rao (Venkatappa) and G B Hamsanandacharya (Jakkanachari).

The Chowdaiah award carries a purse of Rs 5 lakh and the rest of the awards Rs 3 lakh.

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Replying to a question, the Minister said that Telangana and Tamil Nadu States might have cancelled the SSLC exam, but Karnataka will not follow them. "Will hold the examination from June 25 to July 4 by taking all care to protect the interests of the Children.

The SSLC exam was originally scheduled for March 27, but was postponed as lockdown was clamped following the spread of killer Coronavirus.

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August 6,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 5: Touted as a first of its kind in the nation, a mobile Covid-19 lab was inaugurated on Wednesday by the Karnataka Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar.

The lab, approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) can do 9,000 RT-PCR (reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) tests per month, an official press release said here. "This is a unique lab having all safety features and capable of producing 100% accurate results within four hours," Dr Sudhakar was quoted as saying in the press release.

The Indian Institute of Science (IISC) had developed the lab and handed it over to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS).

The mobile lab can also be used for molecular diagnostic-testing and can be deployed in coronavirus hot spots quickly, the release said adding, apart from Covid-19, the lab can be utilised for testing H1N1, HCV, TB, HPV and HIV among others.

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Hassan, July 31: A police sub-inspector (PSI) reportedly hanged himself at his official quarters in Channarayapatna town today morning.

The deceased has been identified as Kiran Kumar, 34, who was in charge of Channarayapatna rural police station.

Sources said that he was upset after two murder cases were reported in the last 24 hours in his limits. Kiran reportedly told colleagues an hour before the extreme step that he feared he would be suspended.  

According to locals, the SI was upset after news of the two murders due to alleged negligence of the police spread on social media. He killed himself before a visit by senior officials. IGP, southern range, and SP Srinivasagowda was planning to visit the town and the spots where the murders took place on Friday.

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