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Mangalore University confers Doctorate on Fr Prakash Monteiro

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November 23, 2011

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Mangalore, November 23: Fr Antony Prakash Monteiro Associate Professor of Physics of the Department of Physics in St Philomena College, Puttur and in charge of the College campus has been conferred the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Physics on the thesis 'The Study of Meson Spectroscopy in the Frame Work of Constituent Quark Models' by the Mangalore University under the guidance of Dr. K.B. Vijay Kumar.

Academic record

Rev. Dr Antony Prakash Monteiro born in Shirva-Manchakal of Udupi District on August 9, 1976, was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Mangalore on April 25, 2006. After initial studies in native Shirva he had his priestly formation in St Joseph's Seminary, Mangalore and St Peter's Seminary, Bangalore. He is an alumnus of Puttur St Philomena College who secured 5th Rank in B.Sc. from Mangalore University. He achieved 1st Rank and gold medal in M.Sc. in Physics from Mangalore University. After being an assistant pastor for two years at St Francis Xavier Church of Bejai he took up doctoral research.

Nine of his research writings have been published in the national and international academic magazines. Eighteen of his research essays have been presented in the research conferences. He has taught physics in Mangalore University and number of religious as well secular institutes of study and formation as guest professor.

Biblical quiz specialist

Fr Antony Prakash Monteiro is well known to the Christina public as 'quiz priest'. He has authored Bible quiz books even as a seminarian. Till now he has authored five Bible quiz books in three languages (Konkanni, Kannada and English). There are five other books in Kannada and English on different subjects that he has authored. Some of his quiz books have seen the light of five editions.

He is a name in conducting quiz competitions on Bible and other topics with novel methodology. All through the year 2009 he conducted 'Mega Raknno Bible Quiz' through Raknno Konkanni weekly which inspired and persuaded thousands of readers to open every book of the Bible. On the occasion of the post centenary silver jubilee (125) of the Diocese of Mangalore, he has begun to conduct 'Mega Mangalore Jubilee Quiz' through Raknno since May this year and it will continue till April 2012 with prizes amounting to more than Rs 125 thousands. He is invited by number of organizers to conduct quiz competitions on Diocesan as well as deanery levels.

Communication, Bible study, physics and especially quantum physics are the major interests of Fr Prakash. He is also known for his inspiring talks during seminars, camps and recollections. At present he is also serving as the spiritual director of Jesus Youth in Mangalore.


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July 7,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 7: There seems no impact of Covid-19 on kharif crop sowing in Karnataka with the current year actually being ahead of previous years, according to an official here on Monday.

"In agriculture, as far as sowing is concerned, there is no impact of COVID-19," Agriculture Commissioner Brijesh Kumar Dikshit told IANS. One of the reasons, according to Dikshit, is that people in rural areas are aware, but not scared of the pandemic.

"In rural India, coronavirus is there. People are aware, not scared. They are taking precautions, but don't have any phobia," he said.

Another reason was that by June the number of infections in Karnataka was not as high as other states, when a lot of sowing was done, he said.

By the end of June, Karnataka saw 15,242 Covid-19 cases. Of that, 7,074 were active.

The sowing is ahead of previous year as it's mostly dependent on weather. "It's ahead of previous years. Agriculture is directed by weather and rains had been slightly earlier this year," he said.

According to Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre, at 185 mm the state received 14 mm less rain in June against the normal 199 mm. "It's like a normal year, or slightly a good year," he said.

Some crops will be sown in the last fortnight of July and few more will extend up to August 15. "The last two weeks will be critical and on July 31 we should be able to tell whether we are short or ahead," he said.

According to preliminary indications, the Commissioner said the area under agriculture is increasing this year, which could also be because that labourers might have come back.

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March 10,2020

Belagavi, Mar 10: Around 6,000 chickens were buried alive by some poultry farm owners here as the rate of flesh in the market dropped even below the cost price due to Coronavirus scare.

The poultry farm who buried the chickens on Monday evening belonged to Lolasuru village in Gokak Taluk of the district.

One of the owners, Nazir Makandar, said that there was no demand for chicken because of threat of Coronavirus.

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Tuesday, 10 Mar 2020

we are ready to destroy food but wont allow poor to eat it

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June 25,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 25: A total of 442 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Karnataka on Thursday taking the total count of cases in the state to 10,560.

According to the State Health Department, there are 3,716 active cases and 6,670 patients have been discharged after treatment. Six more deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 170.

India's COVID-19 count reached 4,73,105 on Thursday with the highest single-day spike of 16,922 cases in the last 24 hours.

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