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Mangaluru: Former Ranji player Panambur Narasimha Bhandary dies at 78

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November 17, 2017

Mangaluru, Nov 17: Famous cricketer of yesteryears and former Ranji player and Panambur Narasimha Bhandary passed away on Friday afternoon at his residence, here, due to old age. He was aged 78 years.

Popularly known as ‘Bab Bhandary’, he was born in Mangaluru on February 18, 1939. He is an alumnus of St Aloysius College and his keen interest in sports saw him playing cricket for Mysore University.

He played for Karnataka Ranji team for 2 years along with Brijesh Patel and E.A.S Prasanna. But in the cricketing world he was better known for playing for Bihar Ranji team for 3 years based at Jameshedpur. He was also an ace tennis player, according to his close friend Prof. P. A. Gopinath.

In his cricketing career he practiced right-hand bat batting style and his bowling style was legbreak. His first class span lasted from 1959-60 to 1961-62.  He also got a chance to play against England and Pakistan in county matches, it is understood.

He is survived by his wife Sheela and son Dilip.

Last rites will be performed on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. at his residence in Gandhinagar, Mangaluru, to be following by cremation at Boloor Crematorium.

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Akshay
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Saturday, 18 Nov 2017

Great Cricketer from South Kanara District. # RIP.

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April 19,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 19:  Karnataka's Technical Education department following Union Home Ministry’s guidelines, on Sunday directed all its colleges not to use the Zoom application to conduct online classes during the ongoing lockdown period.

Considering Union Home Ministry's advisory that Zoom app is not safe, the department has taken the decision and issued a circular asking all government, aided and unaided engineering, polytechnic (Diploma) colleges to stop using the app immediately.

The department recommended the use of a free app developed by TCS: "TCS iON Digital class room" or any other App recommended by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to conduct the online classes.

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July 12,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 12: KCTET 2020: Attention candidates, the Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister has confirmed the exam dates for Karnataka Common Entrance Test, KCET 2020.

As per information, KCET 2020 will be held between July 30 and July 31.

Karnataka Common Entrance Test or KCET is an examination which is held for admission to BTech courses in the state’s institutes.

The Higher Education Minister C N Ashwathnarayan, took to twitter to confirm the KCET dates. The Minister tweeted:

“The K-CET 2020 examinations will be held on the decided dates of July 30 & July 31. All the best to all the students!”

Details regarding KCET exam centers, time, and schedule will be mentioned in the admit card. Candidates can download their admit card fro the official website of KEA i.e. cetonline.karnataka.gov.in.

KCET 2020 was earlier scheduled to be held from April 22 to April 24, 2020, however, due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, KEA postponed KCET 2020 exams.

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March 18,2020

Karnataka, Mar 18: Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) has asked its administrative staff to work from home until further order amid coronavirus outbreak.

KSCA has taken various measures to mitigate the risk of spreading coronavirus. The association had already closed down all section of the sports centre and also given off to all the sports centre staff from March 14.

"Ksca had already closed down all section of the sports centre and also given off to all the sports centre staff w.e.f 14th March 2020. Further to that, now it is decided that most of the KSCA administrative staff will be working from home until further orders," KSCA Treasurer and official spokesperson Vinay Mruthyunjaya said in a statement.

"All the KSCA employees have been advised strictly to be at home and should not travel and be available on phones and mails. However skeleton staff will be deputed at KSCA to make sure ongoing works like grounds maintenance, regular maintenance etc., is not affected," he added.

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