Peter Lewis, Indudhara Honnapura, eight others presented Sandesha awards

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February 26, 2012

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Mangalore, February 26: Ten achievers from different fields were conferred with Sandesha Awards 2012 at a colourful function held in the premises of Sandesha Lalithakala Mahavidyalaya at Bajjody in the City on Sunday. The awards are being given for the past 21 years.

Kannada writer Vaidehi, who was the chief guest of the occasion, said that the awards constituted by Sandesha Foundation for Culture and Education, was indeed an effort towards establishing harmony.

Like Sandesha, she said, many Christian organizations have been relentlessly serving the society in this part of the state for many years.

“The contribution of Christian institutions in the field of education and culture, especially in Mangalore is commendable”, she added.

Educationist and philanthropist John D'Silva of Karkala was honoured with special recognition award while Kannada Literature Award was conferred on K V Thirumalesh, who has to his credit 30 works, among which are anthologies of poems and short stories, collections of columns and reviews, novels, and works on linguistics.

The Konkani Literature Award was given to M Madhava Pai whose greatest contribution is the 750-page Kannada-Konkani dictionary.

The Literature Award was conferred on Catherine Rodrigues, who has to her credit 57 Tulu plays. She has also won the Late Dharmasthala Ratnavarma Heggade Tulu drama writing competition award 10 times.

Sandesha Arts and Journalism awards were given to internationally acclaimed artist Peter Lewis and editor of Honnapura Samvada Indudhara Honnapura, respectively.

The Media Education Award will be conferred on Shree Padre of Kasaragod, an agriculturist. He is known for promoting rain water harvesting and bringing to light the alleged ill-effects of endosulfan pesticide in Padre village of Kasargod in Kerala.

The Sandesha Best Teacher Award was conferred on Rev. Sr. Maria Jyothi AC for services rendered to special children.

Lyricist, writer and movie director Geethapriya aka Laxman Rao Mohite, who has been chosen for Sandesha Cinema Award could not attend the ceremony, due to ill health. The organisers announced that they will confer the award at his home.

Late Jerome D'Souza, who had contributed over 1,000 songs, 14 music albums, and two anthologies titled Amchim Podam, was conferred with Konkani Music Award, posthumously. The widow of the achiever received the award.

The award, instituted by the Sandesha Foundation for Culture and Education here, carries Rs 10,000 in cash, a shawl, a citation, and a trophy.

In his presidential address, Mangalore Bishop Aloysius Paul D'Souza said the achievers are being recognised with the Sandesha Awards for their contributions in building a value-based society and for strengthening harmony in it.

Terming the awardees as precious gems, he appealed them to continue their voyage in the respective fields so that the society becomes more powerful in terms of values. “What we need today is not criticism, but constructive solution to the existing problems,” he said.

Henry D'Souza, bishop of Bellary and chairman of Sandesha, Dr Na D'Souza, head of the awards' jury among others were present on the occasion. A cultural extravaganza followed.

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February 7,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 7: A preliminary charge-sheet has been filed in three cases in the Karnataka Premier League (KPL) betting and match-fixing case.

In Cubbon Park case, chargesheet against six accused which includes two team owners-- Ali and Arvind Reddy, one KSCA management committee member Shinde, two players Gautum and Kazi and one bookie Maavi are charge-sheeted.

Apart from this, charge-sheet filed in Bharatinagar PS case against six accused while in JP Nagar case four accused-- Bafna, Sayyam, Jatin and Harish-- have been charge-sheeted.

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January 21,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 21: A massive protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC), and National Population Register (NPR) was witnessed at Shivajinagar's Chandni Chowk area on Tuesday.

Scores of people came together carrying national flags and placards to register their protest in the city.

Speaking to ANI, a protester said, "People of all religious community have assembled here in Chandni Chowk to protest against CAA, NRC, and NPR. We the people of India are against this law."

Terming the law as anti-constitutional, he said that we support all the states who oppose the CAA. We demand the revocation of CAA and the government should remove conditions in NPR which lead to NRC.

CAA grants citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Parsi, Buddhist and Christian communities fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh and who came to India on or before December 31, 2014.

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Danny
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Tuesday, 21 Jan 2020

What if the Caa was implemented by congress which was earlier planned by dr mnmohan singh and even Gandhiji said this that minorities of Pak amd Bangladesh can come india. Go check facts. Domt trust ur whstapp knowledge. 

abdulla
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Tuesday, 21 Jan 2020

Unfortunately Hitler brother is our HM who is deaf, dumb and blind.   He has shit in his brain.   He is unfit to be called as human being.  He is thinking that he has no death.   I am sure that he will meet a miserable end. 

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March 5,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 5: The Karnataka government has constituted a competent authority for I Monetary Advisory (IMA) cases under the KPIDFE (Karnataka Protection of Interest of Depositors in Financial Establishments) Act, 2004, which is required to call claims from erstwhile depositors of the IMA group of entities under the provisions of the Act, said Harsh Gupta, Special Officer and Competent Authority for IMA cases.

In order to ensure transparency and to avoid harassment to the claimants, an online application software has been developed for accepting claims from the depositors, Gupta stated.

"The claim application can be filed from any of Banglore-1, Karnataka-1 and Seva-Sindhu Kendras of the state government in person or through online. The required documents can be submitted using e-attestation along with claims or at a later date, but prior to the claim settlement. The details of authorities for e-attestation will be informed later," the official stated.

The claimants will have to provide Aadhaar authentication based identification or identification by the designated officer based on alternate documents; current mobile number and address among others.

The details of the draft claim filing process has been put for public feedback on website 'imaclaims.karnataka.gov.in'. The depositors can give their feedback on the website, WhatsApp number or email, Gupta stated.

Based on feedback received from the depositors, the claim process and the claim application software will be finalised, the official said and further informed that the start date for acceptance of claims will be informed through wide publicity at a later date.

"There will be a total time period of 30 days for submission of the claims from the start date of acceptance of claims," Gupta said.

An SIT was investigating the multi-crore IMA Jewels case, where the firm had allegedly cheated a large number of investors after promising them impressive returns on their deposits. The SIT has already arrested several government officials and questioned others including politicians in the matter.

The prime accused and Managing Director of IMA Mohammed Mansoor Khan, who had fled the country after several complaints were registered against him in connection with the scam, has also been arrested.

The state government had constituted an SIT to probe the scam when it first came to light in June earlier this year when more than 4,000 investors trooped outside the showroom after an audio clip purportedly recorded by Khan went viral.

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