Anurag Mhamal emerges champion in UKCA All India tournament

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May 3, 2012

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Mangalore, April 3: Second seeded Anurag Mhamal from Goa emerged as champion in the first United Karnataka Chess Association (UKCA) All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament in the city on Wednesday.

After a hard fought final round, Anurag was held to a draw by M KUnal of Tamil Nadu. The 17 year old boy had a tough fight with runner up Raghavendra V (Karnataka) and Akash V Thakur(Railways) who equalled him with 7.5 points each.

The better buchholz rating over others helped the boy to grab his first major tournament. The winner will get Rs 30,000 prize money.

Raghsvendra V from Karnataka won the second prize and Akash V Thakur ( Railways) won the third position. Raghavendra is also the Secretary of United Karnataka Chess Association. Sharing the fourth spot, a further half behind at 7.0 points were Pranav Vijay, M Kunal (both TN), Rohan Ahuja, Ritviz Parab( Both Goa), RajKumar S Singha , Akshay V Halagannavar repectively.

Speaking to the media Anurag Mhamal said that competition was very tough . Raghavendra who is playing chess for the last 15 years said that competition was challenging as most of the players are between the age group of 11-15 years.

Trophies and cash prizes worth Rupees Two Lakhs under various categories were distributed during the presentation ceremony. IOB Senior Regional Manager K Anil, Nagendra and Company Proprietor T A Nagendra ,Sharada Group of Institutions President Prof M B Puranik , UKCA Patron B V Achutananda Reddy, President M S Gururaj and General Secretary V Raghavendra were also present during the function.

Results of Round 9:

Pranav Vijay(TN) drew with Akash Thakur (Rlys) 7.5, Anurag Mhamal(Goa) 7.5 drew with M KUnal(TN)7, V Raghavendra (Kar)7.5 beat Santosh Kashyap HG (kar) 6.5, Bagyashree Thipsay(Mah)6 Lost to Akshay V Halagannavar(Kar)7, A Akshaya(TN) 6.5 drew with Anirudh V Bhat(Goa)6.5, Sharan Rao(Kar)6 lost to Rohan Ahuja(Goa)7, Aditya PaiK (Kar)6 lost to Ritviz Parab(Goa)7, RajKumar S Singha (Kar)7 beat Ojas Kulkarni (Kar)6,Raghav Bagri(Raj)5.5 lost to Vaibhav Bhat(Kar)6.5, Niraj Saripalli(Goa) 6.5 beat Shalon Joanne Pais(Kar) 5.5, Yashaskara Jois K R ( Kar) 6 drew with Arjun Vaira.

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June 18,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 18: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominated Prathap Simha Nayak, M.T.B. Nagaraj, R. Shankar and Sunil Valyapure to contest in the June 29 biennial elections for 4 of the 7 Karnataka legislative Council seats, an official said.

"Our high command selected 3 of the 4 candidates the state core committee recommended on Tuesday, excluding H.R. Vishwanath, a former Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) rebel, who lost in the December 5 Assembly by-elections from Hunsur in Mysuru district on a BJP ticket," a party official said.

Nagaraj, a former Congress rebel, who also lost in the Assembly by-election from Hoskote in Bengaluru Rural district on a BJP ticket, was the state housing minister in the 14-month-old JD-S-Congress coalition government, which fell on July 23, 2019 after 17 of their rebels resigned then.

Shankar, who was an Independent and a minister in the former coalition government, was not given the BJP ticket to contest in the December Assembly bypolls though he too resigned from the Ranebennur assembly seat in Haveri district, about 340km northwest of Bengaluru, along with former Congress and JD-S rebels.

Valyapure is the party's grass-root leader from Chincholi in Gulbarga district in the state's northern region, about 586km from Bengaluru.

Valyapure extensively campaigned in the May 2019 general elections and ensured the victory of BJP candidate Umesh Yadav from the reserved Gulbarga Lok Sabha seat, defeating Congress senior leader Mallikarjun Kharge.

Nayak is also the party's grassroot cadre who rose from the ranks to become its Dakshina Kannada district president in the state's coastal region.

As the ruling party has 116 legislators in the 225-member Assembly, all its 4 candidates will need 28 votes each to win the contest.

Of the 7 outgoing Council members, 5 are from the Congress and one each from the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) and an Independent.

With 68 lawmakers, the Congress will be able to retain 2 seats and the JD-S one as it has only 34 legislators in the lower house.

The Congress has nominated its outgoing Rajya Sabha member B.K. Hariprasad and outgoing Council member Naseer Ahmed to contest for 2 Council seats.

Of the 75-member Council, the opposition Congress has 37, BJP 19, JD-S 16, two Independents and one Chairman.

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June 14,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 14: Karnataka Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar on Sunday said there was no question of reimposition of the lockdown amid speculation that it would be done.

"The question of lockdown is not in front of us. There is such speculation as the Prime Minister is holding a video conference with all Chief Ministers on June 16 and 17.

On June 17 our state will be taking part in it at around 3 pm," Mr Sudhakar said in response to a question.

Speaking to reporters at Kalaburagi, he said the current situation would be discussed in that meeting. Mr Sudhakar said the Prime Minister has repeatedly been holding such video conferencing exercises to take stock of the situation and plan for the future.

"There will not be a lockdown anymore according to me," he added.

There has been speculation that there would be another shutdown from this month owing to a rapid rise in the number of cases.

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