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Konkani Academy awards given away

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November 12, 2012

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Mangalore, November 12: The Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy on Sunday honoured three persons each with honorary and book awards.

Inaugurating the award ceremony in the city, Deputy Speaker of Karnataka legislative Assembly N Yogish Bhat said that Konkani community is a knowledgeable community. “Knowledge is essential to understand the life,” he said.

MLC Capt Ganesh Karnik said that there is a need to conserve the Konkani culture and language and pass it on to the future generation. There is a need to document the culture.

Mothers should ensure that they pass on Konkani language to their children. There is a need to construct Konkani Bhavana and Konkani museum.

Writer Gopalakrishna Pai released the news letter brought out by the Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy. Former MLA Sunil Kumar distributed fellowships to the deserving candidates.

The Konkani Academy honoraray award winners are S M Krishnaraya (Konkani language and literature), Harry D'Souza (Konkani art) and Babi Naik (Konkani folklore).

The Academy book awards winners are Maxim G Pinto for his collection on Konkani articles 'Satham Khatham,' Ronald Vaz for his collection of poems 'Awaz' and Ron Maykal for his collection of short stories 'Modthamthlem Gulob.'

Talented youth Mahadevi Kulal (pottery), Vilas Nayk (painting) and Mahalskhmi Shenoy (classical music) were honored with 'Konkani Yuva puraskar.'

The honorary award carried a cash prize of Rs 10,000, citation, memento while the book award carried a cash prize of Rs 5,000, citation and memento. MLA Gopal Bhandary presided. Academy President Kasargod Chinna welcomed.


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May 12,2020

Mangaluru, May 12: Air India will operate two flights - one each from Doha and Muscat - to bring back stranded Kannadigas from Qatar and Oman to Mangaluru next week. 

The flight from Muscat to Mangaluru will be operated on May 20 via Bengaluru. It will depart from Muscat International Airport at 1.15 pm local time and reach Bengaluru at 6.15 pm. After the layover at Bengaluru airport, the flight will take off at 7.15 pm and land at Mangaluru International Airport at around 8.10 pm.

Doha – Bengaluru – Mangaluru flight is will be operated May 22. The flight will take off from Doha at 1.30 pm local time and will land at Bengaluru at 8 pm. It will take off from Bengaluru at 9 pm and land at Mangaluru airport around 9.35 pm.

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Tuesday, 12 May 2020

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Bengaluru, Apr 7: With reporting of 12 positive cases of COVID-19 since last evening, including three women, the total number of confirmed cases in Karnataka increased to 175, including four deaths.

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After a gap of over three weeks, two more fresh cases had been reported from Kalaburagi, which had reported the first death of the country.

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Bengaluru, Jun 8: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) chief DK Shivakumar on Sunday said that Congress is a secular party and they clearly do not want any third candidate from BJP to win the Rajya Sabha elections.

Speaking to news agency, Shivakumar said, "We are a secular party. We are very clear that we don't want any BJP third candidate to win the Rajya Sabha election. My leader, Sonia Gandhi will take a call on it."
"My party leaders have taken a call on HD Devegowda Ji, very soon they will come with an announcement," he added.

Shivakumar had on Saturday said that the party has decided to field one candidate for the forthcoming Rajya Sabha elections.

He said the party would soon take a decision on the issue of support to former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda's candidature to the Upper House.
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