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Fakir Muhammad Katpadi, Umar UH, four others chosen for Beary Academy awards

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March 7, 2018

Mangaluru, Mar 7: Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy has announced annual awards for six achievers for years 2016 and 2017. 

The recipients are writer Fakir Muhammad Katpadi, activist Umar U H, Mohammad Mannagundi, Abdul Aziz Baikampady, Aboobakkar Baddoor and Hasainar Kadambu. They will receive the awards at a function to be held at Raitha Bhavan, H S Chandre Gowda Layout in Mudigere, Chikkamagaluru district on March 13.

Karambar Mohammad, president of the academy ,told reporters here on Wednesday, that Fakir Muhammad Katpadi has been selected for the honorary award for 2016, for his contribution to the field of Beary literature and research. Other award recipients for 2016 are Mohammad Mannagundi and Aboobakkar Baddoor, who will receive it for their contribution to the field of Beary folklore and Beary arts respectively, the academy chief said.

Writer, journalist and organizer Umar will receive the honourary award for Beary literature and research for 2017. Aziz Baikampady will receive the award in the field of Beary arts and Hasainar Kadambu for Beary folklore, respectively. Dakshina Kannada district minister B Ramanath Rai will inaugurate the awards function. Ministers U T Khader and Roshan Baig will confer the awards on the occasion. Karambar Mohammad will preside over the function.

A Beary kavighosti and rendition of Beary songs has been organized as part of the awards function, Karambar Mohammad said.

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Syef
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Sunday, 19 Apr 2020

We are already facing lot of problems here without food and money.

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April 23,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 22: Former Chief Minister and the Opposition Leader in the Karnataka Assembly Siddaramaiah appealed the state government not to discriminate the poor on political lines while distributing relief package to the COVID-19 affected people in the state.

He was speaking to newsmen after attending a grocery kits distribution programme, organised in Jayanagar Assembly constituency, which was represented by the Congress MLA and former minister Ramalinga Reddy.

Charging that there are complaints about the state government in discriminating the Congress MLAs represented constituencies in providing relief kits to distribute among the poorer sections in the society, he said that “there should not be no room for politics, while fighting the COVID-19 disease”.

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Bengaluru, Feb 10: Former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy's son Nikhil Kumaraswamy today got engaged to Revathi, the grand-niece of Congress leader and realtor M Krishnappa.

On February 6, Mr Nikhil shared a picture with Ms Revathi on his official Facebook account.

Mr Nikhil's grandfather and former prime minister of India HD Deve Gowda attended the event along with several other politicians at the Taj West End.

BJP leaders including Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa former chief minister Jagadish Shetter were also present.

Mr Nikhil, 30, is a Kannada film actor who made his debut in the bilingual movie Jaguar in 2016. The actor will soon start shooting for his new movie Production No-1.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he lost to Sumalatha Ambareesh, widow of former Karnataka actor Ambareesh, in the Mandya constituency in Karnataka.

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