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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April 23,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 23: An elderly woman who was tested positive for COVID-19 in Dakshina Kannada district today breathed her last.

The deceased is a 77-year-old woman from Bantwal taluk. 

She is said to be a close relative of the Bantwal woman who died of COVID-19 on April 19.

She was shifted to govt Wenlock Hospital which is now converted into COVID-19 hospital on April 22 from a private hospital.

Her throat swabs were sent for testing. Health and family welfare department earlier today confirmed that she was tested positive for coronavirus.

Within hours she breathed her last without responding to any treatment. 

So far 17 corona positive cases have been confirmed in the district including two deaths. Most of them have returned home after recovering.

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June 3,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 3: Former Union minister and senior Congress leader K H Muniyappa on Wednesday extended his support to former Prime minister and JD(S) National president H D Deve Gowda in the Rajya Sabha polls.

In a statement issued here here, Mr Muniyappa said that party which had an electoral understanding in the Lok Sabha elections, may extend support to Gowda in the June-19 Rajya Sabha elections from Karnataka.

It may be recalled that the Election Commission of India, is conducting elections to Rajya Sabya to fill four vacancies from the Karnataka Assembly, in which the ruling BJP may bag two seats, while the remaining may be won by the Congress and the JD(S).

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June 16,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 16: A woman employee at the Vikasa Soudha, next to Vidhana Soudha, the State Secretariat, was tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday.

Hence the authorities sealed the Food Department offices, which was in the ground floor of the building.

Employees of Vidhana Soudha and Vikasa Soudha were shocked after learning that one of their colleagues tested positive for the dreaded killer coronavirus.

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