International Chess tournament: 87 players lead at the end of day-2

July 17, 2011

Mangalore, July 17: Eighty Seven players are leading with two points at the end of second round in the Indian Overseas Bank 5th Mangalore FIDE Rated Open chess tournament being held at Radhakrishna Temple, Mangalore.

On the first board Top seeded GM RR Laxman of ICF had to split the point with low ELO rated Pramanik Projjwal of Karnataka in 39 moves. Facing the Larsen opening, Laxman set to score quickly gained some advantage from opening.

In middle game transition lost control and had to settle for a draw. Augustin of Karnataka offered some resistance before bowing to GM Thipsay on the on the3rd board. Sarbajit Adhikari of West Bengal surprised IM Rathnakaran of SRly by holding him to a draw on the 10th board.

Former under 7 National Champion Harshal Shahi of delhi scored an upset win over IM Praveen Kumar in 46 moves. IPS Rajashekara of Karnataka , posted in Nagaland opened his account with a fluent victory against Ashwath Govind of Mangalore , and M R Vasudeva , Director Airport Authority of India, Mangalore lost to Pawan Bhat . The 3rd round started at 3.00 pm today and in progress.

vasudeva

Pramanik

Important Results of Round 2

Bo.	Name	Title	Club	Pts	Res.	Pts	Title	Name	Club
1	Pramanik Projjwal		KAR	1½	drew with	1½	GM	Laxman R R	ICF
2	Thejkumar M S	IM	SWRly	2	beat	1		Biswas Gopal Chandra	WB
3	Augustin A		KAR	1	lost to	2	GM	Thipsay Praveen M	MAH
4	Stany G A		KAR	2	beat	1		Gavi Siddayya	KAR
5	Venu Madhav N		AP	1	lost to	2	IM	Anwesh Upadhyaya	ORI
6	Himanshu Sharma	IM	HAR	2	beat	1		Malla Nooka Raju	AP
7	Soumya Banerjee		WB	1	lost to	2	IM	Ramnath Bhuvanesh R	TN
8	Sriram Jha	GM	DEL	2	beat	1		Santhosh David	KER
9	Srivastav J P		Delhi	1	lost to	2	IM	Swapnil S Dhopade	MAH
10	Rathnakaran K	IM	KER	1½	drew with	1½		Sarbajit Adhikari	WB
11	Srikanth P		AP	1	lost to	2	IM	Konguvel Ponnuswamy	TN
12	Shyam Nikil P	IM	TN	2	beat	1		Arjun U Prabhu	KAR
13	Karthik V Ap		AP	1	lost to	2	IM	Shivananda B S	KAR
14	Saptarshi Roy	IM	Rly	2	beat	1		Godbole Atharva	MAH
15	Singh Soram Rahul		Asm	1	lost to	2	IM	Karthikeyan P	TN
16	Nitin S	IM	TN	2	beat	1		Kaustuv Kundu	WB
17	Ganesan K		Tn	1	lost to	2	IM	Suvrajit Saha	WB
18	Sangma Rahul	IM	DEL	2	beat	1		Shreeshan S	KAR
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Man arrested under Wildlife Protection Act for biting snake to death in Karnataka

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May 7,2020

Kolar, May 7: A 38-year-old man has been arrested for biting a snake and peeling off its skin at Mustur village in Kolar district of Karnataka.

Mulbagal range forest officer KN Ravikeerthi said forest officials nabbed Kumar, a construction worker, at Mustur on Wednesday and booked him under the Wildlife Protection Act. He was under the influence of alcohol.

Ravikeerthi said Kumar's offence is non-bailable and attracts a jail term of up to three years. The remains of the snake were collected and sent to a lab to ascertain its species. Forest officials said the snake Kumar bit was not a viper as was reported earlier but a rat snake.

On Tuesday, Kumar was riding back home after buying liquor when the snake ca me under his bike's wheels. He tossed the injured snake around his neck, bit it and peeled off its skin. Kumar said the snake had troubled him in the past.

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Hotelier commits suicide by consuming poison

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January 25,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 25: Hotelier Samtappa reportedly committed suicide by consuming poison in Kadaba taluk in the district on police said on Saturday.

The deceased was running a hotel named Hotel Samtappa here.

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Special flight under VBM brings nearly 180 people from Qatar to Mangaluru

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June 19,2020

Mangaluru, Jun 19: A repatriation flight from Doha brought 178 passengers to Mangaluru today. This is the first flight operated from Qatar to Mangaluru under the Vande Bharat Mission.

The Air India Express flight, which took off from Hamad International Airport in Doha at 12 noon (Qatar time) landed at Mangaluru International Airport around 6.30 pm IST.

Indian embassy had prepared the list of passengers to be flown in the flight. Stranded people who were in need of emergency repatriation such as pregnant women, senior citizens and those in need of emergency medical treatment were given priority while finalising the list of passengers.

Kannadiga organisations in Qatar such as Karnataka Sangha, Tulu Kuta Qatar, Karnataka Muslim Welfare Association, Mangalore Cricket Club, Bunts Qatar, Mangalore Cultural Association, South Canara Muslim Welfare Association, Qatar Billawas had been striving for the repatriation of stranded Kannadigas by exerting pressure on the elected representatives to operate flights.

Kannadigas in Qatar have thanked former Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Jayaprakash Hegde for persuading the authorities concerned to facilitate the repatriation.