Two teachers bag national, state awards

September 5, 2011

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Uppinangady/Puttur, September 5: Two teachers from Dakshina Kannada district have made a mark in the national and state-level by winning Best Teachers Award.

Government PU College (Uppinangady) Mathematics and Science teacher Diwakar Acharya has won National-level Best Teacher Award for 2011. He will receive the award on Monday at New Delhi.

He has been in-charge vice principal of the college since 2008. He started Science Centre in 1999 and the centre has won district-level awards five times.

He has been creating awareness in the society by holding camps. He had won Best district-level award in 2008-09.

State-level award

Sarojini Shetty, headmistress of Menala higher primary school in Puttur taluk has bagged this year's state-level Best Teacher Award.

Starting her teaching career at Mulki Higher Primary School in 1972, she has taught hundreds of students till date.

After serving in Mulki for three years, she was transferred to Menala higher primary school in Nettanige Mudnur. However, after serving the school for several years, she was transferred to Nanya Government Higher Primary School in Madnoor. Two years ago, she was promoted as headmistress of Menala Higher Primary School. She has worked for the overall development of Nanya and Menala schools.

Recognising her role in the development of sports, cultural activities in the school, she was chosen for the state award. In fact, she had won Popular Teacher award in 2001-02 and District-level Best Teacher award in 2010-11.

She has also won state-level Best SDMC Secretary award as well. As a resource person in the field of education and a trainer, she has made a mark in literary field as well. She has written limericks, essays and articles. She was also involved in literacy campaign and adult education programmes.

Sarojini has been encouraging her students to get involved with extracurricular activities by staring health club, sports club, science club and arts club in her school. She was also involved in providing platform for the rural talents by organising programmes.

She was born to Kannada pandith Bhojarao of Kanthavara in 1953 and is the wife of retired head teacher of Alanthadka Higher Primary School V Nagappayya. Her one daughter is a software engineer in America and another is settled in Mangalore.

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NIA conducts raids at 20 locations in Karnataka, TN over terror link suspicion

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February 24,2020

New Delhi, Feb 24: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is conducting raids at more than 20 locations in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The latest raids are being carried out in connection with ISIS conspiracy cases.

More details are currently awaited regarding the cases.

Meanwhile, NIA had on February 15 filed a charge sheet against two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists before the agency special court, Jammu. The two terrorists are identified as Khalil Ahmad Kayani (34) and Mohammad Nazeem (23), both residents of Haveli Farwad Kahuta district in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).

The case is related to the arrest of the two accused near Nilkanth Nala, approximately 700 metres inside the Indian side of LoC, in Gulmarg Sector of Baramulla district.

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Saudi Kannadigas charter flight from Dammam lands in Mangaluru

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June 22,2020

Mangaluru, June 22: A chartered flight from Dammam with more than 170 stranded Saudi Kannadiga passengers landed at Mangaluru International Airport at 8.53 pm.

The flight was chartered by Saudi Kannadigas Humanity Forum (SKHF), an unregistered NGO, which was formed recently to help the Kannadigas stranded in Saudi Arabia due to covid-19 lockdown under the leadership of Zakariya Jokatte, president of Jubail unit of Bearys Chamber of Commerce and Industry and KS Sheikh Karnire, Director of Expertise Contracting Co. Ltd, Saudi Arabia.

There were 165 adults and 8 infants on board the IndiGo flight. All the passengers were screened at the airport. They will be dispatched to quarantine centres after completing formalities.

SKHF had launched an online portal to assist those who were in need of emergency repatriation such as elderly people, those who lost their jobs, pregnant women and those who are in need of emergency medical treatment back home in India.

SKHF coordinated with the authorities concerned to carry out all the formalities and legal procedures in Saudi Arabia. SKHF members were present at the Dammam Airport to help the passengers during the departure.

Mr Jokatte and Mr Sheikh have thanked U T Khader, Mangaluru MLA and Dr Arathi Krishna, former deputy chairperson of NRI forum of government of Karnataka, for their help in chartering the flight.

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Tricolour unfurled at 10,000 mosques across Kerala on R-Day

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January 26,2020

Kozhikode, Jan 26: The Indian national flag was unfurled at around 10,000 mosques and religious institutions across Kerala on the auspicious occasion of 71st Republic Day on Sunday.

"The national flag was unfurled at around 10,000 mosques across the state on this auspicious occasion as per the instruction of the Waqf Board," Secretary of the Kuttiady Juma Masjid Committee, K Basheer, told media here.

He said that the national flag was also unfurled at the Kuttiady Juma Masjid here as per the instructions.

"Constitution is under threat by the Citizenship Amendment Act, we also read the preamble of the Constitution in solidarity," Basheer said.

Meanwhile, a majestic event was held in the national capital on the occasion of Republic Day.

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Welcome news. But i dont think any of sanghi shakhas have hoisted our national flag on this occasion. I didnt see a single picture in any media or newspaper.