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National Youth Awards to be conferred on 35 young achievers

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January 3, 2012

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Mangalore, January 3: As many as 35 young achievers would be conferred with the prestigious 'National Youth Awards' during the 17th National Youth Festival, which will be held from January 12 to 16, said Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Dr N S Channappa Gowda.

He said that the State and Union governments have already released Rs 5 crore and Rs 2 crore respectively for taking up necessary arrangement for the mega event, which would attract over 5,000 youth from across the country including Union Territories.

The DC said the preparations for the Youth Festival were guided by as many as 400 officials from Nehru Yuva Kendra, 18 top officials from the Centre and 25 officials from the State government.

Mr Gowda said that that the demand for synthetic track at Mangala Stadium would be met utilizing the pending amount of the Youth Festival and the foundation for the synthetic track would be laid during the valedictory of the five –day event.

Various competitions of Yuvajanotsava will be held at Town Hall, T M A Pai Convention Centre, Devadigara Bhavana in Mannagudda, SDM Law College, Kudroli Koragappa Kalyana Mantapa and Gokarnanatheshwara hall in Kudroli.

The Youth Festival will be inaugurated on January 12 at 5 pm at Mangala Stadium. The youth who come from different parts of the country will be entertained with 'Celebrity Nights' at Mangala Stadium from January 13 to 15 from 7 pm.

On January 13—Hariharan and Leslie Louise will enthrall the participants. On January 14—Euphoria, On January 15—Shivamani, Kadri Gopalnath, Praveen Godkhindi and Narasimha Vadavatti will perform. Vasundhara Das will perform on January 16.

He said as part of Youth Festival, food festival and 'Yuva Krithi' will be held at Karavali Utsav grounds, grounds sports at Nehru Maidan, water sports at Panambur beach.

The special attraction of the Youth Festival will be boat race at Panambur beach on January 14, beach volleyball and throw ball on January 15. Kambala and flower show will be held at Pilikula on January 15.


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June 15,2020

The Centre’s step-motherly attitude towards Kannadigas stranded in the Gulf countries in general and Saudi Arabia in particular has prompted the Kannadigas to resort social media campaign once again.

A couple of weeks ago, Twitterati had launched a campaigned to bring back Kannadidags stranded in Saudi Arabia. A variation of the hashtag #SaudiKannadigasNeedFlights trended today. 

Trend Setters India, which has taken the twitter campaign initiative, had urged the Kannadigas around the world to join the twitter storm at 4 p.m. IST on June 15, to exert pressure on the authorities concerned. Around 7 p.m. the hashtag began trending with thousands of tweets.

Millions of Kannadigas are working in Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. They contribute greatly to the Indian economy.

Even though government of India has launched Vande Bharat Mission for the repatriation of Indians stranded across the world, it has operated only a few flights from Saudi Arabia to Karnataka so far. Thousands of Kannadigas including pregnant women, elderly people, those who have lost jobs and those who need emergency medical care are still waiting for repatriation flights from Saudi Arabia to Mangaluru and Bengaluru.
 

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May 21,2020

Kozhikode, May 21: Six employees of a private clinic here and a taxi driver have been put on mandatory 14 days quarantine as a lady gynaecologist running the dispensary tested positive for COVID-19 in Bengaluru.

District Medical Officer Dr V Jayashree said the gynaecologist had returned to Karnataka a fortnight ago and tested positive while she was on quarantine there. Six staff members of the clinic at nearby Thamarassery and the taxi driver who dropped her inBengaluruon May 5 have been asked to go on quarantine, she said.

Patients had visited the clinic, belonging to the gynaecologist and her doctor husband, till April-end. Sources said the district administration is trying to figure out thecontacts of the gynaecologist, including pregnant women, for being quarantined.

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June 29,2020

Bengaluru, June 29: The Karnataka government on Monday issued guidelines to conduct online classes for all students of ICSE, CBSE and SSLC under the directions of the High Court.

According to the guidelines, for the kindergarten students, online classes can be held 30 minutes a week and students in classes 1-5 will have online classes for 30-45 minutes divided into two periods for three alternate days every week.

For students in classes 6-8, the online classes will be for 30-45 minutes divided into two periods for five days every week while students in classes 9 and 10 can have the virtual classes for 30-45 minutes divided into four periods for five days a week.

Earlier, the state government barred online classes for the kids from LKG to class 5.

Minister for primary and secondary education S Suresh Kumar had said that online classes cannot be held for the kids from LKG to class V.

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