Award winning scribes feted on Press Club Day

March 11, 2012
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Mangalore, March 11: The Dakshina Kannada Working Journalists Union and Mangalore Press Club jointly celebrated 'Press Club Day' on Saturday. All the working media persons from the electronic and print media actively took part in the function.

DK Co-operative Bank President Rajendra Kumar, who was the chief guest, said, those who work in the media are mostly middle class. “I have close association with the media persons due to my work. We must have a corruption free society for which the media helps. There is lot of respect given to the word 'press'. Whatever the situation is, the journalists have to bear a sense of duty on their jobs,” he said.

MCC Commissioner Harish Kumar said that because of the Journalists still there was transparency in society. Politicians and officers are fear to cross their limits only because of media, he said.

He also advised that debates on social issues must continue in media. There must be a clear differentiation between personal and social issues, he said.

DKWJU president PB Harish Rai presented a prolonged report that included the activities of the union.

Then various media persons who had bagged awards for their work were felicitated on the occasion. Among those who were felicitated were VU George of Mangalore Toaday, Ronald Fernandes of Deccan herald, Guruvappa Baliga, U Kumarnath, Surendra Wagle, Hillary Crasta, Ravindra Shetty, Agnel Rodrigues, Sharath Kinnigoli, Sudakar Yermal, Ravi Posavanike, Satish Ural, Dayanand Kukkaje, Ahmed Anwar from Coastal digest.com/Coastal Mirror, Jitendra Kundeshwara, Jagannath Shetty Bala, Hamza Malar, Durga Kumar, Muhammad Arif, S Jayaram, Srinivas Indaje, Venkatesh Bantwal and Naresh Sasihithlu.

The prizes for the winners of sports competitions which were conducted a few weeks earlier were given away. The programme included cultural performances by the young journalists.

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January 31,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 31: Four people, including a minor and a teen-aged boy, have been arrested on charges of spreading false messages on social media with in Bantwal taluk of Dakshnina Kannada District.

Police said on Friday that the arrested have been identified as Siddik (27), K Mohammed (19), Hanif (25) and a 16-year-old boy.

They are accused of spreading false news on social media using different mobile numbers in Bantwal Taluk for disturbing communal harmony, police said adding a case had been registered at the Vitla police station in this connection.

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June 30,2020

Udupi, June 30: A girl who appeared for SSLC exams in three subjects tested positive for COVID-19 in Kundapur taluk of Udupi district today.

Sheshashayana Karinja, Deputy Director of Public Instruction (DDPI) said that the 15-year-old girl had a headache and her parents took her for testing and she had tested positive for COVID-19.

She will appear for the remaining three subjects during the supplementary exams in August.

The room where the girl appeared for the exam had been sanitised. But exams would not be held in that room. All precautions have been taken in that exam centre in Kundapur taluk, Mr. Karinja said.

The other 19 students will be allowed to write their exams as there was a distance of one metre between them and there was no contact between the students during the exams, Mr. Karinja added.

It is learned that a couple of months ago, a Mumbai returnee who recovered from COVID-19 had visited the girl’s house. However, it is not clear that she got an infection from the Mumbai returnee.

It could be recalled here that a student from Hejamadi in Udupi district who was preparing for the Science exam had tested positive two days back and she is currently being treated at a hospital.

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May 29,2020

New Delhi, May 29: Opining that there is no harm in importing ideas from abroad Swadeshi Jagran Manch, an affiliate of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has suggested that India should take a cue from Pakistan and turn the “locust threat” into “chicken feed.

In an interview, Ashwani Mahajan, national co-convener of Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) said: “I saw an article which shows that Pakistan has turned the locust threat into an opportunity by converting it into chicken feed”

“If there is a good idea originating from anywhere, we should be open to exploring such ideas. We should adopt good ideas. There is no harm in that,” he added.

He also shared the article on Twitter and wrote: “Pakistan turns locust threat into chicken feed. Need to understand the idea and replicate it in India.”

The article stated “an innovative pilot project in Pakistan’s Okara district offers a sustainable solution in which farmers earn money by trapping locusts that are turned into high-protein chicken feed by animal feed mills”.

“It was the brainchild of Muhammad Khurshid, a civil servant in the Ministry of National Food Security and Research, and Johar Ali, a bio-technologist from the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council,” according to the article.

Both Pakistan and India have been hit by locust attacks. These are desert locusts, which is one of the 12 species of short-horned grasshoppers. Swarms can comprise billions and travel up to 130 km in a day.

India has been battling the locust attacks with moderate success since December. However, the onset of monsoon could bring more trouble.

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