Dr Abbokar Siddiq appointed coordinator of Beary Study Chair of Mangalore University
News Network
January 11, 2021
Mangaluru, Jan 11: Dr Abbokar Siddiq, an Associate Professor in the Commerce Department of University College Mangaluru, has been appointed as the coordinator of the Beary Study Chair of Mangalore University.
He has over 25 years of teaching and administrative experience and has served as the member of Beary script, structure, implementation committee of the Beary Sahitya Academy under the Government of Karnataka.
He has also worked as the reviewer of the Beary- Kannada- English- Hindi- Roman- IPA dictionary formed by the academy. Beary Study Chair works towards Beary language, literature, culture, rituals, rites, crafts, beliefs, etc.
X category security for Udupi s Pejawar swami
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January 1, 2021
Udupi, Jan 1: The Karnataka government has decided to provide X category security to Sri Vishwaprasanna Teertha, chief of Udupi Pejawar mutt, with immediate effect. X category is security provided by 2 personnel with no commandos but only armed police personnel.
The seer is a member of the Ramajanmabhumi trust which has initiated the construction of Ram temple at Ayodhya. Vishwaprasanna Teertha is on an awareness campaign on the temple construction. The campaign was undertaken in all the southern states of the country.
The decision was taken on a request from Udupi MLA Raghupathy Bhat to state Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai.
National level Alva’s Cine Award-2020: Here’s the list of winners
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December 29, 2020
Moodbidri, Dec 29: “We have to co-exist with nature instead of competing with it. Changing our mindset is need of the hour,” said Dr Kurian, Principal, Alva’s College, Moodbidri.
He was speaking at Alva’s Cine Award, the prize distribution ceremony for national level short film competition which held at Kuvempu Auditorium on December 29, 2020.
He said the real heroes among common men should be recognized instead of glorifying the heroes on the screen. “We should not imitate what we see in the film. Cinema can be a part of life, it is not life,” he said lamenting that the real farmers did not get people’s adulation, and admiration in line with the actors who enact the farmers’ role on the screen.