Mangalore: Abdul Raheem Teekay’s ‘Mallige Balli’ released

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Mangalore : 
Abdul Raheem Teekay’s collection of Beary poems ‘Mallige Balli’, published by Salma Bava Foundation and Teekay’s family was released by Mamta G Sagar, a well-known poet, in a formal function held at Hotel Moti Mahal on Saturday June 21.
Boluwaru Mohammed Kunhi presided over the event. B M Haneef, the editor of ‘Sudha’ weekly, B M Basheer, the senior editor of ‘Vartha Bharathi’, Gopadkar, the artist of the book, Asif Teekay, Dr T K Mohammed and Abdul Raheem Teekay, the author of the book were also present on the dais.
Raahil Teekay, son of Abdul Raheem welcomed the guests and the gathering on the occasion.
Speaking after releasing the book, Sagar said, “Editing is the main thing to be taken care of in poetry. Poems do not need any reasons; the way of forming a poem is unique and different. Many people write poems while very few continue to be a poet.”
“What is not possible in phrase is possible in poems. The poem takes birth for no reason and sometimes for many reasons. Writing a poem is an easy task, but translating the poem is very difficult,” she added rendering her best wishes to the author of ‘Mallige Balli’.
Expressing his thoughts, Abdul Rahim said, “’Mallige Balli’ is not just a collection of poems, but an experience of my own life. The experience at every step of my life has been expressed through poems in this book.”
“The characters that are seen in this book depict the people, role models and social heroes whom I came across and inspired by. Meanwhile, I am just a narrator in this poem and the whole of the story belongs to the people who appear in the poems,” he added.
The first copy of the book was handed over to Dr T K Mohammed. There are 51 poems in  ‘Mallige Balli’.
source: http://www.daijiworld.com / DaijiWorld.com / Home> Karnataka / by Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore / Mangalore , June 22nd, 2014

Kundapur: Annual feast of St Antony Padua celebrated

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Kundapur :
The annual feast of St Anthony Padua Kerekatte was celebrated here on Friday June 13 with grandeur.
The festive mass was celebrated by Dr Jerald Isaac Lobo, Bishop of Udupi diocese along with several priests.
Fr Andrew who preached the word of God, in his sermon appealed to devotees to become children of God, through speech and action. He added that prayer will help each one of us to become a child of God and hence closer to Him. “Every individual should listen to the word of God and should live a life according to that,” he concluded.
A huge number of devotees gathered for the festival mass that was celebrated with great devotion and faith.
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After the mass, Bishop Gerald Lobo along with Fr Xavier Pinto, felicitated Robert D’mello, the main donor of the festive mass. Speaking on the occasion, the bishop appealed to the people to grow in faith and to become children of God.
Fr Xavier Pinto, director of the St Anthony Kerekatte Shrine, thanked the gathering.
source: http://www.daijiworld.com / DaijiWorld.com / Home> Karnataka / by Silvester DSouza, Daijiworld Media Network / Kundapur – Friday, June 13th, 2014

Country’s first government Liver Clinic brings hope

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Bangalore :

Chethana (name changed), 10, had a virtual rebirth on Friday when she underwent a bile duct enlargement correction surgery at the newly-launched Liver Clinic here.
The nation’s first government-owned liver clinic offers a glimmer of hope for thousands of chronic liver disorder patients. The north Karnataka girl was among six persons who underwent surgeries at a surgical gastro8enterology workshop. The operations, which were done at the Victoria Hospital premises, were beamed live to the inauguration venue.
The Liver Clinic, run by the department of gastroenterology, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI), offers to %conduct liver transplants on poor patients for Rs 5 lakh as against Rs 40 lakh charged by corporate hospitals. The state government has %sanctioned Rs 7.5 crore for the clinic.
As many as 150 patients with various liver disorders have been awaiting transplant and have registered with the Zonal Coordination Committee for Organ Transplants in Karnataka (ZCCK). Thirty other patients have been screened for transplant. The Liver Clinic is likely to conduct transplants in a couple of months.

Launching the clinic, medical education minister Sharan Prakash Patil said: “There are 20,000 patients waiting for liver transplants in India and only 1,000 of them have the access and financial capability to undergo it. Through this initiative, we want to encourage our surgeons to help poor patients. There is need to establish an autonomous gastroenterology institute.”
“We have a highly trained team of transplant surgeons, anaesthetists as well as nurses ,” said Dr Nagesh NS, %transplant surgeon and %clinic chief.

Dr K V Ashok Kumar  , retired head of the department of gastroenterology at BMCRI, and one of the brains behind the clinic, said: “After I retired, I came back to work for Rs 20,000 only to make this dream come true. We believe the poorest patient sho8uld get treated with the best of facilities.”

According to WHO data, there are annually over 2 lakh deaths due to liver disorders in India accounting for 2.31% of total deaths in the country.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> India / TNN / June 14th, 2014

Chidananada Rajamane is the new President of KASSIA

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Mysore KASSIA elected and nominated Council members felicitated the newly elected President and Vice-President of KASSIA recently. Seen in the picture are C.M. Subramanian, Secretary, HIEMA; N.H. Jayantha, President, HIEMA; P. Kumar, Vice-President, HIEMA; Chidananda Rajamane, President, KASSIA; V.K. Dixit, Vice-President, KASSIA; Shreeshaila Ramannavar, Secretary, MCCI; Sadashiva, Member, MIA and Sujatha Sadashiva.
Mysore KASSIA elected and nominated Council members felicitated the newly elected President and Vice-President of KASSIA recently. Seen in the picture are C.M. Subramanian, Secretary, HIEMA; N.H. Jayantha, President, HIEMA; P. Kumar, Vice-President, HIEMA; Chidananda Rajamane, President, KASSIA; V.K. Dixit, Vice-President, KASSIA; Shreeshaila Ramannavar, Secretary, MCCI; Sadashiva, Member, MIA and Sujatha Sadashiva.

Mysore :

Chidananda Rajamane has been elected as the new President of Karnataka Small Scale Industries Association (KASSIA) at the Annual General Body Meeting (AGM) held on June 14.

The other office-bearers are V.K. Dixit, Vice-President; B.P. Shashidhar, Immediate Past President; Gopinathan, Hon. General Secretary; V. Bhaskaran, Joint Secretary-I; Basavaraj S. Javali, Joint Secretary-II and H.N. Ramakrishnaiah-Treasurer.

From Mysore, N.H. Jayantha, President, Hiema; Shreeshaila Ramannavar, Secretary, MCCI; Suresh Kumar Jain, Secretary, MIA; Manjunath and Sujatha have been elected to the Council of Management, according to a press release.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / June 17th, 2014

City lad Sagar to officiate in Wimbeldon championships

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Mysore :

City lad Sagar G. Kashyap, has done every Mysorean proud with his feat of being selected to officiate in the Wimbeldon Grand Slam tennis championships 2014.

Sagar, a resident at Gokulam in Mysore, will be officiating in the qualifying rounds of the championships which begin from June 16th 2014. A former tennis player from Mysore Tennis Club, Mysore and B.E. graduate from Vidya Vikas College of Engineering, Sagar took up to officiating and has been an ITF referee and has officiated in ITF tournaments World over.

He will also be officiating in the main draw which will begin from June 23rd and he will officiate till the finals. This is the sixth consecutive time he will be officiating in the Wimbledon championships and he is the only Karnataka referee to be selected to represent the country in the championships.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports  News / June 16th, 2014

Elected as Chairman of South Asia

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Mysore :

MShabeerMPOs21jun2014Mohammed Shabeer Ahmed, Advocate, Mysore and International Council Member of International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF), Osaka (Japan) and London (UK) has been elected as the Chairman of South Asia Co-ordinating Council (SACC) of IARF during the SACC Board Meeting held on June 7 at Mysore.

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal come under SACC. The term of the office of SACC is four years.

The objects of SACC-IARF is to promote international freedom, organise socio-economic, spiritual and cultural activities, promote inter-faith, work for religious, communal harmony and peace among the people.

Mohammed Shabeer Ahmed is also serving as Member of Vidyavardhaka Sangha, Mysore and Chairman of Youth Hostels Association of India, Mysore Unit.

He will be attending International Council Meeting IARF on Aug. 23, 24 and 25, to be held at Birmingham, UK.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / June 16th, 2014

Paper Subbanna, a legend in his own rights !

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by  H.P. Naveen Kumar

During the days when newspaper sellers are rarely recognised, here is an aging M.R. Subramanya, popularly called by his admirers as ‘Paper Subbanna,’ who is dedicated to journalism in his own kind by selling newspapers for the past five decades in the heritage city, thus justifying the title given to him.

Born in Mysore, Subbanna, who passed SSLC from Dalvoy School in city, took to distribution of newspapers and has been rendering a yeomen service to the field of journalism for the past 50 years.

His tryst with print: After unsuccessfully launching ‘Chitralaya,’ a tabloid devoted to film industry in Bangalore in 1963, Subbanna is now busy distributing newspapers, periodicals and books related to competitive examinations in all languages.

Later, lured by film journalism, Subbanna established an institution named Film Premier Association along with his friends and served as a reporter, critic, publisher and launched many programmes for the development of journalism.

After the collapse of the Lansdowne building, Subbanna now runs a shop opposite Merchants’ Co-operative Bank on Jaganmohan Palace road in city selling newspapers of all languages including Rajasthani, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, etc.

Subbanna as a Publisher: After failing to achieve the desired results through his tabloid, Subbanna published many novels under the banner of ‘Sahitya Gangotri’ and created awareness on reading Kannada books and also achieved the distinction of publishing ‘Jenugudu’ scripted by celebrated Tamil writer Shantha through which he became a household name after being recognised by the Union Government.

Joined Kannada Chaluvali: Subbanna plunged into Kannada Chaluvali in his fight for propagation of Kannada and played a major role in the agitation against dubbing of Kannada films into other languages in the company of A.N. Krishna Rao, M. Rama Murthy, T.R. Subba Rao, Beechi, Sheshagiri Rao, Veerakesari, Seetharama Shastry among others.

Felicitations: Besides being felicitated for his contributions to Kannada language, Subbanna was honoured by the Dasara Exhibition Committee in 1992, Ambarish Award in 1995 by Ambarish Fans’ Association and also honoured in 2006 by a group of litterateurs from K.R. Nagar Taluk.

Paper Subbanna, who lost all his earnings after trying his luck in the film industry, is still well-known for his generosity towards visitors who come in search of him.

“I am happy with my profession and I am contented in life. The advent of TV has led a steep fall in newspaper readership which is regrettable but reading a newspaper over a cup of tea is itself a different and a wholesome experience,” says Subbanna.

Let us hope that the Government will take note of the contributions of Subbanna to the field of journalism and reward him appropriately.

After the demise of his wife Kamalamma six years ago, Subbanna is being looked after by daughter M.S. Nagashree and son M.S. Nagendra.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Feature Articles / June 15th, 2014

Pilikula chirps with artificially hatched birds

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A Moscovy duck born after being artificially hatched in an incubator at Pilikula Biological Park. — PHOTO: RAVIPRASAD KAMILA / The Hindu
A Moscovy duck born after being artificially hatched in an incubator at Pilikula Biological Park. — PHOTO: RAVIPRASAD KAMILA / The Hindu

More than 25 birds in Pilikula Biological Park born out of incubators

If you spot jungle fowls Moscovy ducks or yellow and red pheasants chirping in Pilikula Biological Park, they could have been born through artificial hatching of eggs.

The park has gone a step forward after the success of captive breeding of animals. It took up artificial hatching of eggs of some birds under controlled environment a year ago. As a result, more than 25 birds have born in this fashion, according to its director H. Jayaprakash Bhandary.

The park took to artificial hatching as some birds in captivity (in aviary) got disturbed by the movement of visitors and some birds did not sit on eggs for hatching. As a result success rate was less, he told The Hindu.

Thus, some grey and red jungle fowl, Moscovy ducks and yellow and red pheasants have born out of hatching in a controlled environment, he said.

Mr. Bhandary said that eggs were first put in an incubator for the hatching process under a controlled environment. Once the young ones came out of eggs they would be shifted to a brooder for a few days.

Then the young ones would be shifted to a mini cage and once they grew up, they are moved to the aviary. The entire process of artificial hatching would take between 21 days and 24 days.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Mangalore / by Ramprasad Kamila / Mangalore – June 19th, 2014

Cricket Talk ……..: Manish, the smashing Pandey

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by R. S. Krishnaswamy

Manish Pandey is probably one of the fearless, carefree, swashbuckling batsman in Indian cricket. These qualities are the basics of any T-20 player, but Manish plays in the same fashion in all forms of the game.

The lucky aspect is that Manish Pandey plays for Karnataka and lives in Bangalore. He can literally go wild with hitting as the game progresses. I still vaguely remember that a few years ago, in a game against Punjab in a quarter-final of the Ranji Trophy, with Karnataka 28 runs short, Manish suddenly went haywire to get the first innings lead for Karnataka. But this sort of approach has been seen from Manish right from the beginning keeping the captain in tenter-hooks.

Because of an illness in 2011 this guy missed his cricket. But when he returned he was as adventurous as ever. This devil-may-care batting is criticised by the older generation but they silently applaud him because he scores centuries after centuries.

Manish came to Bangalore as an army brat when he was only seven-years-old and even at that age he loved to bat and bat wildly. His father was transferred out of Bangalore but this lad continued to stay in Bangalore with his mother and continued to play. He made a name for himself in Under-15 cricket. The seniors were angry at him for his wildness and also loved him at the same time, because of his consistent scores. He played for India Under-19 with Virat Kohli but from then, it has been an up and down route for him.

However this year he was picked very intelligently by Gautham Gambhir for KKR who placed him at No. 3 while the innings was opened by another Karnataka hitter, Robin Uttappa.

Manish can never be controlled in cricket. He has a collection of cars which includes an Audi and a two-seater Mercedes. His team- mates shudder to sit with him when he drives because he drives as he bats, aggressive and taking chances all the time. I am fairly certain that at this point of time, this “wild one” will fit into the Indian team particularly the shorter forms of the game. In this process the good news is that he has also become a fantastic fielder. Good luck Manish.

MANKADING!!??

This Mankading is something which is named after a great Indian all-rounder Vinu Mankad who dismissed the Australian batsman Brown in 1948 by running him out from the bowler’s end because the batsman

Initially it became a controversy and even today it remains a controversy as to the method of dismissal of a batsman. However if you analyse it carefully it is absolutely non controversial and is a convenient method for an intelligent spin-bowler to dismiss a batsman who wants to backup for a run too early. I don’t see any reason why as mentioned in few instances a runner should be initially warned by the umpire not to leave his crease before the ball is bowled.

Lately another left arm spinner has repeated Mankading and that is Murali Karthik. According to ICC Law 42.15, “The bowler is permitted before releasing the ball to attempt to run-out the non striker.” As such it is meaningless to make it a controversy. It is a bowler’s weapon especially an intelligent left-arm spinner who can be watching the runner’s feet more easily. Long live Mankading!!!

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports  News / June 14th, 2014