Golden Insignia awards given to students

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August 28, 2013

Mangalore, Aug 28: The Department of Mass Communication (MCMS), St Aloysius College Mangalore celebrated 'third annual Golden Insignia Awards' on Tuesday to encourage budding journalism students who produce a weekly news bulletin in one of the leading news channel.

Likewise, Best Anchor Male award was bagged by Varun Raj and Arun Lucas, Best Anchor Female by Jeena Elizabeth John, Best Camera Person by Jishnu Menon, Best Voice Over artist by Lavina, Best Feature by Abdul Rasheed, Best Episode by Vevozo Vero, Best Editor by Janet KG and Best Producer by Jishnu S Menon.

P.B Harish Rai from Vijayavani, Suresh Kumar from Coastaldigest.com, Sanchia Nazreth from Daijiworld, Nesara Kadanakuppe from Prajavani, Errol Gonsalves from Big FM, Kiran Shenoy from Radio Mirchi, Madhu Yernad from News Karnataka, Suresh Ira from Udayavani were among the guests invited.

Fr. Walter Andrade presided over the function.

Ponnanna, Student President was present on the occasion.

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BJP fields Kishore Kumar Puttur from DK-Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency

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October 1,2024

The BJP has selected Kishore Kumar Puttur as its candidate for the bypoll to Karnataka Legislative Council from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency. The by-election will be held on October 21.

Kishore Kumar is presently serving as the General Secretary of Dakshina Kannada BJP unit. He had served as vice president of State BJP Yuva Morcha from 2014 to 2016.

The by-election will be held to the seat vacated by Kota Srinivas Poojary of the BJP who has been elected as the Lok Sabha member from Udupi-Chikmagaluru Lok Sabha constituency. The vacancy was created on June 15, 2024 following Poojary’s resignation to the Council. His term in the council was till January, 2028.

In the last Council election held for the dual member constituency in December 2021, Poojary had secured 3,672 votes while the Congress candidate Manjunath Bhandary had secured 2079 votes. Poojary and Bhandary had secured required votes from the first preferential votes and had won the election.

There were several aspirants for the BJP ticket including former MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, DK BJP president Satish Kumpala, Mangaluru divisional in-charge Uday Kumar Shetty, former minister Pramod Madhwaraj and former Udupi district BJP president Kuilady Suresh Nayak.

The Congress is yet to announce its candidate for the election. KPCC working president Manjunath Bhandary in a recent press meet in Mangaluru had said that an opportunity will be given to congress leaders from Udupi district to contest by-election.

The Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Local Authorities’ Constituency has 6037 voters including 3551 from Dakshina Kannada comprising eight MLAs, one MP. The last date for filing nomination is October 3 and the last date for withdrawal of nomination is October 7. The counting will be held on October 24.

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