Belthangady: Kuthluru village in Belthangady taluk, Dakshina Kannada district, has been awarded the "Best Adventure Tourist Destination" National Award as part of the 2024 Best Tourist Villages Competition. This competition, organized annually by the Ministry of Tourism in celebration of World Tourism Day, recognizes villages that promote sustainable development through cultural heritage and tourism.

The award-winning entry for Kuthluru was created by Naravi residents Harish D. Salyan, Shivraj, and Sandeep Pujari, who produced a documentary highlighting the village’s tourist attractions, natural beauty, and environmental features. After multiple rounds of evaluation, Kuthluru was selected as the top adventure tourism destination.

The award ceremony will be held on September 27 at Vigyan Bhawan, Delhi, where Harish D. Salyan and Shivraj will receive the award. The event will be attended by prominent dignitaries, including Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Ranchi(PTI): The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has emerged as a surprise element in the Jharkhand assembly elections with its candidates leading in five of the six seats where the party is contesting, according to trends available on the Election Commission's website on Saturday.

RJD candidates in five assembly seats were leading over sitting BJP legislators.

In 2019, RJD had secured only the Chatra seat where its nominee Satyanand Bhokta won.

In Deoghar, RJD’s Suresh Paswan was leading by 19,581 votes over his nearest rival and BJP's sitting MLA Narayan Das after the third round of counting.

RJD’s Sanjay Prasad Yadav was ahead by 19,867 votes in Godda over BJP MLA Amit Kumar Mandal after the sixth round of counting.

In Koderma, RJD nominee Subhash Prasad Yadav, who was out on bail, was leading by a margin of 3,471 votes over BJP’s sitting legislator Neera Yadav.

Subhas Prasad Yadav, considered to be one of the close aides of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court in a money laundering case.

Party’s Naresh Prasad Singh was leading by 5,159 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP’s Bishrampur MLA Ramchandra Chandravanshi.

RJD's Sanjay Kumar Singh Yadav was also leading from Hussainabad by 8,213 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP MLA Kamlesh Kumar Singh.

Party’s candidate Rashmi Prakash, however, was trailing from Chatra by 3,776 votes.

Bhokta did not contest the elections this time, and his daughter-in-law Prakash was given a ticket.