Virasat celebrating silver jubilee: Postal dept to release special postal cover
Mangaluru, Jan 1: With the Silver Jubilee celebration, the Alva's Virasat being conducted by the Moodabidri Alva's Education Foundation, will be held from Jan 4 to 6.
To mark the Silver Jubilee celebration, the Postal department will launch a special postal cover at the Alva's Virasat programme, said Foundation chairman Dr. Mohan Alva.
Speaking to reporters here on Tuesday, he said that during the Silver Jubilee celebration, noted playback singer, Ghazal singer, Music composer Hariharan would be honoured with Virasat-2019 award.
The programme would be held at Vanajakshi K Sripathi Bhat stage at Vivekananda Nagar of Puttige. The inaugural programme would be held at 5.45 pm with the cultural procession and stage programme would be held from 5.30 pm to 6.45 pm. Nitte Group of Institutions Chairman Dr. N Vinay Hegde would inaugurate the Alva's Virasat 2019, he said.
Virasat cultural programmes
On Jan 4 from 7 to 9 pm, a musical event would be conducted by Colonial Cousins famed Hariharan and Lesley Levies. From 9.15 pm, Alva's students would perform Alva's cultural programmes like Mohiniyattam, Badaguthittu Yakshagana, Malla Kambala and Dandiya dance. On jan 5 from 6 to 8 pm, Bollywood playback singer Sukhwinder Singh and team would perform musical night and from 8.10 pm to 8.40 pm, Nrityantar Academy of Performing Arts Bengaluru would perform Odyssey dance, while Shyla Sudha Academy of Chennai would perform Kuchipudi dance from 8.45 pm to 9.30 pm and Alva's institution students would perform Banjara dance, Manipur Stick dance, Canadian dance of Sri Lanka and Kathak dance from 9.35 pm, he said.
On January 6 from 6 to 8 pm, Shankar Mahadeshwara, Siddarth Mahadevan and Shivam Mahadevan would perform, from 8.10 to 9 pm, Parampara Kolkata would perform Ranga Bharathi Colours of Bharatanatyam and from 9 pm, Alva's students would perform Bharatanatyam, Dholchalam of Manipur, Bangda dance of Punjab and Thenkuthittu Yakshagana, he added.
PRO Dr. Padmanabha Shetty was present at the press conference.
Artiste Surya Prakash of Hyderabad gets Alva's Varna Virasat award
Dr Mohan Alva said that this time, the Alva's Varna Virasat award would be presented on senior artiste Surya Prakash of Hyderabad. Surya Prakash has given more than 50 solo painting exhibitions in India and abroad and he was famous for his special work 'Jargon of the Junk', he said.
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Trump says he ‘hasn’t even thought about’ continuing Iran ceasefire
Washington: US President Donald Trump has said he has not yet considered whether he would continue the ceasefire involving Iran, while also claiming the United States holds the advantage in negotiations.
Speaking to reporters, Trump said he was prepared to make a deal with “whoever is running the show” in Iran.
“They are fighting with each other, there’s tremendous infighting. They’re probably fighting for leadership in many cases. I think they’re fighting not to be leader because we knocked out two levels of leaders,” he said.
Trump added, “When they want they can call me. We have all the cards, we’ve won everything.”
Referring to ongoing negotiations, he said, “They gave us a paper that should’ve been better. And, interestingly, immediately when I cancelled it [envoy trip to Pakistan], within 10 minutes we got a new paper that was much better.”
“We talked about they will not have a nuclear weapon, very simple … They offered a lot, but not enough,” he added.
When asked whether he would continue the ceasefire, Trump replied, “I haven’t even thought about it.”
The remarks come as uncertainty remains over the future of the temporary truce and broader negotiations between Washington and Tehran.
