Yakshagana artiste Ambatanaya Mudradi passes away
Mangaluru (PTI): Eminent Yakshagana artiste and writer Ambatanaya Mudradi died at his residence in Mudradi of Karkala taluk in Udupi district on Tuesday after a brief illness, family sources said.
He was 88. Mudradi is survived by wife, three sons and five daughters.
Mudradi, whose original name was Keshav Shettigar, was a versatile artiste who displayed his skill in all areas of Yakshagana. He was a prasanga kartha,' talamaddale arthadhari' and veshadhari' in Yakshagana.
At the recently held state-level Yakshagana Sammelana in Udupi, his work, Yakshagana and Harikathe: a comparative study' was published.
Mudradi has won several honours including Rajyotsava award and Parthi Suba award. He had also served as the president of the Udupi district Kannada Sahitya Parishad.
Mudradi worked as a primary school teacher for 36 years and retired in 1993.
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Mizoram class 12 results out, pass percentage at 87.67
Aizawl (PTI): Mizoram recorded a pass percentage of 87.67 in the class 12 board examinations on Wednesday, with boys scoring marginally higher than girls,
Across the Arts, Science, and Commerce streams, boys secured an 87.7 per cent success rate, while girls followed closely at 87.66 per cent, according to the results published by the Mizoram Board of School Education (MBSE).
Of the 12,243 students who sat for the examinations held between February and March, 10,734 passed, 1,394 could not, and 115 qualified for compartmental examinations.
Academic performance was strongest in the Commerce stream, which saw a 90.51 per cent success rate among 759 candidates.
The Science stream followed with 89.24 per cent pass rate out of 2,770 students who appeared for the exam, while the Arts stream, with 87,14 students, recorded a pass percentage of 86.93.
In terms of institutional performance, the results revealed that deficit schools, which receive regular government grants, maintained their status as top performers with an average 93.80 per cent pass rate across all streams, followed by private schools at 91.55 per cent, while state-run schools recorded a success rate 83.13 per cent.
