Dr Noor Samad Abbalagere’s ‘Vismaya Keeta Prapancha’ wins Muslim Sahitya Prashasti for 2021
Mangaluru: Agriculture officer, researcher and poet Dr Noor Samad Abbalagere’s book ‘Vismaya Keeta Prapancha’ has been selected for the Karnataka Muslim Writers’ Association’s state-level ‘Muslim Sahitya Prashasti’ for 2021 for the best work in Kannada by Muslim writers.
The award, given in memory of the late U T Farid, includes a cash prize of Rs 10,000 and a memento.
The ceremony for the award will be held in Mangaluru in January 2023.
Up to 17 works were contesting for the award. Senior journalist B M Basheer, professor Abdul Razak Ananthady and novelist Fathima Ralia were among the jurors, Association president Umar U H has said in a press release.
Dr Abbalagere is a post-graduate in Agricultural Entomology. He has worked as a scientist in research centres and as an entomologist in multinational companies abroad. He currently is an agriculture officer in the Agriculture Department in Bengaluru. In the last four years, he supported his research work with photography and wrote articles on the insect world in the ‘Sahapaathi’ column of Prajavani.
The award-winning book ‘Vismaya Keeta Prapancha’ is a collection of his research and literary works.
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Drug peddler's property worth Rs 1 crore attached in Srinagar
Srinagar (PTI): Property worth Rs 1 crore belonging to a notorious drug peddler was on Saturday attached in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar, police said.
A double-storey house on eight marlas of land situated at Wantpora Eidgah, belonging to Basit Bilal Dar, a notorious drug peddler, valued at approximately Rs 1 crore, a police spokesperson said.
He said Dar is involved in two cases registered under various sections of the NDPS Act.
During investigation, it was established that the accused had acquired the said property through illicit proceeds generated from drug trafficking activities, the spokesperson said.
Consequently, the property was attached under the provisions of the NDPS Act. The attachment proceedings were conducted in the presence of the two independent witnesses, strictly in accordance with the prescribed legal procedures, he said.
As per the attachment order, the owner has been restrained from selling, leasing, transferring, altering, or creating any third-party interest in the property till further orders, the spokesperson added.
