Dr. Ronald Colaco, Thumbay Moideen , Prakash Shetty to get hon. doctorate from Mangalore University
Mangaluru: The 42nd annual convocation program of Mangalore University will be held on June 15 Saturday here at the Mangala auditorium in the universities campus in Mangalore.
Professor Sachin Chaturvedi director general of research and information system for developing countries New Delhi will be the chief guest of the event.
During the event the university will award on the doctorate to Dubai-based prominent NRI Businessman and Philanthropist Dr. Ronald Colaco, Founder Presidet of MRG Group Prakash Shetty, and Founder President of Thumbay Group Dr. Thumbay Moideen, the university announced in a press conference on Friday.
During the convocation Mangalore University will award 155 Doctor of Philosophy degrees (Arts 51, Science 73, Commerce 26 and Education 05). Out of 155 P6D candidates, 60(38.70%) are women candidates and 95 161.29%) are men candidates, in this 18 men and 04 female are foreign nationals. There are 58 Gold Medals and 57 Cash Prizes Two Gold medals have been converted into cash prizes. There are 168 Ranks, out of which 72 students are 1" rank holders (P.G-52 & UG-20: Arts- 31; Science & Technology-75 Commerce 41; Education 211.
Governor of Karnataka and the Chancellor of the University His Excellency Sri Thawar Chand Gehlot will preside and confer the degrees to all the candidates. Dr. M.C. Sudhakar, Minister for Higher Education, Government of Karnataka and the Pro-Chancellor of the University will be participate and grace the occasion.
Out of 3,094 PG. students who have passed, 839 (27.10%) are boys and 2,255 (72.90%) are girls. Similarly at the U.G. level, out of 18,225 candidates who passed, 6,639 (36.50%) are boys and the remaining 11,586 (63.60%) are girls. With regard to the gender composition, out of 21,319 total number of candidates who passed, 8,097 (38.00%) are boys (Pass percentage of boys 65.20%) and 13,841 (65.00%) are girls (Pass percentage of girls 81.30%).
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Sindhu out of Thailand Open, loses to Yamaguchi in quarterfinals
Bangkok (PTI): Indian badminton ace PV Sindhu squandered a one-game advantage to go down fighting to top seed Akane Yamaguchi of Japan in the quarterfinals of the Thailand Open tournament here on Friday.
Sindhu lost 21-19, 18-21, 15-21 to world number three Yamaguchi in the women's singles quarterfinal match that lasted just over one hour in the USD 500,000 Super 500 tournament.
The two-time Olympic medallist and sixth seed Sindhu had reached the quarterfinals after beating Denmark's Amalie Schulz 21-13, 21-15 on Thursday.
Lakshya Sen, the 2021 World Championships bronze medallist, and the duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will feature in the men's singles and men's doubles quarterfinals respectively later in the day.
