Udupi, Sep 24: Popular film actor and director Ramesh Arvind has been chosen for this year's Dr Shivarama Karanth award.
The award is being presented to him considering his services at the national level as an actor, director and resource person, Anand C Kunder, president of the Shivarama Karanth foundation, told reporters at Kundapur on Saturday.
The award will be presented on the birth anniversary of Dr Shivarama Karanth on October 10, he said.
Kotathattu gram panchayat president Ashwini Dinesh, selection committee member U S Shenoy, Kannada and Culture department assistant director Poornima, and the foundation chief secretary Narendra Kumar Kota were among those present.
The earlier recipients of the Karanth award are Veerappa Moily, K Ramakrishna Hande, Ravi Belagere, Girish Kasaravalli, Jayashree, Mohan Alva, Salu Marada Thimmakka, Chittani Ramachandra Hegde, Jayanth Kaikini, Sadananda Suvarna, Dr B M Hegde, Prakash Rai, Sri Padre, Kavita Mishra, Dr S L Bairappa and Girish Bharadhwaj.
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Kalaburagi: Two men, who were found to be natives of Odisha, were caught at Wadi by the Railway Police carrying narcotics (ganja) with them while traveling in the Pune-Bhubaneswar train on Thursday night.
The arrested men, 26-year-old Abhimanyu Malik Dudla and 28-year-old Rubikuni Malik, learned to be natives of Lakirpet village in Gajapati village, Odisha, were carrying 22 kg of the narcotic element, which has been confiscated by the police, the officers have said.
The police were reportedly on a beat of the Pune-Bhubaneswar train to find cases of illegal wooing of voters, following the enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct, when they caught the Odisha duo red-handed, with the load of ganja.