Here's complete list of achievers who have been awarded Karnataka Ratna Award so far
Bengaluru: The ‘Karnataka Ratna’ award was conferred posthumously on Kannada actor Puneeth Rajkumar in Bengaluru on the occasion of the 67th Kannada Rajyotsava on Tuesday.
The highest civilian award of the state was received by the actor’s wife Ashwini Puneeth Rajkumar on behalf of the late actor at a ceremony on the fore steps of the Vidhana Soudha.
The award was being conferred after 13 years, and Puneeth Rajkumar was the 10th recipient of the award.
The awardees are handed a 50-gram gold medal, a certificate, memento and a shawl.
The ‘Karnataka Ratna’ award has been conferred on achievers in various fields:
Kuvempu (Literature) – 1992
Dr Rajkumar (Cinema) – 1992
S Nijalingappa (Politics) – 1999
C N R Rao (Science) – 2000
Devi Prasad Shetty (Medicine) – 2001
Bhimsen Joshi (Music) – 2005
Dr Shivakumara Swami (Social Service) – 2007
D Javare Gowda (Literature) – 2008
Dr Veerendra Heggade (Social Service) – 2009
Puneeth Rajkumar (Cinema) - 2022
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Niqab incident: Nitish Kumar perhaps revealing his true colours, says J-K CM
Srinagar (PTI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday criticised his Bihar counterpart over the niqab incident and said that Nitish Kumar might be slowly revealing his true nature.
"Nitish Kumar, who was once considered a secular leader, may be slowly showing his true colours," Abdullah told reporters here on the sidelines of a function.
Abdullah said Kumar removing the face veil of a Muslim woman doctor was wrong and cannot be justified by any means.
"We have seen this kind of incident here several years ago. Have you forgotten how Mehbooba Mufti removed the burqa of a legitimate voter inside a polling station? That act was wrong, and this act (of Kumar) is also wrong.
"If the (Bihar) chief minister did not want to hand over the order to her (Muslim woman), they could have kept her aside. However, to humiliate her like this is totally wrong," the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said.
Kumar stirred a huge controversy after he removed the face veil of a Muslim woman at a function earlier this week.
