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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Odisha vigilance arrests 181 people, unearths assets worth Rs 131 crore in 2024
Bhubaneswar (PTI): The vigilance department of Odisha government has registered a total of 200 criminal cases and arrested 181 people including government officials during the year 2024, an official statement said.
Of the 181 people arrested by the vigilance department, 37 were class-I officers, 27 class-II officers, 85 class-III, one class-IV employee, 10 other public servants and 21 private persons during the year, the statement issued on Tuesday said.
A total of 200 cases were registered in 2024, of which, 60 cases were instituted for acquisition of disproportionate assets (DA) against 66 public servants and 36 private persons and unearthed properties worth over Rs 131 crore, it said.
The vigilance department had registered 96 trap cases in 2024, in which 115 people including 99 government officers were trapped while demanding and taking bribes worth Rs 19.25 lakh.
During the year, 44 misappropriation cases relating to misappropriation of public money were registered against 91 people, including 65 public servants and 26 private people, involving misappropriation of public funds amounting to about Rs 14.87 crore, the vigilance said.
Informing about the investigation of the corruption cases, the anti-corruption wing said it has carried out searches at over 483 locations, freezed 792 bank accounts of corrupt public servants, evaluated 194 buildings/projects in 72 valuation cases worth Rs 27.03 crore and 38 spouses were also brought in the ambit of investigations as co-accused in DA cases.
During the year 2024, investigations were completed in 307 cases and recorded the highest-ever disposal rate of 154 per cent. As many as 25 government functionaries were dismissed from service following their conviction in the vigilance cases, it said.
