Karnataka Nataka Academy to confer Shashidhar Adapa to be with lifetime achievement award
Bengaluru: The Karnataka Nataka Academy has announced the annual awards for the year 2025–26, and Shashidhar Adapa B. of Dakshina Kannada district has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Twenty-five achievers including journalist and writer G.N. Mohan, and Sugandhi Umesh Kalmadi have been selected for the Annual Award.
Annual awardees: G.N. Mohan, Malatesh Badiger, T. Raghu, Venkatachal, Murtujasaba Ghattiganura, Channakeshava Murthy M., Gopal Yallappa Unkal, Chickappaiah, Devaraj Halageri, Y.S. Siddaramaiah Gowda, Arun Kumar R.T., Rohini Raghunandan, Ratna Sakleshpur, V.N. Ashwath, Shivayya Swami Bibbli, K.R. Poornendra Shekhar, Bheemanagowda B. Katavi, K. Murali, Muthuraj, Mallesh B. Konal, Sugandhi Umesh Kalmadi, Mahesh V. Patil, Shivaputrappa Shivasimpi, Sadyojata Shastri Hiremath, and Dr. Uday S.R. (Sosale) have been selected for the award.
For the Annual Award pending for the year 2024–25, Shankar Bhatt, H.V. Manjappa (P.A. for Venkatasubbaiah Endowment Award), Kiran Ratnakara Nayka (B.R. Arishinakodi Endowment Award), K.C.V. Lokesha (Ramachandraiah Endowment Award), H.P. Iswarachari (Malathisree Mysuru Endowment Award), Doddamane Venkatesh (Natarathna Chindodi Veerappan Endowment Award), and P.V. Krishnappa (Padmashree Chindodi Leela Endowment Award), Cultured Comedian K. Hirannaya Endowment – Nagendra Prasad has been selected for the award.
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Omarzai powers Afghanistan to 5-wicket win over UAE
New Delhi (PTI): Azmatullah Omarzai produced an all-round show to power Afghanistan to five-wicket win over United Arab Emirates in their Group D T20 World Cup fixture here on Monday.
Omarzai first returned with figures of 4/15 to help restrict UAE to 160 for 9.
He then played a match-winning cameo of 40 not out after Ibrahim Zadran scored 53 to take Afghanistan to their first win in the ongoing edition.
For UAE, Sohaib Khan scored his second consecutive fifty, smashing 68 off 48 balls while Alishan Sharafu contributed 31-ball 40.
Brief Score.
UAE 160 for 9 in 20 overs (Sohaib Khan 68, Alishan Sharafu 40; Azmatullah Omarzai 4/15).
Afghanistan 162 for 5 in 19.2 overs (Ibrahim Zadran 53; Azmatullah Omarzai 40 not out; Muhammad Arfan 2/30, Junaid Siddique 2/23).
