Karnataka Rajyotsava: Dakshina Kannada District Award conferred to Vartha Bharati's Pushparaj
Mangaluru: On the occasion of Karnataka Rajyotsava, senior journalist and Vartha Bharati Mangaluru Bureau Chief, Pushparaj B.N., was honoured with the Dakshina Kannada District level Rajyotsava Award for 2024 by District In-charge Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao.
The award ceremony was held this morning at Nehru Maidan, Mangaluru, as part of the district-level Rajyotsava celebrations. In addition to Pushparaj, awards were presented to 57 individual achievers and 24 organisations for their contributions.
The event was attended by notable figures, including Dakshina Kannada MP Capt. Brijesh Chowta, Mangaluru City Corporation Mayor Manoj Kodikal, MLA Vedavyas Kamath, MLC Ivan D’Souza, and Dakshina Kannada Kannada Sahitya Parishat President Dr. M.P. Srinath.
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Waste disposal unit, machinery in Brahmavar destroyed in fire accident
Udupi: A major fire accident occurred at the Solid and Liquid Resource Management (SLRM) unit of the Varamballi Panchayat in Brahmavar taluk in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, gutting the unit.
The fire broke out at the unit a couple of hours after midnight on Friday with a vehicle used by the unit for waste disposal exploding due to the fire at around 3 am on Saturday.
Fire and Emergency Services squads were called in from Malpe, Udupi and Kundapur. The personnel succeeded in dousing the flames with the help of the locals.
The entire waste disposal unit, however, is learned to be gutted, with the machines and other equipment being destroyed by the flames.
