Rajyotsava award to 63 persons including Varthabharati columnist Ranganatha Rao, Justice HL Dattu
Bengaluru, November 28: The state government has announced the Rajyotsava Awards for the 2018 to 63 personalities including senior journalist and Varthabharati columnist GN Ranganatha Rao, Litterateur Hasan Nayeem Surakod, Former governor Margaret Alva and Former chief justice of India HL Dattu, on Wednesday.
The Kannada and Culture department released the list of personalities who were given the award. Due to by-election, the selection list of the award was not announced before Kannada Rajyotsava.
Awardees
Literature: MS Prabhakar (Kamaroopi), Hassan Nayeem Surakod, C Sarvamangala and Chandrashekar Talya.
Theatre: SN Rangaswamy, Puttaswamy and Pampalli Kogali.
Music: Annu Devadiga
Dance: MR Krishnamurthy
Folklore: Guruva Koraga, Ganga Huchhamma, Channamelle Gowda, Sharanappa Butera, Shankramma Mahadevappa, Basavaraj Alaguda and Chudamani Ramachandra.
Sculptor: Yamanappa Chitragara, Basanna Kalappa Kanchagara.
Painting: Basavaraj Revanasiddappa Uppina
Sports: Kenneth Powel, Vinay VS, Chethan R
Yakshagana: Hiriyadka Gopal Rao, Sitaram Kumar Kateelu.
Bayalata: Yallavva Roddappanavara, Bhimaraya Boragi
Film: Bhargava, Jai Jagadeesh, Rajan and Datturaj.
Education: Gita Ramanujam, AVS Murthy, Dr KP Gopalkrishna and Shivananda Koujalagi.
Engineering: Prof CEG Justo (science and technology).
Sankeerna: RS Rajaram, Major Pradeep Arya, CK Jorapura, Narasimhaiah, D Surendra Kumar, Shantappanavar PB, Namashivayam Reguraj, P Ramadas, MJ Brahmaiah.
Journalism: GN Ranganatha Rao, Basavaraja Swamy and Ammembala Anand.
Cooperative: C Ramu
Social work: Anand C Kunder, Rachappa Hadapada, Krishna Kumar Poonja, Margaret Alva.
Agriculture: Mahadevi, Annarao Vanade, Mookappa Poojar
Environment: Kalmane Kame Gowda.
Associations: Rangadorai Memorial Hospital
Medical: Dr Nada Gouda JV, Dr Sitaram Bhat, P Mohan Rao and Dr MG Gopal.
Judiciary: Former CJI Justice HL Dattu
Outside Karnataka: Dr AA Shetty
Freedom fighters: Basavaraj Bisaralli.
Award presentation on November 29
Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy would present the Rajyotsava Award at the Ravindra Kalakshetra in the city on November 29 at 6.30 pm. Before this programme, snacks is arranged for the Rajyotsava awardees at the Banquet Hall at Vidhana Soudha at 5 pm.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
