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Ocean sailing expedition ends at Malpe boat jetty
Udupi: The flagging in ceremony of ocean sailing expedition 2005-06 of the NCC naval cadets of Karnataka Goa Directorate was held at Malpe boat jetty on Sunday.
A total number of 40 cadets including 10 girls who were on their Malpe-Karvar-Malpe sailing expedition for the last 15 days completed their expedition.
The team on two boats led by 6 Karnataka Naval unit Commanding Officer Anup Kumar and Commanding officer from Bangalore Mukhesh Arjun had left Malpe on January 19 and reached Karvar through Gangolli, Bhatkal, Honnavar, Tadadi and Karvar and returned on Sunday.Deputy Director General, Air Commodore S Srivastava received the victorious team at Malpe boat jetty. Group Commander, Mangalore Col P S Muttanna, 21 Karnataka NCC Commanding Officer Col Rajan were present.
Cinema bug bites Mangalore University
Mangalore: Communication club of Mangalore University Mass Communication and Journalism department will host Filmotsav '06 from Monday. Five regional films including Dweepa, Koti Chennaiah, Pedharayudu (Telgu), Bharathi (Tamil) and Chemmeen (Malayalam) will be screened every day at the Old Senate Hall at 5 pm. St. Aloysius College Kannada department head Prof N Damodar Shetty will inaugurate the film festival, stated a release.
Ahinda to hold a convention in City
Mangalore: Ahinda will organise a massive convention in March at Mangalore wherein ABPJD president Siddharamaiah will address the conference, said Ahinda state president K Mukudappa.
Speaking to reporters after participating in the Ahinda workers meeting in City on Sunday, he said that about 90 per cent of population in the coastal belt come under Ahinda ideology including poor and backward classes and hence despite the influence of all other parties Ahinda achieves at least 80-85 per cent success.
Achieving empowerment and equality through urging for caste reservation is the fundamental objective of Ahinda and hence it supports internal reservation too, he stated.
"There is a vast difference between the ideology of communists and Ahinda. Economic equality that has been propagated by communists can be achieved only after accomplishing caste equality. Ahinda strives both for economic and class equality," he clarified.
Answering to a question he said, "to some extent there is a need to support the caste system at the present scenario as every step of achieving equality should be taken on the roots of caste system itself. We can't root out the caste system, but we can achieve equality among the so called upper and lower castes. Ahinda aims at this point,"
Mukudappa expressed.
National Manuscripts Campaign 2005
Mangalore: National Manuscripts Campaign 2005 conducted under the aegis of the Central Ministry for Culture has made a successful documentation of a total number of 14,023 manuscripts from the Dakshina Kannada district.
The manuscripts were collected from all the villages in the district during Nov 21 and Nov 25, 2005. Some of them were collected from Sri Manjunatheshwar Culture and Research Foundation, Dharmasthala as well as the Jain math Moodbidri.
The manuscripts include a total of 11,559 manuscripts written on palm leaves and 2,424 manuscripts written on papers. In Mangalore taluk, the number of palm leaves manuscripts are 6161, 848 in Bantwal, 475 in Puttur, 3740 in Belthangady and 375 in Sullia. Meanwhile, the number of paper manuscripts in Mangalore are 687, 145 in Bantwal, 176 in Puttur, 1389 in Belthangady and 27 in Sullia.
The survey was co-ordinated by scholars like Padekallu Vishnu Bhat, Shashidhar Bhairanatti and Y Umanath Shenoy in association with the district administration.