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Gautam Gambhir, Ashwini Ponappa and Colin Jackson launch ‘Wings For Life World Run’

Famous Personalities of Kodagu / Coorg, Sports

In India, the Wings for Life World Run will kick off from Rai Sports Complex, Sonipat and is expected to end at Karnal. The run is being organized under the aegis of the Haryana Olympics Association.

New Delhi:

Seoul Olympics silver-medallist hurdler Colin Jackson, cricketer Gautam Gambhir and ace shuttler Ashwini Ponnappa on Wednesday came together to launch the India edition of the ‘Wings For Life World Run’ aimed at raising funds for spinal cord research.

Former 110m hurdles world record holder Jackson is the global race director for the event set to take place on May 4 in Sonipat, Haryana simultaneously along with across 34 countries, starting at 1530 IST or 1000 UTC.

Along with the two-time world champion Jackson, were the Indian ambassadors of the race, Gambhir and Ponnappa. Also present at the event to support the cause were some of Haryana Olympic Association’s top athletes Vijender Singh, Sandeep Singh, Yogeshwar Dutt, Jai Bhagwan Singh, Dinesh Kumar and Raju Godara.

“The Wings for Life World Run is not just an exceptional sports event, but also a completely new endurance format for everybody, everywhere. Moreover, 100 per cent of the funds gathered from the race will go towards the Wings for Life – a foundation that funds research into finding a cure for spinal cord injury,” Jackson said.

Starting at 11 am in London, 2 am in Los Angeles, 6 pm in Australia, and 3:30 pm in India – this one-of-its-kind race will take place simultaneously across 40 different locations worldwide. Over 150,000 runners will race at exactly the same time – regardless of whether it’s day or night.

With no finish line to end the run, the runners will be chased by a catcher car, which marks the end of the race for a runner as it passes him/her. The catcher car takes off 30 min after the run begins and once it goes past a runner, his/her race is over and he/she is given the final world rank.

As the race progresses, the cars will eliminate competitors as they pass them, until there’s a single man and woman left running – who are then crowned the Global Champions of the Wings for Life World Run.

Additionally, there will be country winners; as well as recognition for the last man and woman left on the track in each country.

In India, the Wings for Life World Run will kick off from Rai Sports Complex, Sonipat and is expected to end at Karnal. The run is being organized under the aegis of the Haryana Olympics Association.

Competing in the Wings for Life World Run will be professional athletes, passionate amateurs, medal-winning Olympians, charity ambassadors, and everyone who chooses to participate. Expected to last for six hours, this is a race for runners of all levels.

Gambhir, however, would not be running at the event due to his participation in the Indian Premier League as the skipper of Kolkata Knight Riders.

source: http://www.sports.ndtv.com / NDTV Sports / Sports Home> Cricket> News / Press Trust of India / Wednesday – March 19th, 2014

Get-together of Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa college alumni association held

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Resolve to seek Bharat Ratna for Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa

KEEPSAKE: Members of FMKMCC Alumni Association, who got together at the college in Madikeri yesterday, are seen posing for a group photo.
KEEPSAKE: Members of FMKMCC Alumni Association, who got together at the college in Madikeri yesterday, are seen posing for a group photo.

Madikeri :

It was a heart-warming occasion for the alumnae of Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa College (FMKMCC) here, who got together yesterday and shared their memorable experiences of more than half-a-century ago.

About 100 former students of the college participated in the get-together held under the Presidentship of N.A. Appaya, President of FMKMCC Alumni Association, for the second time. It was a joyous moment mixed with emotion for the alumnae who remembered their college days, chatted about their lives, profession, family and recalled the trivia of their experiences while in the college.

Established in 1949 as Government First Grade College affiliated to Madras University, it was renamed as FMKMC college in 1994 after Mangalore University took over the college as its constituent in 1993. The campus in an area of 33.36 acres is surrounded by mountains. The college has completed 60 years of fruitful existence.

As part of the get-together function, retired Forest Officer Dr. K.A. Kushalappa, former IAS officer K.A. Belliappa and Star of Mysore Editor-in-Chief K.B. Ganapathy were felicitated for their outstanding achievements.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Kushalappa stated with pride that the education imparted to him at the college had changed the course of his life.

SOM Editor-in-Chief K.B. Ganapathy, addressing the gathering, said that he studied in the college from 1956 to 1959. He remembered the days when students walked to the college, rain or shine, as there was no public transport. He remembered some of the teachers who were his mentors.

K.A. Belliappa said that the education he obtained in the college for a year was memorable.

The meeting unanimously approved a resolution to urge the Centre to confer Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honour, on Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa posthumously.

Earlier, a cultural programme was staged by children, including a dance performance by six-year-old Jeevitha, a skit by the students of FMKMCC about environment protection and conservation and a patriotic song by Liyakath Ali and team.

Managing Trustee of Coorg Institute of Dental Sciences Dr. Sunil Muddaiah, FMKMCC Principal Dr. Parvathy Appaiah, Get-Together Committee President N.A. Appaya, Alumni Association Vice-President Liyakath Ali, Secretary K. Boji Thammaiah and others were present.

A minute’s silence was observed to pay homage to departed members of the Association. Those who were felicitated were introduced to the members by N.D. Charmanna, B.B. Subbaiah and A.A. Poonacha. M.K. Kuttappa and Thulasi introduced the guests.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / March 24th, 2014

Robin Uthappa primed for national recall

Famous Personalities of Kodagu / Coorg, Sports

Bangalore :

After battling crippling cramps during the early part of the season, during which he missed six Ranji Trophy matches, opening batsman Robin Uthappa roared back to form during the national one-dayers for the Vijay Hazare Trophy.

Following the Ranji Trophy and Irani Cup triumphs, Robin Uthappa slammed a run-a-ball 104 against Kerala in the Subbaiah Pillai Trophy, the South Zone qualifiers for the national one-dayers. The opener was at his boisterous best during the national meet in Kolkata last week, slamming back-to-back tons (132 not out against Gujarat and 133 against Jharkhand) to help Karnataka complete a historic treble. Uthappa, who occasionally bowls mediumpace, returned with two wickets as Karnataka eked out a four-wicket win over Railways in the final at the Eden Gardens.

“It’s a special feeling to be able to win all the three domestic tournaments,” said Uthappa, who top scored the tournament with 536 runs at an average of 76.57. “We are a unique bunch of cricketers as each player cares for the team. And to be part of history is more than pleasing,” he added.

Uthappa is not letting himself get carried away following his success. Hours after winning the Vijay Hazare, Uthappa flew to his training base Mumabi to consult personal coach Praveen Amre as part of his preparation for the Deodhar Trophy, the zonal limited overs tournament which will kick off on March 23 at Vishakapatnam.

“We have good players in the South Zone team and stand a good chance of winning the Deodhar Trophy,” Uthappa pointed out.

In the run-up to the Vijay Hazare Trophy, Karnataka’s unbeaten run came to an end when the defending champions were defeated by Tamil Nadu in the South Zone title decider. However Robin said the team’s focus was on the national title. “There is no guilt feeling of losing against Tamil Nadu. But we knew Vijay Hazare Trophy was very important,” said Uthappa terming the season as one of his best. His best season was 2006-07 Ranji Trophy in which he was top scorer with 854 runs.

With a string of impressive performances, the stylish Bangalorean is now dreaming about another stint with the Indian team. “I believe I have performed well. I believe I should be playing the next level of cricket and I am confident that I will succeed at the highest level. Given a chance I will be able to add value to the team,” said Uthappa, who last played an ODI in 2008 against Sri Lanka in Karachi.

His last international appearance was in the rain-affected T20 game in South Africa in March 2012.

ROBIN’s SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

Vijay Hazare Trophy 8 vs Railways 133 vs Jharkhand 132 not out vs Gujarat Subbaiah Pillai Trophy 33 vs Tamil Nadu 27 vs Goa 104 vs Kerala 45 vsHyderabad 54 vs Andhra Ranji Trophy 86 vs Vidharba 33 vs Odisha 100 vs Uttar Pradesh 47 vs Punjab 72 & 36 vs Maharashtra.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> Sports> Cricket> Domestic Cricket> Vijay Hazare Trophy / Sunil Subbaiah, TNN / March 17th, 2014

Nidhi Subbaiah is star struck

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Famous Personalities of Kodagu / Coorg

Many will be able to recognize Nidhi Subbaiah, but the actress is thrilled that a certain veteran actress recognized her. The Bangalore lass took to her micro-blogging page and tweeted that she met Waheeda Rahman recently and was surprised that the veteran actress remembered bumping into her two years ago. If that is the case, Nidhi seems to have made quite an impression.
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“Just had a fan girl moment with Waheeda Rahman! Again!! And she actually remembered we were on the same flight 2 years back! Sigh..,” tweeted Nidhi.

Nidhi, who hails from Coorg, made her acting debut with in the 2009 Telugu film Sweet Heart, after which she went on to do Kannada films like Pancharangi, Krishnan Marriage Story and Anna Bond. She made her Bollywood debut in 2012 with Ajab Gazabb Love in which she was paired with Jackky Bhagnani. She was even rumoured to be romantically involved with Jackky.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> Entertainment> Kannada> Movies / TNN / March 17th, 2014

Actress Shubra Aiyappa launches Pochampally ‘IKAT art mela’

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Mela 2014, at Sree Chowdeshwari Kalyana Mantapa ,West of chord Road ,Rajaji Nagar,Bangalore.In this Mela, renowned Textile designers and Weavers of Pochampally , presenting their designer and appearls, handicrafted designer sarees, dress materials, hand bags many more. The exposition will be on till 23 rd March 2014.
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Sandalwood upcoming and Tollywood Actress Shubra Aiyappa inaugurated the Mela by lighting the lamp. “It’s glad to see various apparel, particularly designer Fabrics, silk and cotton sarees, to be showcased for the Fashion Connoisseurs” said Shubra .”Platforms such as this are required to reach out women looking for well-designed hand made handloom cotton, exclusive home textile. Which can see the blend of different style and concept of handloom creations coming together under one roof? she added.

‘Weavers exhibiting their creations of different genres of handloom products in vibrant colours and textures in wide variety and styles” Krishna- Ex -Chairman pochampally Handloom park, said. on display colour ful range of fabrics like home textile to apparel fabrics, stoles , scraves, and sarees in silk & Cotton, duppatas, table mats, covers, cotton shirts & Kurtis, Hand bags’ he added.

source: http://www.newstrackindia.com / NewsTrack / Home> Life Style / by NI Wire / Bangalore – Saturday, March 15th, 2014

Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi Win Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship Doubles Title

Famous Personalities of Kodagu / Coorg, Sports

Congratulations to Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi, who claimed their fifth title as a team and their first since 2011 with a 6-4 6-3 victory over Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship doubles final.
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Colm McLoughlin, Executive Vice Chairman of tournament owners and organisers Dubai Duty Free, said, “We should also not overlook the fine performance of our doubles champions Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi, who overcame the number one seeds and far more experienced duo of Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic who had won 25 titles together.”

The win was even sweeter for Bopanna and Qureshi as they lost to Nestor and Zimonjic in the final of the Sydney International in January.

Incredibly, Nestor was appearing in his 137th doubles final and Zimonjic his 82nd.

source: http://www.canindia.com / CanIndia / Home> grss> LifeStyle / March 11th, 2014

Gulshan Devaiah’s selfie time

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Famous Personalities of Kodagu / Coorg

On Saturday morning, actor Gulshan Devaiah, restaurateur Carlton Braganza and actress Monica Dogra caught up at the arrival lounge of Kempegowda International Airport and managed a selfie.
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“Every picture I take I try to make it a selfie or a photo bomb… they’re in fashion,” said Devaiah. Devaiah, who is in the city to meet his mother, was thrilled to be here on Women’s Day (a coincidence, he insists). His wife is joining him in the city today. The trio was on the same plane from Mumbai but in different seats, and caught up with each other only on landing in the city.

Devaiah was reminiscing about meeting Braganza at Opus six years ago, when he was a semi-finalist at a kroak night. “It’s always nice to bump into nice people. Both are real artistes and I like them,” he told the diarist.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> Entertainment> Kannada> Movies / by Bangalore Mirror Bureau / March 10th, 2014

‘Field candidate from Kodagu district’

Famous Personalities of Kodagu / Coorg, Leaders

Representatives from district were elected only twice.

As the political parties are gearing up to field their candidates amidst the lobby from ticket aspirants across the State, people and various political party workers in Kodagu district that represents Mysore-Kodagu constituency, have placed the demand to field the candidate from the district, rather fielding an outsider.

This is mainly because of the strong feeling that the intensity of problems faced by Kodagu district can be understood by a candidate who hails from the district, than an outsider like the present MP who hails from Mysore. In the first parliamentary election post Independence, Kodagu enjoyed getting a MP’s position for the constituency. Then Kodagu was an union territory and it was later merged with Karnataka and gained the status of the ‘district’ during the unification of state in 1956.

As the population of Kodagu was limited, it was then merged with Mangalore constituency. In the 1957 election, Kodagu took shape of Mangalore-Kodagu constituency. Kodagu remained as a part of Mangalore constituency till the 14th Lok Sabha election in 2004.

In the next delimitation, Kodagu district was merged with Mysore constituency and it took the shape of Mysore-Kodagu constituency in 2009.

N Somanna from the Congress won the first parliamentary election in 1952, while C M Poonacha from the Congress won the fourth election of Mangalore Kodagu constituency in 1967. Thereafter, no Kodava or the candidate from Kodagu district got an opportunity to represent the district in the parliament.

Exception

Kodagu stands as an exception compared to other districts mainly because of certain unique practices and systems like land ownership (Jamma Bane, Jamma Malai, Paisari, Gomala etc), traditions of consuming liquor in ceremonies, licence to use guns, as a large portion of the district is covered with forest, coffee being the main crop etc. As decisions on all these aspects come under the purview of the Central government, Kodavas are largely dependent on the member of parliament from the constituency to get their demands fulfilled. Issues triggering the district like the implementation of Kasturirangan report, demand for autonomy status to the district, controlling wild elephant menace are to be resolved in the parliament. But, unfortunately, as Kodagu has sparse population, it has been represented by the MP from the neighbouring Mysore district, all these years.

Local people are of the opinion that the MPs from Mysore district who also represent Kodagu, are more bothered about the ‘vast’ Mysore district than the ‘small’ Kodagu district.

Local candidate demand

People, party workers and local political leaders have been pressurising the political parties to filed a candidate from Kodagu to represent Mysore-Kodagu constituency.

BJP leader and Madikeri MLA Appachu Ranjan has shown interest in contesting the Lok Sabha polls.

While, the JD(S) workers are demanding party leaders to give ticket to former minister B A Jeevijaya. However, there seems to be no aspirant from Kodagu to represent the Congress, perhaps because they do not want to get into a tug-of-war with the sitting MP.

source: http://www.deccanherald.com / Deccan Herald / Home> District / by Shrikanth Kallammanavar / DHNS / Madikeri – March 09th, 2014

Bopanna climbs to 12th in ATP rankings

Famous Personalities of Kodagu / Coorg, Sports

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New Delhi:

India’s doubles tennis player Rohan Bopanna leaped four places to 12th in the latest ATP rankings released Monday.

The Indian achieved the feat after clinching the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships title with Pakistani Aisam ul Haq Qureshi.

Meanwhile, Leander Paes still remains India’s highest ranked doubles player at No.10 while another veteran Mahesh Bhupathi slipped six places to No.47.

In the men’s singles category, Somdev Devvarman and Yuki Bhambri remained static at 78th and 146th, respectively, while Sania Mirza is No.11 in the women’s doubles list.

source: http://www.ianslive.in / IANS Live / Home> Sports / New Delhi – March 03rd, 2014

Deepika’s special number in Damaal Dumeel

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Looks like Kannada actresses are in demand in Kollywood, and the latest to join the bandwagon is Deepika Kamaiah.
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The actress, who was last seen in the Kannada movie Auto Raja, has done a special number in Damaal Dumeel. The film, directed by Shankar’s assistant Shree, has Vaibhav and Remya Nambeesan in the lead roles. Deepika will feature in a club number along with Vaibhav and Remya.

Ask Deepika how she bagged the role, and she says, “The team saw my pictures and contacted me for the song. Initially, I was hesitant to be seen in a special number. But since it is a good team of technicians, I agreed. It is a peppy number, which I am sure will become a hit.”

Deepika and the team shot for the song at a popular club in Bangalore recently. “I will be seen wearing a crop top paired with a short denim skirt. It is similar to Deepika Padukone’s club song in Cocktail,” says Deepika, who had fun shooting with the team.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> Entertainment> Tamil> Movies / by Sharanya CR, TNN / February 16th, 2014