Udupi: Mrs.Sharada MD Bijoor,of Thrasi who created history by becoming first devadiga community lady to be elected a member of Zilla Parishat of Udupi Dist has created another history. She was 
elected as the Vice President of Udupi Zilla Parishat !.

In this regard to felicitate her achievements Devadiga Seva Sangha Udupi honoured her dring 68th annual meet of Devadiga Seva Sangha which was held on Sunday 6th Aug.2006.

We wish her all the success and wish her great future political career.

August 10, 2006

Mangalore: At the tender age of 11, this Mangalorean kid takes his family on a fully sponsored trip to Australia!

Nihal Kumar presently studying in VI STD in Canara Boys High School, Dongerkeri spent half-an-hour in a dream land and churned out a magical trip to the moon. The SOS trip along with his father to treat a sick moon with a spoonful of medicine was documented in Black and White. This creative voyage has now transformed into an air trip to Australia.

Son of SBI employee Nonayya Devadiga and housewife Prafulla, Nihal participated in the Creating Life Story Telling contest organized by ING Vysya Life Insurance in association with Cartoon Network.

Writing was never an interesting job to do for young Nihal who out of a fluke decided to try his hand on some writing.

“It was on-the-spot story writing contest and the theme was ‘My Super Trip with Papa’. With a free mind, I though for a while and the first thing that stuck me was an imaginative journey to the moon. I refined it further in my head and just wrote it,” shared Nihal in an exclusive interview with Daijiworld.

The young boy’s story was judged the best in the nation among 90,000 participants all over India.

“It was totally unexpected, exclaimed Prafulla, Nihal's mother who was the first to receive a phone call from Bangalore announcing that Nihal’s story had wont the first place.The first and second runners-up were Arun Kumar Pandey of New Delhi and Aishwarya Pradhan of Visakhapatnam.

“We never knew that he had a skill for imaginative thinking and writing. He proved it this time. However his love is towards drawing and recently had developed lot of interest in basket ball,” said Nonayya who has been encouraging his only son right from childhood.

The family of three is excited to make their week-long trip to the land of Kangaroos. More excited is Nihal whose trip has been completely sponsored.  ING Vysya will be offering an economy class tickets to Australia, free accommodation for five days, breakfast at the resort, Airport transfers and also sea world passes.

Nihal, who won the school level contest and was given a wall clock by ING Vysya also, received the certificate from the hands of ING Vysya Vice President (Head of Agency Sales) T K Uthappa on Wednesday, Aug 9.

The family has planned their trip to Australia in the month of April. Young Nihal desires to improve on his writing skills but wishes to become an ace basketball player.

Nihal’s Super Adventure Story

'My Papa and I Reached the Moon'

“Once when I was playing in front of my house, I heard something coughing and sneezing and coughing and sneezing. When I saw up, I realized that the moon was coughing and sneezing with a sad face. Then I saw the stars. They were sad too and my neighbours and other people were laughing and laughing and laughing. The moon started to cry seeing that the people were laughing at it. The moon was crying and asked help with me.

The moon asked me: "O little boy help me from this coughing and sneezing, sniffing and crying." I said: "Ok, I will." Then I went back home running. Then I said: "papa would you please help me to travel to the moon and give him some medicine." My papa asked: "why". I said: "because it is coughing and sneezing and all the people are laughing at it. So the moon is crying and sniffing." So my father said: "Ok. I will." I was excited. But there was an problem. How can we travel to the moon without a rocket? But to my surprise, I saw a man holding a big balloon. The man tied the big balloon on my back and my father too came along with me holding a giant spoon full of medicine. I finally reached the moon. The moon was excited to see me and poured the medicine into its mouth and it was feeling better. All the stars and the moon were happy again.”

Udupi, July 3: Subhaschandra Kanvatheertha has been elected president of Teacher’s Co-operative Bank (TCB). The bank has presence and operation in five districts including Dakshina Kannada and Udupi in the State.

Kanvatheertha was elected unanimously for the post, which fell vacant after bank president Rathnakar Shetty’s resignation, which was accepted in a board meeting held on July 1.

At the board meeting a resolution was passed praising the work and services of Rathnakar Shetty for the bank.

Prof H V Somayaji, Prof Ha La Nayak, Dinakar Shetty and Prof B M Hegde wished best wishes.

Director Ramadas worked as election officer while General Manager Prabhakar Rao assisted in election process. Vice President Taranath Rai proposed vote of thanks.

Subhaschandra Kanvatheertha has been serving as a teacher in SVS High School in Bantwal for the past 28 years. He has also worked as an editor for a monthly magazine for four years.

Also, he has been serving as, president of State Teacher’s Association, Director of Mangalore Co-Operative Society, President of Dakshina Kannada Aided School Teachers’ Forum and Karnataka Government’s nominated member in Manjeshwara Govinda Pai Memorial Trust Committee.

Maya d/o of Dr. Harin Ullal graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado with a B.S degree in Business Administration. Her focus area is Finance.

She start working in downtown, Denver, Colorado on June 19, 2006 as an Operational Analyst at Clayton Holdings. 

Her Mail: maya.ullal@colorado.edu

Devadiga.com wishes Maya a fantastic future

Bangalore: Governor T N Chaturvedi has cleared the name of Prof B S Sherigara for appointment to the post of Vice-Chancellor of Kuvempu University, Shimoga, reliable sources said on Tuesday.

Prof Sherigara is from the department of post-graduate studies in research in industrial chemistry. Born in 1945, Prof Sherigara did his MSc in Physical Chemistry from Mysore University and his Phd in Physical Organic Chemistry from Mangalore University. He did his post doctoral research from Wichita State University, USA and has published more than 100 papers in national and international journals.

This is day is hailed as memorable day for all of us as Dr.Sherigara is the first from our community who will don the reobes of Vice- Chancellor.

We are vey proud of him and heartily congratulate him on behalf of all of you and wish him glorious years ahead.

Prof.Dr.B.S.Sherigara:

He is a former Head of the Department of Industrial Chemistry of the university

Mumbai: Entrepreneur and social worker Ramanna B Devadiga, has been appointed as the Special Executive Officer (SEO), by the Maharashtra State government.

Originally from Thokooru near Haleyangady in Dakshina Kannada district, Ramanna graduated from the Govindadas College, Suratkal.

Ramanna owns a hotel at Chembur here and is also an industrialist

Devadiga.com heartily wish Miss. Shilpa N Bijoor a very Happy Birh Day.