Daily Archives: May 18, 2014

KRLCC Awards Announced

Arts,Culture & Entertainment, Records, All

Kochi :

The Kerala Region Latin Catholic Council (KRLCC) has announced the awards instituted by it for Malayalees from the  Latin Catholic community, who have excelled in their respective fields.

Veteran singer Pappukutty Bhagavathar will be honoured with the Gurushreshta Award. He is from the Kochi diocese. Tony Fernandes from the Varappuzha diocese will be honoured with the Samooha Nirmithi Award for his excellence in the field of eye care.

Sippy Pallipuram, writer of children’s literature, belonging to the Kottappuram diocese, has been chosen for the Sahitya award. Chacko Puthenpurackal, a professor at Carmel Giri seminary from the Vijayapuram diocese, will be honoured with the Vaigyanika Sahitya Award.

Journalist Ignatious Gonzalez and music composer Jerry Amal Dev, both from the the Varapuzha diocese, will be honoured with  the Media award and the Kalaprathiba Award, respectively. Sister Dr Sussama from the Kollam diocese will be honoured with the Education and Science award.

Sports award will be given away to cricketer Sanju Samson and Samrambhaka Award to K J Tennis. They are from the Thiruvananthapuram and Alapuzha dioceses respectively. Anil Jose from the Neyattinkara dioceses has been selected for the Yuvatha Award.

The awards were decided by a jury consisting of George Onakkur, Cherian Kuniyanthodath, Thanuja Bhattaripad and Preemus Perinjery. The Gurushreshta Award carries a purse of `25,000 and a citation. A cash prize of `20,000 and a citation each will be given away to the rest of the awardees.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Kochi / by Express News Service / May 17th, 2014

Boys sweep top ranks in medical entrance exam

Education, Records, All
Basil Koshy Sajeev, Arun Ashokan and Abid Ali\ Khan who won the first three ranks respectively in the medical entrance examination. / by Special Arrangement / The Hindu
Basil Koshy Sajeev, Arun Ashokan and Abid Ali\ Khan who won the first three ranks respectively in the medical entrance examination. / by Special Arrangement / The Hindu

Engineering rank list in three weeks after standardisation

Boys cornered the top three ranks in this year’s medical entrance examination as 83,460 of the 93,897 students who wrote these examinations found a place on the rank list.

While Basil Koshy Sajeev from Odakkali, Ernakulam, bagged the first rank with a total score of 954.8936, Arun Ashokan from Muvattupuzha secured the second rank with a total score of 950.

The third spot went to Abid Ali Khan from Pathanamthitta; his score was 949.8936. The medical entrance results and the score sheet of the engineering entrance examinations were announced here on Thursday by Education Minister P.K. Abdu Rabb.

Among Scheduled Caste candidates, S. Sneha from Pathanamthitta bagged the first rank with a score of 871.3617 and N. Naveen from Purakkad, Kozhikode, the second rank with a score of 865.5319.

Among Scheduled Tribe candidates, B.I. Prasitha from Kasaragod bagged the first rank with a score of 881.1702 while the second rank went to Bhavya from Wayanad who got a score of 822.9362. Among the first 1,000 rank-holders, 491 are from the State higher secondary stream, 471 from the CBSE stream and 30 from the ISCE stream. Based on the district of permanent residence, Kozhikode returned the higher number of candidates in the top 1,000 list: 146.

Malappuram with 144 candidates comes second and Thiruvananthapuram with 124, third. Among the top 100 rank-holders, 22 are from Thiruvananthapuram, 17 from Kozhikode, and 12 from Ernakulam.

Among the top 100 rank-holders, 64 are boys. On the top-100 list, 63 candidates had written the entrance a second time.

Engineering

Of the 1,03,398 candidates who appeared for the engineering entrance examinations 74,307 candidates qualified.

The engineering rank list would be published three weeks later after combining the score in the entrance and the scores of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry in the qualifying examinations — on a 50:50 basis — and subjecting them to a standardisation process.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> National> Kerala / by Special Correspondent / Thiruvananthapuram – May 16th, 2014