Two students who are from Belgaum will participate in the inter university debate competition at Oxford University in England from 12 to 14 November 2009.

Aniket Deshpande & Ashwath Desai both will participate in the debate. Both have passed out of St.Paul’s High school and later GSS College and present are pursuing engineering at M S Ramiah institute of engineering Bangalore.

Aniket and Ashwath were the president and Secretary of Interact club in school and both have participated in national level debate competitions.

Vishwanath Angadi, District Sessions Judge announced the sentence of 12-year imprisonment and Rs 9-lakh penalty to accused Jagadish Kore, in the case of attempt-to-murder of Rajya Sabha member Prabhakar Kore. Jagadish Kore is the nephew of Prabhakar Kore.

Jagadish Kore, accused On October 19, 2006 had fired bullets on Prabhakar Kore at Mayur theatre in Ankali village of Chikkodi taluk. Three bullets had injured Prabhakar Kore. The doctors of KLE Hospital could remove only two of them. Another bullet is still stuck in his body, as its removal may pose risk to his life.

Huge crowds had gathered around the court area to hear the verdict. The sentenced is termed as highest punishment and fine for an attempt to murder case in the history of Belgaum court.

The concluding day of ‘Ekuverin 09’, or the ‘Exercise Lightening Strike’ was held on Friday 30th October at the Rohideshwar Camp. Maldives Defense Minister Mr. Ameen Faisal, GOC-in-C Southern Command Lt. Gen Pradeep Khanna, and other senior officers were present on the occasion.

This is the first time that an entire Maldives squad has come out of their country for a joint exercise. This platoon level exercise aims to share expertise in counter Insurgency and Counter Terrorism operations. From the Indian Army, the 16 Madras Battalion (One Officer, one JCO and 33 Other Ranks) and the 2 Para (One Officer and 6 Other Ranks) are participating while five officers and 38 Other Ranks are participating from the Maldives National Defense Force.