NOVEMBER-2019 JNANAGANGOTHRI Monthly Current Affairs WWW.IASJNANA.COM 1 NOVEMBER-2019 JNANAGANGOTHRI Monthly Current Affairs State 1. NOV 1: 64thKarnataka Rajyotsava The New India Foundation‘s (NIF) second annual KamaladeviChattopadhyay NIF Book Karnataka Rajyotsava or Kannada Day, also Prize was awarded to political and modern known as Karnataka Formation Day, is Indian history scholar OrnitShani for How celebrated on 1 November of every year. India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the In 1956 all the Kannada language-speaking Making of the Universal Franchise. regions of South India were merged to form In the book, Ms. Shani, who has a Ph.D from the state of Mysore. (S.Nijalingappa was CM the University of Cambridge, United during formation) Kingdom, traces the history of democracy of In 1973 Nov 1, during the term of D.Devraj India and the drawing up of the country‘s first Aras Mysore was renamed as Karnataka electoral rolls even before the Constitution was The Rajyotsava day is listed as a government drafted. holiday in the state of Karnataka and is The award carries a purse of ₹15 lakh and celebrated byKannadigas across the world. It is present during Bangalore Literature Festival. It marked by the announcement and presentation was announced by NIF trustees Nandan of the honors list for Rajyotsava Awards by Nilekani, Ramachandra Guha, Manish the Government of Karnataka, hoisting of the Sabharwal, and Srinath Raghavan. The award, official Karnataka flag with an address from instituted in 2018, recognizes outstanding non- the Chief Minister and Governor of the state fiction works on contemporary India. along with community festivals, orchestra, Kannada book releases and concerts. 4. Karnataka to seek UNESCO World Heritage Site status for 14 Hoysala temples 2. Adikavi Award and Vagdevi Award by All The State Archaeology Department has clubbed India SahityaParishad Karnataka 14 temples from the Hoysala period reflecting All India SahityaParishad Karnataka unit for similar architectural styles — including the the first time has instituted the Adikavi Award monuments at Belur-Halebid and Somnathpur and Vagdevi Awards in honor of Valmiki — for serial nomination to seek UNESCO Maharishi. Dr KS Narayanacharyaselected World Heritage Site status. for Adikavi Award and Dr. The final dossier, to be submitted by September RohnakshirShirlalu has been selected for the 2020, is being prepared by the Indian National Vagdevi Award. Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), The two awards are worth Rs 1 lakh each. And Bengaluru, which is expected to submit it by memorabilia included. The awards ceremony April. will be held at The Mythic Society on the Apart from the monuments at Belur and 24th November. Two awards are being Halebid, the list includes Panchalingeshwara presented for the first time. temple at Govindahall, Chennakeshava temple at Somnathpur, Kesava temple at Harnahalli, 3. Bangalore Literature Festival 2019: Lakshminarayana temple at Hosaholalu, Ishvara OrnitShani receives NIF Book Prize temple at Arsikere, Bucheshwara temple at WWW.IASJNANA.COM 2 NOVEMBER-2019 JNANAGANGOTHRI Monthly Current Affairs Koravangala, Nageshwara and Chennakeshava At present, Karnataka has the Hampi and temple at Mosale, Kalyani at Hulikere, Pattadakal group of monuments inscribed as Lakshmidevi temple at Doddagaddavalli, World Heritage Sites. Besides, the State has Amriteshwara temple at Amrutpura, and 844 State-protected monuments, nearly 600 Viranarayana temple at Amrutpura. ASI-protected monuments, and about 35,000 UNESCO defines serial nominations as any temples under the Muzrai Department. two or more unconnected sites that may There are 42 sites in India that are in the contain a series of cultural or natural properties tentative list. The country has 38 World in different locations, provided that they are Heritage Sites — 30 cultural and eight natural related because they belong to the same properties. historical and cultural group. In India, forts at Chittorgarh, Kumbalgarh, Sawai Madhopur, 5. George Schaller lifetime award for Ullas Jaipur, Jhalawar and Jaisalmer are examples. Karanth The Archaeology Department entered into an Wildlife biologist K. Ullas Karanth, Director, agreement with INTACH earlier this year and Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bengaluru, was the inception report was submitted in the last awarded the George Schaller Lifetime Award week of September. in Wildlife Conservation Science for his The consultant team carried out site visits contribution to the field of conservation. recently and covered 29 Hoysala temples, He is the first recipient of the award instituted including ones in Belur, Halebid, Somnathpur by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and Hosaholalu, to study the ground situation New York, in honor of Dr. George Schaller, and gather information on the maintenance and who is considered one of the greatest wildlife upkeep of the temples and surrounding areas. scientists and conservationists globally. There are 137 Hoysala temples of significant WCS George Schaller Lifetime Award in value in the State — 43 are protected by the wildlife conservation science has been created Archaeological Survey of India, 55 by the to honor WCS colleagues for outstanding Archaeology Department, and the remaining contributions to saving wildlife and wild 39 are unprotected. places. The process and the list Dr. Karanth was honored by the WCS Board For a monument to qualify as a World of Trustees at a function in New York on Heritage Site, it should be in the tentative list October 29, the release said. for at least six months to one year. The Belur- He joined WCS in 1988 and his research is Halebid temples made it to the tentative list in often described as pioneering and ground- 2014, while the concept paper for the same had breaking, the release added. His area of been prepared sometime in 2007. research and study focused on the ecology of In addition to Hoysala temples, the final tigers, sympatric predators and other large dossier for the ‗Evolution of Temple mammals, predator-prey population ecology, Architecture at Badami, Ahihole and and mitigation of human-wildlife conflicts. Pattadakal‘ is also being prepared. The He has provided research expertise to projects ‗Monuments and Forts of the Deccan across the world, including in Thailand, Sultanate‘ is another cluster in it. Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, However, submission of the final dossier alone Indonesia, Russia, as well as in Africa and will not suffice as it will go through another Latin America, besides publishing hundreds of round of scrutiny by the Ministry of Culture, scientific papers, articles and authoring many Government of India, which has to nominate books. the monuments and submit them to UNESCO, which will take the final call. 6. Five new additional judges of HC sworn in WWW.IASJNANA.COM 3 NOVEMBER-2019 JNANAGANGOTHRI Monthly Current Affairs LLB in SJRC Law College, Bengaluru. After enrolling as an advocate in 1994, he was practising law before the High Court. Pradeep Singh Yerur: Justice Singh, born on June 21, 1970, is a Governor Vajubhai R. Vala administered oath product of the Rashtriya Military School, to five newly appointed additional judges of Bengaluru, and studied BA at St. Joseph‘s the Karnataka High Court at an event College of Arts and Sciences. He later secured organized at the Raj Bhavan. his LLB degree from Bangalore University. He The newly appointed judges are: has practiced before the Supreme Court, and High Courts of Karnataka, Madras, and 7. Neranahalli Srinivasan Sanjay Gowda: Chandigarh. 8. Commemorating Guru Nanak’s links with Bidar Justice Gowda, born on February 15, 1967, was enrolled as an advocate in 1989 after Bidar, a town in northeastern Karnataka, holds completing B.Sc. from St. Joseph‘s College of a special place in the history of the Sikh faith Arts and Sciences, and LLB from BML Law as it is connected to the life of Guru Nanak and College, Bengaluru. During his 29-year-long a few other religious figures. practice he represented the Indian Railways and The faithful celebrate PrakashPurab, the 550th its allied organisations before various courts. birth anniversary of Guru Nanak on th Jyothi Mulimani: 12 November;Bidar town is marking the Born on August 15, 1968 at Raichur, Jyothi event with special fervor, under the aegis of Mulimani studied law in SCAB Law College, the GurdwaraPrabhandak Committee and the Raichur, and enrolled as an advocate in 1992. Guru Nanak Foundation. She practised law before various courts and Guru Nanak is believed to have visited Bidar had served as a mediator and trainer in during ‗dakshinapatha‘ or his southern Bangalore Mediation Centre for about 12 sojourn. Legend has it that he stopped in the years. hilly town of Bidar while returning from Sri Nataraj Rangaswamy: Lanka in 1512. The people of the parched land Justice Nataraj, born on March 14, 1970, hails asked him for water and he moved a stone with from Gowjagalluvillege of Koratageretaluk in his toe and an eternal spring came alive there. Tumakuru district. He began his practice as a The spring (jhira) that bears his name still lawyer in 1992 after securing a law degree exists in the town near the Gurdwara. from the University Law College, Bengaluru, As a precursor to the festival, a pan India rally and had practised before the Supreme Court was held from June to October. A team of and the High Court. He was serving as an around 100 devotees travelled to all places Additional Advocate-General prior to his associated with the life of Guru Nanak and elevation as a judge. other places of religious importance. HemantChandangoudar: Other associations Born on September 28, 1969, Justice Sahib Singh, one of the PanjPyare, or the Five Chandangoudar completed his B.Com from Beloved Warriors of Sikhism, is believed to MES College, Bengaluru, and later studied have hailed from Bidar. He travelled to WWW.IASJNANA.COM 4 NOVEMBER-2019 JNANAGANGOTHRI Monthly Current Affairs Anandpur Sahib to be baptized in the Khalsa.