U S Malya Trophy 2010

Mangalore boy's work to feature on Google homepage

Internet users logging on to the Google homepage on Sunday will find a ‘doodle' that showcases what is termed as the ‘New India.' With a scholarly hat perched atop Google's G and a satellite bearing India's name on its way to the moon, the doodle, Google's creative logo that marks Children's Day, is designed by a Mangalore schoolboy, 14-year-old Akshay Raj.

A Class IX student of the St. Aloysius High School, Akshay will find his work displayed on the homepage of the popular search engine throughout Sunday. Titled ‘Technically and Naturally Growing India,' his entry was chosen from over 108,000 doodles submitted by students for the Doodle4Google competition from across the country.

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Kudroli Gokarnath Temple, Mangalore

An important temple in Mangalore, Kudroli Gokarnath Temple, built in 1912, is one of the main attractions of Mangalore. Sri Gokarnanatheshwara temple is a unique temple built by Sri Narayana Guru, the saint and social reformer from Kerala, and is the only one in Karnataka by Guru. The reformist Narayana Guru installed this temple for the Billava community, who were prohibited the entry to other temples. 

Gokarnanatheshwara, Lord Shiva, is the main deity. The main temple is surrounded by the smaller temples for Mahaganapathi, Subramanya, Shaneeshwara, the Navagraha, Annapoorneswari and Anandabhairava. Murals, showing a variety of scenes from legends, mythology and epics, of different gods and goddesses decorate four gopuras, pillars in this temple constructed in the Tamil Nadu style.

The major festivals celebrated with enthusiasm are Navaratri and Shivratri. This is a religious place renovated recently and looks more beautiful.


Mangalore is in possession of some of the most ancient historical temples of KarnatakaKadri Manjunath Temple that dates back to 1068 A.D. It is located on the highest hill in Karnataka and the main attraction is the bronze statue of Lokeshwara, which is claimed to be the best bronze statue in India. 


To add to this there are 'Pandava Caves' located at the top most part of the hill. The Kudroli Gokarnath temple is an important tourist spot, while the Shri Sharavu Mahaganapathi Temple is an important pilgrim center. Here tourists should see the many sacred temples like Sharavu, Kadri, Mangaladevi, Kudroli

Karkala Gomateshwara

Karkala Gomateshwara is located about a kilometre away from the centre of Karkala, a small town. It is located in the picturesque Shiradi ghats, about 55 km towards the Northeast of Mangalore and about 370 km from Bangalore. It is essentially a temple town and has a famous Vishnu temple, but it is known more for its monolithic statue of Bahubali called the Karkala Gomateshwara.

Karkala Gomateshwara is located atop a hill, called the Bahubali hill. It is a towering monolithic granite structure and one among the five main Gomateshwaras in the state. It rises 42 feet and is the second tallest in the state after the Gomateshwara in Shravanabelagola. It was established in 1432 AD by King Veera Pandya following instructions from Guru Lalitakeerti who headed the Karakala Jain Mutt. From the base of the hill, a slightly curving set of steps, quite steep in places, leads visitors to the top. On the way is the Parshwanatha Padmavati Basadi, a Jain shrine. The statue is enclosed by a square compound in front of which is a tall carved pillar called the manasthamba, and flanked by shrines dedicated to Parshwanatha and Sheetalanatha. There is also a large mantapa for conducting yajnas and other rituals. The hills where the Karkala Gomateshwara is located also provides panoramic views of the surrounding areas including the famous Ramasamudra lake.

Apart from Karkala Gomateshwara the other Jain monuments worthy of a visit in Karkala are the Chaturmukha Basadi, which is so called because it has four entrances, and is believed to have been built in the mid 16th century by King Bhairasa the Second. It has beautiful high ceilings and has shrines dedicated to three Jain Tirthankaras Sri Arhat, Malli and Suvrate apart from smaller images of 24 Tirthankaras. Other must see places include the Neminatha Basadi in Hiriangadi, Attur and 

Moodabidri.

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An ancient town overlooked by rocky hill, draws over lakhs devotees from across the world who throng the place to seek solace at the feet of the colossal monolith of Lord Gomateshwara, a perfect testimony to compassion, serenity, sacrifice and grace. 

The devotees include believers not just from the Jain community, but from across - cutting through barriers of caste, creed, and religion. 

During the 10 hour ceremony, priests climb hundreds of steps leading to the top of monolith, the 2nd largest in the world, and empty hundreds of pots of tender coconut, sugarcane juice, milk, rice flour, turmeric paste, kashaya (a herbal concoction), shrigandha (sandal paste), chandana (coloured sandal paste), ashtagandha (eight varieties of sandal paste), saffron, gold and silver flowers, and precious stones

Prime Minister of INDIA and RUSSIA

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (R) and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin address the media and release the joint statement after their meeting at Hyderabad house in New Delhi, capital of India, March 12, 2010.

India and Russia Friday signed 19 pacts, including the purchase of the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov and some 30 Russian Mig-29K fighters, as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wound up his one-day visit here.

Barack Obama and Dr Manmohan singh

US President Barack Obama (L) welcomes India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, April 12, 2010. Photo: Xinhua/Reuters

At the US-India Strategic Dialogue that is being held here from Tuesday through Friday, US President Barack Obama is trying hard to ease India's worries that it might be neglected by Washington.

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US,RUSSIA,French,China top leader visiting INDIA

Source: Global Times [08:10 November 02 201.

By Hao Zhou.

Presidents of the US, France and Russia, and possibly China, are planning to visit India and bring the country huge commercial contracts in the next two months, the Times of India reported Monday.

US President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit India this weekend, with commercial deals worth $15 billion between the US and India.

Beleaguered at home, French President Nicholas Sarkozy will visit India from December 6 and sign a billion-dollar deal to upgrade Mirage fighter planes owned by India's air force

Following Sarkozy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is also expected to sign a slew of defense deals and reaffirm an old friendship with India

At a meeting in Hanoi on Friday, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao also said he was considering a visit to India at the end of this year on an invitation by his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh.

"Leaders of world powers just happened to visit India one after another in a short period, but it doesn't mean India's international influence has virtually improved," Fu Xiaoqiang, a researcher of South Asian Studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, told the Global Times.

"India has developed rapidly in past years, and it has already been recognized as a nuclear power. Then the desire of a few nationalists in India to let the country be a pole in the multilateral world starts to inflate," Fu said. "However, compared with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, India is only bigger than Russia in terms of economy."