Kannada Television Channels, Adress & Contacts

tv9 kannada & News9
No.13/1, Opp Hockey Stadium, Rhenius St, Civil Station, Richmond Town, Bangalore - 560025
(80)-40312702, 40312703 (80)-41134999
http://www.tv9.net/

Suvarna & Suvarna News
No.202, 2nd Flr, Embassy Square, No.148, Opp To Police Commissioners Office, Infantry Road, Bangalore - 560001
(80)-30550666, 30520000 (80)-30550606
www.asianetglobal.com

Etv Kannada
Mr Subba Naidu (Chief Manager) No.9/7,Kcn Bhavan, Yamuna Bai Rd,
Madhavnagar, Bangalore - 560001
(80)-22384360, 22384361 (80)-22384483, 22386862

Udaya tv, U2, Ushe tv, Udaya varthegalu, Udaya Movies, Chintu tv, Hasya tere
No.16/A, 2nd Flr, Maratha Bhavan, Thimmaiah Rd, Vasanth Nagar,
Bangalore - 560052
(80)-22357272 (80)-22357298
www.sunnetwork.org

Kasturi tv
No.12 & 12/1, Josco Jewellery Bldg, Opp To Sir M Vishveshwarya Museum,
Kasturba Road, Bangalore - 560001(80)-27273344, 40443293, 40443333
http://www.kasthuritv.com/

Zee Kannada
No.39, 3rd Flr, United Mansion, M G Road, Bangalore - 560001
(80)-30918300, 25581234, 66109939 (80)-25580099
http://www.zeekannadatv.com/

Chandana (DD 9)
J C Nagar, Bangalore - 560006
(80)-23333831, 23333201, 23542599, (80)-23542799
http://www.ddindia.gov.in/

Raj Music Kannada
No.808, 8th Flr, Manipal Centre,No.47, South Blk, Dickenson Rd, M G Road, Bangalore - 560001
Mr Anil Kumar
(80)-25323239 (91)-9886043376
http://www.rajtvnet.in/

UGC pay scales for State Lecturers:

University and college teachers in Karnataka will get revised University Grants Commission (UGC) pay scales. The retirement age for university teachers is raised from 60 to 62 years. The pay revision along the lines of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations will benefit an estimated 18,630 university and college teachers. The beneficiaries of the retirement age enhancement will, however, be much less. Announcing the Cabinet decisions, Home Minister V S Acharya said the revised pay scales for teachers would be implemented with retrospective effect from January 1, 2006. The hike for teachers will range between Rs 10,000 and Rs 35,000 per month depending on the seniority and the positions they hold. The Cabinet also met the long-pending demands of junior doctors, who had threatened to go on indefinite strike. Nearly 4,000 doctors are employed with the health department. The Cabinet approved allowances between Rs 4,000 and Rs 12,500 a month for the government doctors. The hike for doctors (ranging between Rs 3,000 and Rs 8,000 per month) would be with immediate effect. The decision to hike the pay scale of university/college teachers is in line with the UGC-constituted Chaddha Committee recommendation. The Chaddha committee had recommendations implementation of the revised UGC scales for college teachers. According to education department sources, a total of 18,630 lecturers, including 6,740 faculty members in government colleges, 9,650 in private aided colleges and 2,360 in university colleges, will benefit from the decision.The teachers’ wage bill for the government will shoot up from the present Rs 590 crore to Rs 815 crore per annum, sources added. The Centre will bear 80 per cent of the revised salary bill from January 1, 2006 to March 2010. Later on, the State Government will have to foot the entire bill. Acharya said the arrears of Rs 954 crore would have to be paid as the difference for a period of 51 months from January 1, 2006, to March 31, 2010. The Union Government will bear 80 per cent (Rs 763 crore) of the salary bill, and the remaining 20 per cent (Rs 191 crore) will be borne by the State Government from January 1, 2006, to March 2010. The date of release of the first instalment of arrears as well as the revised salary will be announced later.

Designation changes

There will be a change in designations following the implementation of the revised pay scales. The posts of lecturer, senior lecturer or selection grade lecturer will go, and instead there will be assistant professor, associate professor and a professor. The fixation formula, allowances, yardsticks for career advancement scheme, qualification criteria and leave facilities will be as stipulated by the UGC.However, sources said the government had decided not to create new posts. This is in line with a Finance Department proposal. Besides, leave and medical reimbursement facilities and pensionary benefits will continue to be applicable to State Government employees.Moreover, teaching staff without UGC-prescribed qualifications are not entitled to avail the revised scheme, the sources added. The Federation of University and College Teachers’ Association in Karnataka (Fuctak) welcomed the decision to implement the revised scales of pay from January 1, 2006.

Husharu movie review

Aadarsha has shown much improvement in his third movie Hushaar as a director-cum-hero after Dumbee and Nage Habba.

Still from Hushaar

Film: Hushaar (Thriller)
Cast: Aadarsha, Mallika Kapoor, Anand
Direction: Aadarsha
Duration: 2 hours 16 minutes

With a good selection of artistes and a controlled script and narration, he could have done a much better job. But the director scores in excellently combining a murder mystery with romance in the second half. The camerawork brilliantly captures the sequences in the forest area.

The story revolves around a group of youngsters who are found dead under mysterious circumstances in a forest near a village. Vishwas (Aadarsha), a CoD officer, who comes to the village on the pretext of doing research on agriculture, solves the mystery. We also have Akshatha (Mallika Kapoor) who falls in love with Vishwas.

Aadarsha excels as hero and music director. Mallika Kapoor fails to impress. Master Anand's performance as the hero's friend is amateurish. Aadarsha's music is good.