Saturday 6 April 2013

Events in kerala 2013



Ø  Nikhil Kumar, become  the 20th Governor of Kerala. Chief Justice of Kerala High Court Justice Manjula Chelloor administered the oath of the office and secrecy at Raj Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram to him. He was former Nagaland Governor.
Ø  In 2013 the 67th Santosh Trophy tournament was held in kerala.Services won the soccer contest by defeating Kerala 4-3 on penalties at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi. Santosh Trophy is the yearly Indian football tournament that is played among states and government institutions. This tournament was initiated in 1941.  
Ø  The State Government of Kerala on 20 February 2013 approved Kerala Abkari Act Amendment Ordinance 2013 that raises age limit for buying or selling liquor from 18 years to 21 years.
Ø  The three-day 11th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) held in Kochi on 7 January 2013.
Ø  In 2013- Sugathakumari  got  Saraswati Samman for the collection of her poems, titled 'Manalezhuthu.The Saraswati Samman is an annual award for outstanding prose or poetry literary works in any Indian language listed in Schedule VIII of the Constitution of India. The Saraswati Samman was instituted in 1991 by the K. K. Birla Foundation.
The other Malayalam poets who got Saraswati Samman are
1995 - Balamani Amma for poetry collection Nivedyam
2005 - K. Ayyappa Panicker for his collection of poems Ayyappa Panikarude Kritikal

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