Crossword competition held for newspaper readers as part of Dasara celebrations in Shivamogga

A crossword-solving contention was held successful Shivamogga connected Sunday, arsenic portion of Dasara celebrations. As galore arsenic 50 radical took portion successful the contention and solved Kannada crosswords.

The programme was jointly organised by Shivamogga City Corporation and Shivamogga territory portion of Karnataka Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) nether the rubric – Patrika Dasara. The inaugural was to cultivate and promote the wont of speechmaking newspapers.

A.T. Bhagya, Information Assistant of Department of Information and Public Relations, inaugurated the competition. Addressing the gathering, she said the workout of solving crosswords assistance readers grow vocabulary, amended representation and heighten problem-solving skills. “Once we resoluteness crossword successfully, we consciousness happy. It is 1 of the champion hobbies that youngsters tin prime up, alternatively of utilizing cellphones,” she said.

Journalist R.S. Halaswamy conducted the competition. KUWJ territory vice-president Vaidya, State committee manager N. Ravi Kumar, territory wide caput V.T. Arun, and others were present.