K. Kumara has been awarded Ph.D in Economics by the University of Mysore (UoM) for his thesis ‘Socio-Economic Analysis of Farmers’ Suicides in Karnataka: A Case Study in Mandya District’ submitted under the guidance of                                                 Dr. V. Shanmugam.

C.N. Harshavardhana has been awarded Ph.D in Faculty of Applied Sciences (Mathematics) by the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) for his thesis ‘Contributions to Some Interesting Topics in the Theory of Graphs’ submitted under the guidance of Dr. P. Siva Kota Reddy.