The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIMB) has retained the number one spot in the full-time two-year Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme in the country in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Masters in Management (MiM) Rankings – 2020 released on Thursday.
Globally, it was in the top 50, with a rank of 26.
In the one-year full-time MBA programme, IIMB has improved its ranking from 71 in 2019 to 44 in 2020 globally in the QS rankings.
“The QS rankings prove that the various initiatives that we have undertaken at IIMB, in terms of graduate employability, entrepreneurship and alumni outcomes, and thought leadership are in the right direction,” said IIMB Director G. Raghuram in a press release.
QS, which conducted the rankings, has featured 250 business schools across the world for rankings.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Bengaluru / by Staff Reporter / September 27th, 2019
These cadets, from the Karnataka and Goa directorate of the NCC, placed eighth in the All India Thal Sainik Camp.
Students were not affected by the academic lag of three months, and were confident of completing their lessons with additional classes.
Bengaluru :
The energy was high among the 40 teenagers who represented Karnataka and Goa at the national Thal Sainik Camp in Delhi. The camp was held for 90 days.
These cadets, from the Karnataka and Goa directorate of the NCC, placed eighth in the All India Thal Sainik Camp. While some of these girls took up the rigorous 90-odd day training just for their of the NCC, others saw it as their breakthrough in to the Defence.”
I want to join the Army. We got to experience a lot in these 90 days, but the biggest takeaway was the discipline and personality grooming we were exposed to. There were times we had to wake up at 3:30 am to prepare for the line area competition,” said Aishwarya, a student of Mount Carmel College, Benglauru.
Maansi A Dixith, who won a silver medal in public speaking, judging distances and field signals, said, “More than 500 students were screened before the directorate picked us. A constant reminder of this kept me afloat. Most of my friends did not make it.”
For Sgt Soudamini Behera, who won a silver for shooting, wearing a uniform was a way to honour her father.
“Seeing my father, a railway employee, in uniform made me aspire to wear one too. With a passion for adventure, I pushed myself to hold a heavy rifle. Every moment was ‘now or never’ at the camp,” she said.
Students were not affected by the academic lag of three months, and were confident of completing their lessons with additional classes. Deputy Director General NCC Lalith Kumar assured support.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Bengaluru / by Pearl Maria D’Souza / Express News Service / September 30th, 2019
The place which hosts Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes at Kudligi in Ballari | Express
Kudligi :
The tiny town of Kudligi is taking big steps to remind people about the Gandhian way of life, with the memorial holding the ashes (Chitha Bhasma) of the Father of the Nation set to get a facelift after 60 years.
It started as a dream to educate people about Gandhism — his ideology and Spartan way of life — by local teacher and freedom fighter Bindu Madhav. It is now taking shape with the help of the district administration, which earmarked a budget of Rs 2 crore from the district mining fund. Considered South India’s only such mortal remains of Mahatma Gandhi, the story of Chitha Bhasma in Ballari district’s Kudligi town began in the cells of Vellore jail in the early 1940s.
“Bindu Madhav wanted to keep Gandhian values eternal so that young minds were inspired by them, and wanted to do something about this. Being a freedom fighter, he was imprisoned in Vellore jail along with Tekur Subramanya, who became the first Member of Parliament from then Bellary, former President of India R Venkataraman and another freedom fighter, Vaddi Venkob Rao. However, he could fulfil his dream only after the death of the Mahatma,” said T Govind Vittal, secretary, Gandhi Bhavan, Ballari.
After the country attained freedom, Bindu Madhav was released from jail and appointed physical education teacher. He was posted to Kottur and then Kudligi. It was then that Gandhiji was assassinated. Madhav began his efforts to make Gandhian values immortal.
“Kudligi being the most backward place in Ballari district, he intended to make it a Wardha — Gandhiji’s second ashram for his Chitha Bhasma,” said Vittal.
Precious package reaches Kudligi
How the ashes reached Kudligi is an interesting story. Madhav spoke about his plan to Tekur Subramanya, who was then Congress parliamentary secretary. Tekur was also interested and ensured that the ashes were collected and brought to Chennai through Omandur Ramaswamy Reddy, the then treasurer of the Congress
Legislative Party
From there, the ashes were sent through Diggavi Ranganathachar, chief engineer in the Maratha and Southern Madras (MSM) Railways, now called Southern Railways. Bindu Madhav organised locals like G Venkob Rao, a landlord, to gain access to the land to host the remains. He named the high school ground Mahadeva Mailara Kreedangana, and had the Chitha Bhasma placed here.
The Memorial
A memorial was also constructed and inaugurated by Ramanand Teertha, who, incidentally, was proclaimed the guru of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao.
Every known personality, right from Col Manjappa to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, former Chief Minister of Karnataka Kengal Hanumanthiah, MS Sukadia and others have visited the place, which has acquired historic significance.
The dilapidated building was demolished in 2018 to build a new structure. The new memorial hall coming up at the place will host a beautiful garden with lawns, a gallery with pictures of Mahatma Gandhi, which include sepia frames from his childhood to the making of the Mahatma — his struggle for Indian Independence. An audio-visual centre is also part of the project. Work is on in full swing.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Karnataka / by Subhash Chandra N S / Express News Service / September 29th, 2019
Plasmonic tweezers are limited by the fact that they are fixed in space and can therefore only trap objects that come close to them.
Researchers at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, have developed a technique to trap and move tiny objects in the nanoscale using optical “tweezers” employing light. This is a tool that can be used to pick and move small suspended particles even including cells. This research has been published in Nature Communications.
Optical tweezers have been known for about thirty years now and are used in biology to hold and manipulate particles; however, they have a limitation when it comes to nanosized particles. This was partly solved with the development of “plasmonic tweezer” which works on the principle that when a disc of noble metal, like gold, is illuminated with light, it creates an electromagnetic field around the disc. This field can attract and hold on to tiny particles.
Plasmonic tweezers are limited by the fact that they are fixed in space and can therefore only trap objects that come close to them. Though the team, in an earlier work, showed that such plasmonic tweezers could be manoeuvred with a combination of light and magnetic fields, they could not apply the technique to some types of colloids.
Tweezer-in-a-tweezer
In the present work, they overcome this limitation by developing a method that uses only optical force. They integrate a silver nanodisc with a microrod made of glass and the combination can be manipulated using laser beams alone. This “tweezer-in-a-tweezer” approach can trap objects of about 40 nanometres in size, using a single laser beam. This is the typical size of a virus or DNA. “The optical tweezer holds the plasmonic tweezer and the plasmonic tweezers trap our target nanoparticles, therefore tweezer (plasmonic) in tweezer (optical),” says Souvik Ghosh, first author of the paper.
As the size of any colloidal particle decreases, for instance from micro-scale to nano-scale, the movement due to Brownian motion or random fluctuation increases. “Therefore, holding a single silver nanodisc with a focused laser beam (the optical tweezer) is challenging and needs high laser intensity to generate enough force to overcome the fluctuations,” explains Ghosh. If, in order to reduce the required laser intensity, the size of the disc were reduced, the plasmonic properties would be lost. Therefore, the team attached a dielectric microrod made of glass which while preserving the plasmonic property, reduces the thermal fluctuations by an order of magnitude. “The intensity required is about 100 times lower that what a regular optical tweezer typically uses to hold an object of similar dimensions,” he explains.
“The technique is ready for real world applications,” says Prof. Ambarish Ghosh, in whose lab the research was carried out. “Simplicity and ease of implementation are the biggest USPs for this device. It is patented and we are already in discussion with a company for licensing.”
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Sci-Tech> Science / by Shubashree Desikan / September 28th, 2019
50 Vintage beauties will start from Raj Bhavan tomorrow; will be in city till Oct. 2
Mysuru:
A two-litre 1937 Sunbeam Talbot, the only car in India previously owned by Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, will be displayed during the Vintage Car Rally organised as part of Dasara celebrations.
The car is currently owned by Sabena Prakash and the Vintage beauty will be brought from Bengaluru on Sept. 29 (tomorrow). Along with Lord Mountbatten’s car, 49 other vintage beauties will take a tour of the city for three days.
Mysureans will have an opportunity to see these classic cars in the event organised by Federation of Historic Vehicles of India (FHVI) from Sept. 29 to Oct. 2. The Federation will bring over 50 vintage and classic cars and motorcycles and the rally will be flagged off from Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru by Governor Vajubhai Vala at 9 am tomorrow.
A rare picture of the last Governor General of India, Earl Mountbatten with his wife and Pandit Nehru, near Kufri (Himachal Pradesh) heading to Narkanda in the 1940s.
The rally will arrive in the city and pass through Mysuru’s historic monuments tomorrow evening, after which the vehicles will be parked in front of the Mysore Palace. Prominent personalities from royal families and well-known industrialists from business houses in India and Sri Lanka will be part of this rally.
It is FHVI’s second edition and it is the only all India Federation of Vintage and Classic Cars associated with the International body of Historic Vehicles FIVA, official partner of UNESCO. It has at present nearly 2,000 members and about 10,000 Vintage and Classic Cars, Bikes and Utilitarian Vehicles.
The FHVI has taken part in Dasara procession for several years and now it has made it an annual event from last year with the help of Government of Karnataka, Department of Tourism and Department of Forests.
Vintage cars from the 1920s to 1980s like Sunbeam, Mercedes, MG’s, Jaguars, Fords, Dodge-Brothers, Buicks, Chevrolet’s, Morris’s, Austin’s, Alfa Romeo’s, Triumph and Lincoln will be part of this vintage car rally. A Mercedes 170 V Tourer, owned by Bri Ponnambalan, Studebaker Commander Tourer owned by Clive, Buick Super 8 owned by Rohan Fernando, Mercedes Ponton 180 owned by Naresha Subramanyam and MG GT owned by Megara Alwsi are some of the cars being showcased.
Dr. Ravi Prakash, President of FHVI, said, “A total of 50 entrants are coming from overseas and across India and Karnataka. There would be 125 participants. This year the prominent car will be 1937 Sunbeam Talbot, 2-litre, the only car in India previously owned by Lord Mountbatten.”
Historic motorcycles will be in the lead. The vehicles have to move in the city between 30kmph and 40kmph and on the outskirts between 60kmph and 70kmph, he added.
Participants will stay at the Lalitha Mahal Palace Hotel and other private hotels in Mysuru till Oct. 2. On Monday, Sept. 30, participants will be driving to Chamundi Hills for the Darshan of Goddess Chamundeshwari and later will be visiting Bandipur Tiger Reserve. On Oct. 1, participants will have a ‘Pagal Gymkhana’ at the Lalitha Mahal Grounds after which they will be driving to the Krishna Raja Sagar Dam and return to Bengaluru in the evening.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> News / September 28th, 2019
