Seen in the pictures are A. Syed Amanulla and H.R. Nagendra Rao, receiving the Brand Ambassador awards from Alok Kumar, Director General of Employment and Training, Ministry of Labour and Employment, at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi recently .
Mysore :
City’s A. Syed Amanulla, Principal and Deputy Director, Govt. ITI, Srirangapatna, a resident of Rajivnagar and H.R. Nagendra Rao, Managing Director, DMS Technology Pvt. Ltd., Belavadi Industrial Area and a resident of Vasu Layout in city were awarded with ‘Brand Ambassador of Vocational Training-2014’ by Ministry of Labour and Employment at a function held at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi recently.
While, Syed Amanulla received the award in Salaried Employee category, Nagendra Rao received the award in Entrepreneurship category. Amanulla, passed ITI in Fitter Trade at Kolar Gold Fields, Diploma in Mechanical Engineering through correspondence and B.E from SJCE Evening College, Mysore. Nagendra Rao passed Mechanical Draughtsmanship from NIE ITI, Mysore and runs his own unit which provides jobs to ITI passed candidates.
Among hundreds of applications, a total of 25 candidates from all over India were selected for the award under the programme ‘Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Shramev Jayate Karyakram’. The awardees were honoured by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Sunday , October 19th, 2014
Will leverage new technologies and deliver education via MOOCs (massive open online courses) as IIMBx
The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) is India’s first B-school to join edXas a new contributing member. As IIMBx, the B-school will leverage new technologies and deliver education via MOOCs (massive open online courses) to a larger population of learners from around the world.
EdX, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based non-profit enterprise created by founding partners Harvard varsity and MIT, offers interactive online classes from the world’s best varsities. It was created for students and institutions that seek to transform themselves through cutting-edge technologies, innovative pedagogy, and rigorous courses.
“We’re gearing up to create the capability to teach differently and edX is a great platform to extend IIM Bangalore’s educational impact across the globe,” said IIMB director Sushil Vachani. “We are honoured to welcome IIM Bangalore to edX,” said Anant Agarwal, CEO, edX. “IIMB will deliver high-quality courses and new perspectives to the edX learning community and reach learners around the world,” Agarwal added.
“This is a tremendous opportunity for IIMB. In addition to delivering top-quality management education on campus to small classes of students chosen through our highly competitive admissions process, as we have done since the institute’s inception, we will use technology to provide selected management courses to a much larger population in India and the world over,” said Vachani.
Vachani, who took over as director of IIMB on July 1 reiterated that IIMB will embrace and leverage technology to create a social impact. “At IIMB,” he added, “we recognise that the way in which education will be delivered will be radically different in future thanks to technology”.
source: http://www.business-standard.com / Business Standard / Home> Management> News> B-School / by BS Reporter / Bangalore – August 04th, 2014
Mangalore University VC Dr. K. Bhyrappa and his wife K.T. Sunita Bhyrappa, who were felicitated at Senate Bhavan in Manasagangotri yesterday, are seen Suttur Seer and others.
Mysore :
“Born in a farmer’s family in Paduvarahalli here Dr. K. Bhyrappa excelled in his career to become the Vice-Chancellor of Mangalore University,” commended V. Sreenivasa Prasad, District in-charge Minister.
He was speaking after releasing the felicitation volume ‘Spatika Prabhe’ at a function organised by Vijnana Bhavana of Mysore University in Senate Hall in Manasagangotri here yesterday.
Prasad said that Dr. Bhyrappa was a down-to-earth humane person having obtained a Ph.D. Degree from Moscow State University, Russia. He added that Dr. Bhyrappa was a role model for the entire farming community having excelled in Science.
The Bhyrappa couple were felicitated on the occasion.
Former VC of Kuvempu University Dr. K. Chidananda Gowda delivered the felicitation address.
Suttur Seer Sri Shivaratri Deshikendra Swamiji and Adichunchanagiri Mutt Mysore branch Seer Sri Somanatha Swamiji graced the occasion.
Mysore University VC Prof. K.S. Rangappa presided. H.L. Bhat of Centre of Nano Science, Felicitation Committee Chairman Krishnegowda and others were present.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Saturday , October 18th, 2014
Indian Coast Guard Hovercraft H-196, the third series of Air Cushion vehicle (ACV) built by UK, arrives at Panambur Beach in Mangalore on Monday.
In what will boost the patrolling capabilities of the Indian Coast Guard in the State, the first of the two hovercraft arrived in Mangalore on Monday. This is the first time a hovercraft will be stationed in the State.
On a sunny morning, the amphibious vehicle rode the waves, skimming over choppy waters, before parking on Panambur beach near the ICG, Karnataka headquarters.
With this acquisition, the hovercraft that has a speed of 45 knots (90 kmph) becomes the fastest vehicle in the coast guard fleet in the State.
“Not only is it fast, it can also go to areas where our ships cannot go. For example, the ships have to keep an eye on the depth of the sea and so cannot approach the shore or have to be wary of shallow seas. The hovercraft can easily land on the shore,” said Gulvinder Singh, Commandant of the hovercraft. He leads a team of 11 men.
Manufactured in the United Kingdom, the Hovercraft H-196 is 21m long and will be used for surveillance, search-and-rescue, emergency missions and to provide assistance to smaller boats at sea.
Coast guard officers said the craft is armed with heavy machine guns, radar and satellite communication — allowing it to effectively keep an eye on the 320-km long Karnataka coastline.
Mr. Singh said the crew had obtained specialised training in London and have been operating the craft along the coast since September. The Coast Guard expects the arrival of the second hovercraft within ten days.
The vehicles will be stationed in a makeshift centre at Panambur, close to the ICG Karnataka headquarters until a permanent hoverport facility will be developed over a 15-acre site at Tannirbhavi beach.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> National> Karnataka / by Mohit M. Rao / Mangalore – September 22nd, 2014
The crematorium will allow pet owners to say a decent goodbye
The city’s first pet crematorium has been completed. And it was done so in record time, 15 months, at the cost of Rs2.35 crore. The crematorium is near Sumanahalli on Magadi Road.
The crematorium will begin operations in November and makes Bangalore the third city in the country, after New Delhi and Mumbai, to have a crematorium for pets. Official said, “The crematorium has two incinerators, one for small pets like cats and dogs and a bigger one for large livestock. For the religiously inclined, the crematorium will offer a facility for rituals to be done to dispose of a pet’s ashes.”
Per day, up to 20 animals can be cremated. Veterinary doctors will be stationed at the facility to conduct post-mortem on animals that die due to disease. The BBMP is yet to work out cremation costs but its officials say the fee would be less than what some private operators are charging.
According to sources, the cost would be less than Rs1,000, an official said.
BBMP commissioner M Lakshminarayana said, “The construction of a pet crematorium was undertaken after the High Court issued orders to the BBMP stating that it is an obligatory duty of the civic agency to treat dead animals in a proper manner. Keeping in mind the High Court’s direction we took up construction work and within due time the project has been completed.”
The genesis of the crematorium is found in a PIL filed in the High Court of Karnataka. The court had in 2008 ordered that the BBMP should come up with a crematorium for animals. Five years later, work has begun.
Four years ago, BBMP proposed a crematorium on a five-acre plot in Medi Agrahara, Yelahanka. But the project didn’t take off as the civic body failed to create an alternative road to the crematorium. However, the crematorium site at Sumanahalli is well connected.
Bangalore is already home to South India’s first pet cemetery. Run by People for Animals, it is located on a half-acre plot near Kengeri. However, as with cemeteries for humans, the need for more land prevents the establishment of new cemeteries.
Crematoriums for pets have an advantage over pet cemeteries in that they do not require more land over time. They also are preferred by many communities in Karnataka that cremate their dead and would also prefer to dispose of their pets similarly.
source: http://www.bangaloremirror.com / Bangalore Mirror / Home> Bangalore> Civic / by Atul Chaturvedi, Bangalore Mirror Bureau / October 22nd, 2014
For the first time ever, a foreign orchestra has scored for a Kannada music album. And that too for a song glorifying Kannada and Karnataka.
The Czech Symphony Orchestra in Prague has worked on the album, Ananya Aalaapana, which is the second album by the group, Techies for Kannada, and KChords. The album with seven songs will be released on November 2.
The music is composed by Karthik Somanath, a technical architect at a major IT firm in Bangalore. The lyrics were penned by Karthik and Paawana Poonacha, a content architect. Poonacha, said, “The album is targeted at Kannada professionals living outside Karnataka. These people are exposed to a lot of different kinds and flavours of music. We also wanted to enhance Kannada music with a foreign orchestra,” explaining the need for the Czech Symphony Orchestra.
The Kannada patriotic song, Jagadalli Yelle Hodaru Moodada Mohaka Anubhava, is one of seven songs in the album. This is the only song in the album that will also be filmed as a video which will be released along with the album.
“Our first album had romantic songs. The idea is to show that life is beautiful.”and portray the different flavours of beauty. There are songs about nature, music, peace and brotherhood, love and friendship.”
“It was not easy to get a European orchestra. “The album is self-funded and we are looking for sponsors. The Czech orchestra came down a little on the money front. But is was still quite a bit for us to go there and get the music scored. We wanted the ‘first-of-its-kind’ element to be there and theefore went to great lengths,” said Poonacha.
The KChords team comprises IT and medical professionals translating their passion for music and Kannada into compassion for under-privileged schoolchildren in Karnataka. The proceeds from the album will go to the KChords Trust which will introduce music for under-privileged school children.
source: http://www.bangaloremirror.com / Bangalore Mirror / Home> Bangalore> Others / by Shyam Prasad S, Bangalore Mirror Bureau / October 24th, 2014
A file photo of weightlifters Farman Basha and Sakina Khatum in Scotland.
‘I owe a lot to my physio, Dr. Rajkumar Amaravathi’
Farman Basha did India proud at the Asian Para Games in South Korea on Sunday by winning a bronze medal in power-lifting in the men’s 49kg category. Basha, a resident of T.C. Palya in the city, lifted 155-kg weight to finish behind Vietnam’s Le van Cong and Iraq’s Mustafa Salman Radhi.
“The competition was very tough. I hadn’t expected a medal. I owe a lot to my physio, Dr. Rajkumar Amaravathi,” he said from Incheon. The 40-year-old made up for the disappointment of Commonwealth Games held in August, when he failed to complete all his lifts. “I was heartbroken after what happened at Glasgow. My shoulder was injured then. But I am better now,” he said.
At the previous edition of the Para Asian Games at Guangzhou four years ago, Mr. Basha had won a bronze medal — later upgraded to silver — in the men’s 48-kg category. “We have only one person as support staff – Mohd. Jawahir Rahi. He too deserves many thanks,” he said.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Karnataka / by Sports Teporter / Bangalore – October 20th, 2014
For most people, a beetroot is not something that they would eat with relish. But the Indian Coffee House (ICH) chain in Kerala has used the vegetable to make its signature cutlets that many of its patrons swear by.
From almost being shut down in the mid 1950s, the restaurant chain has held its own against stiff competition to be one of the most popular eateries in the state.
The coffee house chain was first started in 1936 by the Coffee Cess Committee, the first restaurant was opened in Bombay. There are now around 400 outlets all over India, and it is the biggest chain of restaurants in the southern state.
Over the years, however, the chain incurred losses, forcing the union government to consider shutting it down. At this point, Communist leaders, especially those from Kerala, took a special interest in it and began a movement demanding that the ICH outlets be handed over to the workers of the Coffee Board.
Once the government agreed, the workers organized themselves into the Indian Coffee Workers’ Co-operative and since then the ICH has been achieved not just financial stability, but more importantly it had secured for itself a place in the palates of its patrons.
The first Society was formed in Bangalore on August 1957 and the outlet by the newly formed society opened in Delhi on 27th December 1957.
In Kerala, Communist leaders like A.K. Gopalan, T.K. Krishnan and N.S. Parameswaran Pillai spearheaded the movement. The ICH in Thrissur was the first to be started in Kerala in 1958, and it was the fourth in the country.
Despite stiff competition from new restaurants, the ICH in Kerala has managed to continue to run all of its 51 outlets. There are a few specific cuisines in the ICH outlets in the state like French toast, bread omlette, etc for which attract large number of people. The coffee powder sold at reasonable prices is also a good source of revenue for the co-operative society in Kerala.
ICH Thiruvananthapuram
In that the movement for the chain’s survival was spearheaded mostly by Communist leaders, after Kerala, another communist bastion – West Bengal – has the second largest number of outlets.
The ICH outlet in Kolkata opposite to the Presidency College is the most famous among all. Popular singer Manna Dey, immortalized the coffee house chain in a song “Coffee Houser Shei Addata”. The song is about a group of friends who would meet there regularly and how they now had little contact.
The Kolkata coffee house was truly an “adda”, or a meeting place for many leading intellectuals of the time, like Rabindranath Tagore and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. When the government decided to shut down the outlet in 1958, some professors of the Presidency College successfully petitioned the government against it, asking the government to take into consideration the heritage value of the hotel.
ICH Kolkata
“Over the years, the society (Indian Coffee House) has stuck to the traditional values of good taste, courteous service and unmatched quality” and it is because of this that it still remains the biggest restaurant chain in Kerala, says their website. Now, the ICH is governed by an eleven-member body elected from within its employees.
source: http://www.thenewsminute.com / The NEWS Minute / Home / by Siddharth Mohan Nair / October 22nd, 2014
Gabrial Stany Veigus lauded as agriculturist of the year
Farmer Gabrial Stany Veigus of Perar, a retired forest official who turned a 37-acre land into a model farm with innovative practices, is among five persons to receive the Rachana awards, instituted by Rachana, the Mangalore Catholic Chamber of Commerce and Industry, for 2014. Mr. Veigas has been recognised as Rachana agriculturist of the year for introducing sustainable farming practices.
He has planted 3,400 coconut saplings, mango, rambutan, cashew, grafted variety of jackfruit and breadfruit over the last 10 years and converted his land into a high-yielding agricultural plot. Jenette Pinto, a social activist from Mumbai and a professor of history who co-authored the book ‘Slavery in Portuguese India’ will receive the outstanding woman of the year award. Raphael Sequera has won the entrepreneur of the year award.
Anil Keith D’Cruz, a Mumbai-based Oncology surgeon, has won the professional of the year award and Ligoury D’Mello, chairman of the D’Mello group of companies, Oman has won the NRI entrepreneur of the year.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Mangalore / by Govind Belgaumkar / Mangalore – October 22nd, 2014
Seen in the picture are (sitting from left) V. Dharini (Captain), Shankaranarayana, PE Director, Dr. G.L. Shekar, Principal, J.E. Sanjana (Vice-Captain) and D. Nindhy; (standing from left) M.S. Mekhala, Sushmita Nair, B.S. Poojashree, Yochita J. Prakash, K.C. Mouna, M. Niveda, S. Deeksha and Punya Nanjappa.
Mysore :
The NIE team won the Mysore City Inter-Collegiate Throwball Championships – 2014-15 organised by Mysore City Inter Collegiate Tournaments Committee at JSS Women’s College, Saraswathipuram, in city recently.
In the finals played between NIE and JSSCW, JSSCW won the first game by 27-26. NIE team fought back and won the second game by 25-13. The deciding third game was very interesting and both the teams exhibited good attacking skills. However the NIE team which was trailing at 10-16 fought back with some very good display of skills by Captain V. Dharini and won over JSSCW by 25-20.
The prizes for both the teams were distributed by International Throwball Referee Kashinath.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home>Sports News / Thursday , October 16th, 2014
