City girl, Zeba Amina, a 8th standard student of Delhi Public School, Mysore, taking part in the AITA Talent series Under-14 National Level Tennis Tournament held at Trivandrum Tennis Club, Trivandrum, Kerala, from June 16-20th emerged runner-up in the Girls Under-14 singles event.
Zeba Amina, a product of the R. Nagaraj Tennis Academy, Mysore and daughter of Saleem and Shehnaz, performed well in the National U-14 talent series tennis tournament and finished runner-up. In the under-14 singles final, Zeba Amina lost to Tamil Nadu’s Kiran Rani 1-6,2-6.
In the semi-final, Zeba beat Janaki (TN) 6-4, 6-4 and in the quarter-finals beat Ananya (Kerala) 6-1, 6-2 to progress further.
Sachidanand (left) and Sharath seen while at work during the ongoing U-19 NCA Inter-Zonal Cricket tournament in Mysore.
by S.N. Venkatnag Sobers
Mysore :
Majority of budding cricketers aspire to represent their respective State and National sides. On being unable to fulfil their dreams, they choose to get into other professions and continue playing cricket for fun. But not many choose to be associated with cricket as umpires, scorers or video analysts.
Mysore city has been contributing quality cricketers to the State team who have made a mark for themselves. Likewise there are also cricket umpires in city who have been officiating in State-level matches and scorers who have been executing their work at Ranji and National-level.
Apart from umpires and scorers, there are others who work behind the scene for the smooth conduct of the game. They are those without whom decision making would be difficult for the on-field umpires and the third umpire in cricket. For every referral from the on-field umpires, the video of the ongoing match has to be retrieved within 30 seconds for the third umpire to make a decision. This is the job of the video analysts.
They also provide videos for the umpires, coaches and players with the total analysis of the match. Video Analysts mark each and every ball delivered by the bowlers and also the balls hit by the batsmen. Every decision made by the on field umpires is recorded and later submitted to the tournament organisers for review.
Mysore city is home for two youngsters who work as video analysts for the matches organised by both Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Meet Sharath Narasimhan and S. Sachidanand, the duo who have been a part of the 5-member video analysts’ team in the State who are recognised as video analysts by the BCCI.
While Sharath has been working at Wipro in Bangalore as Quality Manager, Sachidanand works as Team Lead with Theorem India Private Limited in Mysore. Both are seen working together during BCCI tournaments held in Mysore.
Currently, Sharath and Sachidanand have been working for NCA Inter-Zonal U-19 Tournament being held in Gangothri Glades and SJCE Cricket Ground in city.
Sachidanand started as a video analyst in the year 2007 while working for Swantha Solutions now Sporting Minds owned by former Indian Cricketer Vijay Bharadwaj. Later, he qualified to work as video analyst for KSCA and BCCI and since then he has been a part of the team in State.
Speaking to Star of Mysore, Sachidanand said that the experience as a video analyst had been good as he had an opportunity to meet and interact with some of the best in the sport.
Sachidanand, who is a product of Jai Hind Cricket Club, mentioned that he had worked for Rajasthan Royals as a back-end video analyst and also for Mangalore United, the KPL franchise.
When asked about the reason him taking up video analysis, Sachidanand said that it was due to the passion he had towards the game.
Sharath Narasimhan, a product of RBN Cricket Club, has also been working as a video analyst since three-and-a-half years. Sharath is also the BCCI qualified senior video analyst. He has worked for six Ranji matches and India A vs West Indies A four-day match held in Mysore.
Speaking to Star of Mysore, Sharath said that working as a video analyst was a good opportunity to interact with umpires, coaches and players.
“Being a video analyst is no easy game. One has been to constantly upgrading himself with the developing technologies and also be sharp and active throughout the game. This apart, a person has to be passionate about the game and be dedicated to work in any situation”, said Sharath.
Video Analysts in-charge of the control room during the match. Their job starts right from the installation of cameras and cables to provide video recording to the umpires, coaches and players for their reviews after the matches.
Sharath and Sachidanand are a part of 120 video analysts in India who aim to reach greater heights.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / June 20th, 2014
Doctors at Columbia Asia Hospital in city saved the lives of three persons with its expertise in treating brain injuries recently.
In the first case, a 10-year-old girl who was brutally attacked with a sharp weapon and admitted to Columbia Asia Hospital in a very critical condition, was treated successfully by the doctors.
The young girl had bled to a point that she was exsanguinated and the bones on the front and side of her head were shattered and her brain had come out which required immediate surgery.
An immediate surgery was called for, in which all the fragments were removed and bleeding was stopped. She had suffered infection of the brain matter due to contamination, but timely treatment saved her. Now she is able to understand, sit, stand, walk and perform all day-to-day activities independently and is looking forward to joining back to school.
In the second case, an equestrian, who fell from his horse while racing at the Race Course was brought to the hospital in a state of unconsciousness. He had no external injuries but suffered an axonal injury in the brain which made him unconscious.
He was intubated at the Hospital and a tracheostomy (an incision on the neck to allow breathing without the use of nose and mouth) was performed to allow respiration. With medication and hospital care he was brought back to a condition where he is able to do his daily chores with minimal support.
M.D. Paswan who underwent the surgery said that he was grateful to the doctors at the hospital for giving him a new lease of life.
In the third case, an elderly man, aged about 60 years was admitted to the hospital after being hit by a four wheeler in a road accident. He had lost his consciousness and was bleeding profusely from his ears and nose as he had suffered multiple injuries in his head, chest and ribs. The injuries caused bleeding into his lungs and there was a contusion of the lungs. A large clot was removed from the brain after a complicated surgery.
The man who was admitted unconscious with poly-trauma, lung injury, rib injury, suffered chest infection, pulmonary embolism and a complete paralysis of the right side. He has improved to such an extent that he is now been able to comprehend, understand speech and writings and is now doing his daily activities without any help. The only disability that remained was in articulation and pronunciation for which therapy has been initiated.
Eregowda who underwent treatment at the hospital said that his family had lost all hopes of his recovery but the doctors at the hospital have given him a new lease of life and expressed gratefulness to the doctors at the hospital.
Dr. Anil Sangli- Consultant – Neuro & Spine Surgeon at Columbia Asia Hospital, Mysore, who performed the surgeries said that 39% of those who currently die from head injuries could be saved if proper care is given on time. The speed and expertise in treatment provided is a vital factor when it comes to surviving head injuries. He said that one has to remember the fact that head injuries are not always external and added that many times the patient suffers from internal injury which goes undiagnosed. Hence, it becomes extremely important to get the correct and timely diagnosis, he said.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / June 20th, 2014
The Eighth Semester Mechanical Engineering students of Maharaja Institute of Technology (MIT), Mysore, have excelled in their project with the ‘Design and Frabication of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) – Y4 Copter’ recently.
The project was carried out by Mohan Keerthi, S.T. Savanth, K. Ashwini and P.B. Pramod under the guidance of Dr. Mohamed Khaisar, Professor and HoD, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Dr. Y.T. Krishnegowda, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Secretary,Maharaja Education Trust (MET), Mysore.
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone and referred to as a Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard. Its flight is controlled either autonomously by onboard computers or by the remote control of a pilot on the ground or in another vehicle.
They are usually deployed for military and special operation applications, but also used in a small but growing number of civil applications, such as policing and fire-fighting, and non-military security work, such as surveillance of pipelines. UAVs are often preferred for missions that are too ‘dull, dirty or dangerous’ for manned aircraft.
As a tool for search and rescue, UAVs can help find humans lost in the wilderness, trapped in collapsed buildings, or adrift at sea.
The name Y4 Copter is named after the shape of the aircraft resembling the alphabet ‘Y’ and ‘4’ is due to number of propellers used are four. The complete design and all the stages of fabrication process and assembly were solely carried out by the students at the college premises.
Automation is implemented to maintain the desired roll, pitch and yaw. There are two propellers and motors at the front on two separate arms and two co-axial propellers and motors at the rear end. The relative motions of roll and pitch are achieved by tilting mechanism by servos. There are two servos, one for the roll movement and the other for the pitch movement. The total system is powered by the battery.
The flight and movement of the Y4 Copter is controlled by the wireless system called radio controller. A custom remote is built to communicate with the Y4 Copter which offers long range and security. Dr. B.G. Naresh Kumar, Principal-Maharaja Institute of Technology witnessed the testing and first flight of the Y4 Copter and appreciated it.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / June 20th, 2014
In 2006, soaring hotel costs and traffic snarls led Infosys to build Le Terrace, a four-star hotel with 500 rooms for its employees and overseas clients in its campus in Bangalore’s Electronics City.
Eight years on, the software industry posterchild is about to embark on generating its own power, in the process saving costs, getting clean reliable power for its operations and fulfilling its broader obligations to society.
(Eight years on, the software…)
Infosys has proposed a 50 mw solar park in Karnataka, becoming the first software company in India to think of generating its own power that will meet a bulk of the electricity needs of its offices in Bangalore, Mysore and Mangalore.
Karnataka’s Energy Minister DK Shivakumar told ET on Monday that Infosys had held one round of talks with the state government in which it had expressed keenness to build the solar power facility. “The company will buy land on its own,” he said.
Infosys confirmed the intent and said it will submit a formal proposal to the government once they finalise the land. “We hope to commission the park in about a year,” said Infosys Executive Vice President Ramadas Kamath told ET. Asked why Infosys is entering captive generation, he said that his company wanted to be self-sufficient in energy.
“We want to promote use of clean energy and reduce carbon emission. Solar is the best option. Several parts of Karnataka have good solar intensity. We now have solar technologies wherein you recover your investment in eight years. It has less of maintenance hassle, and easy to build,” said Kamath, who heads facilities, administration, security and sustainability at Infosys.
Kamath said the idea to build a solar park had been mooted a year ago by Infosys’ Head of Green Initiative Rohan Parekh, and had won the support of the company’s board of directors. “Narayana Murthy and the Board have been very keen that we do this,” Kamath said.
The company has already started looking for some 300 acres of land in regions of Karnataka where solar intensity is high. The company expects project cost, including land, to be about Rs 360-380 crore, small change for a company that is sitting on a cash pile of Rs 30,000 crore. Infosys estimates that it would require about five acres of land to generate one megawatt of solar power and excluding land costs, each MW of capacity will require its shell out around Rs 6.5 crore.
All the Infosys offices in Karnataka, which between them have around 65,000 seats, consume about 95 million units a year. The pro- posed 50 MW will generate about 84 million units, nearly 90% of Infosys present energy needs. 1 MW capacity equals 1000 kilowatts or 1.67 million units of energy a year and is enough to light up anywhere between 300 and 350 homes in cities such as Delhi, Mumbai or Bangalore.
“We will buy the balance from the grid,” Kamath said, adding that the company would consider scaling up its generation capacity based on its experience with the 50 MW initially planned.
Grid power presently costs the company, which has managed to halve its per capita consumption of power between 2007 and 2013, about Rs 5.65 per unit, while its own solar power would cost about Rs 3 per unit after factoring in depreciation . Barring a few states, grid power is unreliable in most parts of India, forcing companies to also have diesel-operated generators for back-up power and raising their overall power costs. Companies such as Infosys, which carry out mission-critical operations for mostly overseas clients, need uninterrupted power and its solar experiment, if successful, could lead to other firms to think along similar lines.
source: http://www.articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com / The Economic Times / Home> Tech> ITeS / by K. R. Balasubramanyam, ET Bureau / June 17th, 2014
The birth centenary year of Noor Inayat Khan, the famous Indian-origin World War II spy, was observed in the UK this week.
Popular English novelist and political commentator Frederick Forsyth was among the key guests at a special memorial event in London to celebrate the life of Noor, the great-great-great-grand-daughter of Tipu Sultan, who became the first female radio operator to be sent from Britain into occupied France.
“What is so remarkable about Noor Inayat Khan is that she owed us nothing; she didn’t have to go,” said Forsyth, the well-known thriller writer behind books such as ‘The Day of the Jackal’ and ‘The Odessa File’ who compared her to the 18th century ruler, Tipu Sultan, known as the ‘Tiger of Mysore’.
“When it came to being recruited for the SOE (Special Operations Executive), she could have said ‘thank you but no’…but she volunteered. There must be something of the old tiger in her genes. It is recorded that she fought like a tigress…Noor absolutely did not die for nothing.
“She is an amazement, a remarkable and extraordinarily brave woman who did what she did for a country to which she owed nothing,” Forsyth said.
The memorial event was organised by the Noor Inayat Khan Memorial Trust set up by Shrabani Basu – author of the World War II heroine’s biography ‘Spy Princess’.
It coincided with the dates of June 16-17, 1943, when Noor – under her codename Madeleine – was flown to the landing ground in Northern France.
“She combined the rational side of her personality with her hatred of injustice and became one of our greatest heroines. My hope is that she would have gone back to that inner life that sustained her,” said Christine Crawley, a Labour party politician who has campaigned for the contribution of women agents in the war to be commemorated.
The SOE was an underground force established in Britain in 1940 by war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill to “set Europe ablaze”.
It recruited men and women to launch a guerilla war against Hitler’s forces.
Noor, born in September 1914 to an Indian Muslim father and an American mother, grew up in Britain and France.
Despite her pacifist views, she decided to join the war effort to defeat the Nazis and was eventually captured.
In spite of being repeatedly tortured and interrogated, she revealed nothing and was executed by an SS officer on September 13, 1944, at Dachau concentration camp at the age of 30.
She was later awarded the George Cross, the highest civilian decoration in the UK, in recognition of her bravery.
A bust in Noor’s memory now stands at Gordon Square in central London, a stone’s throw from the home she briefly lived in.
source: http://www.ndtv.com / NDTV / Home> Diaspora / Press Trust of India / June 19th, 2014
Abdul Raheem Teekay’s collection of Beary poems ‘Mallige Balli’, published by Salma Bava Foundation and Teekay’s family was released by Mamta G Sagar, a well-known poet, in a formal function held at Hotel Moti Mahal on Saturday June 21.
Boluwaru Mohammed Kunhi presided over the event. B M Haneef, the editor of ‘Sudha’ weekly, B M Basheer, the senior editor of ‘Vartha Bharathi’, Gopadkar, the artist of the book, Asif Teekay, Dr T K Mohammed and Abdul Raheem Teekay, the author of the book were also present on the dais.
Raahil Teekay, son of Abdul Raheem welcomed the guests and the gathering on the occasion.
Speaking after releasing the book, Sagar said, “Editing is the main thing to be taken care of in poetry. Poems do not need any reasons; the way of forming a poem is unique and different. Many people write poems while very few continue to be a poet.”
“What is not possible in phrase is possible in poems. The poem takes birth for no reason and sometimes for many reasons. Writing a poem is an easy task, but translating the poem is very difficult,” she added rendering her best wishes to the author of ‘Mallige Balli’.
Expressing his thoughts, Abdul Rahim said, “’Mallige Balli’ is not just a collection of poems, but an experience of my own life. The experience at every step of my life has been expressed through poems in this book.”
“The characters that are seen in this book depict the people, role models and social heroes whom I came across and inspired by. Meanwhile, I am just a narrator in this poem and the whole of the story belongs to the people who appear in the poems,” he added.
The first copy of the book was handed over to Dr T K Mohammed. There are 51 poems in ‘Mallige Balli’.
source: http://www.daijiworld.com / DaijiWorld.com / Home> Karnataka / by Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore / Mangalore , June 22nd, 2014
The annual feast of St Anthony Padua Kerekatte was celebrated here on Friday June 13 with grandeur.
The festive mass was celebrated by Dr Jerald Isaac Lobo, Bishop of Udupi diocese along with several priests.
Fr Andrew who preached the word of God, in his sermon appealed to devotees to become children of God, through speech and action. He added that prayer will help each one of us to become a child of God and hence closer to Him. “Every individual should listen to the word of God and should live a life according to that,” he concluded.
A huge number of devotees gathered for the festival mass that was celebrated with great devotion and faith.
After the mass, Bishop Gerald Lobo along with Fr Xavier Pinto, felicitated Robert D’mello, the main donor of the festive mass. Speaking on the occasion, the bishop appealed to the people to grow in faith and to become children of God.
Fr Xavier Pinto, director of the St Anthony Kerekatte Shrine, thanked the gathering.
source: http://www.daijiworld.com / DaijiWorld.com / Home> Karnataka / by Silvester DSouza, Daijiworld Media Network / Kundapur – Friday, June 13th, 2014
Chethana (name changed), 10, had a virtual rebirth on Friday when she underwent a bile duct enlargement correction surgery at the newly-launched Liver Clinic here.
The nation’s first government-owned liver clinic offers a glimmer of hope for thousands of chronic liver disorder patients. The north Karnataka girl was among six persons who underwent surgeries at a surgical gastro8enterology workshop. The operations, which were done at the Victoria Hospital premises, were beamed live to the inauguration venue.
The Liver Clinic, run by the department of gastroenterology, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI), offers to %conduct liver transplants on poor patients for Rs 5 lakh as against Rs 40 lakh charged by corporate hospitals. The state government has %sanctioned Rs 7.5 crore for the clinic.
As many as 150 patients with various liver disorders have been awaiting transplant and have registered with the Zonal Coordination Committee for Organ Transplants in Karnataka (ZCCK). Thirty other patients have been screened for transplant. The Liver Clinic is likely to conduct transplants in a couple of months.
Launching the clinic, medical education minister Sharan Prakash Patil said: “There are 20,000 patients waiting for liver transplants in India and only 1,000 of them have the access and financial capability to undergo it. Through this initiative, we want to encourage our surgeons to help poor patients. There is need to establish an autonomous gastroenterology institute.”
“We have a highly trained team of transplant surgeons, anaesthetists as well as nurses ,” said Dr Nagesh NS, %transplant surgeon and %clinic chief.
Dr K V Ashok Kumar , retired head of the department of gastroenterology at BMCRI, and one of the brains behind the clinic, said: “After I retired, I came back to work for Rs 20,000 only to make this dream come true. We believe the poorest patient sho8uld get treated with the best of facilities.”
According to WHO data, there are annually over 2 lakh deaths due to liver disorders in India accounting for 2.31% of total deaths in the country.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> India / TNN / June 14th, 2014
Mysore KASSIA elected and nominated Council members felicitated the newly elected President and Vice-President of KASSIA recently. Seen in the picture are C.M. Subramanian, Secretary, HIEMA; N.H. Jayantha, President, HIEMA; P. Kumar, Vice-President, HIEMA; Chidananda Rajamane, President, KASSIA; V.K. Dixit, Vice-President, KASSIA; Shreeshaila Ramannavar, Secretary, MCCI; Sadashiva, Member, MIA and Sujatha Sadashiva.
Mysore :
Chidananda Rajamane has been elected as the new President of Karnataka Small Scale Industries Association (KASSIA) at the Annual General Body Meeting (AGM) held on June 14.
The other office-bearers are V.K. Dixit, Vice-President; B.P. Shashidhar, Immediate Past President; Gopinathan, Hon. General Secretary; V. Bhaskaran, Joint Secretary-I; Basavaraj S. Javali, Joint Secretary-II and H.N. Ramakrishnaiah-Treasurer.
From Mysore, N.H. Jayantha, President, Hiema; Shreeshaila Ramannavar, Secretary, MCCI; Suresh Kumar Jain, Secretary, MIA; Manjunath and Sujatha have been elected to the Council of Management, according to a press release.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / June 17th, 2014
