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Nurses honoured with Florence Nightingale awards

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Inspiration/ Positive News and Features, Records, All
The nurses who received Florence Nightingale awards and Best Service awards during the Nurses' Day celebration held at Kalamandira last evening, are seen with MMC&RI Director Dr. Geetha K. Avadhani (fourth from left), MLA M.K. Somashekar, DHO Dr. S.M. Malegowda, Karnataka Govt. Employees Association District President H.K. Ramu, Nurses Assn. District President Shivamma, Medical Superintendents Dr. G.M. Kudari, Dr. B.G. Sagar, Dr. B. Krishnamurthy and others.
The nurses who received Florence Nightingale awards and Best Service awards during the Nurses’ Day celebration held at Kalamandira last evening, are seen with MMC&RI Director Dr. Geetha K. Avadhani (fourth from left), MLA M.K. Somashekar, DHO Dr. S.M. Malegowda, Karnataka Govt. Employees Association District President H.K. Ramu, Nurses Assn. District President Shivamma, Medical Superintendents Dr. G.M. Kudari, Dr. B.G. Sagar, Dr. B. Krishnamurthy and others.

Mysore :

The District Wing of Karnataka State Government Nurses’ Association had organised a programme at Kalamandira here yesterday to mark Nurses’ Day and presentation of Florence Nightingale awards to 12 Nursing Superintendents and Nursing School teachers and also Best Service awards to eight nurses.

Scholarship was distributed by the Association to 10 visually impaired students.

Inaugurating the programme, MLA M.K. Somashekar assured the nurses working at K.R. Hospital amid several odds to look into their demands and apprise the government of the same. He accepted a memorandum from the Association to be presented to the government.

Mysore Medical College and Research Institute Dean and Director Dr. Geetha K. Avadhani, District Health Officer Dr. S.M. Malegowda, Karnataka Govt. Employees Association District President H.K. Ramu, Nurses Association District President Shivamma, PKTB Sanatorium Medical Superintendent Dr. G.M. Kudari, KR Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr. B.G. Sagar, Cheluvamba Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr. B. Krishnamurthy and others were present.

Florence Nightingale awardees

E.P. Leela (Lecturer, Govt. Nursing School), Sugandi (Nursing Superintendent Gr. II), Senior Nurses Shanta Anandakumari, A. Sagai Mary, Nurses C.S. Devaki, E.P. Asha, Ramamani, R. Susheela, K.A. Chandramma, A.S. Parvati, Lalitha and Revathi.

Best Service awardees

Nurses Tulajabai, Shirley, B.T. Rathi, P.J. Saloni, Mahadevamma, N.M. Devaki, Philomena Shiromani and T.T. Mahalakshmi.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / June 16th, 2013

Mother Teresa Award

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Mysore :

Reginald Lawrence Sharaon, Course Director of Mysore Interiors and Designs Academy, has been selected for ‘Mother Teresa Award’ for his outstanding achievements in the field of Interior Design Studies.

The award will be presented by Integrated Council for Socio-Economic Progress at a function to be held at the Central Court Hotel, Hyderabad, on June 23 at 4 pm.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> In Brief  / June 14th, 2013

Oh God! Who is driving the car?

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26-year-old Farhan from Koramangala who controls the steering of the vehicle with just two fingers and the brake and accelerator from the side passenger seat. / The New Indian Express
26-year-old Farhan from Koramangala who controls the steering of the vehicle with just two fingers and the brake and accelerator from the side passenger seat. / The New Indian Express

Caution! No driver in this car. These words may seem familiar to those few who may have come across this placard but definitely strange to many of those Bangaloreans who may have not witnessed this. We are talking about 26-year-old Farhan from Koramangala who controls the steering of the vehicle with just two fingers and the brake and accelerator from the side passenger seat. People look at his car with amusement when they realise that the car is without a driver. It makes them wonder as to who is driving the car and that too amidst the chaotic traffic of Bangalore city.

Interestingly, for the last one month, Farhan has been using his unique talent to promote awareness on many issues. He has pasted a few messages like ‘Wear helmet and drive’, ‘Give respect to women’, Leave sooner, ‘drive safely, safety is must’, ‘Do not drink and drive, ‘ ‘Keep the city clean’ and ‘Do not use mobile while driving.’

Speaking to City Express, he says, “It is because of my friends’ support that I came up with this idea. Since I am a working professional, I do it during the weekends only. But I am happy to do something which hopefully people will implement in their personal life.”

It has been nine years since Farhan has been driving, steering from the side passenger seat. He has even made it to the Limca Book of Records in 2009 by covering the distance from Bangalore to Ooty. Even the Guiness Book of world records have taken note of this unique record. He says, “They have not approved this feat as of now as they feel it is not legal to drive on the roads in this manner. Now I want to drive from Kanyakumari to Ladakh to set a new record, but the Regional Transport Office has not approved it. I am on my own and do not have any backing from any other organisation. Since what I do is considered illegal, it is difficult to get the permission.”

Give him any vehicle and any type of traffic, Farhan can manage it perfectly. It all started from his father’s old Fiat car when he was in his second year of his B.Com.

He said, “Being a tall guy, I had problems driving my father’s vehicle from the driver’s seat. One day, when my younger brother was sitting beside me, I told him to move back and took the side passenger seat and tried driving it from there. I was able to drive the Fiat without any glitch and from that day onwards, I am on a roll and there is no stopping to my passion.”

Farhan has neither faced any problems with the traffic department nor been fined by them anytime.  But he has undergone his share of many challenges. Farhan tried to convince Dr M A Saleem, Additional Commissioner of Bangalore Traffic Police to grant him permission to drive from  Kanyakumari to Ladakh but was disappointed when he was threatened to put behind bars.

“There are so many people doing wrong things, why are they not threatened with arrest? What is wrong with what I do?” he questioned.

In another instance, a  journalist from a TV channel who interviewed him, took the matter to a traffic personnel stationed at MG Road who threatened him with dire consequences if seen on MG Road again.

His talent has not only grabbed the eyeballs of the common people but also politicians.

He was once approached by a member of the Aam Aadmi Party to travel around in his car with posters of Aam Aadmi but Farhan said, “I do not want to be associated with politics. I want to support causes that I believe in and that too as an individual.”

Undoubtedly, he attracts a lot of attention when he is in his car and he loves it. He says, “I love every bit of it. When I am walking on the streets of Bangalore, I am like any other person but as soon as I am in my car I am treated differently by everyone around.  I feel that they are in a dilemma whether to come up and start a conversation. In fact, I am happy to speak to anybody who approaches me.”

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Bangalore / by Sangeeta Bora – Bangalore / June 11th, 2013

Luka, Sahana win gold, long jumper Prem Kumar sets new meet record

Records, All, Sports

Chennai :

Olympians Sahana Kumari  of Karnataka and  Tintu Luka  of Kerala won their respective events while Tamil Nadu long jumper Prem Kumar set a new meet record on the second day of the 53rd National Inter-State Senior Athletic Championships on Wednesday.

Prem Kumar cleared 8m in his fifth and final jump to set a new meet record. Arshad of Karnataka (7.85m) was second while Ankit Sharma  of Madhya Pradesh was third in 7.67m.

Favourite Luka, watched by her mentor P T Usha, won the women’s 800m race in 2min 04.14secs. She led all through the race and finished three seconds ahead of Gomathi of Tamil Nadu (2:07.33). Haryana’s Sushma Devi (2:07.95s) was third.

32-year-old Sahana, a mother of a seven-year-old girl, was the main attraction at high jump event and she won it with an effort of 1.88m. She, however, flopped in her all three attempts to reach her own mark of 1.92m, which is also the national record.

Mallika Mondal of Bengal (1.74m) and N D Tintu of Kerala (1.68m) won the silver and bronze medals respectively.

Coming back from an injury after two years, G Gayathry, a local collegiate from St Joseph’s Academy, brought cheers to the home state, as she won gold in 100m hurdles, while Kerala’s Pinto Mathew bagged her maiden title at senior level when he clinched gold in a tight race in men’s 110m hurdles.

22-year-old Gayathry covered the distance in 13.97secs which was just 0.53 seconds below Anuradha Biswal’s meet record set in July 2000. It was one-two for Tamil Nadu as J Hamasree (14.04s) claimed the silver, while Kerala’s K V Sajitha (14.33s) settled for bronze.

In the men’s hurdles, Pinto won gold in 14.56secs, while Tamil Nadu’s Balamurugan (14.76s) and Sandeep Parmar of Maharashtra (14.82s) were second and third respectively.

In women’s shot put, Andhra Pradesh’s Udaya Laxmi, a silver medallist at home last year, threw the iron ball to 13.68m to win gold while Neha Singh (13.56m) of M P and Punjab’s Navjit Kaur (13.49m) won silver and bronze respectively.

Results: Men: 400m: 1. Kunhu Mohammad (Ker) 46.71 secs, 2. Neeraj Pawar (UP) 46.97secs, 3. Rajiv Arokia (TN) 47.08secs.

800m: 1. Sajeesh Joseph (Ker) 1:49.04secs, 2. Manjit Singh (Har) 1:49.11 secs, 3. Francis Sahayam (TN) 1:49.77 secs.

110m Hurdles: 1. Pinto Mathew (Ker) 14.56 secs, 2. Balamurugan (TN) 14.76secs, 3. Sadeep Parmar (Maha) 14.82secs.

Long Jump: 1. Prem Kumar (TN) 8.00m, 2. Arshad (Karna) 7.85m, 3. Ankit Sharma (MP) 7.67m.

Decathlon: 1. Bharatainder Singh (Har) 6963 pts, 2. Daya Ram (Raj) 6925 pts, 3. Kumbhar K Dilip (Maha) 6831pts.

Shot Put: 1. Inderjeet Singh (Har) 18.92m, 2. Ashwani Solanki (Del) 18.35m, 3. Tejinderpal Singh (Pun) 18.30m.

Javelin: 1. Krishna Kumar (UP) 74.80m, 2. Samarjeet Singh (Raj) 73.16m, 3. Rajender Singh (Har) 72.96m.

Women: 400m: 1. Poovamma (Karna) 52.85secs, 2. Nirmala (Har) 53.94 secs, 3. Anu Mariam Joseph (Ker) 54.59 secs.

800m: 1. Tintu Luka (Ker) 2.04.14secs, 2. Gomathi (TN) 2:07.33secs, 3. Sushma Devi (Har) 2:07.95 secs.

100m Hurdles: 1. G Gayathry (TN) 13.97 secs, 2. J Hamashree (TN) 14.04secs, 3. K V Sajitha (Ker) 14.33secs.

High Jump: 1. Sahana Kumari (Karna) 1.88m, 2. Mallika Mondal (Ben) 1.74m, 3. N D Tintu (Ker) 1.68m.

source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> Sports> More Sports / by PTI / June 05th, 2013

DFRL Addl. Director is ‘DRDO Scientist of the year’

Leaders, Records, All, Science & Technology
Dr. K. Radhakrishna, Additional Director, Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL), Mysore, is seen receiving the 'DRDO Scientist of the Year Award-2012' from A.K. Antony, Defence Minister, at DRDO Bhavan in New Delhi recently.
Dr. K. Radhakrishna, Additional Director, Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL), Mysore, is seen receiving the ‘DRDO Scientist of the Year Award-2012’ from A.K. Antony, Defence Minister, at DRDO Bhavan in New Delhi recently.

Mysore :

Dr. K. Radhakrishna, Scientist ‘G,’ Additional Director, Defence Food Research Laboratory, Mysore, was conferred with the ‘DRDO Scientist of the Year Award-2012’ at DRDO (Defence Research & Development Organisation) Bhavan in New Delhi recently, for his contribution in developing freeze dried products and test kits for critical missions for Armed Forces and for the space missions.

Defence Minister A.K. Antony presented the award.

Minister of State for Defence Jitendra Singh, Chief Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister Dr. V.K. Saraswath, Chief of Air Staff, Naval Chief, Secretaries from Defence Ministries, Chief Controllers of DRDO, Directors of various DRDO Laboratories and DRDO Scientists from all over the world were present.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / June 03rd, 2013

Rowing: Maharashtra, Karnataka win 2 golds each

Records, All, Sports

Karnataka and Maharashtra won two gold medals each in the sub-junior and 17th Challenger sprint national rowing championships here on Friday.

Karnataka’s T.K. Keerthana claimed top spot in the girls’ single sculls event in the sub-junior category, and the senior men combination of K. Shiva and T. Madhusudhan Gokul added a second gold for the State in the double sculls.

The Maharashtra sub-junior team won the boys’ pair in 1:48.46s, and the senior women clinched the challenger double sculls in 1:56.97s.

The finals of 10 events will be held on Saturday, the concluding day.

The results (winners only):

Boys: U-13: Double Sculls: West Bengal. Sub-junior: Pair: Maharashtra. Men: Challengers double sculls: Karnataka. Girls: Sub-junior: Single sculls: Karnataka. Pair: Andaman and Nicobar. Under-13: Double sculls: Assam.

Women: Challengers pair: Orissa. Challengers double sculls: Maharashtra

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Sport> Other Sports / by Sports Reporter / Bangalore – May 31st, 2013

Bengaluru’s connection to Nobel prize in Economics deepens

Green Initiatives / Environment, Nature, Records, All, Science & Technology, World Opinion

2013 ELINOR OSTROM AWARDEE – HARINI NAGENDRA

Bangalore ecologist Harini Nagendra is a 2013 Elinor Ostrom awardee, instituted in the name of the 2009 Nobel Prize winner.

For Bangalore-based ecologist Harini Nagendra, whose name has just been announced as a winner of the 2013 Elinor Ostrom award, it is a bittersweet moment.

Harini Nagendra and Dr. Ostrom at Kaikondrahalli Lake. Pic: Priya Ramasubban.
Harini Nagendra and Dr. Ostrom at Kaikondrahalli Lake. Pic: Priya Ramasubban.

The award has been instituted in the name of Elinor Ostrom, the USA-based scholar who received the Nobel Prize for economics in 2009 for her long standing body of work on the governance of the commons. For Harini, Elinor was, apart from being one of the most brilliant, incisive and deeply humanistic scholars, a very dear friend, collaborator and mentor with whom she worked closely for 12 years. Says Harini, “The award (being) in Lin Ostrom’s name, and is a great honour.” Elinor passed away just a year ago in June 2012.

The very first 2013 Elinor Ostram Award  on Collective Governance of the Commons goes to eight individuals and organisations from around the world, including Harini. The award is given by a consortium of 15 international organizations including the UNESCO Man and Biosphere programme, Resilience Alliance and the International Association for the Study of the Commons. Harini will receive the award at IASC conference in Mt. Fuji, Japan, in early June.

The award has been given at end of a process in which experts and an awards council received many candidates and carefully evaluated them in three consecutive rounds.The other laureates are: Foundation for Ecological Security, the Open Spaces Society, Grupo de Estudios Ambientales A.C., Harini Nagendra, Ben Cousins, Charles Schweik, Eduardo Araral and Michael Cox.

Elinor Ostrom had a deeper connection to Bangalore. She had been herself studying lakes in the city and had deep insights into the way forward for citizen action on lake preservation. She passed away in Indiana, United States, mid last year after a short and intense battle with pancreatic cancer. During her trip to Bangalore in February 2012, she visited Kaikondrahalli lake on Sarjapur Road . Kaikondrahalli lake was restored through a collaborative effort by local communities and the BBMP, was one of the sites of research for Harini.

The consortium notes on its website that the Elinor Ostrom award is “to acknowledge Ostrom’s legacy for scholarship and policy-making while making it accessible to wider and more varied audiences, within and outside of the academia”. It also wants to promote academic research on the commons, collective action, and related institutions, as well as its application to the understanding of the governance of different types of commons. The website adds that the awards were also instituted to “multiply the impacts of Ostrom’s proposals on scholarship and policy-making, making her legacy a living one.

For her part, Harini has authored articles in Citizen Matters on environmental issues of Bangalore, and her July 2011 article chronicling the city’s green battles in detail is still an important read for those who want to understand how the city communities have been standing up to grave threat of losing lakes and green spaces to unregulated urbanisation.

She is currently a scholar at Bangalore-headquartered Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment or ATREE, and is also holds an Asia-level research position at Indiana University.
Harini, 41 studied at Bishop Cottons Girls School, Bangalore and National Public School Indiranagar. After her BSc from St. Joseph’s College of Arts and Science, she completed MS in Biological Sciences and PhD in Ecology from Indian Institute of Science. The mother of a 5 year old and National Geographic Conservation Trust grantee has said, “If anything I can do, in collaboration with others, can make the smallest dent in the situation-the likelihood of a better world for my daughter’s generation is worth it in and of itself.

source: http://www.bangalore.citizenmatters.in / Citizen Matters, Bangalore / Home> City> People / by News Desk / Citizen Matters – May 24th, 2013

Bangalore girl is medical topper

Education, Records, All
Subha Ashok
Subha Ashok

Bangalore girl Subha Ashok topped the test for the medical stream in the Postgraduate Entrance Test (PGET) held by the Consortium of Medical Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMEDK), the results of which were announced here on Monday.

COMEDK released the rank list for the test held on February 3 following the Supreme Court order allowing for examination authorities to do so.

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Ms. Ashok, who was travelling, said that the result was a pleasant surprise.

“COMEDK PGET was the easiest. I will wait for the results of State PGET (conducted by Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science). Persistent preparation is the key and I concentrated only on entrance tests,” she said.

The daughter of Kalyani Ashok, a special educator, and A.C. Ashok, principal and dean of M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, Ms. Ashok said that she would like to pursue surgery or radiology, preferably at the Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubli, from where she graduated in 2012.

Harish C
Harish C

Bangalore got another rank with Harish C., a graduate of M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, coming third in the medical stream. His NEET-G rank was 40. He said that he was also hoping for a government quota seat as a COMEDK seat was expensive.

Aiming to pursue orthopaedics in KEM Hospital, Mumbai, he said that he spent six to eight hours everyday studying. “It is better to be consistent than going to coaching centres,” he said.

Santosh Narayanan
Santosh Narayanan

Santosh Narayanan, who stood second, graduated from A.J. Institute of Medical Sciences, Mangalore, with 17 gold medals — the highest given to an individual — in the recent RGUHS convocation. He is a native of Kerala.

Dental exams

Meanwhile, only one student from the State managed to make it to the top 10 in dental. Soumya P.V., a graduate of the 2010 batch of KVG Dental College and Hospital, Sullia, came fifth. A native of Kerala, she has now settled down in Bangalore with her endodontist husband. She is also awaiting the State PGET results. Top ranker Jeswin James is from Kerala, while the second and third ranks went to Vikas Sandilya from Udupi and Srirengalakshmi M. from Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

Breakup

Of the 13,681 candidates who wrote the PGET for medical, 9417 became eligible for seat selection. Of these, 2534 candidates are from Karnataka and 6,883 are from other States. As many as 5,032 wrote the dental PGET; 3,963 have become eligible for participating in the counselling process. Of these, 518 are from the State and 3,445 are from outside.

Counselling will begin on May 27. Details are available on www.comedk.org

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Bangalore / by Staff Reporter / Bangalore – May 21st, 2013

Five cops receive ‘Best Police Constable’ Award

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City Police Commissioner K.L. Sudheer, who presented the Best Police Constable awards to (sitting from left) Gurudevaradhya, Rame Gowda, Venkata Ramu, Babu Lokanath and Vanajakshi, at a function in city last evening, is seen with Inner Wheel West President Thein Perumal, Rotary West President Rtn. V.N. Prasad, Secretary Rtn. V.G. Nagaraj, Rtn. Dr. Jayaram and Inner Wheel West Secretary Jyothi Mukesh.
City Police Commissioner K.L. Sudheer, who presented the Best Police Constable awards to (sitting from left) Gurudevaradhya, Rame Gowda, Venkata Ramu, Babu Lokanath and Vanajakshi, at a function in city last evening, is seen with Inner Wheel West President Thein Perumal, Rotary West President Rtn. V.N. Prasad, Secretary Rtn. V.G. Nagaraj, Rtn. Dr. Jayaram and Inner Wheel West Secretary Jyothi Mukesh.

Mysore :

Five cops were honoured with the ‘Best Police Constable’ award for their services by Rotary Mysore West and Inner Wheel Club of Mysore West at Hotel Regaalis in city yesterday.

City Police Commissioner K.L. Sudheer presented the award to Babu Lokanath from Udayagiri Police Station (Law & Order Branch), Rame Gowda from Kuvempunagar Police Station (Crime Branch), Venkata Ramu from K.R. Police Station (Traffic Branch), Vanajakshi from Vijayanagar Police Station (Investigations Division) and Gurudevaradhya from Mysore City CCB.

Speaking later, Sudheer said Police protect the society from untoward happenings by toiling day and night. It is laudable that such cops are recognised and honoured by associations and clubs, he added.

Due to the hard work of the Police, the elections to both the Urban Local Bodies and State Assembly could be conducted smoothly, he said appreciatively.

Nowadays, more than higher officials, even Police Constables have higher education like degree and post-graduation and are well-versed in technology.

About 80 per cent of Constables do not have proper resi-dential or even basic facilities like higher officials, yet they do their work efficiently and maintain peace in society, Sudheer said praising his department’s staff.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / May 22nd, 2013

Puttur’s Rashmiparvathi wins gold in SWEEP Olympiad at Texas

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Puttur : 

Rashmiparvathi from Puttur has  won a gold medal in the International Sustainable World Energy Engineering  Environment Project Olympiad-2013 for her science project. The event was held at Houston, Texas, USA from May 8 to 12.

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Rashmiparvathi who has secured 93 per cent in her PUC exam, wants to pursue studies at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

 
A team   including Rashmiparvathi, Ayush Panara from Rajkot, Nambirajan Konar, Kushal Suvarna, Dhanyeshwari and Manoj Kumar from Mumbai had participated in  I-SWEEP, an international science fair that focuses on energy, engineering, and environmental projects fair. The team also won two silvers and one bronze medal.

 
Rashmiparvati was earlier in the news when she won a gold for her invention of remedy for skin ailments, made of a salt from coconut palm petiole.

source: http://www.mangaloretoday.com / Mangalore Today / Home> Main News / by Mangalore Times News Network / Puttur – Monday, May 19th, 2013