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Many facets of a child prodigy

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We have all heard and known that if kids are encouraged towards doing a certain thing, they will go on to learn and implement the same to the best of their abilities. And a few kids are lucky enough to even get encouraged extensively towards achieving great goals in life.

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One such fortunate child is 9-year-old P.N. Nihal, whose parents are ready to go to any extent towards encouraging their multifaceted son for the little one turns to be an achiever in everything that he tried his hands on. At nine, the kid is already a karate champion, a melodious singer, dancer and a good artist as well.

The kid has already won quite a few State-level awards for different categories given away by various organisations in recognition of his talent. A few of them include awards like the Balashree award given away by the Mysore Sahitya Mattu Samskrutika Pratisthana; Kalachitra award by Bharatiya Lalithakala Academy, Bangalore; Kannadashree award given by Sirigannada Vedike, Mysore; Mysoru Ratna by Sneha Sinchana, Mysore and Ganashree given away by Gana Mandara Trust, Bangalore. He has also taken part in several drawing, colouring and handwriting competitions for which he has been awarded with the first place constantly.

What’s more, while the prodigy was selected to present a 14-minute talk on Akashavani even when he was just a LKG student. Academically too, Nihal is a bright student. He has also won gold ranking in the International Mathematics Olympiad and National Science Olympiad for the year 2014.

A student of Rainbow Public School in city, he receives good encouragement at his school as well, says his mother Rashmi. “While we encourage him towards doing things of his interest, his school staff is equally encouraging too. They encourage him to partake in various contests and events, which is of great help for us,” she says.

And having seen him show so much interest in all these extracurricular activities winning numerous prizes and awards, parents Naveen Kumar and Rashmi have made the child’s goal their own goals too.

Says the proud mother: “It feels wonderful to see him having turned out be such an achiever at such a young age. In a month or so, he will soon be getting awarded with the black belt in Karate which he is learning from trainer K.P. Johnson at the Okinawa Shorin Ryu Shori-Kan Karate-Do and Kobudo Association. He was awarded 6 belts in just 1.4 years of time which is an achievement in itself. Hence, seeing his enthusiasm, I have made his aims my goal for life. I never go anywhere and not even to family functions several times, just to stay by his side and support him in achieving whatever he wants to. As he is an achiever in many areas, he still not too sure what exactly he aims to be but whatever he wishes to do, we will be by his side. Be it academics, cultural or sports, we will let him make it big in the field he chooses.” —AN

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Feature Articles  / Saturday ,  October 25th, 2014

Hubli’s first community radio set to go on air

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Hubli’s first community FM radio service 'KLE Dhwani BVB-90.4' is to begin from September 21
Hubli’s first community FM radio service ‘KLE Dhwani BVB-90.4’ is to begin from September 21

After days of eager anticipation, Hubli city is all set to have its first community radio service from September 21. FM radio station ‘KLE Dhwani BVB-90.4’ will operate from the campus of the BVB College of Engineering and Technology (BVB-CET).

The community radio station will broadcast programmes on folklore, education, research, technology along with entertainment.

Addressing press persons here on Tuesday, working president of KLE Society, Prabhakar Kore and Principal, BVB-CET, Prof. Ashok Shettar said that the ‘KLE Dhwani’ would be the first community FM radio station to be launched by an engineering college in northern Karnataka.

Mr. Kore said that the college had invested Rs. 50 lakhs for setting up the FM radio station with a state-of-the-art studio to ensure good acoustics. Already four radio jockeys selected from North Karntaka and trained at Bangalore had been appointed to conduct radio programmes , he said.

Mr. Kore said that the ‘KLE Dhwani’ would begin its programme with the state anthem (naada geete) and would broadcast programmes from 6.30 a.m. – 11 a.m., and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. To begin with programmes like ‘Naa Hubballiyava’, ‘Namma kale namma baduku’, ‘chavadi chat’, ‘youthgiri’ will be broadcast, he said.

The whole idea was to not only promote folk art from northern Karnataka, but also to provide the target audience with a healthy mix of entertainment and education packages.

The FM radio would have a range of 11 to 14 kilometres in the city and programmes can be heard on mobile phone handsets as well.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Karnataka / by Staff Correspondent / Hubli, September 18th, 2013

Two Mysoreans Awarded Brand Ambassadors of Vocational Training

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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 .
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

IIMB joins edX, to offer MOOCs

Education, World Opinion

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 edX as 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 Varsity VC felicitated

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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.
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

Union Health Minister to lay foundation stone for the ‘Centre of Excellence and Museum’ at AIISH tomorrow

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Inauguration of ‘Audiometric Block’ and ‘Knowledge Park’

Model of the proposed Centre of Excellence and human face-shaped Museum.
Model of the proposed Centre of Excellence and human face-shaped Museum.

 Mysore :

Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, will lay the foundation stone for the ‘Centre of Excellence and Museum’ and inaugurate a newly built ‘Audiometric Block’ and ‘Knowledge Park’ at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH), Naimisham Campus, Manasagangotri, here on Oct. 17 at 9 am.

U.T. Khader, State Minister for Health and Family Welfare, V. Sreenivasa Prasad, Revenue Minister and District in-Charge Minister and Pratap Simha, MP, Mysore & Kodagu, will be the chief guests. Dr. S.R. Savithri, Director, AIISH, will be present.

Centre of Excellence: The institute was given the status of Centre of Excellence by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi. Under this project, it is envisaged to initiate 5 research centres, 5 clinical centres, 2 other centres and a museum on speech and hearing.

The building is housed in G+3 floors with a basement for 2/4 wheeler parking space. The building consists of the following units: Centre for hearing sciences, Centre for hearing impairment in children, adults and senior citizens, Centre for persons with swallowing disorders, Centre for persons with tinnitus and vestibular disorders, Centre for speech and language disorders in Children, Adults and senior citizens, Centre for Speech and Language Sciences, Centre for AAC and sign language, Centre for prevention of communication disorders, epidemiological research and cognitive behavioural sciences in communication disorders, Centre for Informatics & Patents and Rehabilitation engineering, Acoustics & Biomedical engineering (CRAB), Centre for surgical Rehabilitation of Communication Disorders, Centre for public education in communication disorders.

Museum: The museum, first of its kind, would be in the shape of a human face and would be a great learning experience about how we speak and hear.

Audiometric Block: The newly-built Audiometric Block housed next to the Department of Clinical Services, is a boon to the patients with hearing impairment. In total it has 18 double room suites and 3 single room suites, meaning an infrastructure where 21 clients can be tested simultaneously.

The set up has a dedicated block for paediatric and geriatric patients with independent patient waiting areas. All these rooms are acoustically treated and have state-of-art technology equipment that meets international standards. The new block will cater to the needs of growing number of patients visiting AIISH for audiological evaluation and management.

Knowledge Park: The knowledge Park houses 10 classrooms and a seminar hall.

For details, contact PRO A.R. Keerthi on Mob: 98441-81080.

Minister to visit ESI Hospital

Addressing media persons at his office in Jaladarshini on Hunsur Road in city on Wednesday, MP Pratap Simha said that Dr. Harsh Vardhan would be taken to ESI Hospital on KRS Road where he would discuss the issue of providing equipments before the Minister proceeds to Periyapatna. In Periyaptna, Dr. Harsh Vardhan will address tobacco growers before returning to Bangalore in the evening, said th MP.

Earlier, the Minister will inspect K.R. Hospital and hold meeting with officials.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home>General News / Thursday ,  October 16th, 2014

Pushing women scientists

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Participants at the Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon 2014 workshop held in Bangalore last week. At least 15 participants added content about women scientists over two days to Wikipedia as the first step in bringing public awareness about them.
Participants at the Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon 2014 workshop held in Bangalore last week. At least 15 participants added content about women scientists over two days to Wikipedia as the first step in bringing public awareness about them.

Wikipedia edit-a-thon attempts to raise awareness of the contribution of Indian women to science

Ask anyone to name an Indian scientist and the answer is likely to be a man, and not a woman scientist. To let more people know about the unsung heroines of science in India, a workshop called the Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon 2014 was held here recently. At least 15 participants added content about women scientists over two days to Wikipedia as the first step in bringing public awareness about them.

The edit-a-thon (a large number of people adding or modifying content on Wikipedia at once) concluded on October 14, which was Ada Lovelace Day, an international day to celebrate the achievements of women in science, technology and maths. The event was organised by BioScienceIndia Programme, a non-profit science outreach initiative, and Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society.

Participants added information about at least 40 women scientists. Information on 80 more would be added in a year’s time, said Nandini Rajamani, Co-director, BioScienceIndia Programme.

The aim, however, is to go beyond edit-a-thons, to examine issues that have not received the attention they deserve. Women scientists in India are not on par with men for several reasons (see info box) and the “leaky pipeline” theory is used to describe their decreasing visibility. Vishnu Vardhan, Director, Access to Knowledge team, CIS, said the aim is to motivate a new and younger generation of women scientists.

Karthik Ramaswamy, visiting scientist at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and a participant in the edit-a-thon, said science in India has a ‘diversity problem’ with Indian women and minorities represented inadequately. “There are very few women scientists among faculty of science institutions because they have no role models. Hopefully, this (presence on Wikipedia) will provide them with role models,” he added.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Bangalore / by Renuka Phadnis / Bangalore – October 19th, 2014

MYLISA to hold Book Exhibition tomorrow

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Education

‘Pusthaka Dasara-2014’

Mysore :

Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA), Mysore, in collaboration with the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore and Rotary Mysore North, has organised a book exhibition and donation camp on Oct. 13 from 9.30 am.

The camp will be held at the new DIRC Building, Mysore University Library, Manasagangotri (near bus stop).

The camp will be inaugurated by Prof. S. Indumathi, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Mysore and former Vice-Chancellor, Davangere University.

Prof. G. Hemantha Kumar of Department of Computer Science, will be the guest of honour. S. Nagaraja, President, MyLISA, Y. R. Manjunath, President, Rotary Mysore North, Dr. M. Chandrashekara, Chairman and Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Mysore and Dr. C.P. Ramasesh, Librarian, Mysore University Library, will be present on the occasion.

Books will be distributed to the libraries of various schools and colleges free of cost. The camp is organised as part of ‘Pusthaka Dasara-2014’ initiative to promote the use of books.

Around 1500 books in various subjects as Chemistry, Commerce, Computer Science, English literature, Economics, Engineering, Food Science, General Knowledge, History, Kannada literature, Management, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics, Religion, Political Science, Science, Sociology, Fiction, Literature and Biographies have been received through donation. A significant number of children’s books have also been donated by the public. A list of books received is hosted on the MyLISA website http://mylisamysore.weebly.com.

Schools and colleges interested to receive the books may contact Dr. M.V. Sunil, Co-ordinator on Mobile: 99864 39832 or Dr. N.S. Harinarayana, Secretary, MyLISA on 97415 33380.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home>General  News / Sunday ,  October 12th, 2014

Hon. Doctorate for Sankalp Group CMD Jagadish Babu

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V.K. Jagadish Babu is seen receiving the honour from University President Prof. Dr. Marco E. Grappegia during the convocation of Universita Popolare Degli Studi Di Milano.
V.K. Jagadish Babu is seen receiving the honour from University President Prof. Dr. Marco E. Grappegia during the convocation of Universita Popolare Degli Studi Di Milano.

City’s V.K. Jagadish Babu, Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Sankalp Group and President-Elect of CREDAI (Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India), Karnataka, was conferred the Degree of Honorius Causa – Doctor of Philosophy (Honorary Doctorate) in Civil Engineering for his achievements and contributions in the field of Construction Science recently by Universita Popolare Degli Studi Di Milano, Milano, Italy, a top ranking European University.

He is seen receiving the honour from University President Prof. Dr. Marco E. Grappegia during the convocation of Universita Popolare Degli Studi Di Milano.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home>General  News / Saturday,  October 11th, 2014

Lack of care causing damage to museums: Expert

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Mysore  :

With an objective to protect and conserve cultural heritage of the country, the Regional Conservation Laboratory (RCL), Mysore, a regional unit of National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property, Lucknow, commenced 10-day workshop on care and maintenance of museum objects at its premises in Siddharth Nagar on Monday. Mysore division additional commissioner M R Ravi inaugurated the workshop.

Speaking on the occasion professor of history and archaeology at the University of Mysore N S Rangaraju, stressing on the importance of conservation of monuments, said authorities need to utilize the facilities in a proper manner to conserve valuable monuments in the state. Though there are numerous experts in the field they are unrecognized, and thus the administration has failed to maintain monuments properly.

B V Kharbade, chief, RCL, Mysore, stressing on the importance of workshops said many people, who maintain museums lack the required knowledge. Internal pollution causes more damage to museums than external pollution. Improper lighting system and humidity are the major threats to monuments. Besides, faulty material used in maintenance too causes huge destruction, he pointed out. The objective of the workshop is to identify factors that cause deterioration of museum objects and to find solutions to prevent them, he said. The workshop will focus on areas such as care, maintenance, handling, storage and display of museum objects.

source:http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Mysore / TNN / October 07th, 2014