Monthly Archives: July 2014

Bangalore to host first Israeli film festival

Arts, Culture & Entertainment, World Opinion

Project of new Israel consulate to open with classic Israeli tale of Indian Jewish immigrants.

A scene from "Turn Left at the end of the World."
A scene from “Turn Left at the end of the World.”

Israeli cinema continues to find new audiences as Bangalore, India gets its first official Israeli film festival, The Hindu reported Tuesday.

The festival debuts on Wednesday appropriately with the blue-and-white classic “Turn Left at the end of the World,” which recounts the tale of a family of Indian immigrants in a small development town in the Negev and their interaction with fellow immigrants from Morocco.

The year-old Consulate General of Israel in Bangalore is hosting the festival through the end of July jointly with Suchitra Film Society and Bangalore Cultural Partners.

Menahem Kanafi, Israel’s Consul General in Bangalore said he hoped the event would bring Indians and Israelis closer together culturally, according to The Hindu.

“The festival will expose [India to] the facets of life in Israel and point out universal connections between Israeli and Indian art and life,” he told a news conference.
Kanafi said nine films would be screened, including “Footnote,” a 2011 Oscar nominee in the Best Foreign Film Category, and “The Band’s Visit.”

Another film that should appeal to Indians is “Album 61,” a 2013 biopic on Israeli chess player Boris Gelfand, who has played against Indian legend V. Anand.

source: http://www.haaretz.com / Haaretz / Home> Life / Movies & Television / by Haaretz / July 02nd, 2014

Rashmi Mahesh is new Director General of ATI

Leaders

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Bangalore :

Karnataka government yesterday appointed senior IAS officer Rashmi Mahesh as Director General of the Administrative Training Institute (ATI) in Mysore.

It is said that Rashmi, who had busted the seat-blocking scam by many private colleges in admissions to professional courses had helped many rural students in getting seats into these courses had been hurriedly transferred to the Social Welfare Department.

Rashmi, who had gone on a long leave protesting against her posting to the Social Welfare Department, has now been posted as Director General of ATI.

It is alleged that many elected representatives and bureaucrats were involved in the seat-blocking scam which had been cracked by Rashmi.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General  News / July 06th, 2014

8000 Ayurvedic doctors allowed to practise modern medicine

Education, Records, All, Science & Technology

SUMMARY

In Maharashtra, the BAMS graduates were registered in different schedules based on their educational qualifications.
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In a huge relief for 8000 Ayurvedic doctors who have obtained their degrees from universities in Bangalore and Goa and have been practising in Maharashtra for the last ten years, the state has now included them in Schedule A of the Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act and allowed them to practise modern medicine.

Schedule A, A1, B and D of the Act allow ayurvedic and Unani doctors to practice modern medicine. After completing the Bachelor of Ayurvedic medicine and surgery course at Rajeev Gandhi university of health science at Bangalore and Goa universities, students had applied for registration in the Maharashtra council of Indian medicine.

“However we were registered in Schedule E of the Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act,” says Dr Mandar Ranade, spokesperson for National Integrated Medical Association (NIMA). Schedule E is for those practitioners who do not have a proper institutional background. Hence after completing an institutional degree, getting registered in a schedule for non institutional graduates was not only discriminatory but insulted their qualification, doctors pointed out.

In Maharashtra, the BAMS graduates were registered in different schedules based on their educational qualifications.

“Despite the same degree, curriculum and syllabus these students were registered in Schedule E of the Maharashtra medical practitioners Act,” Dr Suhas Parchure, former president of NIMA, said. He along with others actively led a campaign for the students, as despite residing in various parts of Maharashtra they could not practise modern medicine.
On June 26, the government issued a resolution that included these ayurvedic doctors in Schedule A of the Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act. “It is a a victory of sorts. These were are institutionally qualified graduates of the Central Council of Indian Medicine recognized colleges and universities and yet they were being discriminated against,” says Parchure.

source: http://www.indianexpress.com / The Indian Express / Home> Cities> Pune / by Express News Service / Pune – July 04th, 2014

City’s Srikantha Rao is Indian ice-skating team coach

Sports, World Opinion

Mysore :

Mysorean K. Srikantha Rao, an Ekalavya Awardee and the General Secretary of the Mysore District Roller Skating Association, has been chosen as the Indian team coach for the short course Ice-skating team which will train at Inzel in Germany.

Srikantha Rao will be visiting Germany and will be in-charge of the four-member Indian Ice-skating team’s training camp to be held in Inzel, Germany from July 7 to 20, 2014.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports  News / July 05th, 2014

City’s music scholar Dr. V.S.S. Acharya no more

Arts, Culture & Entertainment

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Mysore :

City’s noted music scholar and State Sangeetha Vidwan awardee Dr. V.S. Sampathkumar Acharya (86), a resident of Lakshmipuram, passed away here this morning after a brief illness. He leaves behind wife Sangeetha Vidushi D.S. Leela, son V.S. Mohanram and daughter-in-law Anjana. Last rites will take place in city this evening.

Profile: Dr. V.S.S. Acharya, after passing BA (Hons.) in History from Maharaja’s College, did his B.Ed and later MA from Benaras University. He got a Ph.D in History from Mysore University. He completed Hindi Visharada also.

Dr. Acharya developed a passion for music literature and has authored several books on music. He has also come out with an encyclopedia on music, making it understandable to a common man. During last Dasara, Dr. Acharya was honoured with the prestigious State Sangeetha Vidwan award given by Department of Kannada and Culture, at a function at the Mysore Palace.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General  News / July 05th, 2014

Bangalore’s Electronic City To Become Asia’s First Internet of Things Hub, Cisco Building The Infrastructure

Business & Economy, Records, All, Science & Technology

Cisco is building Asia’s first Internet of Things hub in the Electronics City, Bangalore. This state of the art hub will provide a ‘smart city environment’ to IT and Electronics companies and help them create the next generation IT enabled solutions.

Utilizing Cisco’s network infrastructure and expertise in creating, testing and implementing electronic product prototypes, companies located in that area can create solutions for City Infrastructure Management (CIM) which can include smart parking, advanced CC TV surveillance, smart street lighting which saves energy, smart water management solutions and more.

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Last week, Cisco announced a partnership with Electronics City Industries Association (ELCIA), which has developed Electronics City to start this new exciting project which combines smart city experience with Internet of Things.

Why Electronic City?

People close to this project are saying that this partnership has been encouraged to help Electronic System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) companies existing in the Electronic City, and encourage more Internet of Things enabled solutions and processes.

Broadly speaking, this new hub will successfully encapsulate both hardware and software expertise of Indian companies, and help them achieve futuristic solutions based on the existing technological platform provided by Cisco.

Electronics City is right now the biggest hub of software and electronics companies in Bangalore. More than 140 companies are spread across 800 acres, which includes some big names such as Infosys and Wipro. More than Rs 40,000 crore of revenue was generated from Electronic City last year.

The actual hub of Internet of Things, code named ‘Living Lab’ will be spread across 5 square kms inside the Electronics City. This hub will optimally utilize Cisco’s “Cisco Smart+Connected City Wi-Fi solution”, their network equipments such as routers, switches, access points etc which would be directly connected with the smart city’s optical fiber network.

Cisco & Internet of Things &The Future

Startups and companies which are participating in this mega project can also get access to Cisco’s Internet of Things (IoT) Innovation Fund, which promotes and encourages such companies to create applications and software to promote IoT culture and technology. They can also participate in the global Cisco IoT challenge.

The first phase of the project will start somewhere in October, and once fully functional, would be spread to different parts of Bangalore, making it a 100% smart city within next few years.

Internet of Things is commonly referred to a platform wherein every device is connected to one another, thereby creating a huge network of smart devices. As per a recent study by Gartner, by 2020 there would be estimated 26 billion devices connected by Internet! Such huge inter-related devices will churn out approximately44 trillion of data by 2020, which further tells us how much important Internet of Things has become for the whole world.

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Bangalore’s Electronic City To Become Asia’s First Internet of Things Hub, Cisco Building The Infrastructure

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Earlier, we had reported that Gujarat government is currently building India’s first smart city near to Ahmedabad. Such smart cities will no doubt utilize Internet of Things technology for maximum output. Cisco has already informed the Indian government that they want to participate in this initiative to create smart cities, and the first step has already been taken.

Indian technological world and IT industry will be surely keeping a close watch on this exciting development!

source: http://www.trak.in / Trak.in / Home> Internet / by Mohul Ghosh> In Internet / July 07th, 2014

DAC Road Races : Mysore’s Thippavva Sannaki wins in style

Sports

Mysore :

Mysore’s Thippavva Sannakki hogged the limelight by winning the women’s 6 km run at Deccan Athletic Club’s K. A. Nettakalappa Memorial Road Races held at Bellary recently.

Parasappa Harijol completed a fine double winning the men’s 12km event in the second leg.

Parasappa, who had won the Tumkur leg of the event two weeks ago, outwitted his rivals again to claim the top prize, pushing Kanakappa Donni to second place. Lingaraja Haliyal finished third in the competition, sponsored by Deccan Herald and Prajavani.

In the women’s 6km run, Thippava Sannaki of Mysore took the top spot. K. M. Archana came home second while B. K. Supriya finished third.

Mysore’s Priyanka, winner of the Tumkur leg, had seemed poised for another victory when she surged ahead. Leading for most part of the race, Priyanka, however, slipped and fell with two kilometres left for the finish. Priyanka then pulled out of the race after which Sannaki eased home.

Mohammad Noorul won the 2.5 km run for boys, pushing Lakshman to second spot and S. Thejas to third. Jayalakshmi emerged winner in the 2.5 km run for girls with Malleshwari Rathod taking the second spot and R. Usha ending up third.

Results: Men’s (12km run): 1. Parasappa Harijol (SAI, B’lore); 2. Kanakappa S Donni (Mundaragi); 3. Lingaraj Haliyal (Dharwad). Women (6km run): 1. Thippava Sanakki (Mysore); 2. K.M. Archana (Alvas Moodbidri); 3. B.K. Supriya. Boys (2.5km run): 1. Mohammad Nurul (Alva’s, Moodbidri); 2. Lakshman (DYAS, Vidyanagar, Bangalore); 3. S Thejas (KK High School, B’lore). Girls (2.5km run): 1. Jayalakshmi (Alvas, Moodbidiri); 2. Malleshwari Rathod (Bijapur); R. Usha (DYAS, Vidyanagar).

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / July 04th, 2014

City students Deia Urs and Vibha Mugwe top in CBSE Science Expo

Education, Records, All, Science & Technology

Selected for National-level exhibition to be held in Delhi in October 2014

Vibha G. Mugwe and Deia S. Urs are seen receiving the Certificate from Dr. Roopa Prakash, Scientist, IISc, Bangalore as Manjula Raman, Principal, Army Public School, Bangalore, looks on.
Vibha G. Mugwe and Deia S. Urs are seen receiving the Certificate from
Dr. Roopa Prakash, Scientist, IISc, Bangalore as Manjula Raman, Principal, Army Public School, Bangalore, looks on.

 

Mysore :

The 2104 CBSE Regional-level Science Exhibition was held at Army Public School in Bangalore from June 27 to 29.

Over 80 teams representing about 50 Schools from all over the State participated in the science exhibition. The themes included technology, environment, health, energy, agriculture, robotics, mathematical models etc. Other topics included bio-plastic, unmanned aerial pesticide sprayer, fiber optics, windmill and many more.

City’s students — Deia S. Urs and Vibha G. Mugwe — 8th standard students of Vidya Vardhaka Sangha B. M. Shri Educational Institutions, Kuvempunagar, won the first place in the exhibition for their theme ‘Back to Roots: Natural Colours Vs Artificial Colours.’

‘Back to Roots’ is a concept of painting clay Ganesha idols with natural colours extracted manually from seeds, roots, leaves, flowers, fruits and vegetables in order to avoid polluting water even though the idols are immersed in lakes or ponds during Ganesha festival.

Bixa orellana was used to extract orangish red, clitorea ternata for blue, basella alba for purple, geranium for pinkish red, spinach for green, beetroot for brownish red, sandalwood bark for brown, turmeric for yellow. Lime for white, soap stone for cream and dried banana peel for black to name a few. Using these natural colours, three Ganesha idols were decoratively painted and kept at the science exhibition.

Guided by Anupana Padaki, a case study of a popular lake in Mysore was undertaken by the students. Water samples were taken and tested for pollutants and other contamination. Charts and presentation representing the contamination level of water due to immersion of oil painted Ganesha idols in the lake, its effect on the life of the fish and other dependent animals, interview with the locals about the type of Ganesha festival celebrations, percentage of people in the area celebrating Ganesha festival with oil painted Ganesha idols, and with eco-friendly Ganesha idols, and creating awareness to the locals about eco-friendly festival celebrations were shown by the duo at the exhibition.

Immaculate explanation, smart presentation of charts, facts and figures of the study and proper demonstration of the theme helped them to win the first place. They will be representing the Zone at the National-level Science exhibition to be held in Delhi in October 2014.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / July 04th, 2014

Innovation Excellence Award for Skanray

Business & Economy, Records, All
Picture shows N. Ravindran, Director – Operations, Skanray receiving the award from Kalraj Mishra, Minister for MSMEs at a function held at Hotel Lalit Ashok in Bangalore.
Picture shows N. Ravindran, Director – Operations, Skanray receiving the award from Kalraj Mishra, Minister for MSMEs at a function held at Hotel Lalit Ashok in Bangalore.

Mysore :

Skanray Technologies Pvt. Ltd, KIADB Industrial Area, Mysore, was adjudged the winner for Innovation in Competitiveness among MSMEs during the Innovation Excellence Awards ceremony held recently at Hotel Lalit Ashok in Bangalore.

This award has been instituted by Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI). Skanray presented their new product, Comet plus, a Pulse Oximeter with a host of innovative features packed in a low cost design.

N. Ravindran, Director – Operations, Skanray, received the award from Kalraj Mishra, Minister for MSMEs, Government of India.

T.N. Sudarshan – Secretary General, FKCCI; K. Shiva Shanmugam, Imm. Past President, FKCCI; S. Sampathraman, President-Elect, FKCCI; R. Shivakumar, President, FKCCI, Tallam R. Dwarakanath, Sr. Vice-President-Elect, FKCCI; Uma Reddy, Chairperson, EDTI Committee, FKCCI; Shankaranarayan, GM, BHEL; Baba Kalyani, Chairman, Kalyani Group; Madhavlal, IAS, Secretary MSME and others were present.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / July 04th, 2014

Paintings of Heritage structures on show at Kukkarahalli lake

Arts, Culture & Entertainment
Artist Shivakumar explains about his art works to Sri Somanatheshwara Swamiji at the art exhibition being held on the banks of Kukkarahalli Lake last evening. Archaeology Department Commissioner Dr. C.G. Betsurmath and others are seen.
Artist Shivakumar explains about his art works to Sri Somanatheshwara Swamiji at the art exhibition being held on the banks of Kukkarahalli Lake last evening. Archaeology Department Commissioner Dr. C.G. Betsurmath and others are seen.

Mysore :

There are more than 25,000 heritage monuments in the State which need to be conserved, said Dr. C.G. Betsurmath, Commissioner, Department of Archaeology and Museums.

He was speaking after inaugurating a painting exhibition titled ‘Noda Banni Namma Mysoora’ at Kukkarahalli Lake premises in city last evening.

Drawings of heritage structures created by artist Shivakumar H. Doddarasinakere, were on display attracted a huge number of art enthusiasts. The paintings included that of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar, Chamaraja Wadiyar, Jayamarthanda and Varaha gates of the Amba Vilas Palace, the Clock Tower, Lawns in front of the Palace, Devaraja Market, etc.

Sri Somanatheshwara Swamiji of Adichunchanagiri Mutt, Mysore branch, Director of State Vokkaliga Sangha Prasanna, member of Niranthara Foundation Prasad Kundur, Principal of Kalaniketana School of Arts K.C. Mahadev Shetty and others were present.

The exhibition will be open to public from 6.30 am to 6.30 pm till July 7.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / July 04th, 2014