Honour for SOAHS faculty member

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Abraham Samuel Babu, Associate Professor in the Department of Physiotherapy, School of Allied Health Sciences (SOAHS), has been made ‘Endeavour Ambassador’ by the Department of Education and Training, Australian High Commission, India.

The 2018 Ambassadors’ event was held in New Delhi on February 16.

As many as 20 ambassadors from India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh have been appointed.

Among them, 10 are from India: Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bhopal, Mizoram, and New Delhi.

They will also be recognized in the Australian government publications and events and will have the opportunity to meet and network with others from the region.

For MAHE, Dr. Abraham is the second ambassador. The first was Arun Chawla, Professor, Department of Urology, Kasturba Medical College (KMC) here.

Dr Abraham received the Endeavour Executive Fellowship in 2015 to train in heart rate variability measurements and scale development under the supervision of David Hare, Department of Cardiology, Austin Health, University of Melbourne, Australia. MAHE has also been home to 13 various Endeavour Fellow recipients.

Following his training, he was offered an Honorary Research Fellow position in the Department of Cardiology at Austin Health, Melbourne to continue research activities.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Mangaluru / by Special Correspondent / Manipal – February 24th, 2018

Writer Vijaya Dabbe dead

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Noted writer Vijaya Dabbe, 67, a native of Dabbe in Belur taluk, died in Mysuru on Friday evening. The writer had settled at Dabbe village with her siblings. According to her family members, she had developed breathing problems four days ago and her sister had taken her to Mysuru for treatment. But she developed complications on Friday evening again, and she breathed her last on the way to hospital.

Ms. Dabbe is a well-known name in the Kannada literary world. She has written poetry, travelogues, criticism, and brought out many research papers. Her collections of poetry include Iruttave, Neeru Lohada Chinte and Tirugininta Prashne. She has brought out readers on Tirumalamba, Shyamaladevi Belgaumkar and Saraswati Gowda – all writers. She had done extensive research on the first generation of women writers of modern Kannada.

She taught Kannada literature at Kuvempu Kannada Adhyayana Samsthe in Mysore University for many years.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Karnataka / by Special Correspondent / Hassan – February 24th, 2018

App to link farmers with buyers and sellers launched

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A girl trying to climb a coconut tree with the support of climbing equipment during the Krishi Sangama programme at Oddur Farm at Ganjimutt near Mangaluru. | Photo Credit: H_S_Manjunath
A girl trying to climb a coconut tree with the support of climbing equipment during the Krishi Sangama programme at Oddur Farm at Ganjimutt near Mangaluru. | Photo Credit: H_S_Manjunath

IT and BT Dept. has sanctioned IRs. 8 lakh for mobile application

A mobile application, Farmsurge, to connect farmers, scientists, institutions, buyers and sellers, developed by Arunya Foundation, Mangaluru, was released during the inauguration of the two-day Krishi Sangama, a farm fair, which began at Ganjimath, near here, on Saturday.

Speaking after launching it, H. Kempe Gowda, Joint Director, Agriculture, Dakshina Kannada, said the app can provide information on government facilities and schemes available to farmers from time to time.

Mr. Gowda said that the app has options to create different groups, like farmers cultivating arecanut, coconut, paddy, jowar, ragi etc., and provides a platform for interaction. It has ‘buy request’ and ‘sell request’ categories for farmers and a category of notification.

He said the IT and BT Department of the government has sanctioned ₹8 lakh to the foundation for developing the app under the innovation promotion scheme of the government. In that, the government has released ₹4 lakh and the balance would be released later.

The team of youth, who developed the app, had to compete with others who have developed similar apps. The government selected this app after its own assessment. B.K. Deva Rao of Mittabagilu, near Ujire in Dakshina Kannada, who has preserved about 150 varieties of paddy, and who inaugurated the Krishi Sangama asked youth not to drift away from paddy cultivation.

He asked them to pursue education and other professions by reserving some time for paddy cultivation.

The youth can cultivate paddy in fields which have been left barren by its owners for various reasons. Mr. Rao said his efforts in conserving paddy variants has won him about 15 awards, including the SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions) Samman award. The 73-year-old Mr. Rao, explained how use of chemical fertilisers brought down 45 varieties of paddy being cultivated by him since 1960s to about eight varieties in the late 1980s. He quit application of chemical fertilisers in 1988 and went the organic way, thus saving up to 150 varieties. Since the shelf life of paddy seeds is only up to eight months, he has to grow them every year in small plots to preserve the seeds.

The foundation has organised the Krishi Sangama at Oddur farm.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Mangaluru / by Special Correspondent / Mangaluru – February 05th, 2018

Khelo India: Srihari makes a splash in 100m backstroke

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Champions all: Bhupender Singh, flanked by silver medallist C. Praveen, right, and Mohd Shahrukh strikes a pose after claiming the long jump gold on Thursday. bbfd
Champions all: Bhupender Singh, flanked by silver medallist C. Praveen, right, and Mohd Shahrukh strikes a pose after claiming the long jump gold on Thursday. bbfd

Bhupender Singh upstages Praveen to corner glory in long jump

Karnataka’s Srihari Nataraj took the honours in the swimming pool on Day Two of the Khelo India School Games here on Thursday, winning the 100m backstroke gold in 56.90 seconds to set a new National mark in the event. The previous record of 56.99s was set by him at the Asian age group championship in Tashkent last year.

Srihari also added the 4x100m freestyle gold to his kitty, combining with Saif Chandan Ali KS — who won an individual bronze for himself in the 400m freestyle category — Prassiddh Krishna and Aditya Bopanna as Karnataka leapfrogged into top spot on the table with ten medals, seven of them gold. Tamil Nadu had more medals overall (12) with most of them bronze.

Most of Tamil Nadu’s medals continued to come in track and field. C. Praveen’s hopes of a golden double were dashed when he was pushed to second spot in the long jump by Haryana’s Bhupender Singh in the second-last attempt.

Leading till the very end, with a jump of 6.93 metres, Praveen had to settle for second spot after Bhupender managed distances of 6.99 and 7.04 in his last two attempts. But Praveen, who had won the triple jump on Day One, became the third double medallist in track and field competition, along with the Kerala duo of Ancy Sojan E and Sandra Babu.

Ancy won gold in long jump — despite managing just two legitimate jumps — and silver in the 200m while Sandra added a long jump silver to go with her second spot in triple jump.

In the boys’ javelin throw event, Maharashtra’s Vikas Yadav claimed gold with a final attempt of 75.02m to overtake Yashveer Singh of Haryana, who had three throws of over 70 metres in an event where the top four finishers crossed the 70m mark.

The results: Athletics: 200m: Boys: 1. Shashikanth VA 21.82s, 2. Karan Hegiste 21.98, 3. Anshul 22.27s; Girls: 1. Chanveer Kaur 24.76s, 2. Ancy Sojan E 25.31, 3. M. Santra Teresa Martin 25.44

Javelin: Boys: 1. Vikas Yadav 75.02m, 2. Yashveer Singh 73.87, 3. Arpit Yadav 71.90; Girls: 1. Jyoti 40.59m, 2. Auhona Roy 39.90, 3. Jashanpreet Kaur 37.10m.

Long jump: Boys: 1. Bhupender Singh 7.04, 2. C. Praveen 6.93, 3. Mohd. Shahrukh 6.87; Girls: 1. Ancy Sojan E 5.80, 2. Sandra Babu 5.68, P. Babisha 5.62.

Pole vault: Girls: 1. T. Sathya 3.50, 2. Reshma Patil 2.80, 3. R. Sreelakshmi R 2.40.

Swimming: 400m freestyle: Boys: 1. Mohit Venkatesh 4:18.10s, 2. Zidane Iqbal Sayed 4:18.43, 3. Saif Chandan Ali KS 4:19.10; Girls: 1. Khushi Dinesh 4:39.52, 2. Prachi Tokas 4:41.55, 3. Poojitha G. Murthy 4:46.83.

100m backstroke: Boys: 1. Srihari Nataraj 56.90, 2. Xavier Michael D’Souza 1:00.03, 3. Vedant Bapna 1:01.31; Girls: 1. Suvana C. Bhaskar 1:08.23, 2. Khushi Jain 1:09.58, 3. Pratyasa Ray 1:10.05.

200m breaststroke: Boys: 1. Lohith M 2:25.99, 2. Swadesh Mondal 2:26.70, 3. Maibam Mangalsana Meitei 2:30.38; Girls: 1. Saloni Dalal 2:46.57, 2. Kenisha Gupta 2:48.50, 3. Aaliyah Singh 2:51.75.

100m butterfly: Boys: 1. Xavier Michael D’Souza 57.85, 2. Neel Roy 58.42, 3. Adhithya D 58.56; Girls: 1. Firdoush Kayamkhani 1:08.15, 2. Aastha Choudhury 1:09.68, 3. Poojitha G. Murthy and Priyanga Pugazharasu 1:09.94.

4x100m freestyle: Boys: 1. Karnataka 3:44.11, 2. Tamil Nadu 3:44.94, 3. Maharashtra 3:48.32.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Sport> Other Sports / by Uthra Ganesan / New Delhi – February 01st, 2018

Chickballapur district formation decennial events from Friday

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A three-day-long decennial event to mark formation of Chickballapur district will be held from Friday at Sir M. Visveswaraya Stadium. The district was carved out from undivided Kolar district in 2007.

MP representing Chickballapur Lok Sabha constituency M. Veerappa Moily will flag off a procession. Home Minister and district in-charge Minister Ramalinga Reddy will inaugurate the programme. Deputy Speaker of Legislative Assembly N.H. Shivashankar Reddy will inaugurate a flower show organised as part of the celebrations.

Watersports have been organised at Srinivasasagar tank and Kandavara tank. A seminar on education and culture is also being conducted at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Bhavan. Retired professor B. Gangadharmurthy will preside over the seminar.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Karnataka / by Staff Reporter / Kolar – February 01st, 2018

Indigenous flight control system powers LCH

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Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. flew its Light Combat Helicopter that is under development for 20 minutes on Wednesday using its own Automatic Flight Control System for the first time.

The indigenous AFCS is also the first to be designed and made in the country.

HAL said: “The maiden flight of LCH (Technology Demonstrator-2) was flawless with the engagement of the system throughout.” The LCH got its initial operational clearance on August 26 last year.

The Defence enterprise has funded the development of the hardware, software of the AFCS, which will replace the expensive imported system, said T. Suvarna Raju, HAL’s CMD.

HAL’s research and development centres — the Rotary Wing R&D Centre and the MCSRDC at Bengaluru, SLRDC at Hyderabad and Korwa Division — are involved in its development.

The digital, four-axis flight control system is capable of performing control and stability augmentation functions and auto pilot modes of helicopters.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Karnataka / by Special Correspondent / Bengaluru – January 31st, 2018

Mangaluru cycling team wins 1,000 km race

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Three riders completed the 48 hour non-stop relay race in 43.59 hours

A team of 11 residents of the city — three riders and eight crew members — won the first place in the recently concluded Goa — Ballupet (Karnataka )— Goa Ultra Spice 1,000 km bicycle race.

The team from Mangalore Bicycle Club finished the non-stop relay race in 43.59 hours as against the target of 48 hours. The race was flagged off from Bogmalo, Goa, at 7.21 a.m. on January 27 and the team traversed through Honnavar, Shivamogga, Chikkamagaluru, Ballupet, Chikkamagaluru, Shivamogga and Honnavar before finishing the race at 3.19 a.m. on Monday.

MBC team comprised riders Srikantharaja, Masood Teekay and B. Hariprasad B and crew members Ganesh Nayak, Hariprasad Shevire, S.M. Madhukar, K.S. Venu Vinod, Joel Fernandes, Sunil Mendes, Pritam Sharma and Chinmaya Delampady.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Mangaluru / by Special Correspondent / Mangauru – January 31st, 2018

Kashinath made a mark for himself

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Actor Kashinath. | Photo Credit: K. Bhagya Prakash
Actor Kashinath. | Photo Credit: K. Bhagya Prakash

Actor, director and producer K. Kashinath, 67, who was instrumental in changing the direction of Kannada cinema in the late ’70s, died on Thursday after a brief illness. In his four-decade career, Kashinath acted in over 40 films and directed 16. He was a rarity: besides directing, he wrote dialogues, songs, and even scripts. He was instrumental in the growth of several film-makers such as Upendra, Sunil Kumar Desai, music director Manohar, and he promoted actors Abhinaya, Umashree, Bank Janardhan, and Vanitha Vasu.

In the late ’70s, when Kannada cinema was clearly demarcated as commercial and art, Kashinath created his own genre. He changed the perspective of a protagonist and anti-hero and carved a niche for himself. Besides mirroring the generation he was in, he spoke against social evils such as dowry often employing the double entendre. Many even accused him of damaging the image of Kannada film industry. Undeterred, Kashinath carved his own path and soon became a cult figure.

Though he made his debut as a director in the comedy drama Aparoopada Athithigalu (1976), his talent came to the fore with Aparichita (1978), where new actors Shobha, Suresh Heblikar, M.V. Vasudeva Rao, Sundar Krishna Urs and Kokila Mohan made an entry. His landmark film Anubhava, starring Umashree (now Minister for Kannada and Culture) and Abhinaya created ripples for its content. Recently, speaking to the media, Kashinath had said: “Some were embarrassed, some criticised, while some secretly felt that Anubhava was their own experience.”

He was working till the very last. In fact two days ago, he dubbed for his upcoming film Oll Munsami, directed by Anand Priya. His recent film Chouka was not only a box office hit, but also provided a new lease of life for Kashinath.

Thousands of fans and political leaders paid their last respects. As Upendra put it, with Kashinath’s death, it is curtains to a glorious chapter in Kannada industry.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Karnataka / by Muralidhara Khajane / Bengaluru – January 18th, 2018