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** Ravi Korisettar gets MP Government’s Wakankar award

Ravi Korisettar, adjunct professor at NIAS, Bengaluru and honorary director of Robert Bruce Foote Sanganakallu Archaeological Museum, Ballari, has been chosen by the Madhya Pradesh Government for the Dr. Vishnu Sridhar Wakankar national award for 2018.

Prof. Korisettar served in the Department of History and Archaeology, Karnatak University, Dharwad, from 1989 to 2013. His discovery of the youngest toba tuff (YTT), volcanic ash of Sumatra origin, in peninsular river deposits has been hailed as a ‘great discovery’ and its significance in dating the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic has brought the Indian subcontinent to the forefront of debate on expansion of modern humans out of Africa.

Prof. Korisettar is credited with discovery of a large number of prehistoric painted rock shelters in the Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh which led to a series of investigations on identifying suitable dating methods for rock art and understanding the non-material culture of the authors of these paintings.

He was co-editor of Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology of India (Geological Society of India,1995), The Rise of Early Human Behaviour in Global Context (Routledge,1998), Indian Archaeology in Retrospect (ICHR and Manohar [4 volumes], 2001/2), and a special issue of Quaternary International (vol. 258, 2011) and editor of Beyond Stone and More Stones (Vo. 1: 2017 and Vol. 2: 2018).

** ‘Nadoja’ Awards Conferred

Noted writer and linguist Prof. T.V. Venkatachala Sastry, folk scholar Go.Ru. Channabasappa and Sanskrit scholar Prof. Bhashyam Swamiji of Sri Yoganarasimhaswamy Temple-Mysuru, who were conferred with ‘Nadoja’ award at the 30th Convocation of Hampi Kannada University yesterday.

Other attending were Central Tribal University of Andhra Pradesh Vice-Chancellor (VC) Dr. Tejasvi V. Kattimani, Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot, Hampi Kannada University VC Dr. S.C. Ramesh and others.

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** Ranbir Kapoor And Alia Bhatt’s Private Chef Is Kannadada Kanda – Ramaskanda

Ramaskanda Shastry is the Private Chef of Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, the Bollywood stars, who are officially tying the nuptial knot today in Mumbai. The wedding festivities kick-started with mehendi ceremony yesterday.

Ramaskanda, a native of Bengaluru, faced a lot of brickbats, when he discontinued his BA History and Economics at the St. Joseph’s College, Bengaluru, six years back.

For a while, he pursued music and cooking, two of his passions. When his father Shantarama Shastry, a well-known family priest of many reputed families and himself a graduate in B.Sc Electronics, advised him to study ‘Hotel Management,’ Skanda joined for BA-Culinary Arts at WGSHA (Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration), Manipal. He worked as a Chef at W-Hotels in Goa, for about eight months. When he felt that the job was monotonous, he got introduced to Harsha Dixit in Mumbai, who was the Private Chef of Ranbir Kapoor.

Skanda started assisting Harsha Dixit since two years and for the last six months, he has been the Private Chef of Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt.

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** Udupi: Stroke Awareness Programme, Guinness World Record of Most Pledges Plaque to Kasturba Hospital

Stroke is an important non communicable disease. One in four adults will experience a stroke in their lifetime. To raise the awareness about stroke, on the eve of World Stroke day October 29, 2021, department of Neurosciences, Kasturba Hospital, Manipal conducted stroke awareness campaign.

Kasturba Hospital, Manipal along with various other institutions in India participated in creating stroke pledges for awareness through a stroke assessment App as an initiative taken by BoehringerIngelheim India, and attempted to create a Guinness World Record of ‘Most pledges received for a stroke awareness campaign’.

Kasturba Hospital, Manipal gave significant contributions and by creating a total of 17,691 pledges all over India, a Guinness World Record was successfully created.

The hospital also conducted stroke screening activity by Blood pressure and blood sugar check along with stroke awareness and education to over 500 patients/participants attending KH OPD. The pledge registration for all attempt was held on the portal https://strokeriskcalculator.in.

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** Mangaluru: Legendary brass band maestro Harry D’Souza is no more

Legendary brass band maestro of the Bejai Brass Band “Konkan Sangeeth Shree” Harry D’Souza passed away here on Wednesday, April 13 due to age related illness.

Harry D’Souza was a musician who composed one tune every day, a music teacher who taught brass bands in 13 schools of city, a singer who enthralled the audience with his own Musical Nites, at the same time regaled the wedding guests in private wedding parties, an efficient managing proprietor of a century old Brass Band, a poet with a book of his own poems.

** Mysuru health sciences students bag RGUHS ranks

Students of Cauvery Institute of Health Sciences, Mysuru, affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), have bagged a gold medal and 23 ranks in the recent 24th annual convocation of RGUHS. Rohith, a student of Cardiac Care Technology, has secured first rank and a gold medal.

Sandra Sabu and Sandra Shibu, students of Operation Theatre Technology, have bagged 2nd and 5th ranks respectively. Ashley, a student of course in respiratory technology, has secured 7th rank. Adil Mubarak, Laveena Jose, Anagha, Anju David, Shalu Reji, Amulya Celestina, Bharathan R., Anjana Rajan, Santuna Saji, Mariya Linet, and Shilpa are the other students whose names figure in the list of rank holders, a press release from the institute said.

** Bipin Rawat Freedom Park inaugurated

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai inaugurated a park at Padmanabhanagar in memory of the former Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on Sunday.

Bipin Rawat Freedom Park, spread over an acre and developed at a cost of ₹2 crore, has a plaque memorialising Gen. Rawat

** Researchers create brain charts of humans spanning entire lifespan

They show how human brains expand rapidly in early life and gradually shrink as they age

An international team of researchers has created a series of brain charts spanning entire lifespan — from a 15-week-old foetus to a 100-year-old adult — that show how human brains expand rapidly in early life and gradually shrink as they age.

The charts are the result of a research project spanning six continents and bringing together almost 1,25,000 brain scans (MRIs) from over a 100 different studies. Authored by Richard Bethlehem from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge and Jakob Seidlitz from the Lifespan Brain Institute at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, the study has been published online in Nature on April 6.

Indian researchers, from the Consortium on Vulnerability to Externalising Disorders and Addictions [cVEDA] led by scientists from NIMHANS — Bharath Holla from the Department of Integrative Medicine and Vivek Benegal from the Department of Psychiatry — contributed the Indian dataset to this collaboration.

** Bengaluru: HAL inks pact with Nigerian Army for Chetak HelicopterFlying Training

HAL has signed a contract with Nigerian Army for imparting Phase-II flying training on Chetak Helicopter for six officers of Nigerian Army Aviation.

This marks the continuation of contract signed in April 2021 for imparting Phase-I flying training to six Nigerian Army aviation officers, which was successfully executed in December 2021.

The Phase-II flying training on Chetak Helicopter is scheduled to commence from Monday and is planned to be completed by December 2022.

** Hubbali airport in Karnataka gets a flying training organisation

Recently the Airport Authority of India (AAI) published the tender awardees, and a Mumbai-based air training organisation won the tender for starting FTOs at four airports including Hubballi.

Ekvi Air Training Organisation Private Limited is headquartered in Mumbai.

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