The Department of Primary and Secondary Education has developed an app that will help address infrastructure needs of government schools, shortage of teachers, optimal use of learning aids and utilisation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds.
Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited (KREDL) is taking up various initiatives for promoting research and development in the field of renewable energy and also for exploitation of renewable energy sources, Assistant General Manager (In-Charge) of KREDL Savita S. Meti has said.
Speaking at a media workshop and interaction on Renewable Energy Sources at Rayapur near Hubballi on Wednesday, Ms. Meti said that KREDL is making continuous efforts to exploit alternative energy sources such as solar and wind power, micro hydro power generation, bio power and generation of power using solid waste.
The Department of Archaeology, Museums and Heritage has launched a major survey to update the inventory of cultural properties and monuments strewn across Karnataka. Given the scope of the survey and the magnitude of the work involved, the project will be taken up in a phased manner and 13 taluks will be covered this year. This is in addition to five taluks already surveyed.
Karnataka has a treasure-trove of historical monuments and structures of which 844 are of State importance and declared as “protected” under the Karnataka Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1961. In addition, there are 609 centrally protected monuments of national importance under the jurisdiction of Archaeological Survey of India.
In a career spanning nearly eight decades, Lata Mangeshkar sang two film songs in Kannada. Both were from the film Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna released in 1967.
The song “Bellana Belagayitu” was in Raag Bhupali and “Ellare Iratheero, Endara Bartheero” was in a folk song format. Lata Mangeshkar’s sisters Usha Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle have also sung a song each for the film. In fact, the sisters sang the songs for free when they came to know that it was about a freedom fighter.
India’s Rohan Bopanna and Ramkumar Ramanathan won their second ATP World Tour title together after pipping the top seeded Australian pair of Luke Saville and John-Patrick Smith in the final of the Tata Open Maharashtra, on Sunday
The annual general meeting of the World Bunts’ Foundation Trust was held at Hotel Moti Mahal on Friday, February 4.
On the occasion, the Kothwal Gutthu Mechu Shedty Endowment award was given to Abhishek N Shetty and Vinith M Shetty and Kothwal Nadumane Rathna Shedtry endowment award was to Samarth Shetty. Late Dr D K Chowta Endowment award was presented to Yakshagana artiste Subbayya Shetty.
The supercomputer was designed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), with a majority of the hardware and software being manufactured within the country itself
The Jamia Masjid in the fort area in old Bagalkot would have a curious visitor every morning, once the call for prayers went out.
A three-year-old child would run to the mosque, listening to the Azaan, soaking in every note. The child was Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, who would grow up to be a Hindustani classical legend who enthralled the world. “The musical rhythm of the prayer would draw him to the mosque every day,’’ says Shirish Joshi, Bhimsen Joshi’s biographer.
Theatre artist Babanna Kalmani of Kunkanuru andtheatre-film artist Yamuna Murthy have been chosen to be the first recipients of the awards instituted in the name of theatre artistes Ramagopal and Nataraj Enagi by Bellad Education and Agriculture Development Foundation.
Addressing presspersons in Dharwad on Wednesday, president of the foundation and also the Karnatak Vidyavardhaka Sangha Chandrakanth Bellad said that the foundation has instituted the awards in the names of the late theatre artistes who havecontributed a great deal to theatre.
Mention Pandit Bhimsen Joshi and every music lover of Dharwad will tell you a story about him as a maverick boy growing up in north Karnataka towns. The young genius who followed processions of musical bands forgetting to return home, who led anomadic life in pursuit of a ‘guru’ and sang bhajans to entertain ticket collectors while travelling ticketless in trains…
The small-town boy went on to become a legendary vocalist and a Bharat Ratna. The life of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, whose birth centenary is on February 4, continues to be a source of inspiration for many youngsters who are passionate about music.
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