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** Farmer From Kodagu Has Won An Award For Preserving Local Pepper Crop

  • Napanda Poonacha of Kodagu district, a progressive farmer, who hopes to be recognized as a pro-nature farmer

  • He was recently granted the Plant Genome Saviour Farmer Reward (2019-20) for his efforts to save indigenous ‘Adi Pepper’ crop

** City Girl Excels In State Badminton Championship

Diya Bheemaiah, a student of Pragathi Elite Public School (PEPS), Bogadi, participated in the Badminton State Championship held at Mandya and won 3rd prize in Singles and emerged Runnerup in Mixed Doubles and Doubles.

She is seen with (from left) Administrator Karthik V. Kashyap, Principal Shilpa Prashanth and Administrative Director Jayashri Venkatesh.

** BBMP wins award for ‘keeping Bengaluru clean’

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and eight other municipal corporations in Karnataka have won various awards instituted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for keeping their respective cities clean. 

** BIAL Genie Hackathon to develop super app for air passengers

To foster technology-led innovation and seamless passenger experiences, Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) has partnered with Microsoft India for the ‘BIAL Genie Hackathon’ to develop an app using Microsoft Azure.

** Bengaluru Tech Summit 2021: Infosys bags ‘IT Ratna of Karnataka’ award

IT major Infosys has bagged the ‘IT Ratna of Karnataka’ award for the company’s outstanding performance in IT exports in the above Rs 10,000 crore category. Apart from this award, 20 other companies, including Wipro, Mindtree and TCS, were awarded ‘IT Pride of Karnataka’ award given by STPI (Software Technology Parks of India) and the Karnataka State Government, as part of the Bengaluru Tech Summit that began  in Bengaluru on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Chimera Technologies Co-founder and CEO Padma Duraiswamy bagged the ‘Woman Entrepreneur of the Year-IT’ award  and the ‘High Growth in Exports- IT/ITES’ award (exports greater than Rs 1000 crore and up to Rs 2000 crore) was bagged by Standard Chartered Global Business Services.

** Making waves

Two musicians from Bengaluru fusion band, MoonArra, are the latest guests on the celebrated Watford Jazz Junction Podcast, based in London.

City-based composer and guitarist Jagadeesh Ramanujam Mudambi and vocalist and songwriter Madhuri Jagadeesh founded the fusion music group MoonArra in 2006.

The band blends together the interactions and collective influences of Indian classical, jazz and world music. MoonArra — meaning ‘three streams’ — collaborates and connects with musicians and audiences worldwide, with a mission to share the messages of peace and harmony, goodwill and tolerance.

** Startups, crypto platforms among Bengaluru Impact awardees

The Bengaluru Impact awards were given away on Day 2 of Bengaluru Tech Summit 2021, to a number of recent as well as established startups from Karnataka. Bigbasket, Apna, Meesho, Curefit, Blackbuck were among those which took home the laurels, watched by a startup audience with participants from deep tech and medtech.

Fintech companies were also present, particularly CoinSwitch Kuber, a crypto exchange platform where more than 100 cryptos like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple etc can be traded at the best rate, and which offer a variety of payment options. 

Among the fintech awardees present were Zerodha, Cred and Groww. One of the awardees was online gaming platform Mobile Premier League (MPL). The lack of women entrepreneurs on stage was apparent, with an all-male fraternity gathering to receive awards.