Researchers from the Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES), IISc, have discovered five new species of vine snakes, four from the Western Ghats alone.
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** Prominent Kannada journalist Ravi Belagere passes away at 62
Also an educationist, Belagere started Prarthana School, where his mortal remains were kept for the public to view, before being taken to the crematorium.
** Bengaluru’s Srishti design school now part of Manipal Group, campus to be relocated
Going forward, from the academic year 2020-21, students enrolling in the (now called) Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology will be bonafide students of MAHE
** IIM-Bangalore tops list of best B-schools in Central Asia in Eduniversal rankings
The IIM-B said the Eduniversal appreciated its vibrant student exchange programme, which has several partner universities from across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America.
** Manipal institute to set up second campus at Bengaluru’s Yelahanka
The work has already begun and the project is expected to complete by the start of the academic year in 2022, officials of the deemed-to-be university said.
** Subbanna Ambesangipasses away
Writer Subbanna Ambesangi (70) died in Eklaspur in Bidar district on Monday.
He retired as a college lecturer.
Apart from creative works, he produced scholarly thesis on the problems of Kannada-speaking population in the border districts.
His poetry collections, Kadinalli Hidida Grahana, Aralu, Chetana and Balliya Hoo, have won awards.
He was also a recipient of the district level Rajyotsava award.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Karnataka / by Special Correspondent / Belagavi – November 09th, 2020
** Two inscriptions dating back to 14th and 18th centuries discovered in Rajanukunte
Both pertain to land grants in the erstwhile ‘Yelahanka Nadu’
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Bengaluru / by K.V. Aditya Bharadwaj / November 10th, 2020
** Wipro’s Azim Premji emerges as most generous Indian in FY20
Premji pipped HCL Technologies’ Shiv Nadar, who had earlier topped the list collated by Hurun Report India and Edelgive Foundation, by a wide margin.
** India’s first game designer to be inducted into Women in Games Hall of Fame, talks about her journey
Poornima Seetharaman did not set out to be a game designer. After her engineering, she landed her first job at a South Korean mobile game development company in Mumbai.
Today she has become the first Indian game designer to be inducted into the Women in Games, Global Hall of Fame.
The Bengaluru-based designer has managed to break into a strictly male bastion
** Bringing alive Bengaluru in Berlin
Taking tales of the city to foreign shores is photographer Shivaraju B S, aka Cop Shiva, whose works will be on display in Germany