** Kodagu Lass Unnathi Breaks P.T. Usha’s Record In Hurdle Race

 Completes 80-metre hurdles (U-16) in 11.50 seconds at National Junior Athletics Championships

Bollanda Unnathi Aiyappa from Kodagu has created a new national record in the 80-metre hurdles held on Feb. 8 and 300-metre hurdles held on Feb. 9 at the 36th National Junior Athletics Championships at the Sarusajai Stadium in Assam.

** This 84-year-old man has conserved over 100 exotic pickling mango varieties

Age is no barrier for 84-year-old Beluru Subbanna Heggade (B. V. Subbarao) who has has collected more than 100 appe midi varieties of mangoes which were on the verge of extinction. He has preserved these mangoes, used for pickling as whole fruit, by growing them on his premises in Belur of Sagar taluk in Shivamogga district.