City-based NGO Jhatkaa and bicycle touring company ‘Pedal in Tandem’ have teamed up to make Bengaluru’s streets cycle-friendly, especially for women
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** Around the world in 50 pics
Blending her profession and passion of meeting people from different parts of the world, city-based photographer Apoorva Prasad is creating a photo series of people from different countries
** Exotic earthworm found in Karnataka for the first time
The same earthworm was earlier recorded in 15 States/Union Territories in India
An exotic and highly invasive earthworm — Amynthas alexandri of the Megascolecidae family — has been collected and reported for the first time from Karnataka. Its original home is believed to be Southeast Asia
** St. John’s develops new test to measure Vit B12 absorption
Vitamin B12 deficiency arises mainly due to malabsorption
A team of researchers from St. John’s Research Institute (SJRI) has developed a new test to measure vitamin B12 absorption in humans with stable 13C isotopes. Earlier, this was possible only using the radio-isotopes-based Schilling test.
This major clinical development has been published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
** Bengaluru: Engineer, 56, donates blood for 200th time in 35 years
How many times can one donate blood in a lifetime? Ask Chandrakantha KV, a 56-year-old engineer who on Tuesday donated blood for the 200th time in 35 years.
** Fostering friendship with ‘Japan Habba’: A melting pot of cultures, Bengaluru style
Japan Habba Trust and the office of the Consulate General of Japan in Bengaluru organised the 17th edition of ‘Japan Habba 2021’. The event aimed to celebrate Japanese culture in India.
** S.R. Vignaraj among Tulu sahitya academy honorary award winners
Researcher S.R. Vignaraj of Dharmasthala is among nine persons chosen by the Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy for its honorary award.
Kelepu Perade Kelepu, a collection of poems by scholar and former Vice-Chancellor of Karnataka Folklore University K. Chinnappa Gowda and released last year, is among the four books selected by the academy for its book award.
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** This Bengaluru-based graphic designer is using art to create awareness around the symbols of each Indian state
Some months ago, when Radha Pennathur was looking up how to draw something, she came across an interesting fact: State symbols.
“It led me down a rabbit hole of sorts and I got to know that each state and union territory in India has some state symbols: Fruits, flowers, trees, birds, animals,” says the 23-year-old, who is now capturing the same through a series of artworks she is doing for Wildlife Conservation Society.
** Karnataka girls in Indian cricket team
Along with senior left-arm spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad, the number of Karnataka players in the team is now three.
Karnataka girls Prathyusha Challaru and Monica Patel have broken into the Indian senior women’s ODI and T20I teams that will take on South Africa in Lucknow from March 7-23.
** Five student-built satellites piggyback on PSLV-C51, soaring dreams of young minds
SindhuNetra was developed by students of Bengaluru-based PES University, which was awarded the Rs 2.2 crore contract by the Research Centre Imarat, part of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).