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** Mysuru Zoo Tops Country In Maintenance And Overall Management, Says CZA Official
** 1971 war heroes commemorated in Bengaluru
The second day of the Swarnim Vijay Varsh Victory Flame with HQ Karnataka and Kerala Sub Area witnessed commemorative events of the felicitation of 1971 war heroes and their next of kin in Bengaluru city.
** Bengaluru scientists make quantum technology breakthrough
The project aims to encrypt a message which cannot be deciphered by a third party.
In what is a first for India, scientists from the Raman Research Institute (RRI) have made a breakthrough in quantum communications technology which has major military, banking and election security applications.
** Karnataka first state to vaccinate over 1 lakh people with second dose
Karnataka has so far inoculated 1,13,830 beneficiaries with the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine, and is the first state in the country to completely vaccinate more than one lakh beneficiaries with the two doses. As of February 21, a total of 8,21,939 health care workers and 2,84,950 front line workers had registered for the vaccination.
** Delhi HC gets two new judges; four Karnataka HC additional judges elevated
Four additional judges of the Karnataka High Court — justices Singapuram Raghavachar Krishna Kumar, Ashok Subhashchandra Kinagi, Suraj Govindaraj, and Sachin Shankar Magadum — were also elevated as permanent judges, the Law Ministry said.
** Women entrepreneurship development programme launched
The local commerce platform, eSamudaay has launched a unique women entrepreneurship programme to enable dynamic and aspiring young women to set up and run independent e-commerce marketplaces in small towns of India.
** Bengaluru boy is fastest to recite periodic table without reading
A class VIII cadet of the Rashtriya Military School Bangalore made best use of the holidays during the pandemic to train and break a world record.
His hard work has paid off and 13-year-old Ujjwal Sharma now is the “fastest to recite the periodic table without reading”, a feat that has entered the International Book of Records.
** NIMHANS to be part of global project to tackle encephalitis
Landmarks lit up red to create awareness about the brain infection
NIMHANS will be a part of an international project, ‘Brain Infections Global’, funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), Liverpool, U.K. The other collaborating centre in India is Christian Medical College, Vellore. Two other nations – Malawi in Africa and Brazil in South America – are also participating.
** B’luru institute takes big leap in quantum communication
Researchers team headed by Urbasi Sinha at the Raman Research Institute (RRI) successfully demonstrated free space quantum distribution key between two buildings in the institute using an atmospheric channel.
This is the first time the technique – called entanglement-based quantum-key distribution – has been demonstrated using ground stations based in RRI at a distance of 50 meters apart.