Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd. (KPCL) achieved maximum daily power generation of 121.708 million units (MU), which includes the highest ever thermal power generation of 80.253 MU, on March 27.
With this highest power generation, it surpassed its own previous record generation of 77.329 MU from thermal and 40 MU from hydro and other sources, totalling to 117.22 MU, on March 25.
Prasanna was on Tuesday elected as the new president of Mysuru District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Societies’ Union Ltd (MYMUL).
Sources in MYMUL said Mr. Prasanna, who is the son of K. Mahadev, JD(S) MLA representing Periyapatna Assembly constituency, is scheduled to take charge of his post on Wednesday.He was one of the 15 directors of MYMUL elected in the recent polls. On Tuesday, he was unanimously elected as the president.
ITC Windsor became the first hotel in the world to be certified LEED Zero Carbon by US Green Building Council (USGBC).
Two ladies from Dakshina Kannada district have been chosen to serve the Border Security Force (BSF) that keeps vigil on the country’s borders. They will report to their BSF bosses and begin to serve the force on April 1.
The girls who have cleared the rigorous process of selection of the BSF are Ramya from Balnadu and Yogitha from Kanoyoor in Kadaba taluk. Ramya happens to be the daughter of Padmayya Gowda and Tejavathi couple from Balnadu.
When the country was under lockdown, and people had huddled together inside their homes, Gauri Naik (56) from Ganesh Nagar, Sirsi in the district, went out on her own and singlehandedly dug a 60-feet well and extracted water. She has achieved this feat not once, but twice. She had dug another well of the same depth.
The prestigious ‘PaGo’ award for the year 2020 was conferred on journalist Pradesh H Marody, reporter/sub-editor at Prajavani in rural reporting here at Press Club on Tuesday March 30.
The award has been instituted in memory of P Gopalakrishna by PaGo Memorial Trust and is presented annually by the Dakshina Kannada Working Journalists’ Union (DKWJU).
The award was presented for his article ‘Kelutila Male Makkala Alalu’ published on June 25, 2020.
Only 137 Covid samples from Karnataka were received for genome sequencing, till March 10, although the combined capacity of the two labs in Bengaluru – NIMHANS and NCBS-InStem – that are part of INSACOG (Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium) is 2,400 samples per month.
Breaking the tradition of appointing a male as head of Koraneshwar Sansthan Mutt at Khajuri village in Aland taluk of the district, Murughendra Koranesahwar Shivayogi (61), the pontiff of the mutt, appointed a 40-year-old woman as his successor, term…
This appointment has been made to the mutt a year after a Muslim youth was appointed head of a branch of a lingayat mutt in Asuti village in Gadag district.
Murughendra Koraneshwar Swamiji on Monday announced the appointment of Neelalochana Taayi as his successor in a simple function held on the mutt’s premises in Khajuri village which borders Maharashtra.
The inscription that was found in Hassan district’s Arsikere taluk.
An inscription possibly belonging to that of the Jain religion was found during construction work at the Government Engineering College, near Kallangere Gate, on the outskirts of Arsikere town in Hassan district.