** Varsity doctor feted for his service in combating COVID-19

20,000 doses of vaccines administered to varsity staff and students during when pandemic was at its peak

M.S. Basavaraj, Chief Medical Officer, Health Centre, University of Mysore, on Tuesday urged the people to get vaccinated and also help others get immunized at the earliest as the vaccines are the only effective means for combating COVID-19.

** Meet Anuradha Doddaballapur, a cardiovascular scientist from Bengaluru and Germany’s cricket captain

Anuradha is also the first woman to pick up four consecutive wickets in T20 Internationals

Agathe Agathe Aithu!! (‘It will happen, it will happen, it hashappened!!’ in Kannada)” began a tweet from the official handle of German Women’s Cricket last August.

Their captain had just accomplished a feat that no other woman in international cricket has: four wickets in four balls in a T20 International.

Anuradha grew up in Basavanagudi, a residential locality in South Bengaluru. Like many middle-class fathers of that time in Bengaluru, hers too was a keen follower of cricket.

** Oxygen plant that can generate 7.2 lakh litres per day launched at Bengaluru Railway Hospital

 In a major step towards self-sufficiency by the Bengaluru Railway Division, an oxygen plant that can generate up to 7.2 lakh litres of medical oxygen per day was launched on Thursday inside the premises of the Divisional Railway Hospital. It may be recalled that due to huge numbers of railway employees getting affected during the peak of the COVID outbreak, the 50-bed hospital had an acute shortage of medical oxygen and struggled to meet its daily requirement.

** Karnataka’s vet ambulance service moo-ves 14 states to action

Karnataka’s ambulance service for the livestock — Pashu Sanjeevini — is being emulated by other states across the country, said Animal Husbandry Minister Prabhu Chauhan here on Wednesday.

Followed by the success of the service, the government is now planning to launch mobile veterinary operation theatres soon.

** India’s first security-boosting wall from Belgium debuts at Bengaluru’s KSR railway station

A state-of-the-art video wall imported from Belgium has recently been installed inside the premises of Cyber Cell of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and offers an enhanced layer of security at Bengaluru’s Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna (KSR) railway station.

This is the first such installation in the country.

** IISc-incubated startup L2MRail, SID & IISc sign MoU with Kerala Rail

The L2M Rail team and IISc have pioneered Fiber Bragg Grating sensing technology, to develop a Structural Health Monitoring System (SHMS) which will monitor civil engineering structures of Kerala Rail’s Silverline project, according to a statement.

** This massive solar park at Karnataka’s Pavagada ups heat

 It is a large sheet of glass that stretches as far as the eye can see. Acres and acres of black solar panels, spread across 12,800 acres to be precise, glimmer in the Sun, making the solar park at Pavagada taluk in Tumakuru district one of the biggest in Asia.

Launched in 2018, this alternative energy facility was meant to be the answer to environmentally hazardous thermal and nuclear power energy sources. But this ultra-modern, eco-friendly solution has brought misery to villagers nearby

** Indian scientists crack dengue vaccination challenge

Scientists from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)-Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bengaluru, in collaboration with several Indian institutes, have developed a dengue DNA vaccine candidate, accomplishing something that had remained a challenge over the years.

** Bengaluru’s KSR station gets facial recognition system

A digital cordon envelops the Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna (Bengaluru City) railway station as it has become the first railway station in the country to adopt the Facial Recognition System (FRS) technology.

Within 90 days of the surveillance system going live, 47 history-sheeters have been identified within the station premises.

** Bengaluru, Mysuru among nine cities for Centre’s e-vehicle thrust

The e-bus procured on Thursday will be launched on November 1.

Two cities from Karnataka — Bengaluru and Mysuru — are among the nine nationwide that have been selected for the Centre’s ‘Grand Challenge’ to deploy more electric vehicles (EVs) under public transport. 

The challenge was announced on Thursday, on a day when Bengaluru got its first e-bus, said Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation  Commissioner Anbu Kumar.