Category: Karnataka, Records

** VTU signs MoU with Bengaluru’s AFTC

The Air Force Technical College (AFTC), Bengaluru, has entered into an agreement with Belagavi-based VTU to award postgraduate degrees in Aeronautical Engineering to Indian Air force officers.

Air Commodore Biji Philip, Commandant of AFTC, and A.S. Deshpande, Registrar, VTU, signed a MoU in Belagavi on Friday.

The two institutions will jointly offer MTech programme in Aeronautical Engineering. The degree will be awarded with six different specialisations and will follow all AICTE and VTU norms.

** Remembering the work of Fa.Gu. Halakatti

Amid the COVID-19 restrictions, several organisations across North Karnataka region held symbolic programmes on Friday remembering the contributions of Fa.Gu. Halakatti, the man credited with ‘reviving Lingayatism’ through his efforts of collecting and publishing ‘vachanas’ in the first half of the 20th century.

** National Doctors’ Day: Miyar gram panchayat gets an ambulance

Miyar Gram Panchayat in Karkala taluk got a dedicated ambulance thanks to an initiative of the Cardiology At Doorsteps (CAD) Foundation to mark National Doctors’ Day on July 1.

Padmanabha Kamath, founder of CAD Foundation Trust, said Miyar GP becomes the first panchayat in India to have its own ECG machine, telemedicine unit and a dedicated ambulance. Each member of the panchayat contributed ₹1,000 from their salary for the initiative, he said.

** Rohan Bopanna-Sania Mirza pair wins historic all-Indian Wimbledon match

It was the first time in open era that two Indian teams competed against each other at a Grand Slam tournament.
The experienced pair of Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza defeated the brand new combination of Ramkaumar Ramanathan and Ankita Raina 6-2 7-6 (5) in the historic all-Indian mixed doubles first round match at the Wimbledon here on Friday.

It was the first time in open era that two Indian teams competed against each other at a Grand Slam tournament.

** Science writer Dr. Sudhindra Haldodderi passes away

Senior aeronautical scientist and science communicator in Kannada Dr. Sudhindra Haldodderi, 61, passed away in Bengaluru on July 2.

** Editor of Sanskrit newspaper passes away

K.V. Sampath Kumar, 64, editor of Sudharma, reckoned to be the country’s and the world’s only Sanskrit daily, passed away in Mysuru on Wednesday afternoon following cardiac arrest.

He, along with his wife Vidushi K.S. Jayalakshmi, were awarded the Padma Shri in 2020 by the government in recognition of their untiring efforts to keep the publication alive against all odds

Sampath Kumar had taken over the mantle from his father Pandit K.N. Varadaraja Iyengar who had launched Sudharma in 1970, and ensured that the publication reached its readers. He worked as a reporter, proof-reader, editor and publisher.

** Kannada cinema making waves in international film festivals

In what can be termed rare, five Kannada indie films — Prithvi Konanur’s Pinki Elli?, Abhilash Shetty’s Koli Taal, Ganesh Hegde’s Neeli Hakki, Baraguru Ramachandrappa’s Amrutamati and Siddu Poornachandra’s Daari yavudayya Vaikunthake? — are being screened and winning accolades this season.

** Bengaluru: CM releases Kempegowda philatelic cover: 3-day Jayanti from next year

A series of programmes to mark the 512th birth anniversary of the founder of Bengaluru Kempegowda including the release of a philatelic cover and commencement of works on construction of the Kempegowda Study Centre in the Jnanabharati campus by chief minister B S Yediyurappa through the virtual mode from the banquet hall of Vidhana Soudha and offering puja at the Samadhi of the Bengaluru founder at Kempapura in Magadi by deputy chief minister Dr C N Ashwath Narayan, who also garlanded statue at Mekhri Circle on Sunday.

** Decoding history cast in stone

To D Ismail, the mastigallu (masti stone) is a fascinating storyteller. It talks about the history and the people as he peers into the inscrutable inscriptions whether it is in Modi lipi or Halegannada (ancient Kannada).

The epigraphist from Birur town in Chikkamagaluru district took a fancy to the knowledge hidden in stones, and is one among a small number of people who can understand ‘Modi lipi’, a cursive script used to write several languages, including Kannada.