Category: Records

** City Fighters Win Medals At National Kickboxing Championships

Fighters of Elite Academy, Mysuru, have excelled in the WAKO National Kickboxing Championships-2021 organised by Amateur Sports Kickboxing Association, Maharashtra, at Balewadi, Pune, in September.

Syed Abubakar clinched Gold medals in the Seniors Category while M. Satyanand bagged Gold and Silver Medal in the Sub-Junior category.

Ahmed, Mohammed Adnaan, Mohamed Abaan and Mohamed Eshan won Gold Medal and Afreed Khan won Gold and Silver Medals in the Junior Category. Manav D. Sangwan won Gold Medal in Youngest Cadets.

All the fighters are trained by Mohamed Farjath Iyaz, Chief Instructor and Founder of Elite Academy.

** Tennis: Wins U-14 And U-16 Titles

C.N. Varunya, a student of St. Joseph’s Central School, Vijayanagar, has won the Girls U-14 and U-16 State-level Mysore Junior Tennis Tournament organised by Topserve Tennis Academy at Mysore Tennis Club on Dec. 26.

Daughter of  Rotarian Naveen Chand and Rashmitha, Varunya  is trained by Raghuveer, Ace Tennis Coach.

In both U-14 and U-16 finals, Varunya beat Arzan Khorakiwala 7-2 and 5-1 respectively to clinch titles.

** Madison Kannada Koota Pays Tribute To Puneet Rajkumar

Members of Madison Kannada Koota of America, led by Dr. Krishnegowda paid tributes to Sandalwood actor Puneet Rajkumar, who passed away in October last year.

The Madison Kannada Koota also donated Rs. 1 lakh to Shakthidhama, which was being taken care by the late actor. Swaminathan, Dr. Chandrashekar Reddy, Kiran and others of the Kannada Koota were present.

** Wins ‘Mr. Mysore’ Title

Mohammed Ibrahim of Muscle Mania Gym, Mysuru, has secured 1st place in medium category in the Mysuru District-level Body Building Competition held on Jan. 2 at Town Hall.

He also bagged ‘Mr. Mysore – 2020’ title at the competition which was organised by Mysore District Amateur Bodybuilder’s Association, Mysuru. 

** Celebrating life of past

A folklore museum set-up by students is a treasure trove educating the current generation of the glorious past

A museum is where a piece of the past is preserved, helping the present and future generations to wonder and learn. Making an effort to showcase the forgotten lifestyle of people of Malnad, students of Sahyadri Arts College in Shivamogga have set up a folklore museum by collecting scores of artefacts and everyday items from yore. 

Guided by Dr Mohan Chandragutti, assistant professor of Kannada at the college, these students, who are part of the National Service Scheme (NSS), have shaped the museum by collecting items that were used for cooking, farming and other day-to-day activities from three villages of Shivamogga district. 

** Folk artist Basavalingaiah Hiremath passes away

The Karnataka government had honoured him with a Karnataka Rajyotsava award for his life time achievement in the field of folk theatre

Basavalingaiah Hiremath, senior theatre personality, actor, singer, director and folklore expert, died in Bengaluru on January 9 morning.

The Karnataka Rajyotsava award winning folk artist was known across the country for his performance of `Sri Krishna Parijata’, the classic Kannada play. The three-hour-long drama about the life of Lord Krishna and his wives Rukmini and Satyabhama was peppered with song -dance and long dialogues. The performance was in Doddata folk theatre style.

The original play was 12 hours long and was written by Kulgod Tammanna, a folk artist who imagined it to be an overnight performance. Hiremath reshaped it to under three hours, to give the viewer the experience of watching a movie. His team presented over 1,000 performances of Sri Krishna Parijata, in India, U.A.E., Europe and U.S.A.

** ‘This Is Us’ Honours Nasir Ahmed in Ep 8, Season 5 – Who is He?

Nasir is the man behind Discrete Cosine Transform – the technology which makes it possible to share photos & videos.

Nasir Ahmed hails from the southern city of Bengaluru, in India. He was born in 1940, and subsequently completed his schooling from Bishop Cotton Boys School. He earned his Bachelors in electrical engineering from the University College of Engineering in Bengaluru in 1961. Thereafter, he moved to the US for his higher studies and pursued both his MS and Ph.D at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Inventor – DCT Technology

** Bike expedition to Delhi seeking recognition for Tulu flagged off

Vikith Manjunath and Sharan Shetty’s motorbike expedition to New Delhi in order to create awareness about Tuluva culture, script and justify the need to include Tulu language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, was flagged-off by Mangaluru Commissioner of Police N Shashi Kumar at police parade ground on Friday.