The five-year contract spanning from 2023 to 2028 is valued at Rs 2400 crore and involves supplying critical avionics Line Replaceable Units (LRUs), flight control computers and night flying LRUs.
Category: Records
** Charter firm launches helicopter service from Bengaluru to Coorg
The service would reduce travel time to an hour as compared to 7 hours by road
BLADE India, a private charter service, has announced launch of its helicopter services in Karnataka with a service between Bengaluru and Kabini in Coorg.
The service would reduce travel time between Bangalore and Kabini to an hour as compared to 7 hours by road. Flights from Bengaluru would take off from Jakkur aerodrome. In Kodagu district, you get the option to land either at Evolve Back Resorts in Kabini or the Mercara Downs Golf Course in Madikeri.
The one-way tariff per person from Bengaluru to either destinations in Kodagu district is ₹16,000.
** Tracing history through coins at Mangaluru’s Aloyseum
If you like seeing ancient coins and understanding the history through the coins, then Aloyseum, a museum at St Aloysius College in Mangaluru, is the place to be.
** Kundapur: Veteran journalist U S Shenoy bags Vaddarse Raghuram Shetty Award
Brahmavar Taluk Patrakartara Sangha has selected senior journalist, editor of Kundaprabha weekly newspaper, U S Shenoy for the prestigious Vaddarse Raghuram Shetty Award this time.
henoy has served the sector of journalism for the last 40 years. He started ‘Kundaprabha’ first weekly newspaper of Kundapur taluk in 1991 and has continued it for the last three decades. He trained and molded more than 25 people as journalists. He has published books titled ‘101 gramagalu’, ‘Punyanadi panchagangavali’, ‘computer kaliyiri’, ‘Aids mahamari’ and other books. He has served as journalist in Mangaluru’s Navabharath, Indian Express, Mungaru and Hosa Digantha newspapers. He has been running Konkani monthly magazine as its editor.
** Mysuru Golfer Aryan Roopa Anand Retains All-India Amateur Title
Mysuru boy Aryan Roopa Anand retained his IGU All-India Amateur Golf Championship title defeating Yuvaraj Singh, at the Poona Golf Course in Pune.
The last amateur to win back-to-back titles was Bengaluru’s S. Chikkarangappa, over a decade ago.
Aryan is the son of Anand Kumar, who works with a leading telecom service provider and Roopa, a home-maker. Aryan started playing golf at JWGC, Mysuru and won the first tournament he played, which was the key motivator for him to start pursuing golf more seriously.
After moving out of Mysuru and shifting to Bengaluru, he started playing at KGA, Bengaluru.
** World Senior Badminton Tournament At Spain: Government School Maths Teacher Wins Bronze Medal
Sunil Gladson Varadaraj, who works as an Assistant Teacher at Hosamalangi Government High School in Kollegal taluk of Chamarajanagar, is the one who had excelled at track & field events during school days and then was part of State Kho Kho team before switching to shuttle badminton.
Now, adding feather to his cap is the Bronze Medal he won at the Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Senior Badminton Championship held at Carolina Marin Stadium in Huelva of Spain between Nov. 28 and Dec. 4, 2021.
With this win, he becomes the first Mysurean to win a medal at BWF World Championship.
Partnering with Abhinand K. Shetty of Bengaluru, Sunil won Bronze Medal in the Men’s 40-plus Doubles category at the Tournament. In semi-finals, Sunil-Abhinand duo lost to JBS Vidyadhar-Ajit B. Umrani 10-21, 14-21.
** BBMP limits expand by 4 sq km as govt adds five villages
With the additions, BBMP limits that sprawl over 712 sq km will now stretch over 716 sq km.
The area under the BBMP’s jurisdiction has now increased by four square kilometres with the addition of five villages in northern and southern Bengaluru.
** World is a golf course now for this girl prodigy from city
India’s leading amateur female golfer, 15-year-old Bengalurean Avani Prashanth, has been selected for the Global Child Prodigy Award 2022.
** Parasailing starts as a weekend must-do at Bengaluru’s Jakkur
The new weekend attraction in town is parasailing, started by the department of youth empowerment and sports, along with General Thimayya National Academy of Adventure (Gethnaa).
Parasailing at Jakkur started on December 12, and was an instant hit with around 25 people taking to the air. The department has now decided to make it a weekly affair, to be held every Sunday.
** 5-yr-old in Bengaluru sets world record in coding
Five-year-old Sunvisha C Nair, a student of Christ KG at SG Palya, has emerged as the ‘world’s youngest person to code decimal and its corresponding octal, hexadecimal and binary coding of 1-15, in a number system’.
With this, the child, who was 4 years 11 months 13 days-old at the time of her record, has written the binary, octal and hexadecimal equivalent of the decimal (conventionally-used everyday number system) from 1 to 15.