This year’s awardees are Dr Anuradha M Annaswamy, a senior research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Professor Sajal K Das of Missouri University of Science and Technology, Professor T Pradeep of IIT Madras, Professor C S Raghavendra of the University of Southern California and Dr Ritu Shrivastava, a former vice president of Technology Development at SanDisk Corporation.
Category: Amazing Feats
** Koratagere girl who was denied admission in school tops state in SSLC exams
The state government on Monday announced the results of the supplementary examinations and Greeshma Nayak from Koratagere, who was studying at Alvas English Medium School in Moodbidri, Dakshina Kannada, has secured 599 marks out of 625.
** India’s second govt hospital for gastroenterology opens in Bengaluru
The Institute of Gastroenterology and Organ Transplant (IGOT), which opened on the Victoria Hospital campus on Sunday, is India’s second government facility dedicated to the treatment of the disorders of the stomach and intestines.
Delhi’s Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), run by that state government, was the only state-run gastroenterology facility in the country
** Fifth grader’s click of web-weaving spider wins global award
Vidyun R Hebbar.
A fifth grader from the city who snapped the picture of a web-weaving spider against a splash of colours has won the international ‘Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year’ award.
** Udupi: MAHE felicitates Sub Kashinath Naik Commonwealth medallist, Ekalavya Awardee
Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) felicitated Sub Kashinath Naik- an Ekalavya Awardee and 2010 Commonwealth games medallist who has also trained the Olympian medallist Neeraj Chopra.
** ‘Largest’ residential rooftop solar power plant commissioned in Bengaluru
A rooftop solar power plant, touted as “the largest” for a residential apartment complex in the country, was inaugurated in the city on Saturday. Enphase Energy announced the installation of the 354.4KW plant over 13 residential high-rise buildings at the Brigade Gateway Apartment Complex here.
“This is the largest rooftop solar power plant for a residential apartment complex in India, that enables residents to save up to 69% of their present estimated consumption, while also helping save carbon emission of up to 530 tons annually,” a release said.
** New book explores Kannada literary icon Shivarama Karanth’s life and works
The book throws light on the intimate side of Karanth’s life and highlights the contribution of his wife Leela Karanth in his illustrious journey
** 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.
** Over one lakh pages of palm leaf manuscripts digitised at Moorusavir mutt
As many as 100 volunteers helped Ashok Domlur in the effort
After a fortnight of intense work, over one lakh pages of manuscripts at Moorusavir mutt in Hubballi have been scanned and stored in digital format.
Over 100 volunteers, including regulars such as Veena Paramadi, Basamma Koti, Laxmi Biradar and Nirmala Bisanal, scanned each palm leaf under the guidance of technical expert and researcher Ashok Domlur. Among other things, over 395 manuscripts dating back to around 300 years were cleaned with lemon grass oil before being digitised now.
** 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.