Category: Amazing Feats

** Two centuries after peasants bring down British flag, Tricolour to go up in Dakshina Kannada village

A small tiled-roof structure built in 1804, and which housed the British Treasury, still stands on about one acre land overlooking the village school.

When the Tricolour goes up for the first time at Banglegudde in Bellare village of Sullia taluk in Dakshina Kannada on the 75th Independence Day, it will mark a significant milestone in the history of the region. On March 30, 1837, peasants, who revolted against the British Raj for imposing high taxes on agricultural produce, had seized the British Treasury that was located at this place and had brought down the English flag.

** Bengaluru girl invents portable battery that resembles power bank, wins accolade from Oxford University

This B’ luru girl has received the Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Award at the University of Oxford, for inventing a solar chargeable lithium ion portable battery useful for pushcart vendors.

Bengaluru-girl Prerna Wadikar recently won the Vice Chancellor’s Social Impact Award at the University of Oxford, UK. She received the award for inventing a device that resembles a power bank, which is a lithium ion portable battery.

** Mobile solutions

During the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, KKRTC converted the versatile bus into a mobile clinic with oxygen cylinders, a swab centre, and even a library.

The face of 72-year-old Saroja Madde of Khajuri village, in Aland taluk, lights up every time she talks about the ‘Oxy Bus’ (oxygen equipped bus), introduced as saviours in rural areas by Kalyana Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (KKRTC), formerly known as Northeast Karnataka Road Transport Corporation.

** Awarding Australian Alumni

 13 recipients were awarded with over AUD 150,000 during the event.

The 13 recipients shared their projects from various fields, including environment, technology, agriculture, communication, gender, clean energy and more. Of the selected, four represented Chennai-based teams – Madhavi Shankar for communication app SpaceBasic, Venkateswaran Palat Krishnan for STEM Challenge Pilot, Ashok Jalagam for an Automated Millet Finder, and Lakshmi Venugopal for an Indo-Australian Platform on Environmental Education and Research (IA-PEER). The remaining recipients were posted in Kolkata, Mumbai, and New Delhi.

** From Mysuru To Mumbai: Railway Porter Badge No. 16 Takes Her To ‘Indian Idol’ Stage

Rizwana Banu’s story breaks free from dogmas of male-dominated profession

Wearing Porter Badge No. 16, Rizwana has appeared on the stage of the country’s biggest singing TV reality show ‘Indian Idol’ in Mumbai on July 6 and this has made her the talk of the town. But the celebrity status has not got into her head and she still lifts passenger luggage, smiling. Her amiable approach gets her a few rupees more than the normal remuneration.

** ‘I listen more than I talk’

Koo’s co-founder Aprameya Radhakrishna speaks to CE about his entrepreneurship journey, social media privacy, and what triggers him to new startup ideas

It all started at one of the restaurants in Bengaluru when IIT-Ahmedabad alumni Aprameya Radhakrishna and Raghunandan G, jotted down the daily woes of a common man including the loopholes in city’s cab services on a paper napkin. As necessity is the mother of all inventions, the duo (after quitting their corporate jobs) embarked on a journey of entrepreneurship. This gave birth to Taxi and Sure in 2010. Interestingly, Radhakrishna had come across the word ‘start up’  and the concept of entrepreneurship only in 2008.

Fast forward-12 years later-he’s the co-founder of the most talked-about Made In India microblogging site – Koo.However, coming this far wasn’t a cakewalk. A drink in a pub, a drive on the roads of Bengaluru, interacting with people in different cities, and drawing case studies from different brands, have sort of become the groundwork for many of his ideas.One of the fundamental principles Radhakrishna follows in entrepreneurship is to listen more and maintain introversion.

** Mangaluru: Seva Ratna Award bestowed on Dr Ushaprabha Nayak by Max Life Insurance

Dr Ushaprabha N Nayak, the co-founder and vice-chairperson of Expert Group of Institutions, Mangaluru, was bestowed with the Seva Ratna Award by Max Life Insurance at their Mangaluru office.

Max Life has been felicitating Corona Warriors, especially recognizing women entrepreneurs, taking into consideration all their efforts, whether tangible or intangible and their contribution during the pandemic.

** IISc researchers find unknown gene creating smaller eye lenses

The combination of a freshwater fish species, two rural children and six years of gruelling investigative work has allowed researchers to find a mutated gene that causes a serious eye defect in some Indian children.

** Kaup: Lord Siddhivinayaka temple built by Gabriel Nazareth at Shirva dedicated to world

“May the temple dedicated to Lord Siddhivinayaka, who happens to be a great guide of the universe, who inspired Gabriel in the interests of the region and settled down in Shirva grow into a temple that emerges as a model for the entire world,” wished senior seer of Udupi Palimar Math, Sri Vidyadheesha Theertha Swamiji.

He was delivering the benedictory address at the consecration programme of Lord Siddhivinayaka temple which has been built by former entrepreneur and ardent devotee of Lord Siddhivinayaka, Gabriel Nazareth, in his own land at Shirva, on Thursday July 15.