World Opinion – Page 12 – Karnataka First

** Just like old times

Musical duo Lucky Ali and Mikey McCleary, who first worked together on O Sanam, is collaborating again after almost 11 years for an album, Intezaar, the first song of which is out and trending.

Lucky Ali turns to music to express himself. He might never be in a hurry to create tunes, but Ali makes sure the wait is worth it. The singer is now out with his latest album Intezaar, which has touched over 2 million views.

Ali’s loungey music has always been popular among music lovers and Intezaar has something to it that makes it a crowd-puller too. The music of the album is by composer and long-time associate Mikey McCleary. The first time McCleary and Ali worked together was for the singer’s first album Sunoh in 1996, which created magic with the song O Sanam. The duo subsequently went on to work on many projects but is back together after a long break.

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** Hilton-Embassy combine announces completion of two hotels, a convention centre in Bengaluru

Dual branded hotel complex ushers in a new era of post-pandemic travel: Hilton

Hilton, an international hospitality brand, in partnership with Embassy REIT, a real estate investment trust, has announced the opening of a new, 266-keys full-service hotel and Hilton Convention Centre, a Meetings, Incentives, Conference/Conventions and Exhibitions/Events (MICE) infrastructure at Embassy Manyata Business Park, here in the city on Monday.

The Hilton-Embassy combine had opened a 353-key Hilton Garden Inn at Embassy Manyata Business Park in March this year, making the dual-branded hotel complex with a total of 619 rooms. The hotels are directly linked to 60,000 square feet of convention space, to make it convenient for business events and large desi weddings. The convention centre is comprised of a 13,000 square feet pillar-less grand ballroom that can accommodate up to 1,500 people.

** US-based Applied Materials acquires land in Bengaluru for ₹350 crore

California-based Applied Materials has invested ₹350 crore ($50 million) to purchase land in Whitefield in Bengaluru where it is planning to expand its engineering infrastructure.

The company said the expansion would boost its next phase of growth in India.

“We expect this investment to support future product development and R&D, as well as benefit the development of the local supply chain,’‘ said Srinivas Satya, country president and Managing Director, Applied Materials India at Semicon India 2022 in Bengaluru on April 29.

Indian Government’s mission mode approach to evolve the country’s semiconductor sector, together with the ease-of-business initiatives and scaling up of indigenous electronics end-manufacturing, were positive and practical steps to enable its Semiconductor Mission, he added.

Applied Materials supplies equipment, services and software for the manufacture of semiconductor (integrated circuit) chips for electronics, flat panel displays for computers, smartphones, televisions, and solar products.

** Artificial intelligence meets human art

After auctioning his unusual NFT for a whopping price of $94,500 at Sotheby’s in New York, B’luru artist Raghava KK is now launching this work in the country for the first time .

It’s not the first time Bengaluru-based artist Raghava KK has created something beyond one’s imagination. On October 8, 2021, he auctioned the first-ever human orgasm in an art form at Sotheby’s in New York for $94,500. While that turned out to be a huge hit, he wanted to bring the project closer home. So he took his game a notch higher and is using the help of artificial intelligence (AI) to make it better.

With AI, he ‘created’ multiple orgasms (male, female and couples) and created Cyborg Desires, the world’s first AI orgasms. “The objective was to train and teach the machine to experience the most intimate of human experiences and then have the machine create — with the help of man — its own intimate moments,” he explains. Now, a community that funds a ‘regenerative future’ by leveraging artists and creators, ReGenDAO, and Raghava will drop an NFT at Techne Disrupters, an epistemological art and tech show, next week in New Delhi.

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** Guinness record set on removal of 236 fibroids

A 34-year-old journalist and former TV anchor, Ritika Sharma from Bengaluru, has set a new Guinness World Record for getting highest number of fibroids removed from her uterus. The patient had 236 fibroids removed, which included a large cauliflower shaped fibroid measuring up to 20 X 20 X 10 cm and many other smaller fibroids of different sizes, weighing 2,250 grams in total.

This complex surgical procedure was performed in October last year by Shanthala Thuppanna, Senior Consultant and Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Sakra World Hospital in Bengaluru. The title certificate was presented by Guinness World Record adjudicator Swapnil Dangarikar to the patient and her doctor in the city on Thursday.

** Bengaluru-based doctor in The Ophthalmologist Power List 2022

The Ophthalmologist Power List 2022 is a roll call of achievers in clinical practice and vision research.

Bengaluru-based cornea-refractive surgeon and translational scientist Rohit Shetty has been named as one of the Top 100 most inspiring and influential ophthalmologists of the world by The Ophthalmologist magazine. Dr Shetty is the first Kannadiga to make it to the ‘power list’.

The Ophthalmologist Power List 2022 is a roll call of achievers in clinical practice and vision research. The list is prepared from a lineup of 450 names by an international panel of 20 judges.

** Mangalore Konkans Dubai to host ‘Golden Voice of UAE’ singing reality show

After a gap of 4 years, Mangalore Konkans Dubai are back again, to create a platform for encouragement of talents and awareness of the enormous budding singing talents available in the UAE with the Konkani community. A reality show in Konkani singing is organized to crown ‘Mangalore Konkan’s Golden Voice of UAE’ in male and female category for UAE residents above the age of 18.

As per president of Mangalore Konkans Dubai, James Mendonca, the audition round will be held on Sunday June 5 at 4:30 PM at Bab Al Ibada Party Hall, Mezzanine floor, HSBC building, King Faisal road, Sharjah. The best 6 in each category will be qualified for the second round followed by the finale which will be held in the month of November, with live band, music and singing qualified judges and with more than 750+ audience.

** Mangaluru: Sonal, Simone Monteiro emerge winners of first ever ‘Daijiworld Duet Singing Stars’

Daijiworld 24×7 TV’s mega stage show of Konkani programmes, ‘Konkani Sambhram-2′ was held at Don Bosco Hall here on Sunday April 17.

The special entertainment programme of around 2 hours duration was witnessed by a huge crowd. Going by their response, they enjoyed every moment of it.

The show was mainly dedicated for presenting awards to the winners of popular Konkani reality shows, ‘Daijiworld Duet Singing Stars’ and ‘MTG-Gulf Edition’.

Sonal Monteiro and Simone Monteiro won the title of ‘Daijiworld Duet Singing Stars’ while Jenisha D’Souza and Cherryl Anna D’Almeida bagged the runner-up spots of the show. Asha Moras and Seema D’Souza from Allipade were the second runners- up. Noel and Jenifer Mascarenhas, the founders of the SMKC Dubai, honoured the winners with the trophies and prize money.

Rohan Monteiro, managing director , Rohan Corporation; Austin Peris, representing Ronald Colaco and family, Fr Paul Melwyn D’Souza, president, Konkani Natak Sabha, Fr Ronald Serrao, rector, St Joseph Seminary, Guru Baliga, CEO, Vishwa Konkani Kendr, Shakthinagar, Louis Pinto, president, Mandd Sobhann, and Ron Rodrigues, London, movie and serial producer, inaugurated the show lighting the lamp. Walter Nandalike, founder, Daijiworld group, and Alexis Castelino, Dayan D’Souza, directors – Daijiworld TV, accompanied the dignitaries.

** Udupi: Stroke Awareness Programme, Guinness World Record of Most Pledges Plaque to Kasturba Hospital

Stroke is an important non communicable disease. One in four adults will experience a stroke in their lifetime. To raise the awareness about stroke, on the eve of World Stroke day October 29, 2021, department of Neurosciences, Kasturba Hospital, Manipal conducted stroke awareness campaign.

Kasturba Hospital, Manipal along with various other institutions in India participated in creating stroke pledges for awareness through a stroke assessment App as an initiative taken by BoehringerIngelheim India, and attempted to create a Guinness World Record of ‘Most pledges received for a stroke awareness campaign’.

Kasturba Hospital, Manipal gave significant contributions and by creating a total of 17,691 pledges all over India, a Guinness World Record was successfully created.

The hospital also conducted stroke screening activity by Blood pressure and blood sugar check along with stroke awareness and education to over 500 patients/participants attending KH OPD. The pledge registration for all attempt was held on the portal https://strokeriskcalculator.in.

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** Researchers create brain charts of humans spanning entire lifespan

They show how human brains expand rapidly in early life and gradually shrink as they age

An international team of researchers has created a series of brain charts spanning entire lifespan — from a 15-week-old foetus to a 100-year-old adult — that show how human brains expand rapidly in early life and gradually shrink as they age.

The charts are the result of a research project spanning six continents and bringing together almost 1,25,000 brain scans (MRIs) from over a 100 different studies. Authored by Richard Bethlehem from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge and Jakob Seidlitz from the Lifespan Brain Institute at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, the study has been published online in Nature on April 6.

Indian researchers, from the Consortium on Vulnerability to Externalising Disorders and Addictions [cVEDA] led by scientists from NIMHANS — Bharath Holla from the Department of Integrative Medicine and Vivek Benegal from the Department of Psychiatry — contributed the Indian dataset to this collaboration.