Category: Arts, Culture & Entertainment

** NIMHANS to open residential dementia care, training centre

“This will be a first-of-its-kind centre in the country which will have a range of dementia services, including acute care, long-term care, respite care to give caregivers a break and palliative care.

Professor C R Chandrashekar, former professor of psychiatry, NIMHANS, and founder of Samadhana Counselling Centre was felicitated for donating Rs 50 lakh to support the operational expenditure of the 40-bed REC Dementia Care Centre. He had earlier donated Rs 50 lakh for the same and Rs 8 lakh from his foundation.

** Transcending boundaries

To mark the third anniversary of the South Asian Symphony Foundation (SASF), music artistes from the South Asian region came together to weave a musical fusion in a virtual concert titled ‘Gitanjali’ on Tuesday.

The Bengaluru-based non-profit organisation was established in 2018 with a mission to unite the South Asian region with music.

According to Nirupama Rao, co-founder of SASF, the foundation focuses on promoting cultural synergy among the South Asian people, through the medium of music and the creation of the South Asian Symphony Orchestra (SASO).

** 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.

** Doha: Tulukoota Qatar Badminton champs truimph at Season 3 tournament

Tulukoota Qatar on July 9 organised the finals of the third season of an inter-organisation badminton tournament at Cambridge School.

The two-day event had eight Karnataka-based organisations namely KSQ, KMCA, KMCA, SKMWA, MCC, Bunts Qatar, MCA, Qatar Billawas and host Tulukoota Qatar.

A total of 105 players across the organisations participated and played the tournament in true sportsmanship and spirit. The tournament had categories ranging from young kids to senior adults above 60 who played with utmost enthusiasm.

** Jubail General Hospital honours KCF blood donor group

Karnataka Cultural Foundation (KCF), an expatriate platform of Kannadigas (people from the south Indian state of Karnataka) has been active in carrying out various humanitarian and relief services for expatriates especially during health emergencies, death etc. This time, KCF volunteers in Jubail turned over a new leaf by donating blood in a big way during a crucial need.

The blood donor team of Karnataka Cultural Foundation is very active in Dammam and various provinces of Saudi Arabia by organising and lending a helping hand to hospitals whenever there is an urgent blood requirement. The young donors’ team has considered it one of the greatest humanitarian services and gifts a human being can offer to another human being.

** Restoration of 105-year-old Doddajala heritage railway station in Bengaluru gets underway

Four railway stations are to be restored for the Bengaluru Division by the Indian National Trust for Art & Cultural Heritage (INTACH), a non-profit associated with the Archeological Survey of India