Month: February 2021

Two space startups — Skyroot Aerospace and Bellatrix Aerospace  who had both won this year’s National Startup Awards — on Monday entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to use the Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) being developed by Bellatrix in the upper stage of Vikram series of launch vehicles being developed by Skyroot.

Seventeen young women, mostly from villages across Karnataka, are training to shoot, handle explosives, rappel, rope walk, handle terror, as they build grit and endurance, for 12 hours a day.

What will emerge is a lean, mean team — the first batch of the all-woman Garuda commandos of the Karnataka Police.

The Basketball Federation of India felicitated sportsperson who received Arjuna, Dhyan Chand and Padma Shri Awardees between 1961 and 2019 for their contribution and achievements in basketball.

The felicitation programme was held at Karnataka Olympic Bhawan, Kanteerava Sports Complex, on Saturday. Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai felicitated over eight former basketball players.

Ms. Acharya was the member of the Manglauru City Municipal Council for three terms.

She was the vice-president of the Karnataka unit of Jan Sangh for nine years and was in the prison during Emergency.

She was the Janata Party candidate from the Mangalore Assembly Constituency in the State Assembly elections in 1978.

She was active in Bharat Scouts and Guides and was the treasurer of the Siri Horticulture Association.

She leaves behind two sons, including RSS Mangaluru City Corporation unit joint convenor Sunil Acharya, and a daughter.

Class 7 student Tanushree Pithrody from Udupi on Saturday set a record by performing 55 backward body skips in a minute. A provisional certificate of the Golden Book of World Records was handed over to her.

Tracing the genesis and history of the centuries-old Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, noted botanist Vijay R Thiruvady’s book ‘Lalbagh: From Sultan’s Garden to Public Park’ was released on Saturday by Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa at his home office ‘Krishna’.

 

Scientists from Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) have come out with desi flower varieties of marigold and gerbera, in the process breaking the vice-like grip of the Chinese and Dutch who virtually controlled the trade…

Yeragera police station was ranked 53 whilst Women Police Station in Davanagere stood at 67

Beml has taken a two-pronged approach in its foray into the versatile drone space: One, a partnership with the Czech innovation company Primoco UAV to jointly produce the Model One 150 with a 200 km range and payload capacity of 1-30 kg.