Senior Yakshagana artist Puttur Sridhara Bhandary, known for performing “pundu veshas”, passed away at his residence in Puttur in Dakshina Kannada on Friday. He was 75 and is survived by wife, three daughters, and a son.
Month: February 2021
** Kalaburagi centre of RGUHS to be inaugurated today
Minister for Health and Family Welfare K Sudhakar will inaugurate the Kalaburagi regional centre of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) here on Sunday.
** 179 species of butterflies recorded in Bengaluru
Butterflies of Bengaluru by Krushnamegh Kunte and Nitin Ravikanthachari is an initiative by the Karnataka Forest Department (Research Wing), National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), and Indian Foundation for Butterflies, Bengaluru.
** ‘I didn’t even know Enid Blyton’: Writer Amulya B after Toto Awards win
Amulya became the first to win the English and Kannada writing awards
Amulya B won the writing awards in Kannada and English at the 17th annual Toto Funds the Arts (TFA) Awards held on February 7. She is the first to win both the awards.
** It’s golden jubilee for Tulu’s tryst with silver screen
Only 40 Tulu films were released in a span of 40 years till 2011
** Former RS MP Justice Mandagadde Rama Jois passes away
Former Governor of Bihar and Jharkhand M Rama Jois passes away on Tuesday at his residence in Bengaluru.
** HAL aims to drive up indigenised content of LCA Tejas
** New Covid-19 testing kit to be made in Bengaluru
Thermo Fisher Scientific, an international firm, will be manufacturing a new Covid-19 testing kit in Bengaluru.
The kit, which has been titled CoviPath, contains the assays and controls for RT-PCR testing.
** Lessons from a lotus seed: Bringing makhana to South India
How love for Bihar’s staple makhana helped build an all-woman enterprise in a small hamlet in interior Karnataka
Raksha and her father Gopinath Shenoy, also an entrepreneur, decided to run their operations out of Miyar, a few kilometres from Karkala. And that is how Nummy (short for naturally yummy) makhana was launched in August last year. In less than a year, this small-town business is already shipping its products across the country, as well as to retail outlets in Telangana, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
** Delhi Institute of Medical Representative opens first Karnataka branch in Mangaluru
Dr Ganapathi Bhat, founder of Mangala Hospital and Mangala Kidney Foundation along with other dignitaries on Wednesday inaugurated the branch, located on the 1st floor of Pam Arcade, Kottara Chowki here.
The Mangaluru branch of the Delhi Institute of Medical Representative is its first in Karnataka.