** This multi-lingual bot is transforming digital banking in rural India

Bengaluru-based voice automation company, Vernacular.ai’s AI voice assistant VIVA, which understands 16 languages and more than 160 dialects, is being implemented across banks in rural India.

The dream of building a startup took Sourabh Gupta and Akshay Deshraj, IIT-Roorkee alumni, to Bengaluru.

** Mount Carmel College to give new look to five govt schools

Mount Carmel College (MCC), Autonomous, will revamp five government schools under the State Government’s Akshara Project, where institute’s and entities adopt and develop government schools.

In January, MCC adopted government schools at MSR Palya, Gedhanahalli, OPH Road, Jeevanahalli and Ramaswamipalya that run classes from classes one to seven.

** Swadeshi HANSA-NG trainer aircraft with advanced features rolled out in Bengaluru

CSIR National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) rolled out its HANSA-NG (Next Generation) aircraft on Wednesday at the aircraft hangar at the Belur campus. Shekar C Mande, DG CSIR, held the ceremonial rolling out with R Madhavan, Chairman and Managing, HAL

** KPCL achieves record power generation

Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd. (KPCL) achieved maximum daily power generation of 121.708 million units (MU), which includes the highest ever thermal power generation of 80.253 MU, on March 27.

With this highest power generation, it surpassed its own previous record generation of 77.329 MU from thermal and 40 MU from hydro and other sources, totalling to 117.22 MU, on March 25.

** Prasanna elected president of MYMUL

Prasanna was on Tuesday elected as the new president of Mysuru District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Societies’ Union Ltd (MYMUL).

Sources in MYMUL said Mr. Prasanna, who is the son of K. Mahadev, JD(S) MLA representing Periyapatna Assembly constituency, is scheduled to take charge of his post on Wednesday.He was one of the 15 directors of MYMUL elected in the recent polls. On Tuesday, he was unanimously elected as the president.

** Mysuru’s Woman Purohit Blows The Conch On Change

** Puttur: Two rural lasses qualify to serve nation through BSF

Two ladies from Dakshina Kannada district have been chosen to serve the Border Security Force (BSF) that keeps vigil on the country’s borders. They will report to their BSF bosses and begin to serve the force on April 1.

The girls who have cleared the rigorous process of selection of the BSF are Ramya from Balnadu and Yogitha from Kanoyoor in Kadaba taluk. Ramya happens to be the daughter of Padmayya Gowda and Tejavathi couple from Balnadu.

** Karwar woman single-handedly digs 60-ft well, satiates neighbours’ thirst

When the country was under lockdown, and people had huddled together inside their homes, Gauri Naik (56) from Ganesh Nagar, Sirsi in the district, went out on her own and singlehandedly dug a 60-feet well and extracted water. She has achieved this feat not once, but twice. She had dug another well of the same depth.