Month: March 2021

‘Sheni award’, instituted in memory of well-known Yakshagana artist Sheni Gopalkrishna Bhat, will be awarded to Mridangam player 97-year-old Vidwan Babu Rai Kotekkar at Shri Sharavu Mahaganapathy temple on March 14 (4.30 pm).

On the occasion of the 50th National Safety Day, the department of factories, boilers, industrial safety and health works organised a seminar and public function on Thursday at Rashtrakavi Kuvempu BEL Kalakshetra in Jalahalli.

Bengaluru-based startup Intugine Technologies is partnering with the Andhra Pradesh government to track vaccine shipments to the state in real-time to ensure doses are maintained at ideal temperature.

Cofounder Ayush Agarwal said the company uses GPS to track the location of vehicles transporting the vaccine.

He said that four centres in India – Mumbai, Karnal, Chennai and Kolkata – supply vaccines to state headquarters from which it is taken to regional storage sites, then to district sites, and lastly, vaccination sites.

Former Vice-Chancellor of University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Dharwad, M. Mahadevappa, 84, passed away at his residence in Mysuru early on Saturday.

Prof. Mahadevappa, a Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awardee, who had developed improved rice varieties for cultivation in the State, leaves behind his wife, a son and a daughter.

Born in 1936 in Shivamogga district, he was a prolific writer, publishing several collections of poems besides critical works and translations.

Unmaad 2021 will be presented by YONO SBI and co-sponsored by JSW. DH is the media partner for the fest and the presenting sponsor for all literary activities within the fest.

The fest is driven by superpro.ai, with Ezflo as their achievement partner and MPL as their mobile gaming partner

Indicating deep roots of Jainism, historians have discovered two more Nisadis (memorial stones) dating back to the 12th century at Hiregutti village in Kumta of Uttara Kannada district.

Openhouse is a one-stop tutorial platform founded in Kolkata in 2018 by Yashovardhan Poddar and Akshay Rampuria, both Stanford University graduates. It moved to Bengaluru in January 2020.

According to a press note by KLE Technological University, the team was led by Poornaditya Mishra and comprised Prithvi Deshpande, Alwin M. Reji, Haripriya Jagadeesh of Automation and Robotics, and Swaroop Shenoy and Goutam Muralidhar of Mechanical Engineering.

They were guided by Head of the Department of Automation and Robotics, Arun Giriyapur.

This study, published in the Journal of Proteome Research, has also shown that the hosts produce several proteins of their own as their body launches an immunological defence in response to the viral attack.