Month: April 2021
** Moto Manipal team wins National Online E-Bike Design contest
The team had participated in the National Online E-Bike Design Competition, Season-1, and had emerged champions last year too.
** Mapping Tipu’s defeat
Bengaluru-based collector Sunil Baboo has acquired maps that show the battle plan of the Third Anglo-Mysore war, which Tipu Sultan lost
** ‘Weathering’ the run
Meet the B’lurean who plans to run in extreme wind, heat, cold, and dry weather in four beautiful but formidable deserts across the globe.
For many, weekends mean a break from working out.
But not for Taher Merchant. The city-based entrepreneur looks forward to Saturdays and Sundays so he can clock in the miles that will get him in shape for probably the most extreme footrace in the world – four 250-km runs in some of the most challenging desert terrains on the planet.
He was also the first Indian man to finish the Everest base camp ultramarathon in 2018.
** Driven by determination
Corporate honcho, mum to two and training for a triathlon … Nirupa Shankar has her hands full and wouldn’t have it any other way.
Her current goal – despite being afraid of water and speed – is to participate in the half-Ironman in Greece this October. This event involves a 1.9km swim, 90km bike ride and 21.1km run, which is much more rigorous than the triathlon sprint she completed in 2017.
** The haves & the have nots
H2O juxtaposes the usage and availability of water in urban and rural contexts, and prompts us to re-think our attitudes
Made by Bengaluru-based founder of Theatre for Change Sujatha Balakrishnan, the film captures the struggle to obtain water in rural areas.
** Film festival from today
As part of its silver jubilee celebrations, Chitra Film Society, Dharwad, will screen films directed and acted by late Raj Kapoor from Thursday to Saturday.
A.M. Khan of Chitra Film Society has in a release said that on Thursday, Boot Polish will be screened at 6.15 p.m. at Srujana Ranga Mandir on Karnatak College campus
** Bus converted into mobile toilet for women in Kalaburagi
It is a joint initiative by NEKRTC and SELCO Private Limited
North Eastern Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (NEKRTC) has, in collaboration with Bengaluru-based SELCO Private Limited, converted an old bus that was scrapped into a mobile rest room exclusively for women.
SELCO Private Limited has spent around ₹3 lakh for installing solar panels under the Corporate Social responsibility (CSR) scheme, while NEKRTC has spent around ₹6 lakh for designing the bus into a rest room.
** Siddappa Hotti elected parishat president for third time
With his unanimously election as president of District Kannada Sahitya Parishat, Siddappa Hotti has put an end to curiosity among Kannada lovers and literary circles.
A 63-year-old Kannada activist, Mr. Hotti has come to occupy the post for the third time with a hat-trick of election victories.
** BMRCL MD gets Central posting
Ajay Seth was appointed the new Economic Affairs Secretary
IAS officer Ajay Seth, who had been serving as Managing Director of Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (BMRCL), was on Tuesday appointed the new Economic Affairs Secretary. The appointment at the Centre came on the day BMRCL was carrying out a trial run on the eagerly-awaited extension of the Purple Line.