Month: June 2021

** Watch: Mangaluru singer Frizzell D’Souza’s latest single ‘Foolish Once Again’, a love ballad

Frizzell D’Souza straddles the worlds of architecture and music. She has been studying the former for the last four years and practising the latter since she was in third grade. She finds a similarity between the two. “It is the process,” she says, “When we work on a design in architecture, we start with a concept. We do a lot of redos and keep going back and forth with it until we get it right. That is a parallel I find in music.”

** Vishnu Ravindran Nair’s upcoming album Stories From A Space Station is inspired from astronauts

The independent musician from Bengaluru likes to link music and science.

His upcoming five-song album is titled Stories From A Space Station. It attempts to convey an astronaut’s perspectives on love, science, history and the future of humankind. “The objective in making an astronaut the protagonist and writing in his character was to attain a vantage point, to where I am removed from the immediate socio-economic, cultural and political climate around me and so be enabled to reassess objectively the subjects that interest me,” explains Vishnu.

** Mangaluru: Rambutan fruit farming proves to be more profitable than arecanut, rubber

Progressive farmer Krishna Shetty of Kadaba taluk of the district took a bold step under these circumstances and started growing Rambutan fruit.

He planted 500 saplings of the fruit during the first lock down and has got overwhelming yield during the second lock down.

He has got a whopping seven tonnes of yield in just one and a half years and expects to get around eight to 10 tonnes this year.

** Contagion Chronicles & White Coat Tales

It is on the shoulders of these frontline workers — or call them saviours — that the bulk of the burden of fighting this pandemic falls. Doctors put themselves in harm’s way to help their patients and in this trying times public confidence on doctors has increased manifold. The sacrifice that they are making for the safety and welfare

** Mysore University Develops New Kit For Rapid COVID Testing

In what could be a major breakthrough in advanced COVID testing, scientists of University of Mysore (UoM) have come up with a new COVID detection kit with an accuracy rate as high as above 90 percent.

Announcing this at a press meet at Vijnana Bhavan in Manasagangothri here this morning, Prof. K.S. Rangappa, Distinguished Professor and former Vice-Chancellor of UoM, who heads the UoM team, said that the Varsity in association with Hyderabad-based Lorven Biologics Pvt. Ltd., has developed a new rapid COVID-19 detection kit.

** Karnataka’s first oxygen converter plant to come up in Virajpet Government Hospital

Kodagu has become the first district in Karnataka to be sanctioned an oxygen converter plant. The plant is currently being installed at Virajpet Government Hospital.  An oxygen converter generates oxygen from natural air.

** Bantwal: District’s first oxygen generation plant at Vamadapadavu inaugurated

The first ever oxygen generation unit in Dakshina Kannada district was dedicated to the world in the premises of the community health centre, Vamadapadavu in the taluk on Saturday June 5.

Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister, Kota Srinivas Poojary, speaking to the media persons after inaugurating the unit, said that this happens to be the first ever oxygen unit to have been set up to meet oxygen shortage arising out of coronavirus in the district and this unit is meant to handle the situation.