Month: August 2021

** Ankola proud of its role in Salt Satyagraha

April 13, 1930. A huge gathering of protesters, led by Congress leader MP Nadkarni, marched to the seashore near Ankola. They filled pots with seawater and salty sand, and brought them back to Ankola.

They set up a makeshift oven with three stones, and heated the water until it became rock salt. The first bag of salt was auctioned, and Honnappa Devi Naik, a local, bought it for Rs 30.  This was how the ‘Salt Satyagraha’ unfolded in Karnataka, later snowballing into the biggest freedom movement in the South.

** Bengaluru girl’s agri startup wins award

Bengaluru girl Manasa Gonchigar is one of the 10 young winning entrepreneur teams of the agri-enterprise challenge S.O.L.V.E.D (Social Objectives-Led Volunteer Enterprise Developed), who were felicitated by Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi recently.

The 25-year-old’s team won the challenge for her startup company PureScan AI — a technology startup that helps players in the food supply chain, and also assists them in making informed decisions on food safety. This year, the International Youth Day theme focused on transforming food systems.

Her co-founder Ayush Nigam’s expertise in the agritech space, through his startup firm ‘Distinct Horizon’, led them in the right direction. She says her extensive travel, including her Academia Industry training in Switzerland, helped her understand how India has taken a backseat in terms of food safety.

** Bengaluru-based foundation creates learning model to help bridge education gap

The model was piloted in Karnataka’s Nanjangud and Odisha’s Barapita between December 2020 and April 2021.

A Bengaluru-based foundation found that an alternate between physical and online classes will be efficient in teaching during this pandemic. Pushpa Thantry, Programme Head – Maths Resource Team, Akshara Foundation, Bengaluru said that this model will be effective during normal times as well.

** 10th century stone inscription found near Shravanabelagola

A 10th century inscription was found in Nagayyanakoppalu village near famous Jain pilgrimage town Shravanabelagola in Hassan district on Tuesday.

The inscription has old Kannada literature on it and was found while cultivation. Officials of archeology department visited the spot and are likely to shift the rock to one of the museums where historical monuments and sculptures are preserved.

According to Dr S Dinesh, a researcher and lecturer of SN PU College, the inscription has information about Jainism and ruler Chandragupta of the Maurya dynasty. The first Kannada inscription was found in Halmidi village of Belur taluk of Hassan district.

** New Regional Passport Officer is IFS officer from Bengaluru

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has appointed Krishna K, a 2012-batch Indian Foreign Service officer as the Regional Passport Officer, Bengaluru.

Krishna is originally from Bengaluru and an alumnus of the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering. He had served as Third Secretary in the Indian Embassy in Russia (2014-16) and Second Secretary in Kazakhstan (2016-17) before being sent on deputation to the Secretariat of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Beijing (2018-20). In December last year, Krishna was posted back to the ministry in New Delhi.  The RPO, Bengaluru, has jurisdiction over the entire state and processes around 3,000 passport applications every day.

** Boxing to fame

Reminiscing the contribution of ‘Tokyo Ranganathan’, who was trained at Bengaluru’s MEG, and participated in major national and international boxing tournaments.

Born in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, Ranganathan joined the Indian Army at the age of 15 under boys’ services. He was trained at MEG centre in Bengaluru and spent 40 years in the city working his way out to major national and international tournaments.

** ‘Bale Tulu Kalpuga’ – script learning class by Tulu Koota Kuwait inaugurated

Tulu Koota Kuwait (TKK), the prominent association in Kuwait, organized the inauguration of ‘Bale Tulu Kalpuga’ -online Tulu script learning classes in association with Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy, Mangaluru on July 30 at 10.30 am Kuwait time (1.00 PM IST), virtually on zoom platform.

The program commenced with a prayer song by Saanidhya Sanath Shetty followed by Lord Ganesha’s invocation song by Raffeek Uddin.

Tulu Koota Kuwait President, Sanath Kumar Shetty, welcomed the guests and dignitaries to the function.

** Muddappa posts fastest time as Bengaluru riders dominate drag races

Riders from Bengaluru, spearheaded by reigning champion Hemanth Muddappa, swept the honours in the first round of the MMSC fmsci Indian National Motorcycle Drag Racing Championship which concluded at the MMRT, here on Sunday amidst Covid-19 safety protocols.

Muddappa, 31, astride his Suzuki Hayabusa, was the quickest of all riders, clocking 07.882 seconds over 302-metres strip while winning the featured Super Sport Above 1051cc category ahead of fellow-Bengalureans Hafizullah Khan (08.116) and Harish Naik (08.538).

** Bengaluru: CM pays homage after reinstalling Nehru’s statue in front of Vidhana Soudha

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai eulogised India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and described him as the architect of modern India.

The Chief Minister lauded the contribution of Nehru in the country’s progress after paying homage to independent India’s first Prime Minister on the occasion of reinstallation of Nehru’s statue in front of Vidhana Soudha, which had to be shifted on account of Metro underground rail work.