October 2021 – Page 10 – Karnataka First

** AASSC ties up with Bengaluru-based company to launch drone learning course

ndian youth will soon be skilled to capitalise on developments in the drone industry. The Aerospace and Aviation Sector Skill Council (AASSC) apex body set-up under the Government-led initiative of “Skill India” to train the Indian workforce has signed an MoU with a Bengaluru-based Drone Learning and Research Company.

“With Drones being one of the fastest growing industries in India , AASSC and we have jointly developed a Drone professional certificate course for our youth to get them ready for future jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities,” said Capt Gaurav Nath, Founder & CEO, ClearSkies Aviation OPC Pvt Ltd, a Drone Learning & Research Company founded by Industry leaders and academician focused on Unmanned Aviation sector.

** Udupi: MAHE felicitates Sub Kashinath Naik Commonwealth medallist, Ekalavya Awardee

Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) felicitated Sub Kashinath Naik- an Ekalavya Awardee and 2010 Commonwealth games medallist who has also trained the Olympian medallist Neeraj Chopra.

** Yakshagana ‘bhagavatha’ Padyana Ganapathi Bhat passes away

He had stepped on stage at the age of 15

Noted Yakshagana ‘bhagavatha’ (singer-cum-director) Padyana Ganapathi Bhat passed away on October 12. He was 66, and is survived by his wife and two sons. Mr. Bhat resided at Kalmadkka, Sullia taluk in Dakshina Kannada. He breathed his last at his residence around 7 a.m., sources said.

** Shivaram Karanth Award for Sandhya Pai

Through his articles in periodicals, Jnanpith award winner late Kota Shivaram Karanth espoused values required for children and youth to succeed in life, said Managing Editor of Kannada weekly magazine, Taranga, Sandhya Pai here on Sunday.

Speaking after receiving the Shivaram Karanth Award on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the late writer, Ms. Pai said that Taranga was the only Kannada magazine in which the legendary writer answered simple queries of children on science.

** Commercial cultivation of bamboo begins in Karnataka’s coastal region

Bharatiya Kisan Sangh has distributed 10,000 tissue cultured plants of bamboo in the last one year in the coastal region

With the threat of Yellow Leaf Disease spreading to vast tracts of arecanut plantations looming large, farmers in the State’s coastal belt have now begun commercial cultivation of bamboo in a small way.

The Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, which has taken the lead, has distributed 10,000 tissue cultured plants of bamboo from Bhatkal to Kasaragod (Kerala) in the last one year, according to sangh director and convener M.G. Sathyanarayana. Except a farmer who has cultivated them as an orchard, a majority of them have taken it up as border cultivation.

** Exhibition of paintings inspired by Vaccine Depot

Event organised by Gulmohar BAG

Gulmohar BAG (Belgaum Artists Group) will hold an exhibition of landscape paintings of Vaccine Depot at Kalamaharshi K. B. Kulkarni art gallery in Varerkar Natya Sangh in Tilakwadi in Belagavi from October 16 to 20.

As many as 22 members of the group will exhibit more than 50 artworks.

“The idea is to highlight the beauty of Vaccine Depot, which is a major lung space in Belagavi, and the need to preserve it. Citizens are concerned about the ongoing slaughter of trees in the name of development. Apart from being a lung space, Vaccine Depot is also a spot of inspiration for many artists to paint. We feel morally responsible for its upkeep and are highlight the cause in a creative way,” say the artists.

** K.P. Rao from Udupi given Balavana Award

Kinnikambala Padmanabha Rao, popularly known as K.P. Rao, from Udupi district, received the Balavana Award at Balavana in Puttur on Sunday. The award is given every year by the district administration on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Shivaram Karanth.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Rao said that it is the good understanding of linguistics that enabled Shivaram Karanth to come up with so many literary works. It is important for a writer to understand the strengths and weaknesses of a language, he added. Giving away the award, Puttur MLA Sanjeeva Matandoor said that the nation has made a lot of progress since the days of Shivaram Karanath. Mr. Rao is among the few luminaries who have greatly contributed towards the use of Kannada and other Indian languages in computers and smart phones. “It is really an honour for me to give the award to Mr. Rao,” he said.

Month: October 2021