Dr Gururaja Karajagi was conferred the Ramanashri Lifetime Achievement Award while Dr Shantha Imrapoor, Dr Pradeep Kumar Hebri, Dr Nanda Patil, Dr Bhagyamma G Smitarao Bellur, Swami Vivekananda Integrated Rural Health Centre and Pantanjali Yoga Education Committee were other recipients of the Ramanashri Sharana Awards.
Month: November 2021
** Bengaluru: Sr Maria Nirmalini A C elected as national president of CRI
Sr Maria Nirmalini A C was elected as the national president of the Conference of Religious, India (CRI). Earlier, Sr Nirmalini was elected the president of the Women’s Section of the CRI.
** City Girl Excels In State Badminton Championship
Diya Bheemaiah, a student of Pragathi Elite Public School (PEPS), Bogadi, participated in the Badminton State Championship held at Mandya and won 3rd prize in Singles and emerged Runnerup in Mixed Doubles and Doubles.
She is seen with (from left) Administrator Karthik V. Kashyap, Principal Shilpa Prashanth and Administrative Director Jayashri Venkatesh.
** ‘The Best Cyclist Men’ Awardee
Charith Gowda, a first PUC student of Sapient College, Vijayanagar II Stage in city, has bagged ‘The Best Cyclist Men’ award by securing three Gold Medals — Time Trial, Mass Start and Relay Categories — in the 18th National Mountain Bike Cycling Championships held at Alandi in Pune, Maharashtra, between Oct. 29 and Oct. 31
** Karnataka’s only govt cancer hospital backs giving cervical cancer vaccine to students
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in India and the only type of cancer which can be prevented with a vaccine. Yet, awareness on both screening for this cancer and the Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to prevent it remains low.
Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology Cancer Research and Training Centre, the only government cancer hospital in Karnataka, sees nearly 1500 cases of cervical cancer each year, most of whom come in the late stages.
** Tech company offers farmers alternative to burning stubble
Disposing stubble after a yield is necessary to facilitate the next crop cycle, but constributes to air pollution
A Bengaluru-based firm is offering a microbial bioenzyme developed by Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI) to help farmers across India dispose stubble (crop residue) on their farms responsibly.
Stubble decomposes within 25 days of spraying the bioenzyme, named Pusa Decomposer, and gets converted into manure, thereby improving the quality of soil, claims the company, which is also offering a free spraying service.
Dhruv Sawhney, COO and Business Head, nurture.farm
** Week-long exhibition of bird photographs inaugurated
A week-long photography exhibition of rare birds by journalist K. Shivasubramanya was inaugurated at Puttur on Sunday.
Inaugurating the exhibition at Sougandhika, a nursery at Parpunja, poet Subraya Chokkady said the external world became tolerable only because of birds. If there were no birds, the world would have become meaningless, he said.
** Bengaluru airport invites developers to ‘BIAL Genie Hackathon’ to help improve services
** Free treatment and surgery for epilepsy patients
The offer comes from Sakra World Hospital in association with Rotary International and First Meridian
On the occasion of National Epilepsy Day, Sakra World Hospital announced phase 2 of the Epilepsy Prevention and Integrated Care (EPIC) Program, which has been initiated in association with Rotary International and First Meridian.
The year-long programme is aimed at providing quality treatment and education about epilepsy to patients in the BPL category for free. It will focus on refractory epilepsy (uncontrolled epilepsy). The programme was launched in September 2020 by the then Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa.
** Bags Karnataka Excellence Awards
Poornima Jayakrishna of city-based NGO Public Health Research Institute of India (PHRII) seen receiving the Karnataka Excellence Award for Best Innovation and Research in Healthcare at a function organised by Virtual Council for Professional Education Mission (VCPEM) Trust at Ravindra Kalakshetra in Bengaluru recently. The award was presented by VCPEM Trustee Shantha Sridhar.
Picture right shows Dr. M. Suresh Babu, Professor of Medicine, JSS Medical College and Hospital, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, seen receiving Karnataka Excellence Award-2021 in the Best Internal Medicine Specialist category at Ravindra Kalakshetra.