Month: December 2021

** MMCRI turns 100 in 2024

The Mysuru Medical College and Research Institute (MMCRI), reckoned to be one of the country’s oldest medical colleges, will be completing 100 years in 2024. It was founded in 1924.

he associations of old students and others who have a close association with the MMCRI have started drawing up plans for the 100th anniversary.

As the MMCRI college building and the hospitals attached to the college – K R Hospital and Cheluvamba Hospital – are housed in heritage buildings and are in need of restoration without altering the original building architecture, the restoration is being timed ahead of the centenary celebrations.

** Bicycle expedition to mark 1971 victory

A three-day bicycle expedition to commemorate the golden jubilee of the victory of the Indian Armed Forces in the 1971 Indo-Pak war was taken out by Indian Navy personnel in Uttara Kannada district.

According to a press release issued by the Navy, the bicycle expedition was organised by Indian Naval Ship Vajrakosh, a premier missile base of the Indian Navy. A total of 14 personnel from Karwar Naval Base participated in the expedition, covering a distance of 200 km over three days.

** Seminar on medical ethics today

BLDE (Deemed to be University) will organise a seminar on medical ethics at B.M. Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre in Vijayapura on Wednesday.

Resource persons Chairman of Karnataka Science and Technology Academy S. Ayyappan and UNESCO Chair in Life Sciences S. Ayrapetyan, Executive Member of KSTA B.G. Mulimani, Excecutive Member of ISC, Paris, Hamid Mobasheri, Pro-Vice Chancellor of International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Zabidi Husin and Chairperson of ICMR Ethics Committee Vasantha Muthuswamy will speak.

The former Minister and society chairman M.B. Patil will inaugurate it. Vice-Chancellor of BLDE (DU) R.S. Mudhol will be present.

** Students earn while they learn in Bengaluru college

Dairy Science College trains students in production and sale of products developed with in-house technology

While educational institutions boast of placements, Bengaluru-based Dairy Science College has gone a step further to ensure that its final-year BTech students start earning even while they are learning.

The college, which is Karnataka’s oldest dairy sciences institute, has made its final-year students take up production as well as sale of milk-based value-added products by using its technologies as part of their training under the Rural Entrepreneurship Awareness Development Yojana (READY) of the Centre.

** Azim Premji Foundation, Salesforce to launch app to accelerate Covid-19 vaccination

‘To cover 110 million people in 25 States by June 2022’

Salesforce, a customer relationship management player, and Azim Premji Foundation have entered into a collaboration to introduce VaxIT, an app to help accelerate Covid-19 vaccination in India.

The programme would use VaxIT across 25 States to cover a population of 110 million (11 crore) across over 3,500 Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) by June 2022.

The VaxIT app, developed on the Salesforce platform for Azim Premji Foundation and its partners, would capture the status of vaccination to help individuals plan and stay updated on their progress in the healthcare programme. VaxIT is available on the Android app store and offers multi-lingual, and offline capabilities.

** First-ever Konkani song made in Canada released

A golden chapter in the history of Konkani music has been unfolded and the much awaited first-ever Konkani Song ‘Novo-Bhorvoso’ made in Canada under the newly created banner ‘DoReMiFa Creations’ released on YouTube on December 19, 2021 at 8.00 pm Toronto time.

A couple of months ago, a brilliant thought came into the minds of two stalwarts and visionaries of the Konkani literature and music world in Canada, Gerry D Mello Bendur, and Ashith Glen Pinto. Both of them have always worked in the past to exhibit and transform revolutionary ideas into reality. This time too, they thought of the same process. First, they launched a banner DoReMiFa Creations with the utmost desire to work for the Konkani Music in Canada through uniting many talents based in Canada. The second thought was to formulate and create a song in Konkani to be presented by the renowned Konkani musicians and singers residing in Canada.

** IIMB gets EQUIS accreditation for five more years

Graduates who study at an EQUIS-accredited school can be assured that they will receive international recognition for their qualification.

EQUIS is an institutional assessment, improvement and accreditation system for business and management schools.

** CISF adds more bite to its security set up in Bengaluru airport

The canines, all of the Belgian Malinois breed, have just completed their training and are set to be inducted into one of the units oF CISF.

Six super-efficient and exceptionally intelligent canines, all of the Belgian Malinois breed, have just completed their training and are set to be inducted into one of the units of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) of the Kempegowda International Airport. Bengaluru will become the first airport in the country to have this breed put on security duty.

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** A tribute to beloved Appu in chocolate and sugar

A bust of late actor Puneeth Rajkumar, made of chocolate cake, is grabbing eyeballs at the 47th annual cake show, being held at the St Joseph’s School grounds.

A bust of late actor Puneeth Rajkumar, made of chocolate cake, is grabbing eyeballs at the 47th annual cake show, being held at the St Joseph’s School grounds.The cake, measuring 3 feet wide and 2.5 feet tall, has been made by a team of three artists and bakers from Sugar Sculpt, which is organising the show. Samie J Ramachandra, director and artist, who made the cake said, “It is made of edible chocolate and this is the best way I could pay my tributes to Puneeth, who has inspired not just me, 
but many.”

** BCIC holds Indian diaspora meet with Japan

The Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce (BCIC), representing large, medium, and small industries in Karnataka, held a virtual meeting of the Indian diaspora in Japan as a prelude to the 70th anniversary celebration of establishment of diplomatic ties between India and Japan.

According to a release by BCIC, the meeting held recently was attended by Sanjay Kumar Verma, Ambassador of India to Japan, Murugesh Nirani, Minister for Large and Medium Industries, besides many industry heads.