Month: March 2022

** Bengaluru tops in financial cover in tier 1, 2 cities 

According to a survey released by Max Life Insurance and Kantar, Bengaluru has topped the charts as the most financially protected city in India.

The survey, titled ‘The India Protection Quotient 4.0’, had 5,729 respondents from 25 cities in India.

Bengaluru had a protection quotient of 56 per cent, the same as Delhi. Compared to other metropolitan and Tier-1 cities, Bengaluru has the highest percentage of life insurance ownership, at 91 per cent. However, the city ranked lowest in terms of financial security, with 53 per cent.

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** KSR Bengaluru to become first railway station in state to sell famed Channapatna toys

 KSR Bengaluru is all set to become the first railway station in the state to market the famed Channapatna toys. A stall to sell them will be rolled out from Friday (March 25) on a pilot basis and it will be trialed for a fortnight.

Channapatna toys are special wooden toys and dolls manufactured in Channapatna town in Ramanagara district of Karnataka and have the Geographical Indicator (GI) tag.

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** Interview With Renowned Economist Devaki Jain: ‘Mysuru Is Close To My Heart Though I Don’t Visit Often’

Renowned feminist-economist Padma Bhushan Devaki Jain was in Mysuru on a private visit last weekend. She is the daughter of M.A. Sreenivasan, who was Minister in the Princely State of Mysore. He was a Member of the Constituent Assembly representing the Princely State of Gwalior during 1947-48.

He had an illustrious career in the Civil Service in the then State of Mysore  headed by Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV, commencing from 1918. He also served as Mysore’s Trade Commissioner in London.

Devaki Jain spoke to Star of Mysore about her affinity to Mysuru and her memoir ‘The Brass Notebook’ that has now been translated into Kannada apart from being translated in Marathi, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam.  Excerpts:

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** Dubai: Udupi’s Gulshan Banu Kazi sets world record in national Push-Pull Championship 2022 

 Powerlifter Gulshan Banu Kazi has not only made her native Udupi, India  proud but also Dubai proud by securing a world record among the master category athletes in the Professional Raw Organisations Push-Pull Championship 2022, a national level event held in Bengaluru recently. 

This sporting event held at Onyx Fitness was one of the most popular internationally sanctioned national powerlifting championships, consisting of three main events -Bench Press, Deadlifts and Push-Pull.

Record holder Gulshan Banu Kazi is a 43-year-old mother of three, working six days a week at a corporate office in Dubai.

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** Mangaluru International Airport bags ACI certificate

Airports Council International (ACI) has issued certificate to Mangaluru International Airport, certifying the airport’s commitment towards improving the experience of the passengers using this airport. This certificate is valid for a period of one year.

This system of recognition was started to strengthen the efforts of the airports towards further improving the experiences of passengers. The airport, it may be recalled, bad bagged the prestigious ACI World Voice of the Customer award in February 2021. This airport is the third airport from India in Asia Pacific zone to have won this recognition.

A release stated that this is a programme of airport service quality programme that has been globally launched to implement good practices in airports, educating the employees and provide high quality services to the airport users.

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** Mangaluru: ‘Rangabhaskara’ award conferred on actor-director-dramatist K Radhakrishna

Actor, director and dramatist K Radhakrishna, said that plays which are written by depicting real life experiences that are presented to the audience in a touching way can have lasting influence on the society at large.

He was speaking after accepting the award conferred on him at the two-day drama festival, ‘Rangabhaskara – 2022’ organized at Canara PU College here as part of the platinum jubilee celebrations of the district theatre. This two-day programme was held by Karnataka Nataka Academy in association with Rangasangathi Cultural Foundation.

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** Farmer-bred paddy variety gets official recognition

Shankar Guru of T.Narispur bred NMS-2 variety of rice

In a significant development, a variety of rice bred by a T.Narsipur-based farmer has been recognised for its salient features and qualities by the Plant Varieties Registry, Government of India, which has issued its stamp of approval.

The certificate issued under the provisions of Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act, 2001, also gives Shankar Guru exclusive rights to produce, sell, market, distribute, import or export the variety for an initial period of 6 years and renewable subsequently subject to certain conditions. 

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** In a first, Karnataka HC upholds charges framed against man for raping wife

In a first, the High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday upheld rape charges framed against a husband by a trial court for brutal sexual assault on his wife.

“…Rape is a rape, be it performed by a man, the ‘husband’, on the woman, ‘wife’,” the court said, while refusing to accept the contention of the accused-husband that acts alleged against the husband fell under exception granted to a man for his sexual acts with wife under Section 375 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Justice M. Nagaprasanna passed the order while dismissing the 46-year-old husband’s petition. The charge framed in 2018 against the husband for alleged rape of his wife, in the peculiar facts of this case, did not warrant any interference as it was a matter of trial, the High Court said.

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** Prof CNR Rao conferred Energy Frontiers 2020 award by CM

 Eminent scientist and Bharat Ratna Awardee Prof CNR Rao was conferred the Energy Frontiers 2020 award by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday.

The Italy Government’s prestigious Energy Frontiers Award is considered the Nobel prize for the Energy Sector and Prof Rao is the first recipient of the award from entire Asia.

Higher Education, Science and Technology Minister Dr CN Ashwath Narayan, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advance Scientific Research Chairman Prof GU Kulkarni, noted scientist Dr Indumati Rao and other dignitaries were present.

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