** Karnataka Tuberculosis Division bags 14 medals for performance

The Central TB division presented five districts in the state with “silver” for reduction of 40 per cent and nine “bronze” honors for observing a 20 per cent drop in cases from the baseline. 

Despite the fact that the Karnataka has been hit by three waves of the pandemic, the State Tuberculosis Division has received 14 awards for its annual performance.

Under the initiative of “Sub-National Certification of Progress Towards TB Free Status”, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare recognises and awards the best performing districts and State for reducing the TB burden as compared to 2015. 

Congratulating the TB officers and health care staff working towards making Karnataka TB-free, Dr K Sudhakar, Minister for Health and Family Welfare took to twitter and announced the winning districts. 

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** Striking gold

A golden Rolls Royce Phantom taxi has been doing the rounds in Bengaluru in recent times. Owner of the luxury car and businessman Boby Chemmanur takes CE on this fun ride .

I bought it three years ago and wanted every common man to experience a ride. Hence, I converted it into a taxi, I also operate a helicopter taxi. When they experience the ride, I love seeing their joy and smile.”

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** Bosch signs MoU with JSS STU for courses on cyber security

Bosch Global Software Technologies (BGSW) recently signed an MoU with JSS Science and Technology University (STU) to start an industry elective course on Cyber Security and Industry 4.0.

BGSW is a 100 per cent owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH. It is one of the world’s leading global suppliers of technology and services, offering end-to-end Engineering, IT, and Business Solutions, a release from JSS STU said.

Courses offered by industries will give a lot of practical exposure to students and will help universities to implement and teach the latest technologies. JSS STU is the first university in India to have collaborated with Bosch for cyber security courses, it said

** 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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