** 3D printed dancing robot designed by students of College Innovators @Nitte, Karkala

As everyone knows, robotics is revolutionizing many industries today. In this era of automation, students at College Innovators Innovation & Product Development (CIIPD) Center-Nitte, have come up with an innovative 3D printed dancing robot.

This robot was developed by a team of four, where the students came from diverse educational backgrounds like Engineering, MCA, BBA etc. Robot development was made possible by the use of a combination of technologies, the design and the robot’s body were created using 3D designing and modelling skills, and the robot operated with the help of microcontrollers, sensors, motors, etc. In fact, it is a matter of pride to see these students upgrade their skills and become industry-relevant.

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** Karnataka appoints Robin Uthappa as brand ambassador for Brain Health Initiative 

Project to improve treatment of neurological disorders was launched January

Soon diagnosis and timely treatment of common neurological problems, such as epilepsy, headache, stroke, dementia and brain infections, can be done from the grassroots level of primary health centres, secondary-level district hospitals and NIMHANS at the tertiary level in the State.

Recognising the need to improve treatment and prevent neurological disorders in the community, the State Government in association with NIMHANS and Niti Ayog launched the Karnataka Brain Health Initiative (Ka-BHI) in January.

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** International Belagavi Poetry Festival to go online

The second edition of the International Belagavi Poetry Festival will be held online this year. Rostrum Diaries by GubbiBoo, a platform for arts and poetry, has invited writers to send their entries to the festival.

Poetry in English, Hindi, Kannada, and Marathi can be submitted. There is no age limit. The top 200 poems will be published free of cost in the BPF booklet.

Every performer will get the e-copy of the participation certificate and the same shall be emailed after the valedictory function.

The last date to register is May 22, 2022. Details can be had from www.belagavipoetryfestival.com or 9986186781.

** Ravi Korisettar gets MP Government’s Wakankar award

Ravi Korisettar, adjunct professor at NIAS, Bengaluru and honorary director of Robert Bruce Foote Sanganakallu Archaeological Museum, Ballari, has been chosen by the Madhya Pradesh Government for the Dr. Vishnu Sridhar Wakankar national award for 2018.

Prof. Korisettar served in the Department of History and Archaeology, Karnatak University, Dharwad, from 1989 to 2013. His discovery of the youngest toba tuff (YTT), volcanic ash of Sumatra origin, in peninsular river deposits has been hailed as a ‘great discovery’ and its significance in dating the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic has brought the Indian subcontinent to the forefront of debate on expansion of modern humans out of Africa.

Prof. Korisettar is credited with discovery of a large number of prehistoric painted rock shelters in the Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh which led to a series of investigations on identifying suitable dating methods for rock art and understanding the non-material culture of the authors of these paintings.

He was co-editor of Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology of India (Geological Society of India,1995), The Rise of Early Human Behaviour in Global Context (Routledge,1998), Indian Archaeology in Retrospect (ICHR and Manohar [4 volumes], 2001/2), and a special issue of Quaternary International (vol. 258, 2011) and editor of  Beyond Stone and More Stones (Vo. 1: 2017 and Vol. 2: 2018).

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** ‘Nadoja’ Awards Conferred

Noted writer and linguist Prof. T.V. Venkatachala Sastry, folk scholar Go.Ru. Channabasappa and Sanskrit scholar Prof. Bhashyam Swamiji of Sri Yoganarasimhaswamy Temple-Mysuru, who were conferred with ‘Nadoja’ award at the 30th Convocation of Hampi Kannada University yesterday.

Other attending were Central Tribal University of Andhra Pradesh Vice-Chancellor (VC) Dr. Tejasvi V. Kattimani, Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot, Hampi Kannada University VC Dr. S.C. Ramesh and others.

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** Ranbir Kapoor And Alia Bhatt’s Private Chef Is Kannadada Kanda – Ramaskanda

Ramaskanda Shastry is the Private Chef of Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, the Bollywood stars, who are officially tying the nuptial knot today in Mumbai. The wedding festivities kick-started with mehendi ceremony yesterday.

Ramaskanda, a native of Bengaluru, faced a lot of brickbats, when he discontinued his BA History and Economics at the St. Joseph’s College, Bengaluru, six years back.

For a while, he pursued music and cooking, two of his passions. When his father Shantarama Shastry, a well-known family priest of many reputed families and himself a graduate in B.Sc Electronics, advised him to study ‘Hotel Management,’ Skanda joined for BA-Culinary Arts at WGSHA (Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration), Manipal. He worked as a Chef at W-Hotels in Goa, for about eight months. When he felt that the job was monotonous, he got introduced to Harsha Dixit in Mumbai, who was the Private Chef of Ranbir Kapoor.

Skanda started assisting Harsha Dixit since two years and for the last six months, he has been the Private Chef of Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt.

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** Udupi: Stroke Awareness Programme, Guinness World Record of Most Pledges Plaque to Kasturba Hospital

Stroke is an important non communicable disease. One in four adults will experience a stroke in their lifetime. To raise the awareness about stroke, on the eve of World Stroke day October 29, 2021, department of Neurosciences, Kasturba Hospital, Manipal conducted stroke awareness campaign.

Kasturba Hospital, Manipal along with various other institutions in India participated in creating stroke pledges for awareness through a stroke assessment App as an initiative taken by BoehringerIngelheim India, and attempted to create a Guinness World Record of ‘Most pledges received for a stroke awareness campaign’.

Kasturba Hospital, Manipal gave significant contributions and by creating a total of 17,691 pledges all over India, a Guinness World Record was successfully created.

The hospital also conducted stroke screening activity by Blood pressure and blood sugar check along with stroke awareness and education to over 500 patients/participants attending KH OPD. The pledge registration for all attempt was held on the portal https://strokeriskcalculator.in.

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** Mangaluru: Legendary brass band maestro Harry D’Souza is no more

Legendary brass band maestro of the Bejai Brass Band “Konkan Sangeeth Shree” Harry D’Souza passed away here on Wednesday, April 13 due to age related illness.

Harry D’Souza was a musician who composed one tune every day, a music teacher who taught brass bands in 13 schools of city, a singer who enthralled the audience with his own Musical Nites, at the same time regaled the wedding guests in private wedding parties, an efficient managing proprietor of a century old Brass Band, a poet with a book of his own poems. 

** Mysuru health sciences students bag RGUHS ranks

Students of Cauvery Institute of Health Sciences, Mysuru, affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), have bagged a gold medal and 23 ranks in the recent 24th annual convocation of RGUHS. Rohith, a student of Cardiac Care Technology, has secured first rank and a gold medal.

Sandra Sabu and Sandra Shibu, students of Operation Theatre Technology, have bagged 2nd and 5th ranks respectively.  Ashley, a student of course in respiratory technology, has secured 7th rank. Adil Mubarak, Laveena Jose, Anagha, Anju David, Shalu Reji, Amulya Celestina, Bharathan R., Anjana Rajan, Santuna Saji, Mariya Linet, and Shilpa are the other students whose names figure in the list of rank holders, a press release from the institute said.

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** Bipin Rawat Freedom Park inaugurated

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai inaugurated a park at Padmanabhanagar in memory of the former Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on Sunday.

Bipin Rawat Freedom Park, spread over an acre and developed at a cost of ₹2 crore, has a plaque memorialising Gen. Rawat

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