The postal department has given national-level importance and fame to Appe Midi, one of the rare varieties of mango found in the Malnad region and used for pickles, by releasing a special postal cover at Press Trust here on Tuesday. The Postmaster General, South Karnataka DSVR Murthy released the poster.
** City schoolboy creates game set in Kerala temple
Called Treasures of Thiruvananthapuram, it challenges players to unlock six treasure vaults inside the temple. In real life too, the temple holds riches worth trillions of dollars locked up in six vaults.
“But in this game, you are allowed to open ‘Vault B’. It has the maximum treasure, worth six billion dollars. So it is also the most difficult to crack open,” says Ishaan PA, a Class 6 student of Ekya School, JP Nagar.
** Bengaluru’s BEL to protect Indian Army, Navy, Air Force from drones
he anti-drone system was first deployed to provide security cover for the Republic Day parade this year.
The Indian Navy on Tuesday signed the contract with the BEL for the supply of the first indigenous comprehensive Naval Anti Drone System (NADS) with both hard kill and soft kill capabilities.
** IMC Swarnaa acquires 100 per cent stake in Trillium Flow Technologies
IMC Swarnaa Ventures Private Limited, a joint venture of Hubballi-based IMC and Swarnaa Group of Companies, announced the successful acquisition of 100 per cent stake in Trillium Flow Technologies India Private Limited.
The company is a leading player in manufacturing ball valves, butterfly valves, diaphragm valves, safety relief valves and plug valves, under the well-renowned ‘BDK Valves’ brand.
** Unkal Lake in Karnataka’s Hubballi to be finally renamed as Channabasava Sagara
Important locations in Hubballi city are being named after great Saints, who stayed or visited here and guided the people to lead better lives. After Hubballi Railway Station, which was renamed as Shree Siddharoodha Swamiji Railway Station, well-known Unkal lake will be named as Channabasava Sagara.
Spread over 750 acres between Hubballi-Dharwad twin cities, Unkal Lake is one of the best picnic spots that attracts hundreds of people every day. Earlier, Hubballi city used to draw drinking water from this water body. After the Malaprabha river water project was initiated, the Unkal lake was left idle and later developed as a picnic spot.
** Unique sailing race launched at KRS dam
A unique national-level sailing championship was inaugurated at the KRS dam near Mysuru on August 27.
The ‘National Level Multi Class Youth Sailing Championship’ has been jointly organised by the Madras Engineers Group (MEG) of the Army in collaboration with General Thimayya National Academy of Adventure (GETHNAA) and will be held from August 27 to 31 at the KRS dam under the aegis of the Yachting Association of Karnataka and Yachting Association of India.
** Mangaluru: New look, old style of Bunder North station
Bunder police station, the landmark brick-red heritage building on Azizuddin Road in Mangaluru, is looking fresh and new, its coat of old-world charm intact.
Located near the Old Port, the 132-year-old police station is the city’s last standing police station established during the colonial era, and is built in typical colonial-style architecture, with a gabled roof and high ceiling.
The busy Azizuddin Road and the adjoining lanes make up the busy commercial area of Bunder, where buildings and walls are built in grainy Mangalore brick. You can smell the sea salt here.
** Infosys Foundation opens OPD at Kidwai hospital
** Railways honours keyman for saving boy
Bengaluru Divisional Railway Manager Shyam Singh on Monday felicitated keyman Kawadi Manjappa and senior section engineer (Pathway Department) Alok Ranjan Das for saving a nine-year-old boy who had fallen from a moving train onto the railway tracks.
** Sailing along
Even when he’s not performing a surgery, Dr Antony Robert Charles is busy suturing ice cream sticks, toothpicks and buttons for his miniature ships.
As a paediatric surgeon, Dr Antony Robert Charles’ schedule is unpredictable, with no idea of what the day holds.
In the midst of this, there’s one thing that remains constant, his miniature ship -building activity. A hobby that started eight years ago after his team and he from St John’s Hospital went to Andaman and Nicobar Islands as part of the tsunami relief effort, Charles now finds solace in building these ships from scratch. “I suppose being there and seeing everything we did on the Islands is what inspired me to come back and want to learn how to make the ships on my own. The conventional way would have been to buy the kits and fix it like a jigsaw puzzle, but I wanted to create something with my own hands,” says the doctor, who currently practices with Kindersurge.