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Niki Poonacha, who had won the National championship in 2019, beat fourth seed Oliver Crawford of the US 6-3, 7-6 (5) at the DLTA Complex in New Delhi on Sunday.

Bhopal-based bootstrap EV start-up Enigma Automobiles is looking to seal a sales deal with a Bengaluru-based B2B company to supply 2,000 vehicles.

Besides, the firm is also looking at another deal for a supply of 400-1,000 vehicles to two major e-commerce players, Amazon and Flipkart, in the country, said its co-founder Anmol Bohre.

The following Pailwans of Mysuru have excelled in the wrestling contest held as part of the 2nd State Masters Games – 2021 organised by Master Games Association of Karnataka at Mysore University Gymnasium Hall on March 27 and 28:

Pailwan M.S. Shrikant has secured first place in the Men’s 58-kg category (31-40 years age group). He is the son of former Corporator Pailwan M.D. Srinivas.

Mysuru’s Arnav Pathange emerged winner in the Doubles category of AITA Men’s 1 lakh Tennis Tournament held at Lake View Tennis Academy in Hyderabad recently.

In Doubles finals, partnering with Sujith Lanka Reddy, Arnav Pathange defeated top-seeded Irfan and Ishan of Hyderabad 7-5 6-2. Earlier in semis, they defeated Navin and Rishi from Chennai 6-2 6-2.

Greeting the BBMP in his tweet posted on Sunday, Baadal Nanjundaswamy, a Bengaluru-based artist, dressed up as an astronaut and walked near the potholes of the Tunganagar Main Road in Bengaluru.

The virus hides inside the host’s immune cells in a “latent” state and stably maintains its reservoir. When the levels of toxic molecules such as hydrogen peroxide increase in the host’s cells, leading to a state of increased oxidative stress, the virus gets “reactivated” and it emerges from hiding and begins replicating again.

Made from vanadium pentoxide nanosheets, the new artificial “nanozymes” developed by the IISc researchers work by mimicking a natural enzyme called glutathione peroxidase that helps reduce oxidative stress levels in the host’s cells, which is required to keep the virus in check, an IISc release said.

The ‘best actor’ award was bagged by Viveka for the play Sikdaurga Seerunde, while Vedika won the ‘best actor–female’ for Hannondane Deepavali, staged by ShuddiRanga group. According to Hanu Ramasanjeeva, artistic director of the Bengaluru Short Play Festival, the event aimed to bring new writers to the limelight. “The objective was to bring new writers and new stories. Usually, we find very similar plots and run-of-mill storylines. This event definitely gave scope to the new writers I believe.”

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Karnataka State Rural Development and Panchayat Raj University, which was established in Gadag with an objective of realising the vision of Mahatma Gandhi’s Gram Swaraj, is all set to hold its first convocation on April 10.

40-year-old jeweller-turned-builder Anil Shet completed this feat on Saturday when he rode along with fellow cyclists to Tannirbhavi from Mangaluru and back