** Mind Game: Mysuru-Born Sport Psychologist To Mentor India’s Olympic Shooters And Royal Challengers Bangalore

Mysuru-born high-performance senior Sport Psychologist Sanjana Kiran has been appointed to mentor Indian Shooters Manu Bhaker and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa for better preparation and performance ahead of the Tokyo Olympics scheduled to be held in July-August this year.

She will also be the mind coach for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) team during the Indian Premier League (IPL) beginning April 9.

Sanjana is a permanent resident of Singapore and has been a Sport Psychologist to many international elite athletes and coaches in preparation for major games and international competitions since 15 years.

** Green Saviours distributes saplings to villages in Western Ghats

A Belagavi-based NGO, Green Saviours Association, has distributed free saplings of various varieties to farmers in some villages in the Western Ghats, to help them take up agro forestry.

As many as 2,900 banana and 3,500 pineapple saplings were distributed to farmers in Amate vilalge free on Tuesday. This is part of an initiative to work with farmers to help them adopt agro forestry.

** NIMHANS study finds 34 lineages of SARS-CoV-2 in Bengaluru

The study, posted on medRxiv, the pre-print server, has been authored by a team of doctors from the Department of Neurovirology at NIMHANS led by Chitra Pattabhiraman. V. Ravi, nodal officer for genomic confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 in Karnataka, and Anita Desai from the department are the senior authors.

** INTACH hands over renovated Fort High School building

The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) has handed over the fully renovated Fort High School building at Chamarajpet to the Department of Public Instruction on Saturday.

INTACH began work on the dilapidated building three  years ago, in April 2018.

Built by the Mysore Wodeyar royal family in 1903, the building is 115 years old and was the first high school in the princely state of Mysore.