Karnataka First

Mysuru

The second day of the Swarnim Vijay Varsh Victory Flame with HQ Karnataka and Kerala Sub Area witnessed commemorative events of the felicitation of 1971 war heroes and their next of kin in Bengaluru city.

The project aims to encrypt a message which cannot be deciphered by a third party.

In what is a first for India, scientists from the Raman Research Institute (RRI) have made a breakthrough in quantum communications technology which has major military, banking and election security applications.

Karnataka has so far inoculated 1,13,830 beneficiaries with the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine, and is the first state in the country to completely vaccinate more than one lakh beneficiaries with the two doses. As of February 21, a total of 8,21,939 health care workers and 2,84,950 front line workers had registered for the vaccination.

Four additional judges of the Karnataka High Court — justices Singapuram Raghavachar Krishna Kumar, Ashok Subhashchandra Kinagi,  Suraj Govindaraj, and  Sachin Shankar Magadum — were also elevated as permanent judges, the Law Ministry said.

The local commerce platform, eSamudaay has launched a unique women entrepreneurship programme to enable dynamic and aspiring young women to set up and run independent e-commerce marketplaces in small towns of India.

A class VIII cadet of the Rashtriya Military School Bangalore made best use of the holidays during the pandemic to train and break a world record.

His hard work has paid off and 13-year-old Ujjwal Sharma now is the “fastest to recite the periodic table without reading”, a feat that has entered the International Book of Records.