Month: January 2023

The 75th Army Day will be celebrated on January 15 and as part of an initiative to take major events to other parts of the country, away from the national capital region, celebrations will be held in Bengaluru.

The rationale behind the move is to bring about an increased visibility of these events and secure a greater engagement with the local population. The Army Day marks the occasion when General K.M. Cariappa, who later became Field Marshal, took over as the Commander-in-Chief of the Army in 1949.

The parade on Army Day will begin with a wreath laying ceremony by Chief of Army Staff General Manoj Pande at Madras Engineer Centre War Memorial. Major Pande will then review the Army Day parade. COAS unit citations will also be awarded to units for their exceptional performance.

As many as eight marching contingents including a horse-mounted contingent from the Army Service Corps and a military band comprising regimental brass bands will be a part of this year’s Army parade. The Army Day parade will also be supported by a flypast of Army aviation Dhruv and Rudra helicopters.

As a part of the Army outreach programme to build a better bond with civilians, a run was organised in Hyderabad at Necklace Road where around 1,000 people participated. Also, a part of this outreach was a blood donation camp in which 7,500 units of blood were donated in both Hyderabad and Secunderabad at Military hospitals.

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The mass yoga drill was organised by the Karnataka Sports and Youth Empowerment Department.

The Karnataka Sports and Youth Empowerment Department created a new record on Sunday by organising a mass yoga performance, which saw the participation of over six lakh persons.

The Yogathon was organised at the Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru. Governor Thaavarchand Gehlot and Sports and Youth Empowerment Minister K. C. Narayana Gowda participated in the event.

Mr. Gowda stated in a release that the earlier record had been held by Rajasthan, where about 1.5 lakh people had participated in a yogathon. He expressed happiness over his department’s achievement.

Yogathon held in front of Suvarna Vidhana Soudha in Belagavi on January 15, 2023.

The army has set up two stalls, one to provide information on various employment opportunities for the youths in the armed forces and the other one is where a few of the arms and ammunitions used by the armed forces are on display.

Army stalls, adventure sports, water sports and various food stalls at the 26th National Youth Festival have drawn the attention of visitors.

The army has set up two stalls, one to provide information on various employment opportunities for the youths in the armed forces and the other one is where a few of the arms and ammunitions used by the armed forces are on display.

At the ‘Know your Army’ stall set up on the campus of Karnatak College in Dharwad, a team of army personnel are providing information on all the recruitment opportunities including the newly launched ‘Agniveer’ scheme.

In the second stall, various arms and ammunitions including few used during the ‘Kargil War’ are on display. On Saturday, January 14, Havaldar Ravindra Pal Singh of Rajputana Rifles and others were seen enthusiastically explaining about various arms, their range, firing capacity and damage that they could cause to the enemy camp. They were assisted by Havaldar Sanjiv Kumar from Madras Regiment (a native of Bidar), who explained the visitors the same in Kannada.

Those on display include A.K. 47 rifle, Single Assault Rifle 7.62 mm, M.M.G. Rocket Launcher, Sniper DSR and others. Equipments and gadgets used for surveillance during night are also on display.

Adventure Sports

Adventure sports have also drawn attention of the crowd. Keerti Pais, Advisor to the Commissioner of Sports and Youth Empowerment said that for the first time at the National Youth Festival, crash courses were being conducted in association with General Thimayya National Academy of Adventure. He said these crash courses were for registered NYF participants and had seen good response.

Mr. Keerti said that the adventure sports like rock climbing and water sports were open to the public during afternoon and evening hours, while it was restricted to NYF participants in the morning.

Desi games

Manjunath M.R., Advisor to Thimmaiah Academy said that the ‘desi games’ at RN Shetty stadium had evoked great interest among the visitors to NYF. So far around 1,200 participants had taken part in the desi games and they were assisted by 60 volunteers of ‘Kreeda Bharati’ organisation. Along with these, eight teams among the NYF participants would be displaying their native games at the youth festival, he said.

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Academy of General Education (AGE), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG), Manipal Media Network Ltd & Dr. TMA Pai Foundation Manipal, will honour eminent personalities from different fields for their distinguished services during the ‘New Year Award 2023’ function.

Mahabaleshwara M S, managing director & CEO Karnataka Bank, Mangaluru, Dr Pushpa G Kini, professor. department of Paediatrics, KMC, Manipal & former director-Student Affaires MAHE, Manipal, Dr Pangal Sripathi Rao, former dean & professor of Orthopaedics Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, and Amai Mahalinga Naik, a well-known farmer, Kepu Adyanadka are the four eminent personalities.

All the renowned personalities will be conferred during the award ceremony scheduled on Saturday, January 14 at Manipal. The award is being given every year to eminent personalities from different fields for their distinguished services and immense contributions to society.

Dr Ranjan R Pai – chairman-MEMG, president – MAHE, registrar- AGE & Dr H S Ballal, pro chancellor – MAHE & president – AGE; T Sathish U Pai – executive chairman – Manipal Media Network Ltd. & vice president-AGE, T Ashok Pai, president, Dr TMA Pai Foundation, Manipal will grace the occasion.

The award ceremony will be broadcast live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJUzepGvfpo

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Nine MMA athletes, aged between 13 and 28 years of Academy of Martial Science (AMS), won 4 gold, 1 silver and 4 bronze medals for the State at the MMA India Open Championships held in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, in December last.

The event was hosted by Sports Association of Mixed Martial Arts of MP and sanctioned by MMA INDIA. More than 250 participants from across India participated in the Championship. They are all trained at the AMS by Kru Vikram and coaches Kavya, Samarth and Kiran.

Results

1. H.R. Theeksha Bharuni – Gold medal, 51 kgs, Youth C Div.

2. J. Ashwin – Gold, 65 kgs, Youth C Div.

3. Praful Raghavendra – Gold, 85 kgs, Youth C Div.

4. N. Aryan Raj – Bronze, 57 kgs, Youth B Div.

5. Samarth Vikram – Bronze, Bantam weight, Juniors (18-21 yrs).

6. U.K. Skandan Bangar – Bronze, Feather weight, Juniors (18-21yrs).

7. Zaid Mohammed – Gold, Welter weight, Juniors (18-21yrs).

8. B. Akshatha Shanbhogue – Gold Medal, Atom weight, Seniors (21yrs and above).

9. G.R. Sridhar – Bronze, Bantam weight, Seniors (21yrs and above).

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City’s Shashank Keshav Rao has emerged as the youngest Karnataka State Champion in Table Tennis (TT) in Under-13 category.

He won the title in the KTTA-Sri CVL Sastry Memorial State Championships held at Canara Union in Bengaluru recently by defeating Bengaluru’s N. Arnav (National Ranking 8) in the finals 4-1.

In the year 2007, this title was bagged by Mysuru Coach Akshay Mahanta and after a gap of 15 years, a Mysuru boy has bagged the title. Shashank will now be playing for Zonal and National Championships.

The 12-year-old Shashank is the son of Paediatrician couple Dr. Suma Rao and Dr. Prashanth Rao of Aaditya Children’s Clinic, Vivekanandanagar, Mysuru.

A 7th standard student of Kautilya Vidyalaya, Shashank is currently training at Olympic Maharshi Table Tennis Academy (OMTTA), Vishweshwaranagar in city and is Ranked No. 2 in the State.

He has been training for the last four years under Chief Coach Akshay Mahanta, who himself is a multiple State-level Champion and a National-level medallist.

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Ramyashri of Hosabettu has bagged the second rank in the CA final exam, in the country, conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in November 2022.

Ramyashri is the daughter of Ramesh Rao who works with the LIC of India and Meera who works with National Insurance company.

Ramyashri had initially obtained training from Kamath & Rao and MRPL institutions.

For the CA inter exam, Ramyashri had taken coaching from Trisha and for the final exam Ramyashri had achieved the feat on self-study.

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‘Vishwabhooshana Dr Ronald Colaco’, a book published by Srivari Foundation on the life and achievements of World Book of Records award recipient Dr Ronald Colaco was released in a grand event at Swiss Town, Devanahalli on January 6.

The book on the very well known prominent NRI businessman and philanthropist Dr Colaco, authored by Narasimha Murthy compiling most of the charitable works and various honours and accolades with photos and documentary evidence, was released by Veerendra Sharma, five-time UK MP of Indian-origin. The book is edited by S Venkatesh Murthy, N Narasimhamurthy and Me Cha Kotappa.

‘Vishwabhooshana Dr Ronald Colaco’ published by Srivari Foundation has details of services by Dr Ronald Colaco in 24 different sectors. It reveals information about his work in education, health, religion, sports and various other fields. It also has details of him constructing a police station, hospital, school, taluk office etc contributions to improve the basic facilities of the government. It also speaks about his helping hand to groups and associations. It describes the state, national and international awards that came to him for living for the society.

Prof K E Radhakrishna welcomed everybody and explained the personality of Dr Colaco.

Veerendra Sharma felicitated N Narasimhamurthy on the occasion.

Narasimhamurthy said that Colaco is a symbol of simplicity and does social work without expecting anything in return behind the curtains ensuring that what is given away by the right hand should not be known to the left hand. “The book is brought out so that his work may be an inspiration for the entire community and future generation,” he said.

BJP national chief secretary C T Ravi, former diplomat and AICC overseas chief secretary Dr Arati Krishna, MLC S L Bhojegowda, MLA Dinesh Gundu Rao, S Venkateshamurthy, devotee of Annamayya, president of Bannari Amman, vice president of Srivari Foundation were on the dais.

Aparna and Bahrain based entrepreneur Anand Lobo compered the programme.

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Yashwanth, a student of Kadeshwalya government high school has developed a multi-purpose agricultural machine that has been selected for a south-India science exhibition besides winning all-round praise for developing the model.

Recently, Yashwanth’s invention of the multi-purpose agricultural machine had won a prize at the state-level exhibition held at Dharwad. He will now be participating in the South Indian-level science exhibition to be held at Thrissur in Kerala from January 27 to 31.

A total of 20 models have been selected from Karnataka for the Thrissur science exhibition and Yashwanth’s machine is one of the models selected from Dakshina Kannada district in the personal segment of the exhibition.

Yashwanth is the son of Lokesh and Pavithra who hail from Kemmannu. Yashwanth was guided in developing the model by his maths teacher Geetha Kumari. Yashwanth’s model has already bagged first place at the taluk and district-level science exhibitions.

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Only on Saturday, she bagged gold at the National Weightlifting Championship at Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu in the 87 kg weight group in the snatch and clean and jerk categories.