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Tennis star Mahesh Bhupathi’s father Krishna Bhupathi felicitated

May 16, 2013Records, All, Sportsadmin

Mysore :

C.G. Krishna Bhupathi, a former tennis player and father of Indian tennis player Mahesh Bhupathi, was felicitated by the Mysore Tennis Council, which organised “Vidhyaashram Mysore T3-2013 South India Inter-Club Tennis championship” for Tennis Academies/Club, at a function held at Windflower-Spa and Resorts in Nazarbad here last evening.

Krishna Bhupathi was felicitated by P.S.Vastrad, Commissioner, Dept. of Archaeology, Museums & Heritage, with a shawl, Mysore Peta and a memento.

K. B. Ganapathy, Editor-in-Chief, Star of Mysore, was the chief guest. Dr. N.M. Srinivas, Hon. Chairman, Mysore Tennis Council, R. Nagaraj, President, Mysore Tennis Council, M. J. Charan, Tournament Director, M. V. Pramod, Secretary, K. Raghav Prasad, Treasurer and other office-bearers were present.

Speaking on the ocassion, Krishna Bhupathi became nostalgic and remembered his olden days. He expressed his gratitude to the organisers for having invited him and honoured.

He said the concept of T3- tennis was excellent as it would improve and popularise the game to a greater level.

He said that in November his son Mahesh Bhupathi would be launching an International T3- tennis tournament in the Asian- level with greats like Pete Sampras and Agassi taking part.

K. B. Ganapathy, who also spoke, lauded the efforts of Dr. N. M. Srinivas, who is striving for the upliftment of the game in Karnataka, especially Mysore.

He also praised Krishna Bhupathi’s contribution to the society in giving to the world of tennis a champion tennis player like Mahesh Bhupathi, who has won the hearts of many a tennis fans.

P.S. Vastrad, in his address, said the contribution of Krishna Bhupathi as a tennis player and then as father of the Indian tennis player Mahesh Bhupathi, was immense and wished him well in his future exploits. Eleven teams participating in the tournament were given mementoes on the occasion.

The valedictory of the championship, which began yesterday at Cosmopolitan Club, will be held at the Club today at 4.30 pm with Krishna Bhupathi as chief guest.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports / May 12th, 2013

Billiards: Aditya Mehta becomes first Indian in 25 years to register a perfect score

May 15, 2013Records, All, Sportsadmin

Bangalore:

Reigning Asian champion Aditya Mehta has become the first Indian cueist in 25 years to register a perfect break of 147 during the trials for Asian Indoor Games at Incheon, the maximum one can achieve in snooker.

The professional player stepped into the 147 club and joined Geet Sethi, who was the first to achieve the feat back in 1988.

“Mehta, recorded the landmark break in the ongoing selection camp at Bangalore in the fourth frame against Brijesh Damani (IOC),” a release stated.

Incidentally, 25 years back, Sethi also registered the break in the fourth frame against an Indian opponent Nasir Latif of Kerala.

In both the matches, referees overlooking the proceedings were from Karnataka State Billiards Association.

In 1988, G.R. Ranganathan was the match official while M. K Sharma was the referee during Mehta’s match.

source: http://www.sports.ndtv.com / NDTV Sports / Home> Sports Home> Other Sports> More / by Press Trust of India / Wednesday – May 08th, 2013

23,000 to run in TCS World 10K in Bangalore on May 19

May 13, 2013Sportsadmin

Bangalore:

It’s a full house at the TCS World 10K Bangalore 2013 to be run on May 19 and the event has also attracted a super fast field of foreign athletes, who will be aiming to set new course records for men and women. This was announced by Dilip Jayram, CEO of Procam International, the promoters of the event, along with Nagraj ijari, VP and Global Head Hi-Tech and Professional Services Business Segment, Tata Consultancy Services, the title sponsor,
The TCS World 10K on May 19 will see total participation from around 23,000, prompting the promoters to shut registrations.
The Open 10K Run and the 10K Challenge, which also includes the Nike College Face-off and the DHL Corporate Challenge, has received around 11,000 entries, while the Majja Run a whopping 11,500. The Senior Citizens’ Run will have around 1000, while the event for the Champions With Disability will see 450 participants, a huge increase from 91 in the last edition. Besides these races, the feature events of the day will be the World 10K for elite men & women and the Nation’s Challenge.
Super-fast field of elite athletes: A highly competitive field of elite athletes has been put together for the TCS World 10K Bangalore 2013 by Global Sports Communication (GSC), the event’s elite athlete coordinators with an aim at lowering the existing course records. The men’s record stands at 27.51 minutes, set by Eritrea’s Zersenay Tadese in 2008, while the women’s mark stands at 31.58, set by Ethiopian Yimer Wude in 2010. An added incentive of USD 7500 is up for grabs for the new course record.
Leading the field at the Kanteerava Stadium’s start line on Sunday, May 19 will be the two newly crowned World Cross Country Champions, Japhet Korir among men and double World Cross Country Champion Emily Chebet on the women’s side.
According to Jos Hermens of GSC, besides Emily, the other strong contenders in the women’s race will be the defending champion Helah Kiprop of Kenya and the course record holder Yimer Wude Ayalew. However, they can expect to be given a run for their money by Kenyans Pascalia Kipkoech, the 2nd fastest girl over 10km in 2012, and Lucy Kabuu, who many insiders believe is the strongest lady among long distance running at this moment. Also in the field will be the young Kenyan Valentine Kipketer, who demolished the field while lowering the course record by two and a half minutes and winning the 2013 Mumbai Marathon

The strong men’s field includes 14 athletes who have run the 10 km below 28.00 on either track or road and poses a strong challenge to the existing course record.
Leading the pack will be current World Cross Country champion Japhet Korir who, besides having finished three times in the top five of various World Cross Championships, also won the 2013 Würzburg Residenzlauf 10km in Germany. Japhet will face competition from fellow Kenyans Moses Masai, Daniel Salel, Silas Kipruto, Nicholas Kipkemboi and rising Ethiopian star Brihanu Legese, to name a few. Posing a threat to the Kenyan and Ethiopian athletes will be Ukranian Sergiy Lebid and Great Britain’s Scott Overall, besides Ecuador’s Byron Piedra.

The occasion was also used to announce the Get Active Expo, which will be held at the Koramangala Indoor Stadium from May 10 to 12, 2013.
The Expo will be on between 11.00 am to 7.00 pm on all the three days and will also be the venue for all confirmed participants from Bengaluru and its suburbs to come and collect their running numbers along with the goodie bags.

source: http://www.indiansportsnews.com / Indian Sports News / Home> Hot Picks / Thursday, May 09th, 2013

Bangalore-bred Chris Pfeiffers steal the show at PES College of Engineering

May 6, 2013Education, Sportsadmin

In low airfare PES College of Engineering in Mandya organises a stunt biking show titled Wheeled Evolution 2013

Saravanan Parth, a second PUC student always loved working with motorbikes. But, what can he do with a motorbike? How can his career be lucrative if he studies motorbike?

He found his answers recently when he attended a stunt biking show at PES College of Engineering, Mandya.

To encourage automobile engineering and love for automobiles, the PES College of Engineering in Mandya organised a stunt biking show recently. Titled Wheeled

Evolution 2013, the event had a stunt show by a team called LSI (Legendary Stunts Inc) and Dirt Battles, a dirt biking competition.

“We performed a no-front wheel wheelies freestyle circle, an international stunt performed in X Games,” said Mohammad

Kasheef, member of LSD. The team took about five years to perfect stunt biking, and has performed at various colleges to encourage students to take up automobiles engineering along with stunt biking.

“We work on bikes. We modify them and we rectify them. Since we know our bikes in and out, we know what safety measures we have to take before we start doing stunts on them,” explained Mohammad Zakir, who rides a Pulsar.

“We have a Dio, we have a Pulsar. One is a geared vehicle the other is not. But we perform stunts on both,” said Raza Mehedi Ali, who performs stunts on the Dio.

“We are completely opposed to stunts on the roads. We never practice on freeways or main roads. We have a small place and we practice there with every safety equipment in place. Helmets, arm guards, knee guards, neck protection, shin protection, shoes and if needed harnesses are all used even during practice sessions,” said Kasheef.

source: http://www.dnaindia.com / DNA / Home> Bangalore> Report / Place: Bangalore, Agency: DNA / Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

Extra innings on the ramp

May 5, 2013Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Sportsadmin

The heat is on! The excitement is peaking up with every single IPL match. And our very own Bengaluru models are doing an IPL trail and travelling across the country, for the after-party fashion shows.

We speak to a few on the fun times at these soirees.

Creating quite a flutter in the ongoing IPL Season 6 are city models Parto Gohari, Mitali Rannorey, Nina Mo, Jasleen Benipal, Vibhinta Verma, Viraja, Noyonita and others sashaying down the ramp in designer creations by designers like Riyaaz Gangji, Reshma Gangji, Rina Dhaka, Samant Chauhan, Nida Mahmood and others.

Model Parto Gohari, who is doing IPL shows for both Sheetal Sharma and Rahul Dev Shetty, has been on a roll ever since the season began. “The shows are so much fun, but it gets really late each time. We walk with the cricketers on the ramp and then dance with them after the shows. We also get a lot of compliments. Even though I’m not so much into cricket and cricketers, it’s fun to get to mingle with them. Gayle is a very sweet and funny guy. Only thing I wish for is more sleep. Most shows start only by midnight and the following day we start fittings and rehearsals by 2 in the afternoon. Some team owners and VIPs come really late and we have to wait for them for the shows to begin.”

But Bengaluru model Jasleen Benipal is all excited and happy with the buzz. She reveals, “I love my job and the IPL shows are so much fun. I’m used to staying up late nights. Yes, the long waiting hours for the shows to begin, when you’re all dressed with make-up and hair in place sometimes gets too much, but then I just grab a drink and have fun. One of the cricketers came up to me and said he finds Indian girls very pretty and said I was beautiful. Some of them even show attitude, but I love every bit of it.”

Another model who’s living life in the fast lane is Vibhinta Verma. She confesses, “Travelling out of town on shows is always great fun. The best one was when we were all in Goa and after a show all us models and others were chilling and we all got into the pool in our clothes and danced away to the latest Bollywood hits. Even though it’s tiring, as we need to take early morning flights coupled with late night shows, the high during the shows is something we all look forward to. The after-parties in Hyderabad are the most exciting. Most girls usually end up going from the parties straight to the airport to catch the early flights back to Bengaluru. Its funny to see all of us taking a power nap on the flights.”

Even the city choreographers are a busy lot with Sheetal Sharma doing the signature IPL shows and choreographer Rahul Dev Shetty doing the Videocon IPL shows in Pune and Mumbai. Touring with the models he admits to the shows being a fun riot all the way. “It’s been a blast. We are in a new city in a new bed and a new hotel every day and I keep forgetting which side the elevators are. Harbhajan Singh is the funniest of the lot and comes up with such wisecracks all the time.”

source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> Lifestyle> Fashion/Beauty / by Namita Gupta – DC / May 04th, 2013

Harley’s roar through the city

May 5, 2013Sportsadmin

Mysore :

It was all Harley show on Mysore-Madikeri road in Mysore on Sunday. Members of Bangalore-based Riders’ Republic had organised a bike rally to Kadakani Resort near Ammathi in Kodagu. Around 50 bikers from Bangalore took part in the rally covering around 600 kms in two days.

Bikers, who left Bangalore at around 5 pm, arrived at Kadakani Resort at around 12.30 pm on Saturday. After an overnight’s stay at the resort, the team left for Bangalore at around 11 am on Sunday and reached Mysore at 1.45 pm. The team of bikers included IT&BT professionals, doctors, industrialists, students, air pilots, lawyers and others.

After arriving at Mysore, majority of them stopped by at Sri Kanteerva Narasimharaja Sports Club (Mysore Sports Club) for lunch before vrooming towards Bangalore.

Speaking to Star of Mysore, Shivakumar, member of Riders’ Republic, said that the tour was purely based on tourism and there was nothing like charity. He added that previously the team had done similar tours for charity purposes.

Another member Saxena said that the bikers had a 600 kms long hassle-free ride and added, “Speed is not important for us, but it is safety which is our priority. Moreover, there were doctors who had also accompanied us in the ride.”

Saxena also claimed that Riders’ Republic was the biggest such organisations in the country. The team organises rallies once in six months and believes that it is one of the many ways to bring down stress levels among participants.

The feature of this rally was that a city-based entrepreneur Daljith Ram also took part in the rally. Daljith owns a Harley Davidson Street Glide which has its own stereo system and other features making it unique among other Harleys.

When asked why they had chosen Harley Davidson bikes for the rally, the members said that Harleys were American styled bikes which are available from 750 CC to 900 CC.

This apart, the cost of these bikes ranges from Rs. 7 lakh to Rs. 45 lakh and these bikes cruises past any ditch on the Road making it a comfortable ride for the bikers.

Besides, the sound it makes attracts a lot of people’s attention when on road, they added.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / April 29th, 2013

Mangalore girls score historic win at international ice skating championship

April 30, 2013Records, All, Sportsadmin

Mangalore :

For the first time in the history of ice skating in India, two girls from Mangalore have the won awards at the international level in the sport.

The duo are Seeliya Simmith, silver medalist, and Avani S Kumar, bronze medalist. They took part in the short track speed skating, a form of ice skating at the ‘World Development Trophy- 2013’ held in Singapore, organized by the International Skating Union.

A total of five contestants had represented India in the events – two girls from Mangalore, a girl and a boy from Maharashtra, and a boy from Bangalore.

Seeliya Simmith is the daughter of P A Mohammed and Asma Mohammed, and resident of Pandeshwar. She is pursuing her Class 10 from Lourdes Central School, Bejai. She has been getting trained in roller skating for nearly seven years. She has also taken special training in ice skating from Shimla in almost -2 degrees and from Leh Ladakh, Kashmir, in nearly -30 degrees.

Avani S Kumar, daughter of Suresh Kumar and Sundari, is a resident of Kadri Vyasa Nagar, and is pursuing her 7th standard from St Theresa School. She has been training from nearly six years. She attended the ice-skating camp last December in Shimla and has won the gold in the event there and got selected to this international event.

The two are the students of Mangalore Roller Skating Club, trained by Mahesh Kumar.

source: http://www.daijiworld.com / DaijiWorld.com / Home> Top Stories / Pics: Ramesh Pandith / by DaijiWorld Media Network – Mangalore (BG) / April 15th, 2013

Star this week : Talented chess player – M. Tulsi

April 27, 2013Education, Records, All, Sportsadmin

Chess is a mind game and has a very rich tradition in our country. Mysore is the hometown many achievers. One such upcoming chess player is M. Tulsi in the junior girls section in the State. Tulsi recently hogged the limelight when she won the State U-17 girls chess title in the State chess championship held at State Youth Centre, Bangalore last week. She secured 5.5 points from six rounds. She will represent Karnataka in the Nationals. She is our Star This Week.

Tulsi is an 8th standard student of Marimallappa High School. Daughter of K.S. Manoj Kumar and C. Saritha, residents of Postal Colony near Sterling Theatre, she took part in the 3rd MDCA National level rating tournament held in Mysore from Apr. 15 to 19 and fared well. Presently, she has a rating of 1492 and aims to improve on her rating in the days to come.

Tulsi has a creditable record and has won the State U-7 title in 2006, 2007 and won the State U-9 title in 2008 and 2009 in the girls section. In 2011 she won the State U-17 girls title. In the 2011 U-13 State championships she finished second.

Tulsi has represented the State in the Nationals in the U-7, U-9 and U-13 and U-17 sections and her best performance was in 2006 when she finished 9th in the National U-7 championship at Goa.

She has participated in many rating tournaments and her best performance so far is in the Mangalore Open in 2012, when she beat Rajkumar Singha (Rating 1800) in the second round. She secured the 2nd place in the girls U-13 category and from nine rounds secured 5 points.

With encouragement from her parents and school, Tulsi intends to work hard in the days to come and improve her rating in the National and International levels.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / April 21st, 2013

Mathematics wizard Shakuntala Devi passes away

April 22, 2013Amazing Feats, Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Education, Leaders, Records, All, Science & Technology, Sports, World Opinionadmin

Bangalore :

Legendary Mathematics wizard Shakuntala Devi, dubbed as the world’s fastest ‘human computer’ and who made complex mental calculations as a child prodigy, died at a hospital here today following respiratory problems.

Devi, who has enthralled fans with her prowess for decades, was 83.

“She passed away at Bangalore Hospital,” Shakuntala Devi Educational Foundation Public Trust Trustee D C Shivadev told PTI. Doctors declared her dead at 8.15 a.m., he said.

Devi was hospitalised a couple of weeks ago for critical respiratory problems, Shivadev said. “She developed heart and kidney problems later,” he added.

A household name in India, Devi cast a spell adding a 16-digit number with another one and multipliying the result with an equal array of numbers almost instantaneously, finding the cube root of the resultant and pops up with an answer in just about the time taken for a wink.

Devi, who had no formal education and who simply picked up reading and writing, had the ingenous ability to tell the day of the week of any given date in the last century in a jiffy.

“God’s gift. A divine quality,” is how Devi had once felt of her unique distinction that began showing visibility since the age of three. She has been quoted as saying that none in her family showed any signs of the same head for figures. “Not even remotely, although my dad was a stage magician.”

Rated as one in 58 million for her stupendous mathematical feats by one of the fastest super-computers ever invented-the Univac-1108-, Devi believed in using grey cells to silicon chips.

Born on November 4, 1929, Devi figured in the Guiness Book of World Record for her outstanding ability and wrote numerous books like ‘Fun with Numbers’, ‘Astrology for You’, ’Puzzles to Puzzle You’, and ‘Mathablit’

Hailing from a simple orthodox Kannada Brahmin family, Devi’s father was a circus performer who did trapeze, tightrope and cannonball shows. He had rebelled against becoming a temple priest.

Devi was also an astrologer and gave remedies purportedly based on date and time of birth.

It was while Devi was playing cards with her father at the tender age of three that he found his daughter’s calculation abilities. It turned out that she beat him not by sleight of hand, but by memorising the cards.

At the age of six, she demonstrated her calculation skills in her first major public performance at the University of Mysore and two years later, she again proved herself successful as a child prodigy at Annamalai University.

However, despite apprehensions in some quarters, Devi did not lose her calculating ability when she turned adult like other prodigies such as Truman Henry Safford.

In 1977, Devi extracted the 23rd root of a 201-digit number mentally. In the same year in Dallas, she competed with a computer to see who gives the cube root of 188138517 faster and she won.

On June 18, 1980 she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College, London. She answered the question in 28 seconds flat.

This event is mentioned in the 1995 Guinness Book of Records.

“Why do children dread mathematics?”, she was once asked.

“Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject,” pat came her reply.

“Mathematics is life, you have math in everything, right from time to your date of birth to the food you eat and the air you breathe,” she states. The right age to train children in mathematics is six, says Shakuntala, who sparkled at three.

source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com / Business Line / Home> News / by PTI / Bangalore, April 21st, 2013

Kundapur: Venkatesh Kamat & Bharat Rao Bag GSB Inter-District Men’s Doubles Shuttle Badminton Trophy

April 18, 2013Sportsadmin

Kundapur :

Venkatesh Kamat and Dr Bharat Rao of Manipal bagged Hari Om Trophy and cash award of Rs 4,444 in GSB community inter-district men’s doubles shuttle badminton tournament held at Gopal Nayak Rotary Indoor Stadium of Gujjady Government Pre-University College, here on Tuesday April 2. It was organized by Hari Om Organization of Gangolli, near here.
Prashant Pai and Vinod Kini – Padutirupati A team of Karkal bagged the runner up trophy and cash award of Rs 2,222.

Vedamurti G Vasant Bhat and local entrepreneur M Nagendra Pai presented the trophy and cash awards during the valedictory function held at Gujjady near here on Tuesday April 2 night.
Gangolli entrepreneur K Ramanat Nayak presided the function.The entrepreneur M G Ragavendra R Bhandarkar was present.
Thirty-six teams from different districts participated in the tourney.

source: http://www.bellevision.com / Belle Vision / Home> News /by Bernard J DCosta / Bellevision Media Network / April 03rd, 2013

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