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Kayak instructor sets out on coastal expedition

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Mangaluru :

The coastal stretch of Karnataka has played host to several adventures and unique expeditions. Buoyed by the pristine beaches, a 28-year-old has now embarked on a solo kayaking expedition from Karwar  to Mangaluru, clocking at least 240 km in 12 days.
Sushant first arrived in the city a decade ago from Bihar, to pursue engineering. The brochure-blue beaches cast a spell on him, and Sushant began investing time and energy in the water. Eight months ago, he bid adieu to his engineering profession and turned into a full-time kayaking instructor operating from Mulki. Sushant has now taken out nearly a couple of weeks off his busy schedule to explore everything the coast has in store for him.

The idea struck Sushant a month ago while kayaking with a friend in Gokarna. “It was such a memorable experience that I wanted more of it. I fancied an idea to kayak beside the virgin beaches and camp on the shores. I downloaded satellite views online, identified beaches and I was almost there,” he told STOI, after ending the fourth day of his expedition.

Sushant carries goods and groceries weighing approximately 40 kg with him. Sushant cooks his food himself. He lights his stove on the shores after the day’s kayaking, and relishes simple, delicious and wholesome food such as dal. “I carry a gas stove and a cooker among other appliances. I carry dal, rice, masala for khichdi and ghee for taste. I cook enough for dinner and breakfast the next morning. I consume protein bars in the afternoon, so I don’t lack nutrition. The apples that I have been carrying may last for three more days. I may visit some restaurants after that,” he said.

As he has been rowing for almost 12 hours a day, and venturing as far as 3 km in the sea, Sushant has found friends in dolphins. “I watched them play for at least an hour. They are magnificent,” he said.

Sushant, who began his expedition on April 16, is scheduled to sign off in style at Mulki, the place that changed his life forever, on April 27.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News> City News> Mangalore News / by Chethan Misquithi / TNN / April 22nd, 2018

Footballer killed in hit-and-run

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Was part of the Bangalore United FC

A 22-year-old footballer from the city was killed in a hit-and-run road accident on Sunday. Tejaswini was riding pillion on a scooter when a car hit the two-wheeler on the Hosakerehalli flyover near PESIT College. “She fell to the right and was run over by the car,” said her coach Chitra Gangadharan.

The car driver did not stop. Police are analysing CCTV footage from the area to identify the vehicle involved in the accident.

An engineer, Tejaswini, was employed with an IT firm in Cessna Business Park. She had represented Karnataka in the Senior Nationals in Assam in 2015. She had turned out for the State U-19 side and was part of the Bangalore United FC (BUFC) women’s team.

She had begun training in high school with BUFC. “She was very disciplined in her training. She was a good midfielder,” recalled Chitra.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Bengaluru / by Staff Reporter / April 09th, 2018

Udupi girl spins her way to Guinness fame

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Tanushree performing full-body revolutions maintaining a chest stand position in Udupi on Saturday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Tanushree performing full-body revolutions maintaining a chest stand position in Udupi on Saturday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Tanushree (9) performed 42 full-body revolutions in one minute on Saturday.

A nine-year-old girl from Udyavar near Udupi has set the Guinness record for most full-body revolutions maintaining a chest stand position. Tanushree performed 42 full-body revolutions in one minute on Saturday.

At the Ammanni Ramanna Shetty Hall, Swapnil Dangirkar, official adjudicator of the Guinness World Records, confirmed the feat. The performance was also recorded. The record used to be held by 13-year-old Mohammed Alsheikh of Palestine, who performed 38 revolutions in a minute on February 8, 2017.

Mr. Dangarikar said: “I am happy to announce that Tanushree has broken the record. She has done so by a huge margin of four revolutions… one has to put in a lot of effort and energy to complete the revolutions. I congratulate her. We at Guinness World Records like to say ‘she is officially amazing’.”

She is delighted

Tanushree, a class 4 student of St. Cecily’s Higher Primary School, Udupi, said she was delighted to create a Guinness record. She learned to perform body revolutions by watching videos on YouTube. “I used to practice the revolutions in the morning, evening and night. My father Uday Kumar and my mother Sandhya Kumar encouraged me,” she said.

She also learns Bharatnatyam and likes doing yoga. “I want to practise yoga and participate in competitions. I dedicate my Guinness record to my country,” she said.

Mr. Uday Kumar, an electrical contractor, said Tanushree practised body revolutions daily for the past four months. “I and my wife were very happy with our daughter’s achievement as it has brought fame to our place (Udyavar), our district and our country. In the future, we would like her to represent our country in yoga,” he said.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Karnataka / by Special Correspondent / Udupi – April 07th, 2018

Young gymnasts make Karnataka proud

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The State team that won two silver and one bronze medals at the 24th Rhythmic Gymnastics National Championship for Juniors and Seniors, which was held in Hyderabad recently.
The State team that won two silver and one bronze medals at the 24th Rhythmic Gymnastics National Championship for Juniors and Seniors, which was held in Hyderabad recently.

Team of five girls bags medals in rhythmic gymnastics at national event

When these girls bagged three medals in team events at the 24th Rhythmic Gymnastics National Championship for Juniors and Seniors, they knew that the years of effort they had devoted to training was beginning to yield results. The event was organised under the auspices of the Gymnastic Federation of India (GFI) in Hyderabad recently.

Bhavana Boypati, Keerthana G., Khushi G. Jain, Rhea Bhansali and Yashika Bhandari made up the team, which is the first ever to win a medal for the State in rhythmic gymnastics at the national level. They bagged two silvers and one bronze medal at the event.

It is to their credit that they won these medals despite the State lacking proper facilities for the indoor sports. Bengaluru has a dearth of practise facilities for gymnasts and this has been a long-standing grouse of athletes.

The five girls, who practise at the Sports Promotion Association (SPA) located in the Jayanagar Sports Complex, aspire to further their dreams and represent the country, and win medals in the Olympics.

Much-needed exposure

Bhavana said that the national event gave her the exposure she needs to improve her performance. Keerthana dreams of winning a gold medal for the country in the 2024 Olympics. Khushi credits her success to her coach G. Manohar Kamath and is hoping to participate in international events.

“I learnt a lot from gymnasts from other States and their approach to practise,” said Rhea, while Yashika concurred that the national exposure was good for the team.

The girls are hoping to get access to Federation of International Gymnastics (FIG) approved apparatus and quality sports gear.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Bengaluru / by Sudhindr A.B. / April 05th, 2018

Gururaja claims silver, opens India’s CWG medal account

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Gururaja shows his silver medal and mascot Borbi after winning the Men's 56kg Weightlifting final during Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast on Thursday. | Photo Credit: AP
Gururaja shows his silver medal and mascot Borbi after winning the Men’s 56kg Weightlifting final during Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast on Thursday. | Photo Credit: AP

Gururaja was third after snatch, pulling off a best of 111kg after two good lifts before surviving a few nervy moments in clean and jerk.

Weightlifter P Gururaja opened India’s medal account on the first competition day of the 21st Commonwealth Games, claiming a silver in the men’s 56kg category in Gold Coast on Thursday.

The 25-year-old Gururaja equalled his personal best of 249kg (111+138) to finish second in a field where Malaysia’s three-time Commonwealth Championships medallist Muhammad Izhar Ahmed (117+144) broke the Games record for snatch and overall lift.

Gururaja was third after snatch, pulling off a best of 111kg after two good lifts before surviving a few nervy moments in clean and jerk. The Indian failed in his first two attempts before managing a good lift off his last chance to zoom to the top half of the table.

Ahmed, meanwhile, bettered his compatriot Hamizan Amirul Ibrahim’s snatch record of 116kg, created in 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games. He then broke the overall Games record, which was also in the name of Ibrahim.

The third position was taken by Sri Lanka’s Lakmal Chaturanga (114+134).

Gururaja, a low-ranking Indian Air Force employee, is a quintessential Indian sports story of immense hardships and just a tiny bit of luck.

Son of a truck driver, Gururaja had aspired to be a wrestler for the longest time before being pushed into weightlifting , by a watchful coach who saw potential in him.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Sport> Other Sports / PTI / Gold Coast – April 05th, 2018

Mangalore University honours sports achievers at Darpana

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Mangaluru :

Mangalore University honoured its sports achievers – individual, colleges and its team – at Darpana, a gala event at Mangalgangothri on Tuesday. Alva’s College, Moodbidri received the overall champions’ trophy for 2017-18 in inter-collegiate events with tally of 571 points. Sri Dharmasthala College, Ujire finished runners up with 430 points and Alva’s College of Education was placed third with 333 points. K Byrappa, vice-chancellor, handed over the trophies.
Alva’s College topped both men’s and women’s section to retain permanent trophy and took home cash prize of Rs 15,000 each. Athletes from SDM College, Ujire finished second in men’s and women’s section to take home Rs 10,000 each with permanent trophies. St Aloysius College and Alva’s College of Physical Education that was placed third in men’s and women’s section respectively received cash award of Rs 6000 and permanent trophies to boot.

The university honoured athletes who set new records in inter-collegiate athletic meet, weight lifting, and power lifting competitions. Likewise, members of men’s kho-kho team that won silver medal in South zone and bronze in all India inter-university championship, women’s Kabaddi team that finished runner-up in South-zone inter-university championship, kho-kho team that won silver in South zone inter-university championships received cash awards of Rs 3000 each.

Likewise, members of women’s hockey team that bagged gold in South Zone inter-university meet received Rs 5000 each, six members of men’s cross country team that won gold in All India inter-university championship Rs 7000 each, women’s team that finished runner up in the same meet Rs 5000 each. Members of women’s ball badminton team that bagged gold for a record 14th time in All India inter-university championship received cash awards of Rs 7000 each.

The men’s netball team that bagged gold in All India inter-university meet received Rs 7000 each. Medalists in all India inter-university weight lifting – Shubham P and Usha B N and best physique championships – Vingesh received cash awards of Rs 20000, Rs 25000 and Rs 25000 respectively. Sooraj Kumar Singh, Usha and Haishnam Merina Devi who won medals in all-India inter-university power lifting meet received cash of Rs 20000, 20000 and Rs 10000 respectively.

Vaishnav Hegde who secured two gold and a silver in all India inter-university swimming meet took home Rs 70000. A total of 23 athletes including 14 men took home prize money ranging from Rs 1.10-lakh by Elakkiya Dasan to Rs 15000 for team and individual events for their performances in all-India inter-university athletics championships for men and women. Women’s netball team that won gold in all-India inter-university tournament received Rs 70000 each.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> News> City News> Mangalore News / Jaideep Shenoy / TNN / March 28th, 2018

Spastics Society director is ‘Bengalurean of the Year’

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Namma Bengaluru Foundation presents awards for 2018

Rukmini Krishnaswamy, director of Spastics Society of Karnataka, has won the ‘Namma Bengalurean of the Year’ award given by the Namma Bengaluru Foundation, which is founded by Rajeev Chandrasekhar.

Sanjeev V. Dyamannanavar, an urban transport activist and one of the founders of Prajaa Raag, has been recognised as citizen of the year’, Rasheed Kappan, a senior journalist with Deccan Herald, as the mediaperson of the year, Dipika Bajpai, DCF, Bengaluru Urban, as government official of the year, Prashanth S.B., chairman of Nayonika Eye Care Charitable Trust, as social entrepreneur of the year, and Vidya Y., co-founder and trustee, Vision Empower, for her work to make education accessible to the visually impaired, as rising star of the year. These awards carry a purse of ₹2 lakh.

Citizen groups

The NBF also felicitated four citizen groups as ‘Champions of Namma Bengaluru – 2018’ for their work towards “reclaiming Bengaluru”, the theme of the awards this year. Friends of Lakes, a coalition of lake activists across the city, Save Pattandur Agrahara Lake and Save Kaggadasapura Lake, both local residents’ groups fighting to save and rejuvenate the lakes in their locality, and Project Vruksha Foundation, for its work on tree census, were the four citizen groups awarded on Sunday.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Bengaluru / by Staff Reporter / Bengaluru – March 26th, 2018

Padma honour for nine from Karnataka

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Nine persons from Karnataka figure on the list of those chosen for the prestigious Padma awards for 2018.

Cue sports stalwart Pankaj Advani has been chosen for the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in the country.

Eight persons have been chosen for Padma Shri. Rudrapatnam Brothers — R.N. Thyagarajan and R.N. Tharanathan, Sufi singer from Bagalkot Ibrahim Sutar and R. Satynarayana have all been selected for the honour in the music category. The others are writer and film lyricist Doddarange Gowda (lyrics), Sitavva Jodatti from Belagavi (social work), midwife from Tumakuru Sulagitti Narasamma (social work), and Siddheshwara Swamiji (spiritualism).

Mr. Advani, 32, an 18-time world champion and 20-time Senior National champion (in both billiards and snooker), said, “I’m honoured and humbled to be named for the Padma Bhushan award. This is motivation for me to continue my pursuit for excellence at the world level in billiards and snooker.”

Ms. Narasamma, 97, who has been hospitalised because of age-related issues, spoke to The Hindufrom her hospital bed and expressed happiness over winning the award. Ms. Narasamma, who has had no formal education, has assisted in conducting 15,000 deliveries.

Mr. Sutar has made a mark for himself by singing vachanas and padas of Sufi saint Shishunala Sharif. He said the award was a welcome recognition of the diverse traditions of the land.

Vocalists Mr. Thyagarajan and Mr. Tharanathan said, “We feel honoured to be receiving this award. We have been on stage for 62 years strictly following the traditional format in Carnatic music, in spite of popular contemporary styles creeping in.”

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Karnataka / by Staff Reporter / Bengaluru – January 26th, 2018

This Anglo-Indian settlement was football’s birthplace in Bengaluru

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Austin Town has changed. As in many erstwhile British Cantonment and Anglo-Indian localities, the early settlers have sold off property to migrate elsewhere. Colonial homes with monkey-tops and tiled roofs have made way for more ‘practical’ buildings.

For 50-year-old engineer, Kevin Vieyra, the biggest drawback of these changes is the fragmentation of the community. Vieyra’s grandmother Enid Wilson, an Irish woman was the sergeant of the locality in the 1900s, was one of the earliest residents of the Anglo-Indian quarters. She was the go-to person for anyone with a problem that needed solving. “Even when I was growing up, Austin Town was a close-knit community where it did not really make a difference which home you belonged to,” Vieyra recalled.

Austin Town was built in the early 1920s when the British authorities decided to re-settle workers and lower-income residents in the aftermath of the bubonic plague of 1898. The locality was made up of small cottages. Original settlers included the Anglo-Indian community and a large Tamil population that traced its ancestry to the soldiers and workers brought to the Cantonment by the British after the fall of Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War in 1799.

According to Mansoor Ali, founder of Bengaluru By Foot, “The locality is named after Sir James Austin Bourdillon who was born in Madras in 1848 and was educated at Marlborough, England. He held multiple official posts in Bengal and Patna before becoming the Resident of Mysore between 1903 and 1905.”

The sanitary works in Austin Town were designed by WH Murphy, an engineer in the British cantonment, after whom Murphy Town is named. While James Austin himself enjoyed cricket and rifle shooting, the locality named after him is known to be the birthplace of football in Bengaluru.

 It is said that the Italian prisoners of war, held here during World War II, passed the game on to the locals. Among the first Olympians from India (in the Games of 1948 and 1952) were footballers Anthony, Kanniah, Raman and T Shanmugam — all of who were from Austin Town. So were other football greats Ulaganathan and former India football captain Carlton Chapman.

Even today, the children of the locality practise football with as much fervour as they play cricket. Twenty years ago, the locality was renamed as F Kittel Nagar, after 18th century German missionary Rev Ferdinand Kittel.

source: http://www.economictimes.indiatimes.com / The Economic Times / Home> News> Sports / by Divya Shekhar, ET Bureau / March 01st, 2018

Khelo India: Srihari makes a splash in 100m backstroke

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Champions all: Bhupender Singh, flanked by silver medallist C. Praveen, right, and Mohd Shahrukh strikes a pose after claiming the long jump gold on Thursday. bbfd
Champions all: Bhupender Singh, flanked by silver medallist C. Praveen, right, and Mohd Shahrukh strikes a pose after claiming the long jump gold on Thursday. bbfd

Bhupender Singh upstages Praveen to corner glory in long jump

Karnataka’s Srihari Nataraj took the honours in the swimming pool on Day Two of the Khelo India School Games here on Thursday, winning the 100m backstroke gold in 56.90 seconds to set a new National mark in the event. The previous record of 56.99s was set by him at the Asian age group championship in Tashkent last year.

Srihari also added the 4x100m freestyle gold to his kitty, combining with Saif Chandan Ali KS — who won an individual bronze for himself in the 400m freestyle category — Prassiddh Krishna and Aditya Bopanna as Karnataka leapfrogged into top spot on the table with ten medals, seven of them gold. Tamil Nadu had more medals overall (12) with most of them bronze.

Most of Tamil Nadu’s medals continued to come in track and field. C. Praveen’s hopes of a golden double were dashed when he was pushed to second spot in the long jump by Haryana’s Bhupender Singh in the second-last attempt.

Leading till the very end, with a jump of 6.93 metres, Praveen had to settle for second spot after Bhupender managed distances of 6.99 and 7.04 in his last two attempts. But Praveen, who had won the triple jump on Day One, became the third double medallist in track and field competition, along with the Kerala duo of Ancy Sojan E and Sandra Babu.

Ancy won gold in long jump — despite managing just two legitimate jumps — and silver in the 200m while Sandra added a long jump silver to go with her second spot in triple jump.

In the boys’ javelin throw event, Maharashtra’s Vikas Yadav claimed gold with a final attempt of 75.02m to overtake Yashveer Singh of Haryana, who had three throws of over 70 metres in an event where the top four finishers crossed the 70m mark.

The results: Athletics: 200m: Boys: 1. Shashikanth VA 21.82s, 2. Karan Hegiste 21.98, 3. Anshul 22.27s; Girls: 1. Chanveer Kaur 24.76s, 2. Ancy Sojan E 25.31, 3. M. Santra Teresa Martin 25.44

Javelin: Boys: 1. Vikas Yadav 75.02m, 2. Yashveer Singh 73.87, 3. Arpit Yadav 71.90; Girls: 1. Jyoti 40.59m, 2. Auhona Roy 39.90, 3. Jashanpreet Kaur 37.10m.

Long jump: Boys: 1. Bhupender Singh 7.04, 2. C. Praveen 6.93, 3. Mohd. Shahrukh 6.87; Girls: 1. Ancy Sojan E 5.80, 2. Sandra Babu 5.68, P. Babisha 5.62.

Pole vault: Girls: 1. T. Sathya 3.50, 2. Reshma Patil 2.80, 3. R. Sreelakshmi R 2.40.

Swimming: 400m freestyle: Boys: 1. Mohit Venkatesh 4:18.10s, 2. Zidane Iqbal Sayed 4:18.43, 3. Saif Chandan Ali KS 4:19.10; Girls: 1. Khushi Dinesh 4:39.52, 2. Prachi Tokas 4:41.55, 3. Poojitha G. Murthy 4:46.83.

100m backstroke: Boys: 1. Srihari Nataraj 56.90, 2. Xavier Michael D’Souza 1:00.03, 3. Vedant Bapna 1:01.31; Girls: 1. Suvana C. Bhaskar 1:08.23, 2. Khushi Jain 1:09.58, 3. Pratyasa Ray 1:10.05.

200m breaststroke: Boys: 1. Lohith M 2:25.99, 2. Swadesh Mondal 2:26.70, 3. Maibam Mangalsana Meitei 2:30.38; Girls: 1. Saloni Dalal 2:46.57, 2. Kenisha Gupta 2:48.50, 3. Aaliyah Singh 2:51.75.

100m butterfly: Boys: 1. Xavier Michael D’Souza 57.85, 2. Neel Roy 58.42, 3. Adhithya D 58.56; Girls: 1. Firdoush Kayamkhani 1:08.15, 2. Aastha Choudhury 1:09.68, 3. Poojitha G. Murthy and Priyanga Pugazharasu 1:09.94.

4x100m freestyle: Boys: 1. Karnataka 3:44.11, 2. Tamil Nadu 3:44.94, 3. Maharashtra 3:48.32.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Sport> Other Sports / by Uthra Ganesan / New Delhi – February 01st, 2018