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Amasebailu to become first solar GP in Udupi district

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The process of installing solar lamps at all houses of Amasebailu Gram Panchayat is nearing completion and with this, Amasebailu Gram Panchayat is all set to become the first ‘Solar Gram Panchayat’ in Udupi district.

Amasebailu Charitable Trust President A G Kodgi told reporters that Amasebailu has two villages, Rattadi and Machattu, with 1,872 houses. The trust had chalked out programmes to instal solar lamps at all households in 2012 itself. But owing to various reasons, the project was delayed. The installation of solar lamps was started in May this year and India Pvt. Ltd was entrusted with the responsibility of installing lamps. According to the conditions agreed upon in the tender, the company gave a five-year guarantee for solar lamps with a half-yearly maintenance and a provision to replace faulty lamps.

In the first phase, 397 houses were illuminated and 548 houses were covered in the second phase. The third phase of lighting 73 houses is currently under way. The estimated cost of the project is Rs 2.13 crore and about 20% of the cost has been shared by Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd, 30% by the ministry of energy and Rs 25 lakh from district administration.

Amasebailu PDO Bhaskar Shetty said some families have already installed solar lamps before the commencement of the project. About 20 streetlights light up with solar power, Shetty said.

“There are 30 temples and a mosque in the Gram Panchayat jurisdiction and efforts are on to promote solar lamps in places of worship as well,” he said. Vishwesha Theertha Swami of Paryaya Pejawar Mutt has agreed to sponsor the installation of solar lamps in these places of worship, Kodgi said.

The cost for installing two solar lamps was Rs 9,900, while it was Rs 16,000 for four lamps. The beneficiaries had to pay Rs 3,000 for two lamps, while it cost Rs 6,000 for four solar lamps.

In the case of Koraga community beneficiaries, the Gram Panchayat has borne the amount of Rs 3,000 per beneficiary while in the case of other Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes beneficiaries, it had spent Rs 2,000 per beneficiary for installation of lamps, he said.

With the accomplishment of the project the efforts of the district administration, Gram Panchayat, Amasebailu Charitable Trust, Karnataka Bank and Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project have borne fruit, he said.

source:  http://www.deccanherald.com / Deccan Herald / Home> District / DHNS – Udupi, December 10th, 2016

Buy ‘legal’ properties using this tool

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Bengaluru :

One of the major problems faced by people looking for properties in the city is the legality of any such purchases. The controversial demolition drive carried out by the BBMP on encroached storm water drains and lake beds two months back is testament to the dangers of purchasing properties without proper information.

Now, a Bengaluru-based startup has developed a free Google map-based risk assessment tool to help Bengalureans assess encroachment and other information required when evaluating properties.

Sudeep
Sudeep

The tool – ZippServ Protect –  uses an intuitive feature to mark the storm water drains and lake encroachments based on BBMP’s revenue map. Users can search for and download relevant information from about 50 GB. One needs to only put in the location of the property on the platform and immediately one will get access to information like the land revenue maps of that particular area. Another feature enables one to measure the distance between location and the drain or lake. “It is a kind of a first level of scrutiny before making a purchase,” says ZippServ Co-founder and CEO Sudeep Anandapuram.

Sudeep and his team have collected information spanning over 800 sq km within the city and it can also highlight the primary and secondary drains and help users to measure the width of a drains and extent of encroachment.

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Kathyayini Chamaraj  of CIVIC, a  voluntary citizens initiative, said that in light of government records themselves being faulty there was a need to exercise caution. “I do not know to what extent such tools will be of help when it has often been found that maps and records of authorities like the BDA and BBMP themselves are often faulty and even fabricated,” she says.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Bengaluru / by Ramzauva Chhakchhuak / Express News Service / November 28th, 2016

Telemedicine takes advancements in healthcare to distant corners

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Bengaluru :

The absence of advanced healthcare services in Kalaburagi had pushed Gaurav (name changed), into a state of panic, after he developed recurrent headaches following a minor fall he suffered last month. Although the report of a CT scan at a local hospital revealed nothing alarming, Gaurav was determined to seek a second opinion. He decided to make use of the telemedicine service available in the state; the images of his brain were transmitted to doctors at a Bengaluru-based teleradiology centre, who diagnosed the problem as subdural hematoma (clot in the brain). He was subsequently referred for a neurosurgical evacuation – a procedure that involves evacuating the hematoma through a small hole. “Staying away from Bengaluru has always been a handicap to getting advanced healthcare services. However, the rapidly expanding telemedicine facility ensured early detection of my problem, and I was cured,” said Gaurav, who underwent a surgery at the Gulbarga District Hospital.

Gaurav is among the many beneficiaries of telemedicine, which has helped many citizens in remote areas of the country seek medical opinion from some of the leading doctors. Meenamma (name changed) was worried sick when her two-day-old baby’s breathing became laboured, and developed poor perfusion – process of delivering blood to a capillary bed – and listlessness. The neonatologists felt it was sepsis. But, the doctors called for a cardiac screening to make sure that the baby did not have any problems in the heart. While conducting the test, the sonographer decided to consult a senior cardiologist, not present at the hospital. However, using tele-echo, the senior doctor was able to take a look at the result of the test, and subsequently diagnosed a coarctation – narrowing of the blood vessel going to the body. The baby was put on medication, and referred for a surgery.

Cardiac paediatrician and co-founder of Teleradiology Solutions, the first-of-its-kind company established in the country, Dr Sunita Maheswari said that the organisation was working with the Karnataka health department to take teleradiology services to the rural interiors of the state. “We already cover four centres in the state. The drive was recently launched by the state government at Bowring Hospital, Bengaluru. We have reviewed scan reports of at least four million patients from across the world in the past 14 years. We started working with the Indian government this month, and we deployed services for district health centres in Tripura. From our headquarters in Bengaluru, we help patients from as many as 16 countries,” she said.

Pointing to the acute shortage of radiologists in rural India, Sunita added, “India has only 10,000 radiologists. Through teleradiology, we can take their services to other areas, where there are hospitals and diagnostic centres, but no radiologists. Also, telecardiology will help patients avail opinion of experts, who are elsewhere. It is one of the leading methods of reaching patients in rural areas, suffering from cardiovascular disorders.”

Teleradiology Solutions works with four hospitals in the state. At a recent discussion on telemedicine held in Bengaluru, head of department of forensic medicine at Victoria Hospital, Dr Devdass PK said that they had managed to analyse and send 3,500 reports through telemedicine facility.

Enabling counselling from the comfort of home

Anuradha (name changed), 45, of Mysuru badly wanted to rid her teenage son of his online addiction. She wanted to put an end to his habit of frittering away entire days, surfing social media and playing games, while paying no heed to family members. Uncomfortable with the idea of taking her son to a counsellor, Anuradha sought recourse to telepsychiatry. Aided by a Bengaluru-based telecounsellor, she managed to curb her son’s addiction to gadgets. “My son is now behaving normally with the members of the family. He was able to receive help without having to leave home,” she added.

Professor in the department of psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (Nimhans), Bengaluru, Dr Manjunath N said, “Telepsychitary was introduced here six years ago. It was made possible through the Karnataka Telemedicine Network Project, introduced by the health department in 2001. Telemedicine service at Nimhans covers 25 district hospitals and six taluks. Although direct consultation with our psychiatrists is yet to begin, we continue to provide help to rural patients.”

Telecounselling eliminates the need for a patient to be physically present in the counsellor’s chambers, and also provides privacy, opined Aruna Arumugam, a telecounsellor with Healtheminds. “Also, it is accessible to those patients who cannot otherwise seek help. We get patients from West Bengal, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Pakistan, seeking help mostly on relationship issues, parenting challenges and depression,” she said.

Opthalmological services made available in rural areas

Karnataka Assisted Diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity (KIDROP) was launched in 2008 by Narayana Nethralaya as a postgraduate teleopthalmology programme. Since 2010, along with the state health department, Narayana Nethralaya has managed to take retinopathy of prematurity screening to 36 centres across the state, along with wide field digital imaging services.

Chairman of Narayana Nethralaya, Dr Bhujang Shetty said, “KIDROP has trained technicians to screen infants in peripheral centres, where there are no specialists using Retcam Shuttle. They can store and subsequently upload images from the rural centres using an indigenously developed internet-based PACS system. This system delivers images live to the remote expert, who then sends the report to the technician.”

E-healthcare centres benefit nearly 40,000 patients

For the past two years, Narayana Health (NH), in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), has been looking to take telecardiology, teleconsultation and tele-ECG services to rural areas. So far, its e-health centres have managed to reach 39,624 patients in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Gujarat and Rajasthan.

“The e-healthcare centres (eHCs) are designed such that they can be fit and deployed within a standard shipping container. Or, they are retrofitted to a pre-existing clinic, depending on the community’s existing infrastructure. They are fully equipped with workstations, open electronic medical records, biometric patient identification and integrated diagnostic devices,” a source at Narayana Health said.

“The HP cloud enabled technology allows for data – clinical and administrative – to be monitored across sites via a dynamic dashboard. Teleconsultation with relevant physicians from NH unit hospitals have been established at these eHCs, and dedicated internet services at all sites ensures seamless connectivity to the geographically linked healthcare facility. Outreach activities such as community screening programmes and customised medical programmes are organised with specialist support based on the dominant disease prevalence and incidence in the eHC location and catchment areas,” the source added.

‘We’re training doctors in telepsychiatry’

Since its inception six years ago, only 2,000 patients have availed the services of the telemedicine facilities at Nimhans. Professor at Nimhans’ psychiatry department, Dr Manjunath N attributes the underwhelming response to the lack of trained psychiatrists in telemedicine. “Though patients with common and chronic mental disorders are willing to discuss their problems through e-consultation and e-counselling, lack of doctors trained in manning telemedicine services for psychiatry is the problem. Trained professionals who can offer psychiatric services to rural patients from Bengaluru would solve the problem. We are also training resident doctors in telepsychiatry to overcome the problem of scarcity,” he added.

‘Well-trained technicians, and the will to invest is all we need’

At our vision centres, we make use of a portable Slit Lamp Biomicroscope connected via LAN network to the base hospital, which helps doctors diagnose chronic conditions such as retinopathy of prematurity, a potentially blinding eye condition that affects newborns, irreversible corneal conditions like keratoconus and diabetes-induced retinopathy. All it requires are well-trained technicians and the will to invest in quality equipment.

Dr Siddharthan KS | consultant at cornea and refractive services in sankara eye hospital.

‘Services will boost medical tourism in state’

A prior screening through telemedicine ensures that the patient is screened properly, and helps us confirm if the patient has to travel to avail services at the hospital. Many a time, it has saved patients the trouble of travelling to our hospital. Moreover, teleconsultation also increases the comfort and confidence level of the patients with their doctors, who are far away. This is a boost to medical tourism, since it makes it easier for patients to know more about their doctor.

Dr Harsha Rajaram | vice president at columbia asia hospitals

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News> Chennai News> Bangalore News / by Sreemoyee Chatterjee / TNN / November 28th, 2016

CABI names Dravid as brand ambassador

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Former India captain Rahul Dravid
Former India captain Rahul Dravid

Bengaluru :

The Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) on Wednesday announced former India captain Rahul Dravid as the brand ambassador for the T20 World Cup for the Blind to be held in India from January 31 to February 12.

Dravid promised to inspire visually impaired cricketers and promote blind cricket. “Growth of cricket for the blind in India and in the world will encourage people with special needs to trust in their abilities and unleash their true potential,” said Dravid, who is currently the coach of the India U-19 and India ‘A’ teams. While talking about the challenges in blind cricket, Dravid recalled his experience of playing blindfold cricket during IPL team Delhi Daredevils’ training session. “We found it challenging. I had to back away. It’s very difficult to counter the fear playing blindfold. What is inspiring about blind cricketers is their motivation to challenge their disability,” he said. Dravid also praised CABI for developing the sport by conducting domestic and international tournaments. The former India captain launched CABI’s ‘Support Blind Cricket by buying a ball’ campaign to raise funds for the tournament.

Meanwhile, CABI president GK Mahantesh said: “Dravid’s presence and encouragement will motivate thousands of youths to pursue the sport. It’s an honour to have Dravid as supporter of blind cricket.” The 13-day bash will be held in eight venues across the country with the final in Bengaluru on February 12. Besides India, the other teams in the fray are Australia, Bangladesh, England, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the West Indies. “We have planned a few friendly matches in Jammu and Kashmir to promote peace and harmony in the valley,” Mahantesh said.

Financial grant

The Board of Control for Cricket in India  (BCCI) has promised financial grant to CABI, said Mahantesh. “Earlier this year the BCCI president wrote to CABI saying that the cricket board was willing to support it financially from this year. The amount has not been finalised,” Mahantesh said. He also said that CABI was making all possible attempts to get affiliation from the BCCI.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News> City News> Bangalore News /  by Sunil Subbaiah / TNN / November 09th, 2016

Mysore Rajya: Diverse areas bound by one tongue

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slice of history:The cover of the 440-page bookMysore Rajya;
slice of history:The cover of the 440-page bookMysore Rajya;

The book, released by Information Department on Nov. 1, 1956, emphasised that Mysore was a State of diverse cultures, but Kannada was the binding factor

When the erstwhile Mysore State, comprising Kannada-speaking territories, came into existence on November 1, 1956, the Information Department of the then Mysore government brought out Mysore Rajya, a 440-page book, to mark the occasion. This six-decade-old volume laid emphasis on the fact that Mysore is a State of diverse cultures, but Kannada is the binding factor.

The book consists of two parts: the first containing articles by eminent people from Kannada-speaking areas, and the second on statistical data about 19 districts that formed the new State of Mysore. According to the preface, the idea behind the government bringing out the book “is to see that it will serve to create a mental and psychological fusion among its several areas”.

In the article Our Culture , R.R. Diwakar, the then Governor of Bihar, explained the difference between individual and social culture and pointed out that Kannada culture is part of Indian culture. Dr. Srikanata Shastry in his article The History of Karnataka dealt with the succession of ings who ruled Karnataka namely the Kadambas, Gangas, Chalukyas and Hoysalas culminating in the establishment of the Vijayanagar Empire. He also made a reference to the Mahratta influence on Mysore and Mohammedan rule under Hyder and Tipu.

B. Shivamurthy Shastry, in his article on Religious Movements in Karnataka, dealt with several religious movements that left their impression on Kannadigas. In his illuminating article on thePolitical Life of Kannadigas , Tirumale Tatacharya Sharma pointed out that the kings of Karnataka have always stood for a Welfare State. Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar has traced several events that led to the formation of the New Mysore State in his article on The Formation of New Mysore. Writer Jayadevi Taayi Ligade has given a good account of the part played by women in Karnataka. Writing on modern Kannada literature, A.N. Krishna Rao dealt in detail about development in prose, drama, short story, lyric, novel, and literary review, and indicated that the influence of English literature has given a liberal outlook among the Kannada authors.

The publication has messages from Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, first Vice-President of India, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, the last Governor-General of India, Jayachamaraja Wadiyar, Governor Mysore State, and Chief Minister S. Nijalingappa.

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Kadidal Manjappa, who was Chief Minister till October 31, 1956, in his introduction stated: “We must not forget that under the scheme of States’ Reorganisation, we are only altering the number and boundaries of the States for administrative purposes and not trying to set up Independent Sovereign States”.

A photo of the Vidhana Soudha in the book.
A photo of the Vidhana Soudha in the book.

Interestingly, batting for the need of “multilingual, multinational State”, C. Rajagopalachari dubbed such State as “ideal State in political theory”. He also said: “let us not allow small and narrow interests to take obstinate root and obstruct real progress”.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities > Bengaluru / by Muralidhar Khajane / Bengaluru – November 01st, 2016

… and the award turns 50

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It is the 50th year of the Karnataka Rajyotsava Award.

Though the Mysore State comprising Kannada-speaking territories came into existence on November 1, 1956 the tradition of conferring the award — considered to be the second highest civilian honour for persons of eminence for their contribution to their respective fields — began in 1966.

Except on two occasions, once during the Vishwa Kannada Sammelan held in Mysuru in 1985 and Kanteerava Indoor Stadium in 2008, the award ceremony has been held in Ravindra Kalakshetra, which is the icon of Kannada and culture in the State.

While 10 eminent persons, including Dr. M.C. Modi, who claimed to have performed a record half-a-million eye surgeries, were selected for the award in 1966, the number did not change for the next decade. However, this was increased to 21 in 1973. The number even crossed three digits in the later years. The S. Bangarappa regime had chosen 175 awardees and the Dharam Singh government had chosen 176. But at that time, the cash component was just Rs. 10,000, which was increased to Rs. 1 lakh in 2008. As many as 92 personalities were chosen for the award in 2008 during B.S. Yeddyurappa’s tenure as the Chief Minister. The number even reached 162 in 2010 during Mr. Yeddyurappa’s tenure.

In the last 50 years, awards were not conferred for various reasons, including natural calamities.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Bengaluru / Muralidhara Khajane / Bengaluru – October 31st, 2016

Karnataka on the antarjaala

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An online space for products from small and rural entrepreneurs of Karnataka, Total Karnataka is all set to reach out to the world

Channapatna dolls
Channapatna dolls

Natural dyed khadi kurtas from Shikaripura in Karnataka’s Sagar district can now be shipped to Australia or anywhere in the world. Traditional Kinhal dolls can now be delivered to the grandchildren in America.

Terracotta jewellery
Terracotta jewellery

An NGO in Shimoga is able to sell its terracota jewellery online. People of Karnataka who live all over the world can have gifts with a flavour and feel of their home states delivered at their doorstep. Even pickle!

Chandrasekhar Kakal, a food entrepreneur and start-up coach with three decades of corporate experience and Lakshmikanth V., a software engineer-turned- entrepreneur passionate about Kannada and Karnataka, have launched totalkarnataka.com. Lakshmikanth has earlier experience from his venture Total Kannada.

Bidriware
Bidriware

“We have on board a family in Bidar district of Karnataka engaged for generations in carving traditional Bidriware, artisans of Channapattana shaping the famous Channapattana toys, carpenters chiselling white wood, rose wood or sandalwood in the lanes of Mysuru’s Mandi Mohalla region. These are people who know their craft well but are unable to market themselves and find themselves lost in the online market space,” says Lakshmikanth. They all belong to micro, small, or medium enterprises (MSME) segments, and they are struggling to keep their tradition alive, and even earn a livelihood for their families, he points out.

“Our idea is to bring them to the mainstream and connect them directly with the customer.

We have put in place a system whereby the craftsman can directly ship an order. Even rejects and returns go back to him with a reason, so he can change and adapt accordingly. The craftsman also feels a sense of pride that he is selling his work online to people in other countries,” explains Lakshmikanth.

They also want to make speciality products of Karnataka origin available to consumers anywhere in the world under one umbrella.

As of now they have over 500 products across nine categories.

There is also a small video accompanying each category so that people get an idea of how a particular hand-crafted piece is made.

Soon translation services and state-specific tourism services will also be added, along with many other categories of products. It is also the only online market place where there is an English and a complete Kannada version — “and it is not done using Google translate”, he laughs. In the three months that they have been in operation, they have shipped over 180 orders, including those to the U.S.A.

Whitewood carving
Whitewood carving

The site now stocks terracotta jewellery, hand crafted cotton and khadi dresses, paddy craft display pieces, speciality pickles, north Karnataka food products including the famous jolada rotti, traditional Channapattana toys, Mysore handicrafts, Kannada books and movies, T-shirts with Kannada slogans etc.

For details see www.totalkarnataka.com

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Features> Metroplus /  Bhumika K / Bengaluru – October 28th, 2016

Celebrating Success … : Sankalp Group : 20 Years of Building Homes in Mysuru

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Dr. V. K. Jagadish Babu, Chairman and Managing Director, Sankalp Group, seen with Nikhil Jagadish, Director.
Dr. V. K. Jagadish Babu, Chairman and Managing Director, Sankalp Group, seen with Nikhil Jagadish, Director.

by B.C. Thimmaiah

Sankalp Group has been building apartments in Mysuru for 20 years now and is known to be the only local builder who has managed to complete big projects. The group that started with 40 apartments near Highway Circle today has grown to building projects like their ambitious Sankalp Central Park at Yadavagiri where already 250 families stay in a community that is set to grow to 1000!

As the Sankalp Group completes its 20 years in construction, Star of Mysore spoke to the Group’s Founder and Chairman Dr. V.K. Jagadish Babu and his son Nikhil Jagadish, who with an engineering degree from Columbia University, USA, has now joined his father as Director, about their journey and future plans.

Jagadish Babu, who started off as a structural and design consultant in Bengaluru, speaking of him taking the plunge into construction industry says: “During my Master’s degree, I was working as a part-time architect for a Bengaluru-based firm and I was selected for a government job as a PWD Assistant Engineer in Gulbarga. I went there and assumed charge and spending just a day at the Gulbarga office made me think about my future and I came back to Bengaluru to complete my studies. Then I set up a small design office in Bengaluru and soon enough the entrepreneurial bug bite me and I became a property developer.”

Speaking of why he chose Mysuru instead of staying in Bengaluru where he had opened his first office, Jagadish says: “I chose Mysuru as I did my schooling in Demonstration School (DMS) and my family was closely associated with Ramakrishna Ashram here.” Jagadish Babu’s first project in Mysuru was a wing of Bharat Cancer Hospital in 1995 after which he established Sankalp. “Sankalp means determination in Kannada, and in 1996 I did not have the money but I had “Sankalp” so I named my company with the one thing I had,” he says and adds: “At that time, the concept of apartments was new to Mysuru and it was a one-man show — I was the builder and the marketing manager. Fortunately, my first apartment on the New Sayyaji Rao Road clicked and the rest is history.”

Jagadish says the secret to his success is he sees himself as custodian of people’s hard-earned money as many of them are first-time home owners and also he has never compromised on quality while making sure the properties have clear titles. This is the reason he says he has over 3,500 customers and quite a few of them have turned into repeat customers.

Mentioning about the group’s flagship Sankalp Central Park at Yadavagiri, the land which once housed Ideal Jawa (India) Ltd., that manufactured the most sought-after two-wheelers in the ‘60s and ‘70s, Jagadish Babu said that today, Sankalp Group has converted the 18-acre “Old Jawa Factory” (as called by many in Mysore) into a beautiful and sprawling neighbourhood with 500 completed apartments, 250 already occupied and another 412 planned in the next phase.

“For the first time in Mysuru, we brought architects from Singapore for designing. While the first phase of the project has been completed, the second phase is nearing completion. A unique feature about this international lifestyle project is that only 22 percent of the total land is built area and the rest 78 percent is dedicated to landscaping and open space,” he says.

Jagadish Babu’s son Nikhil Jagadish, who joined as the Director of Sankalp Group early this year, also added saying that now the Group plans to move beyond just apartment construction and will soon be setting up educational institutions. One specifically would be a Sankalp Finishing School where architects will be trained practically on live projects. The other important project he says is an efficient senior citizen’s home where the old can live with dignity, joy and confidence, a place they will be truly cared for.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Feature Articles / October 22nd, 2016

An app that helps one search for lawyers

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District and Sessions Judge Joshi launches Legall

Legall, an app developed by a Mangaluru-based start-up that helps in finding lawyers and has a host of services, was launched here on Saturday. First Additional District and Sessions Judge C.M. Joshi launched the app at a function held on the SDM Law College premises.

Using Legall, people can search for lawyers across the State.

A separate section has been created in the app that guides people in preparation of agreements and other documents required for real estate transactions. The app provides services required by entrepreneurs having start-ups.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Legall Uday Prakash Muliya said that they have listed many advocates on the app and have classified them based on their areas of practice. People can book their appointment for advocates using the app. This service is available free.

Mr. Muliya said that the app offers lawyers assistance in preparation of arguments. The entrepreneurs are offered solutions based on their requirements. Charges will be collected for these services and for assistance provided in preparation of documents in real estate transactions, he said.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Mangaluru / by Staff Reporter / Mangaluru – October 23rd, 2016

Rose Society formed in Belagavi

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The Belgaum Rose Society was inaugurated here on Sunday to encourage, create and develop a love for roses and disseminate systematic knowledge about the flower to the people. It was inaugurated by M.R. Kulkarni, chairman, Karnataka Law Society.

Suresh Patil, president of the society, said that the organisation would organise awareness and training programmes on the cultivation of rose. Growers would be trained in budding, pruning, fertigation, plant protection and disease control as per local climatic conditions. It would establish nurseries, gardens and trial grounds for rose plants and carry out scientific research on hybridisation and development of new varieties of rose plants.

It has plans to organise national and international-level rose exhibitions; take up exchange programmes with sister societies; set up a library on roses for the benefit of its members; and organise seminars, discussions, conferences, demonstrations, refresher courses, and lectures.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Karnataka / by Special Correspondent / Belgavi – October 18th, 2016