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Mandya ZP CEO selected to train DCs in Delhi

Green Initiatives / Environment, Inspiration/ Positive News and Features, Leaders
Rohini Sindhuri has been chosen as a resource person following the impressive performance of Mandya district in implementing the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
Rohini Sindhuri has been chosen as a resource person following the impressive performance of Mandya district in implementing the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

Impressed by the performance of Mandya district in implementing the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA), the Union government has selected Mandya Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Rohini Sindhuri to train district collectors/deputy commissioners of various States in New Delhi.

The Mandya Zilla Panchayat launched a drive to provide individual toilets to 1.02 lakh households during 2014–15. And, since July last, it had constructed 75,000 individual toilets across the district.

The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has selected three officials as resource persons for the two-day orientation programme on the SBA, which will start in New Delhi on Friday. Two other resource persons are Deputy Commissioner of Bikaner district Aarti Dogra and Additional Collector of Harda district Ganesh Mishra.

These officials have performed extremely well in implementing the SBA and their inputs in the training will be valuable for the participants, Joint Director of the Ministry Sandhya Singh said in a communique dispatched to the Department of Rural Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation on Tuesday.

The Ministry has been organising such training programmes on the SBA for the district collectors/deputy commissioners regularly to achieve the goal of making country ‘Open defecation free’ by October 2, 2019, Ms. Singh said.

B.N. Krishnaiah, Commissioner for the Department for Rural Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation, has lauded the services of Ms. Sindhuri in motivating people to get toilets constructed.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> National> Karnataka / by M.T. Shiva Kumar / Mandya – March 12th, 2015

Dr. N. Muthukumar is new CII Chairman

Business & Economy, Leaders

Arjun Ranga Vice-Chairman

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Mysuru :

Dr. N. Muthukumar, Sr. VP and Whole Time Director, Automotive Axles Ltd., has been nominated as the Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Mysuru, for the year 2015-16 while Arjun Ranga, Partner, NR Group, has been nomi- nated as the Vice- Chairman. This was announced at the CII Mysuru Annual Day held in city recently.

Dr. Muthukumar, who has rich experience of more than 25 years in the Automobile and Pharmaceutical sector, is the driving force to implement, sustain and improve World Class Performance Elements like Productivity, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Safety, Morale, Environment and Innovation at Automotive Axles Ltd.

He did his Ph.D in ‘Operations Management’ from Annamalai University and MBA in International Marketing and is a Gold Medalist in PG Studies.

Arjun Ranga is responsible for managing ‘Cycle Pure Agarbathies,’ which is India’s largest brand of Agarbathies. His enterprising and innovative skill sets have helped Cycle Pure Agarbathies to achieve growth figures which are rarely seen in mature FMCG categories in the Indian market.

He holds an engineering degree from SJCE, Mysuru and an MBA from Thunderbird, USA, with focus in Marketing and Strategy.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Monday – March 02nd, 2015

Minister in Mufti Team Has State Link

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Karwar :

The new Jammu and Kashmir government has a Karnataka link.

Mohammad Ashraf Mir, who took oath as a minister in the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Cabinet in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, is married to a girl from this port town.

Residents of Bhatkal, especially the Navayath community members, celebrated the news of Mir’s appointment as a minister in the PDP-BJP coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir.

Mir was also in the news after he defeated former chief minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah from Sonawar constituency in last year’s Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

While, Mir secured 14,283 votes, Omar Abdullah managed just 9,500 votes.

Mir married Zareen in Bengaluru in 1996. Zareen is the daughter of Farooq Udyavar, a businessman, who is a resident of Port Road in Bhatkal.

A close relative of the family told Express that Mir and Zareen’s marriage was love-cum-arranged.

Mir and Zareen did  MBA at a private college in Bengaluru. At present, Zareen’s parents are residing in Bengaluru as they are renovating their old house in Bhatkal town.

The family members are planning to visit Srinagar to congratulate Mir.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Karnataka / by Marx Tejaswi / March 02nd, 2015

Newbie no more

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Newbie no more

AshaBhat ​ returned to her alma mater, RV College of Engineering, for the first time after being crowned Miss Supranatural in Poland last December. The 22-year-old was in college for the inauguration of 8th Mile, the college fest.​ Like a true beauty queen, she was thankful (and less nostalgic, unlike an alumnus) and talked about her days as a newbie in college three years ago. Apparently, the lady “didn’t know anyone” and “approaching the teachers was always difficult”. Oh, that’s the story of 99 per cent of the student population. Of course, things have changed for Bhat in the last four months. Along with the crown came attention (and new found confidence to approach old teachers), which she said was all new to her. “But nice.”

Lit lite

THE Lahore Literary festival which concluded last week was a resounding success. Lahoris queued up by the hundreds to cock a snook at the terror threats and hear some excellent panel discussions. Your diarist, a guest of the festival, was particularly delighted to see the re-emergence of two ladies of a certain vintage into the limelight. We spotted Meher Tarrar, she of the Shashi Tharoor fame, hobnobbing with the Indian contingent. In her heyday, Tarrar had acted in a film or two and her journalistic avatar was a fairly recent one, we were told. The other woman, Tehmina Durrani, of equal renown, was not to be physically espied but was very much a guiding spirit behind the LLF. Those with long memories might recall her as the author of My Feudal Lord, a pulpish bestseller that recounted her years of abusive marriage to powerful Pakistani politician Ghulam Mustafa Khar. With that one book, she became something of an icon on both sides of the border. Tehmina has since moved on. She is now married to Shahbaz Sharif, Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s brother who is also the chief minister of Punjab and a great patron of the LLF. Tehmina, whose taste in men clearly runs to the powerful kind, has told her friends that even though Sharif has married again, she is treated well. Phew!

Hair matters

Doppelgangers, they are — Michael Antony Dias of Mad Orange Fireworks and musician Vasu Dixit of Swarathma. People talk to Dias thinking he is Dixit and vice versa. Blame it on their almost identical funky sky-scraper hairdo. While the duo has a hearty laugh over the mistaken identity, people around them are left confused. Perhaps, a haircut would help. But that’s asking for the moon, isn’t it? Especially when it concerns these two.

Tailpiece 

If the diarist were Srinivasan Narayanan, former director of Mumbai Film Festival, the diarist would be doing cartwheels now. The prestigious Sundance Institute has partnered with Drishyam (Narayanan’s baby), a production company, for the Sundance Institute screenwriters lab that will be held in Goa from April. After films like Margarita, With a Straw and Umrika (won the audience award in the world cinema dramatic category at Sundance this year; and from Drishyam’s stable) and Masaan came out of Sundance Screenwriters Lab, one can only think of the gems that will emerge after the Goa Lab. 2015 seems like a good year for Indian cinema.

source: http://www.bangaloremirror.com / Bangalore Mirror / Home> Columns> Code 560 / Bangalore Mirror Bureau / March 01st, 2015

Gandhian A.B. Javarappa passes away

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Gandhian and senior Congress leader A.B. Javarappa died in a private hospital in Mysuru on Wednesday due to age-related problems.

Eminent Gandhian and senior Congress leader, A.B. Javarappa, 84, died in a private hospital in Mysuru on Wednesday due to age-related problems.

Mr. Javarappa had served as president of the Primary Land Development (PLD) bank, Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) and Agricultural Producers’ Cooperative Marketing Society (TAPCMS) in K.R. Pet.

The last rites will be performed at his native village Akkihebbal in K.R. Pet taluk of the district on Thursday, his family sources said.

source: http://www.thehindu.com  / The Hindu / Home> News> National> Karnataka / by Staff Correspondent / Mandya – February 25th, 2015

Lakshman Rau passes away

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Bangalore :

N. Lakshman Rau, former Administrator of the then Bangalore City Municipal Corporation and son of late N. Madhav Rau, former Dewan of Mysore, died here on Friday. He was 88 and is survived by his wife, Indira, and three daughters.

Family sources told The Hindu that Mr. Lakshman Rau had more or less maintained good health until the very end. In a way, he was the architect of new Bangalore, which has earned the sobriquet, “Garden City.” Mr. Lakshman Rau enjoyed good relations with several Chief Ministers, and he and his brother, the former Chief Secretary N. Narasimha Rau were quite popular both in the Government and the higher echelons of society. Trees were planted along many roads on the advice of Mr. Lakshman Rau to the then Chief Minister, late Ramakrishna Hegde. Mr. Rau was Home Secretary in the Devaraj Urs Government.

Mr. Rau, who developed all the 10 residential blocks of Jayanagar, did not own a house or even a housing site in Bangalore. He died at his daughter’s residence near Banaswadi. The two boulevards bisecting Jayanagar (South End Circle onwards) were developed by him. In recent years, the Government sought his services for preserving tanks and lakes in the city, and he prepared a report, “Lakes of Bangalore.” The Governor, T.N. Chaturvedi, in a condolence message, said: “Mr. Rau was an able administrator and a man of dynamic action.”

The Minister for Water Resources and Transport, M. Mallikarjun Kharge, and the Commissioner of the Bangalore Development Authority, M.N. Vidyashankar, have mourned Mr. Rau. The former Chief Secretary to the Government G.V.K. Rao and the former Chairman of the Bangalore Urban Arts Commission M.A. Parthasarathy visited his residence.

The cremation took place in the afternoon at the electric crematorium at Kalpalli.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Karnataka / by Special Correspondent / Online edition / Saturday – June 11th, 2005

D.A. Pandu dead

Education, Leaders

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Bangalore :

D.A. Pandu, 69, Chief Mentor of the Rashtreeya Sikshana Samithi Trust, which managed the R.V. Group of educational institutions, died here after a brief illness on Friday.

Born in Kolar on July 5, 1935, Mr. Pandu had his early education in R.V. School established by late M.C. Sivananda Sarma.

Mr. Sarma appointed him Assistant Secretary of the growing R.V. Group in 1964, and after the former’s death in 1969, Mr. Pandu became the Honorary Secretary. Since 2003, he was Chief Mentor of the educational institutions. Under Mr. Pandu’s visionary leadership and guidance, the R.V. Group has grown.

The State Government recognised his services by conferring on him the Karnataka Rajyotsava Award in 1995. The Bangalore Mahanagara Palike honoured him with the Kempe Gowda Award in 2002.

The Chief Minister, N. Dharam Singh, his Cabinet colleagues, and the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council, D.H. Shankaramurthy, have mourned his death.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Karnataka / Online Edition / by Special Correspondent / Saturday – June 11th, 2005

Marching first on R-Day

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The SARS platoon of Carmel School, Padmanabhanagar, won the first place in Group IV, for march past at the Republic Day Parade at Manekshaw Parade Grounds this year. Himagowri, platoon leader, received the prize. High school principal Ganapathy Rao said, “We’re proud of our physical education instructors, who trained students in a short time. Our sc hool gives importance to co-curricular activities and academics, which culminates in awards!”

Kalam on confidence 

“I will fly! I will fly! I am confident I will fly!” This was the mantra former President A P J Abdul Kalam taught children assembled for the Annual Day celebrations at United International School, Kannur, on January 19, 2015.

Children and parents were spell-bound as chief guest Kalam spoke on the topic “I have confidence, I will fly”. He encouraged them to nurture a positive attitude, dream big and work to make it happen. He also spoke on how to make a happy home and challenged kids to make their mothers happy, adding that only then will society and the country be happy.

He answered questions of the motivated children, offered to answer more questions over email and posed for photographs with students and teachers. He presented the school library a set of his books, with his autograph.

The school presented him a beautiful painting by a student Jebastin. Earlier, he was received by founder-chairman John Peter Kirubagaran, principal Chithra Mony and admini strator Rajini Alexander and was escorted by the school band.The principal highlighted activities of the year. Students from neighbouring schools also participated .

Dance and drama 

SG International Public School celebrated its 24th Annual Day on January 7. The school staged two spectacular shows. Ekta (Jack and the Bean Stalk) by the juniors included resplendent dance forms from various states of India. A dance drama Navarasa by seniors was a potpourri of legends from Hindu mythology. The participants, benefactors and choreographer received an ecstatic ovation.

The chief guest for Ekta was singer LN Shastri. Renowned playback singer and actor Rajesh Krishnan was the chief guest for Nava rasa. He also enthralled the audience with a song from the new movie Melody.

Earlier, academic advisor Anuradha Ramesh welcomed the gathering. Principal Varsh Jaideep presented the annual report. The chief guests and dignitaries were honoured by chairman Palanetra and secretary Sunandha.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Bengaluru / TNN / February 23rd, 2015

Competition key cog in entrepreneurship wheel: NRN

Business & Economy, Leaders

Hubballi :

Infosys mentor NR Narayana Murthy on Saturday highlighted the role of competition in corporate entrepreneurship in sparking enthusiasm.

At a panel discussion, titled ‘Scaling by Proving’, at Development Dialogue-2015 here on Saturday, Murthy said such competition will help the sector scale newer heights. “At Infosys, we have a clear policy of disseminating innovations.”

In a lighter vein, he let out a trade secret: that entrepreneurs claim to crave competition, but in private, detest any such practice.

Madhu Pandita Dasa, head of Akshaya Patra Foundation, pointed out that the organization currently has no competitor, but dissemination of knowledge and encouragement will help others join the sector of social entrepreneurship. “Being a non-profit set-up, we are ready to pass on our functioning model.” He said stakeholders in the sector aim at minimizing expenses rather than focusing on profits.

Jeffrey L Bradach, co-founder of The Bridgespan Group, said experimentation, innovation and working in sequence will lead to success. “Support from the information technology sector can give a boost to social entrepreneurship.”

Murthy explained that social entrepreneurs works in% areas where the market is not yet developed, while corporate entrepreneurs function where there is flow of capital. “But, there is a need to focus more %on efficiency and communication among social entrepreneurs as compared to corporate entrepreneurs.” The discussion also focused on career opportunities in social entrepreneurship.

Kasturi Rangan of Harvard Business School, USA, moderated the session.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Hubballi / TNN / February 08th, 2015

Dream big to achieve success: IAS officer

Education, Inspiration/ Positive News and Features, Leaders

Hubballi :

Dream big and make bigger efforts to climb the path of success, IAS officer Selvam Mani advised students on Monday.

Interacting with a select group of 150 students from different schools in the district at a session titled ‘Invention of Dreams’ here, he said dreams are the first steps to achieving one’s aims. “However, there is a need to guide students about good and bad dreams. Teachers and parents play a key role in this.”

Deputy director of public instruction SB Kodli pointed out that a child’s personality blossoms in school. “The school is the first step to achieving goals. It is the foundation for the realization of dreams.” Psychiatrist Dr Aditya Pandurangi asked parents to keep children calm during examinations. “They should avoid pressuring children unnecessarily,” he suggested.

Students interacted with the guests on concepts of education and personality development. The event was organized by Varadashri Foundation.

National award winner and block education officer (BEO) Mohan Hanchate was felicitated. City BEO Umesh Bommakkanavar, foundation secretary Karasiddappa Shirasangi and others were present.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Hubballi / TNN / February 17th, 2015