Monthly Archives: June 2012

128th birth anniversary of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar ‘Morrow

About Bangalore(Bengaluru) / Karnataka, Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Historical Links, Pre-Independence

Mysore, June 3

Pathi Foundation and Ursu Mandali Sangha have organised separate programmes to celebrate the 128th birth anniversary of Rajashree Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar at different places in city tomorrow.

This was announced at a separate press conferences addressed by Ursu Mandali and Pathi Foundation President at Pathra-karthara Bhavan here yesterday.

Addressing media persons, Ursu Mandali President B.G. Choodachandra Raje Urs described Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar as an architect of the Mysore kingdom and announced that the 128th birth centenary of Wadiyar will be celebrated tomorrow on a grand scale.

As part of the celebrations, a grand procession of the portrait of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar will be taken out from Agrahara Circle at 10 am to K.R.Circle and the event will be inaugurated by DCP Basavaraj Malagatti where Gopal Raje Urs of Ursu Mandali, A.V.Vidya Urs, Leader of the Opposition in the MCC and Corporator Jaishankar Swamy will be present as chief guests.

The statue of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar at K.R.Circle will be garlanded, he announced.

Choodachandra Raje Urs also demanded that the government declare the birth anniversary of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar who had taken up construction of many heritage buildings at Mysore, Bangalore and other places as general holiday and also to celebrate the occasion.

Pathi Foundation: Meanwhile, Corporator M.D. Partha-sarathy, President of Pathi Foundation, told media persons that the birthday of Rajashri will be celebrated in a grand manner at Agrahara Circle.

Lauding the services of Nalwadi in implementing various developmental projects during his regime, Parthasarathy said that the celebrations will begin with a Suprabhatha at 5.45 am at N. Madhav Rao Circle in Agrahara, colourful paintings of Nalwadi by Nagarjuna will be unveiled at 6 am, to be followed by a Sudar-shana Homa.

At 10.15 am, a souvenir on the late Maharaja will be released, a grand musical programme by Vishnu Nights will be held at 3 pm, he said and added that at 6.30 pm, a Smarana-Namana programme will be held. A humour play will be staged by Mandya Ramesh team at 8.45 pm.

Mayor Rajeshwari Puttaswamy, Bhashyam Swamiji, RSS leader Venkatram and others will be present, he added.

source: http://www.StarofMysore.com / General News / June 03rd, 2012

Wipro bags 10 year deal from Manipal Health Enterprises

Business & Economy, Science & Technology

New Delhi:

Wipro Infotech, the India and Middle East IT business unit of Wipro, said it has bagged a 10-year contract from Manipal Health Enterprises.

As part of the deal, Wipro will implement its Hospital Information System (HIS) solution and data migration services across Manipal Group Hospitals, Wipro said in a statement.

Financial details of the contract were not divulged. The proposed HIS application is patient-centric and will provide immediate access to clinical, administrative and billing data for use by hospital staff, which is required for efficient functioning of a hospital, it added.

It will also ensure high levels of automation, better availability of information, reduction in patient’s waiting time and better utilisation of revenues.

Manipal Health Enterprises’ network of hospitals manages around 4,900 beds through 15 hospitals, spread over 5 states in the country. It has a clinical and healthcare pool of over 1,500 doctors and 5,500 nurses, paramedics and support staff.

MHE’s hospital network annually services around 2 million patients in India and overseas.

“Healthcare is a focus vertical for Wipro worldwide, and we have over 120 satisfied customers successfully leveraging our HIS across India, Middle East and Asia Pacific. We are confident of delivering an efficient and cost effective solution to Manipal Hospital,” Wipro Senior VP, Business Head (India and Middle East) and Global Business Head (Infrastructure and Services) Anand Sankaran said.

source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / Home> Tech> Enterprise IT / PTI / June 01st, 2012

Aaron, Sejwal shine

Records, All, Sports

Aaron D’Souza and Sandeep Sejwal pocketed titles with ease on the penultimate day of the Federation Cup swimming championships at the GMC Balayogi stadium in Gachibowli on Saturday.

Karnataka’s Aaron clocked one minute 53.31 seconds to bag the gold in the men’s 200M freestyle, beating Sujay Shah of Gujarat by a comfortable four seconds. Sandeep posted 2:19.49 to fetch the 200M breaststroke crown and his victory margin was more than 15 seconds.

Results: Men: 200M freestyle: Aaron D’Souza (Karnataka) 1:53.31, 1; Sujay Shah (Gujarat) 1:57.75, 2; Anand AS (Kerala) 2:04.71, 3.

200M breaststroke: Sandeep Sejwal (MP) 2:19.49, 1; Neil Contractor (Gujarat) 2:35.15, 2; N Haridas Singh (Police) 2:47.17, 3.

100M butterfly: Sajan Prakash (TN) 57.33 seconds, 1; Tarun Tokas (Delhi) 58.30, 2; Anshul Kothari (Gujarat) 58.96, 3.

400M individual medley: Merwyn Chen (Delhi) 5:12.54, 1; Sachin Kumar Maurya (Uttar Pradesh) 5:28.51, 2.

Women: 200M freestyle: Richa Mishra (Police) 2:10.22, 1; Surabhi Tipre (Karnataka) 2:11.99, 2; Vandita Dhariyal (Gujarat) 2:15.02, 3.

200M breaststroke: M Raghavi (Tamil Nadu) 2:51.98, 1; Poorva Shetye (Maharashtra) 2:53.69, 2; K Sai Greeshma (AP) 3:26.59, 3.

100M butterfly: Jyotsna Pansare (Maharashtra) 1:05.51, 1; Vandita Dhariyal (Gujarat) 1:07.11, 2; JS Yuvika (AP) 1:27.79, 3.

400M individual medley: Vandita Dhariyal (Gujarat) 5:54.83, 1; Asra Anwar (AP) 6:47.36, 2; Aathmika Krishnan (AP) 7:08.04, 3.

source: http://www.DeccanHerald.com / Home> Sports / DHNS / Hyderabad, June 02nd, 2012