* Mangaluru: Nitte University receives international recognition for green initiatives

Nitte (Deemed to be University) has been ranked 253rd in the UI GreenMetric World University Rankings in 2021.

These international rankings recognize the contributions of universities across the world to policies and actions related to green campus and environmental sustainability.

NitteDU participated in this ranking survey for the first time in 2021.

* HAL signs Rs 2400 crore contract with Bharat Electronics, the biggest order ever placed with an Indian company

The five-year contract spanning from 2023 to 2028 is valued at Rs 2400 crore and involves supplying critical avionics Line Replaceable Units (LRUs), flight control computers and night flying LRUs. 

* 5-yr-old in Bengaluru sets world record in coding

Five-year-old Sunvisha C Nair, a student of Christ KG at SG Palya, has emerged as the ‘world’s youngest person to code decimal and its corresponding octal, hexadecimal and binary coding of 1-15, in a number system’

* World is a golf course now for this girl prodigy from city

India’s leading amateur female golfer, 15-year-old Bengalurean Avani Prashanth, has been selected for the Global Child Prodigy Award 2022.

* Karnataka: Integrative cancer centre opens, offers ayurveda treatment

In a first in India, two hospitals will be collaborating to provide ayurvedic treatment to cancer patients in Bengaluru.

Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SSCHRC), and AyurVAID Hospitals have set up a centre where patients can undergo ayurvedic treatment to alleviate effects of both cancer and cancer treatment.

Centre for Integrative Oncology (CIO).

* Students create Gaganyaan’s functional rocket model with an eye on Guinness World Record

Gaganyaan, India’s manned mission, launch has been postponed to 2023 due to Covid-19 but the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working hard to keep the buzz about the mission and motivate young minds by sponsoring 550 students to create Guinness World Record (GWR) for assembling Gaganyaan’s functional rocket model at one place. 

All these rockets assembled by 550 students following a 2-hour exercise at the India International Science Festival (IISF), 2021 under the guidance of N Sudheer Kumar, Director, Capacity Building Programme Office, ISRO, will be launched at the Panaji gymkhana ground using ISRO launchpads. 

The man behind training the students is Diyanshu Poddar’s start-up, Rocketeers. 

* Prestige Group Co-Founder Rezwan Razack Conferred With Honorary Doctorate By GD Goenka University

Rezwan Razack is Co-Founder and Joint MD of Bangalore-based Prestige Group and is hailed as the largest collector of Indian currency.

He is also the founder of South India’s first currency museum in Bengaluru, one of the largest and most authentic collections of Indian paper money and coins.

He is co-author of the Revised Standard Reference Guide to Indian Paper Money.