Category: Records, Bengaluru (Bangalore)

* ‘50 Years Of Progressing UAE’ Painting Bags Award

Chinnamada Shilpika Ponnappa, who has her roots in Kodagu, has bagged the ‘Special Mention — Best Ideation Award’ and a trophy for her painting with a theme ‘50 years of progressing UAE’ organised at Artoze Art Competition in Abu Dhabi as part of Celebrating 50 Glorious Years of UAE.

* NCBS, Tata Institute of Genetics and Society announce institutional alliance

“This engagement with the TIGS is a wonderful opportunity for NCBS researchers to engage with questions that concern both genetics and society, and at the same time broadening the collaborative footprint of the TIGS at the Bangalore Life Science Cluster,” said NCBS director Satyajit Mayor.

TIGS director Rakesh Mishra said by joining hands with the NCBS, the TIGS brings top-quality science closer to addressing societal problems in the domain of rare genetic diseases, infectious diseases and nutrition, using cutting-edge science and technology.

* 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. 

* NASI recognition for Bengaluru scientist

Dinesh A. Nagegowda, Senior Principal Scientist and scientist in-charge of CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Research Centre, Bengaluru, has been elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, for his significant contribution in plant science, particularly in the area of molecular biology and biotechnology of specialised metabolites in medicinal and aromatic plants.

* 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.

* Top spot

As the first woman vice-president in the 153-year history of the prestigious Bangalore Club, Annabelle Manwaring tells CE about her decades-old association with the space.

For Annabelle Manwaring, managing and strategising has been central to her job as an advertising professional. Although she quit her decades-long advertising job in 2006, the fundamental principles of leadership still stay with her. Now, as she takes over as the first woman vice-president of the Bangalore Club, many of these traits come in handy.

* Startups, crypto platforms among Bengaluru Impact awardees

The Bengaluru Impact awards were given away on Day 2 of Bengaluru Tech Summit 2021, to a number of recent as well as established startups from Karnataka. Bigbasket, Apna, Meesho, Curefit, Blackbuck were among those which took home the laurels, watched by a startup audience with participants from deep tech and medtech.