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.
Category: Records, Karnataka
* Bengaluru Tech Summit 2021: Infosys bags ‘IT Ratna of Karnataka’ award
* BBMP wins award for ‘keeping Bengaluru clean’
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and eight other municipal corporations in Karnataka have won various awards instituted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for keeping their respective cities clean.
* MAHE brings out laser shoe technology to detect if your foot pain is linked to diabetes
* Swachh Awards: MCC Team Leaves For Delhi
Eight places in Karnataka will receive the award and along with Mysuru and Bengaluru, places including K.R. Nagar, Periyapatna, Hubballi-Dharwad, Mudhol, Hosadurga and Kumta figure in the list.
* Farmer From Kodagu Has Won An Award For Preserving Local Pepper Crop
- Napanda Poonacha of Kodagu district, a progressive farmer, who hopes to be recognized as a pro-nature farmer
- He was recently granted the Plant Genome Saviour Farmer Reward (2019-20) for his efforts to save indigenous ‘Adi Pepper’ crop
* ‘The Best Cyclist Men’ Awardee
Charith Gowda, a first PUC student of Sapient College, Vijayanagar II Stage in city, has bagged ‘The Best Cyclist Men’ award by securing three Gold Medals — Time Trial, Mass Start and Relay Categories — in the 18th National Mountain Bike Cycling Championships held at Alandi in Pune, Maharashtra, between Oct. 29 and Oct. 31
* Three Bengaluru-based groups make it to Facebook’s community accelerator programme
A group that guides women on travel; a community that advocates new-age parenting; and a section that connects city women with entrepreneurs. Bangalore Women Power, Adventure Women India and Moms of India — were recently recognised by Facebook at the first edition of the Community Accelerator Programme
*Highlight on heritage: New book on Hampi aims to demystify stories around the historical site
Karnataka Government’s RDWSD Department Awarded ‘Best Communication in Sanitation Award 2021’ by ISC
The Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Department (RDWSD), Government of Karnataka, has been bestowed with the Best Communication in Sanitation Award for 2021 in digital communication category by Indian Sanitation Coalition (ISC) – Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).