Category: Women, Girls

* 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.

* KVG Medical College wins Mediquiz

The KIMS President U K Monu awarded the trophy and merit certificates to winners and runners-up, and also congratulated them on their exemplary achievements.

Akshitha Anand and Ankitha Anand from K V G Medical College in Sullia won Mediquiz – 202

* Bantwal: Unique school with plenty of twins springs surprises

Eleven twins are students of Sharada Ganapati Vidya Kendra, Punyakoti Nagar in Kairangala village. Kairangala village is located on Kerala-Karnataka border in Bantwal taluk.

The school boasts of three pairs of twins in fourth standard, two in fifth standard, and one each in sixth, seventh, eighth and tenth standards. There are two twins in the second PU class. Out of these twins, four are made of girls, four twins are made up of boys while the remaining twins are of one boy and one girl.

* 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

‘Onake Obavva Jayanti’ Celebrated in Karnataka on November 11th

Onake’ (pestle) Obavva is hailed as a woman who fought the forces of Hyder Ali in Chitradurga in the 18th century.

No one can ever forget the courage with which she fought hard to protect her people and culture. She inspires us as a symbol of our nari shakti

Guinness World Record – 222 Uterine Fibroids Removed from 34-year-old Patient : November 2021

Doctors at Sakra World Hospital removed 222 fibroids from the uterus of a 34-year-old woman.

This was done while preserving the patient’s uterus completely, stated the hospital in a press release. Uterine fibroids are non-cancerous growths made up of muscle and fibrous tissue and can vary in size and shape.

This rare procedure was conducted by Dr. Shanthala Thuppanna, senior consultant and head-Obstetrics & Gynaecology,