GLOBAL INVESTMENT : KARNATAKA RECORDS. INDIA : California-based Applied Materials, USA Acquires Land in Bengaluru for ₹350 crore

California-based Applied Materials has invested ₹350 crore ($50 million) to purchase land in Whitefield in Bengaluru where it is planning to expand its engineering infrastructure.

The company said the expansion would boost its next phase of growth in India.

“We expect this investment to support future product development and R&D, as well as benefit the development of the local supply chain,’‘ said Srinivas Satya, country president and Managing Director, Applied Materials India at Semicon India 2022 in Bengaluru on April 29.

Indian Government’s mission mode approach to evolve the country’s semiconductor sector, together with the ease-of-business initiatives and scaling up of indigenous electronics end-manufacturing, were positive and practical steps to enable its Semiconductor Mission, he added.

Applied Materials supplies equipment, services and software for the manufacture of semiconductor (integrated circuit) chips for electronics, flat panel displays for computers, smartphones, televisions, and solar products.

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KARNATAKA RECORDS : ‘Sarvottama Seva Awards’ Conferred On State Government Officers And Staff

In recognition of their services at various Government sectors, a total of 20 State Government officers and staff were conferred with ‘Sarvottama Seva Awards’ for the year 2021 and 2022 at a programme jointly organised by the District Administration and Karnataka State Government Employees Association at Kalamandira in city this morning as part of State Government Employees Day celebrations.

They are with MLA L. Nagendra, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dr. Bagadi Gautham, Zilla Panchayat (ZP) CEO B.R. Poornima and others.

The awardees include — 2021:

Dr. M. Sadashivappa, Senior Pulmonologist, PKTB and CD Hospital;

H.L. Manjunath, Senior Assistant Director, Kannada and Culture Department;

D.M. Rani, Assistant Director, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood Department;

G. Ravi Shankar, Junior Training Officer; Narahari, Development Officer, Department of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj;

G. Satish Babu, Office Superintendent, ESI Hospital;

K.B. Shantala, Nursing Superintendent;

Hilda D’Souza, Senior Nursing Officer, K.R. Hospital

T.G. Sripathi, Bailiff, District Court.

2022:

Dr. H.M. Chandrakala, Medical Officer, Health Department; 

H. Channappa, Assistant Director, Kannada and Culture Department;

A.D. Jayalakshmi Bai, Superintendent, District Institute of Education and Training (DIET);

G. Varadaraju, Superintendent, Agriculture Department;

Sreenivas Raj Urs, First Division Assistant (FDA), Revenue Department;

G.N. Prasanna, Junior Training Officer, Government Industrial Training Institute;

G. Krishna Prasad, FDA, Police Department;

Karigowda, Assistant, Horticulture Department;

M.L. Vishwanath, Superintendent, Department of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj

Zulfikar Kalligudi, FDA, Employment Exchange Department.

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INDIA RECORDS & NEW NATIONAL RECORDS: SPORT : Aren Joy Fernandes, Student of SJEC Bags First Place & Creates New National Records in National Junior Classic Powerlifting Championship, Alappuzha, Kerala

Aren Joy Fernandes, a third-year student of Electronics and Communication Engineering of St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC) here, brought laurels to the college by winning first place in National Junior Classic Powerlifting Championship held at Alappuzha, Kerala held from April 9 to 13.

He created national records by lifting squat 230 kg, and dead lift 283 kg amassing a total weight of 653 kg.

Alongside writing 3 national records, he also lifted a 140 kg bench press during the event.

Aren, son of Jude David Fernandes and Anandi Diana Fernandes, entered sports at a very young age and has 6 gold, 3 silver and 2 silver medals to his credit in various state, national and international level championships.

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INDIA RECORDS : SPORT : CRICKET: K.L. Rahul Becomes 1st Player To Make Unique Record In IPL With Century Versus Mumbai Indians

If there were any doubts that K.L. Rahul loves to play against Mumbai Indians (MI), they were put to rest yesterday as he slammed his second century against the Rohit Sharma-led side in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 season.

He matched his 103 against them in their first fixture at the Brabourne Stadium, but stayed unbeaten at the Wankhede Stadium as Lucknow Super Giants won by 36 runs.

It was Rahul’s third century against Mumbai Indians overall, with him having scored one for Punjab Kings in 2019.

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KARNATAKA RECORDS: HEALTH & MEDICAL SCIENCES: Celebrations of Assisted Birth of 10,000 Babies & 33 Years of Services of Manipal Assisted Reproduction Centre (MARC) at Kasturba Hospital, Mahe,Manipal

Manipal Assisted Reproduction Centre (MARC), Kasturba Hospital, MAHE Manipal celebrated 33 years of services for Infertile couples and announced the birth of 10,000 babies at a function on April 24, 2022 at Dr. TMA Pai Auditorium, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal.   

A lot of games were organized for the children which were highly appreciated by children and parents who came for “MARC DAY”.

A good number of children born through MARC procedure were there for the celebration.

The oldest IVF child is now 23 years.  

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KARNATAKA RECORDS : HEALTH & MEDICAL SCIENCES : KIMS is the First Government Medical College in State to Perform Kidney Transplant

The Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) and Hospital have become the first government medical college in the State to successfully conduct a live kidney transplant and it is ready to take up cadaver transplants.

Addressing presspersons in Hubballi on Friday, KIMS director Ramalingappa Antaratani said through a coordinated effort by the departments of nephrology, urology, and anesthetics, the kidney of a 44-year-old woman had been successfully transplanted to her 22-year-old son.

Free of cost

He said the kidney transplant surgery which cost lakhs of rupees in private hospitals would be carried out free of cost under the ABARK scheme for BPL cardholders. “The Government pays 25% of the procedure cost for patients of APL (Above Poverty Line) under ABARK. And the surgery would cost around ₹1.5 lakh for them,” he said adding that with the successful completion of the first kidney transplant, the KIMS team planned to conduct more such transplants in the coming days.

To a query, Dr. Ramalingappa clarified that KIMS was now ready for a cadaveric kidney transplant.

However, the patients would have to follow the procedure of registering with the website ‘www.jeevaasarthakathe.karnataka.gov.in’ for a kidney transplant. But in cases where close family members come forward to donate kidneys, they could approach KIMS directly, he said.

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NATIONAL RECORDS : SPORTS : Para-Swimmers Win 42 Medals at 21st National Para-Swimming Championship, Udaipur, Rajasthan

A team of para-swimmers won 42 medals at the 21st National Para-Swimming Championships at Udaipur in Rajasthan recently.

They won 28 gold medals, 6 silver medals, and 8 bronze medals. More than 500 para-swimmers from 17 States participated in this event.

Shridhar Malagi and Swatik Patil won five medals, Simran Gaundalkar, Raghvendra R. Anvekar, Yogesh Patil, Aniket Pilankar, Shrikant Desai, Prajwal Y. Naralekar and Pruthvi Y. Naralekar won three medals, Rajesh Shinde, Sumit Mutagekar, Sahil Kajukar, Sharanya Kumbhar and Sahil R. Jadhav won two medals, and Amol Kamble, Mustaq Ahmed Syed and Jotiba Kundekar won one medal each.

They are members of swimmers club Belgaum and Aquarius swim club Belgaum and practiced at Suvarna JNMC Swimming Pool and Corporation Swimming Pool in Goaves.

They have been trained by Umesh Kalghatgi, Prasad Tendolkar, Akshay Sheregar, Nitish Kuduchkar, Ajinkya Mendke, and Govardhan Kakatkar.

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INDIA RECORDS: HEALTH & MEDICAL SCIENCES: Dr. Rohit Shetty, Bengaluru based Doctor-Scientist, Vice Chairman of Narayana Nethralaya, is the First Kannadiga to be included in ‘The Ophthalmologist Power List 2022’

The Ophthalmologist Power List 2022 is a roll call of achievers in clinical practice and vision research.

Bengaluru-based cornea-refractive surgeon and translational scientist Rohit Shetty has been named as one of the Top 100 most inspiring and influential ophthalmologists of the world by The Ophthalmologist magazine. Dr Shetty is the first Kannadiga to make it to the ‘power list’.

The Ophthalmologist Power List 2022 is a roll call of achievers in clinical practice and vision research. The list is prepared from a lineup of 450 names by an international panel of 20 judges.

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WORLD RECORDS: HEALTH & MEDICAL SCIENCES: Guinness World Record to Dr. Shanthala Thuppanna of Sakra World Hospital for the Highest Number of Fibroids Removed

A 34-year-old journalist and former TV anchor, Ritika Sharma from Bengaluru, has set a new Guinness World Record for getting the highest number of fibroids removed from her uterus. The patient had 236 fibroids removed, which included a large cauliflower-shaped fibroid measuring up to 20 X 20 X 10 cm and many other smaller fibroids of different sizes, weighing 2,250 grams in total. 

This complex surgical procedure was performed in October last year by Shanthala Thuppanna, Senior Consultant and Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Sakra World Hospital in Bengaluru.

The title certificate was presented by Guinness World Record adjudicator Swapnil Dangarikar to the patient and her doctor in the city on Thursday

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 ALL INDIA RECORDS: Karnataka Third in the Country for Medical Consultations via eSanjeevani

Union Health Ministry’s flagship telemedicine service has registered more than three crore teleconsultations till now.

The state government has been awarded third place in the country for in number of medical consultations (25,03,995) through the eSanjeevani platform at the Ayushman Bharath Health and Wellness Centres (AB-HWC) since its inception in December 2020. It is a doctor-to-doctor telemedicine service to provide general and specialised health services in rural areas through the ‘Hub-and-Spoke’ model.

The award was given in the ‘Strengthening Healthcare to the Last Mile’ category to mark the 4th anniversary of the setting up of AB-HWCs. The Union Health Ministry’s flagship telemedicine service eSanjeevani has registered more than three crore tele-consultations and the state government has provided medical consultations to 47,68,123 people in total as on April 15.

The state stands third in the category where patients are provided the service at the HWCs after Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal.

source/content: newindianexpress.com (edited)