Karnataka First

* 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.

* Winners Of National-Level Karate Championship

The Karatekas of IKA Karate Academy, Mysuru and Kali Warriors Academy, Karnataka, under Pekiti Tirsia Kali India in city, have bagged various prizes in the 3rd National-level Karate Championship organised by Shotokan Karate Do Sports Association and Sensei Durganada on Nov. 27 and Nov. 28 in Hubballi.

Keerthan (Bronze medal in kata – 7 years), Abdul Malik (Gold in Kata and 2nd prize in Kumite – 8 years), Tharun Kumar (Gold in Kata – 9 years), M. Abhimaan (Gold in Kata – 11 years and 1st prize in Kumite); (

Mohammed Daniyal (Gold in Kata and 1st prize in Kumite – 11 years), Sensei Abdul Waseem (Senior Instructor of IKA), Kyoshi Sivdas (Chief Instructor of IMSKA and Representative of India), Mohamed Saqeeb Ur Rahman (Senior Instructor of IKA), Chayadevi (Silver in Kata and 1st prize in Kumite – 15 years).

* 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.

* UAS-B is No. 1 among farm varsities in south India

* Karnataka’s Ishad mangoes, Kumta onions, Bhatkal jasmine start journey towards GI tag

The Honnavar betel leaf, known as the queen leaf, is grown only in a few pockets of the taluk.

* Udupi: MAHE president Dr Ranjan R Pai named in EdelGive Hurun India Youngest Philanthropists list

* 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.