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Bengaluru: Ms Banu Mushtaq, the 77 years old Kannada writer, activist and lawyer of Hassan in Karnataka is in the news in state, national and international literary circles these days, thanks to the international Booker Prize in 2025 for 'Heart Lamp', a selection of her short stories translated by Deepa Bhasti. Interestingly, this is not the first global recognition of her Kannada literary works, as she won an international award for one of her works in 1997, 28 years ago. IAWRT competition only for women:  The International Association of Women for Radio and Television popularly known as IAWRT holds a competition once in two years exclusively for women. According to octogenarian G. M. Shirahatti, the then Station Director of CBS Bangalore, 'It is a contest exclusively for women, as all the authors, artists, and program producers need to be women.' The competition is also restricted to programmes on issues of social importance for women'. Drama relayed on all stati...

Bengaluru: There looks to be no respite from the unemployment challenge presently being encountered by Engineering graduates. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a sudden dip in interest in engineering courses and students began to explore other professional courses, including Agriculture, Horticulture, and Forestry with many others. However, such a situation was short-lived as the never-ending demand for Engineering courses resurfaced and more so with the computer-related ones. Many of them have reacted to the tendency of Engineering graduates to opt for all sorts of jobs including constable posts. Here are some of them: Improve your AI literacy, improve soft skills: Anirudh Morab, a software engineer based in Bengaluru feels- From an IT jobs perspective: 1. The future will see traditional IT jobs reduction like software engineers, software testers, analysts etc who are in huge numbers. The reason is that these jobs are getting automated due to generative AI like Chatgpt, Ge...

Bengaluru: At MPSCON 2025, held at AIIMS Guwahati, a moment of pride echoed across the community of medical pharmacologists. Dr. Shiva Murthy Nanjundappa, Professor & Head, Dept. of Pharmacology, CDSIMER, was awarded the prestigious MPS Pharma Yogi Award. As the Founder and President of the Medical Pharmacologists Society (MPS), Dr Murthy’s decade-long leadership has shaped the future of pharmacology through: * Expanding the society to 160+ members * Organizing 20+ national workshops and 5 major conferences * Publishing 3 influential books -with more on the way His vision for collaborative academic excellence and mentoring continues to inspire generations of pharmacologists. Proud moment for CDSIMER and the field of medical sciences. 

Bengaluru : The venue was Kutch Kadwa Patidar Samaj Hall at Thane(West) and the marriage ceremony of Siddhant, the only son of Mrs Kavita and senior journalist Suresh Nandi and Akshata, daughter of Mrs Pratima and Pundalik Pai. Some men were busy making rounds from one end to the other, wearing beautifully painted Jackets on kurtas of various colours. In between, they were waiting before a group of women who were showing their painted kurtas and introducing the artist, Bijal Sunil Vishrani, who had done the paintings. A hobby from the 10th standard : Bijal mastered the craft of painting on cloth while she was in the 10th standard. She is known for doing good paintings on the cloth, an art she has excelled in over a while. After the 10th standard examinations, she joined a class for basic painting where they taught colour combinations, shadings, shapes and other things related to painting.  Bedsheets for neighbours and sarees for family members : Bijal did paintings on b...