Physician M. Muhammad has been selected for the first N.M. Muhammad Ali Memorial Award instituted by Kerala Gazetted Officers Association.
The award, which carries a purse of Rs.50,001, a statuette, and citation, will be presented to Muhammad at a function to be held here on June 10 at the VJT Hall. The winner was selected by a jury headed by public health activist B. Ekbal.
Other jury members were psychologist K. Praveen Lal, dancer Rajashree Warrier, and journalist R. Parvathy Devi. Minister for Electricity and Devaswom Kadakampally Surendran will present the award.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Thiruvananthapuram / by A Corrrespondent / Thiruvananthapuram – Junel 05th, 2016
The final year Mechanical Engineering students of ATME College of Engineering, Mysuru — AathirMd. Suhaib, Anthony Johny, AquibArbaz and MujahidKhan — as a part of their project work, has developed a low cost, compact and versatile tractor named Nano Tractor.
The farming sector, especially vegetable growers and horticulturists, were in need of a small sized, economical and easy to maintain type of farm equipment. The new Nano Tractor developed by the students may be the answer for it.
Students to begin with have surveyed the farmers in and around Mysuru and understood the necessity of a smaller and versatile farm equipment at affordable cost. Then they have come up with the idea of fabricating a Tractor with a relatively smaller engine but can perform various farming activity with advantages like easy handling and less maintenance.
They have used an old 600 CC, 7.5 bhp engine of an auto- rickshaw and other parts from old vehicles. The performance test conducted indicates that it definitely fulfils the requirements of the small farmers as stated above.
The subject knowledge gained in their engineering course and with the able guidance of N. Rakshith, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, they have successfully completed the Nano Tractor Project at a cost of Rs. 60,000.
The Model and Concept can be used to design and manufacture in large scale can definitely help a sector of Farming community.
The students’ effort has been hailed by many including the industry people and the farmers. Principal and staff members have congratulated them on their feat.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General Nes / June 03rd, 2016
The Kerala farmers dominated the National Plant Genome Saviour Awards-2013 by winning seven out of fourteen rewards announced by the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights (PPV & FR) Authority, Government of India.
The seven farmers involved in conservation of traditional crop varieties were nominated for awards by Kerala Agricultural University (KAU).
K V Kannan ( Kannur), Benny Mathew (Agali, Palakkad), MelethilBeerankutty (Malappuram) and MuhammedMoopan (Malappuram) have been selected for Plant Genome Saviour farmer’s reward which consists of a purse of `1.5 lakh, a memento and a citation, while K Raman (Cheruvayal, Wayanad), P Krishnan (Palakkad) and K Narendran (Kollam ) will receive Plant Genome Saviour recognition which consists of a purse carrying `1 lakh, a memento and a citation at a function to be held in Delhi shortly.
KAU Vice-Chancellor Dr P Rajendran described the seven awards as a significant acknowledgment for Kerala farming community as well as farm scientists. “Bagging seven out of fourteen awards is very special. The role of KAU in supporting such activists and helping them earn such recognition are often forgotten. I appreciate the efforts of our scientists, especially Dr C R Elsy, Coordinator, KAU IPR cell, Dr M C Narayanankutty, RARS, Pattambi and Dr M R Bindu, ORARS, Kayamkulam, who nominated these farmers,” he said.
The KAU had played a pivotal role in helping the Pokkali Rice farming Community (2011), Akampadam Padasekhara Samithy (2012) and Ciby Kallungal of Thrissur and N Vasavan of Kannur ( 2012) win the Plant Genome Saviour Awards earlier.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Kerala / by Express News Service / May 11th, 2016
Innovative ideas developed by students for energy conservation were on display at the Kerala State Student Energy Congress 2016.
Thirty-seven teams from various districts participated in the event organised as part of the ‘Smart Energy Programme’ of the Energy Management Centre (EMC) on the centre’s premises. Hundred-odd upper primary and high school students from all over the State attended the one-day congress held as part of the EMC’s energy conservation programme.
Aparna V.S. and Kavitha K.M., students of Holy Angels School, Thiruvananthapuram, came up with an idea of converting mechanical energy into electrical energy at a low cost.
They turned a bicycle into an exercise bike which can pump water and generate electricity. Arathy Ramesh and Sreekutty Udayakumar from the Aluva educational district bagged the first prize in high school section. Ayisha and AlsaBinShahulHameed from Kozhikode got the first prize in upper primary section.
S. Somanath, Director, Liquid Propulsion System Centre, gave away the prizes at a function presided over by K.M. Dharesan Unnithan, Director of EMC.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Thiruvananthapuram / A Correspondent / Thiruvananthapuram – April 21st, 2016
Sri 108 Munishree Pavanakeerthi Bhattaraka Muni Maharaj is seen conferring ‘Sri Mahaveera Ahimsa Award’ on noted Homoeopath Dr. Khader during the 2615th Janma Jayanti celebrations of 1008 Bhagawan Sri Mahaveera Theerthankara organised under the aegis of Sri Mahaveera Seva Samsthan at Sri M.L.Vardhamanaiah Smaraka Bhavan on Chadragupta Road last evening as Padmashree Jaina Mahila Samaja President Sheela Anantharaj, Sri Mahaveera Bhavan Construction Committee President M.A. Sudhirkumar, Sri Digambara Jain Samaj President S.N. Prakash Babu, M.L. Jain Boarding Home Secretary Madan Kumar, Sri Mahaveera Seva Samsthan Vice-President M.R. Sunil Kumar, Ajit and others look on.
Mysuru :
“Born as a human being, one should practice the habit of letting other living beings also live in peace,” said city’s noted Homoeopath Dr. Khader, who has been touring rural areas propagating the message of non-violence for the past 10 years after turning a vegetarian at the age of 15.
He was speaking after being conferred with ‘Sri Mahaveera Ahimsa Award by Sri 108 Munishree Pavanakeerthi Bhattaraka Muni Maharaj at a function organised by Sri Mahaveera Seva Samsthan as part of 2615th Jayanti Mahotsava of 1008 Bhagawan Sri Mahaveera Theerthankara at Sri M.L.Vardhamanaiah Smaraka Bhavan on Chadragupta Road in city last evening.
Regretting that 30 to 40 percent of those manufacturing biscuits and chocolates use fat extracted from animals, he added that consumption of bakery items also lead to sugar-related and respiratory ailments, which need to be curbed at once by using vegetarian products.
Former Mayor and Ekalavya Awardee (for Kho-Kho) N.Prakash was also felicitated on the occasion by the Seva Samsthan.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / April 20th, 2016
The flow of scholarly work between the Mughals and Europe involved translation, re-translation, re-interpretation and development.
Christoph Clavius was born in Bamberg in either 1538 or 1537 (an amusing discrepancy for a scientist whose fame derives from his work on calendar reform) and was initiated into the Jesuit order by Saint Ignatius Loyola in Rome in 1555, and passed away in 1612, an eminent scholar.
Many of Clavius’ works were influenced by Latin translations of Arabic scientific works, including those of Ibn Rushd (in particular his commentary on Aristotle), the astronomers Abū Ma‘shar, al-Biṭrūjī and al-Farghānī, as well as the mathematician Thābit b. Qurra, among many other scientists writing in Arabic and Persian whose works Clavius cites.
Book 4 of Christoph Clavius, Gnomonices Libri Octo, published in Rome in 1581 (533.k.2, pp. 442-43).
Clavius is an excellent example of the many Jesuit scientists of his age who continued to teach Ptolemaic astronomy (i.e. a geocentric vision of the solar system, indeed the universe, in which the planets and stars orbited the earth in concentric circles), despite the rise of – and often despite their own familiarity with and endorsement of – Copernican astronomy.
Christoph Clavius’ Gnomonices Libri Octo, on the art of gnomonics (timekeeping through the use of a sundial), was published in 1581
Mu‘tamid Khān’s Arabic translation of the identical passage (IO Islamic 1308, ff. 289v-290).
Arabic version
This work also exists in a fascinating Arabic translation emanating from the Mughal empire that was purchased by Richard Johnson (1753-1807), a well-known collector of manuscripts and miniature paintings who worked for the East India Company.
Johnson made an annotation on the flyleaf of the manuscript that the translator of Clavius’ work was sent to Portugal by Aurangzeb – presumably to study or in some diplomatic capacity.
The full note reads, “Upon Dialling. Work of Clavius in Latin translated into Arabic by Maatemed Khan who went to Portugal in the time of Aurungzebe. This is the original foul copy of the translation in the hand of the translator (i.e., the ‘foul copy’ being the first draft, in contrast to the ‘fair copy’).”
Richard Johnson’s explanatory note (IO Islamic 1308).
A further note, in Arabic, added by the translator’s son, reads: “Draft of the Book of Measures [Kitāb al-Maqāyīs] which was composed by Clavius the Frank [Kalāwīūs al-Firinjī] in the Latin language, and my father, God have mercy on him, translated it into the [clear – mubīn?] Arabic language, possessor of virtuous talents including the perfection of acquired knowledge,
Rustam called Mu‘tamad Khān, the son of Qubād, gatherer of proofs of knowledge, perceiving the secrets of the spoken and the tacit, given the name Diyānat Khān al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī, may God be fair with both of them and elevate them.
Signed: I, who am a feeble slave begging for the mercy of the One and the intercession of the Prophet, Mīrzā Muḥammad, may God cause him to attain eternal happiness”.
Note by Muʻtamad Khān’s son (IO Islamic 1308, f.1v).
Complex process
This translation offers some fascinating possibilities.
The first is the demonstration of how knowledge circulated in the early modern world.
Clavius’ work, which responded to and was inspired by Arabic mathematicians and scientists in Latin translation, here a generation after its publication is translated back into Arabic to be read, presumably by elites at the court of Aurangzeb, where the work’s translator and his son were courtiers.
This translation demonstrates the complexity of knowledge flows – that they were synchronic as well as diachronic, and also involved a process not just of translation, but of re-translation, re-interpretation and development as they travelled.
Furthermore, the inscriptions taken in tandem, one in English made by an East India official, the other in Arabic by a Mughal courtier, open the possibility that already in Aurangzeb’s reign, Mughal elites travelled to Europe perhaps to study.
In the case of Mu‘tamid Khan, the translator of this text, he mastered the technical idiom of geometry and mathematics in Latin, and then translated it into an equally complex scholarly language, Arabic. Not an uncommon intellectual feat at the Mughal court, this process of scientific translation remains to be studied in depth.
It is also possible that the presence of the Jesuits at Goa had an influence on the production of this translation, but firm evidence remains to be found.
Builders’ Association of India (BAI), Mysuru, had organised an Inter-College quiz competition ‘YUKTI 2016, The Battle Of Brains…’ for the Civil Engineering and CTM students of various Engineering colleges of Mysuru, Mandya and Chamarajanagar districts.
The quiz was conducted by Shilpi, students’ wing of BAI, Mysuru, on Mar. 6 at MBCT premises, Mysuru. Five finalists were selected after the first round of written test among 18 teams.
There was a technical talk for the students on ‘Smart Cities – Spain Model’ by M.P. Manjunath Prasad, COO of Brigade Group, Benagaluru, on the same occasion. The technical talk also included short film on Building Technologies which ended with an interactive session.
After the Techtalk, the Quiz YUKTI 2016 continued for the finalists — NIE, MIT, SJCE (Civil), SJCE (CTM) and ATMECE.
An excellent Audio Visual final round was conducted by the Quiz Master S. Prakash, who is the Past Chairman of BAI, Mysuru and MD of Pramur Constructions.
MohammadZaidur Rehman and Bindushree of SJCE (Civil) emerged winners of YUKTI 2016. S. Supreeth and K.P. Meghana of ATMECE were declared Runners-Up.
A cash prize, mementoes and certificates, along with a trophy for the College, were given to both the teams. All the finalists were also given certificates.
BAI Mysuru Chairman M.S.Ramprasad, Hon. Sec. JVR Naidhruva, Shilpi Co-ordinators A.S Yoganarasimha and Ganapathy and others were present on the occasion.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / March 15th, 2016
Neeraj Gupta, founder and CEO of Formulate IP presenting the scholarship award to Khwaja. Mohammed Kamal Khwaja, a final year B.Tech student of VIT University, was declared the first prize winner of the KTH Master’s Challenge 2016 in Wireless Systems track.
Khwaja to pursue studies at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
A final year B.Tech student of VIT University has been awarded a full scholarship to pursue master’s programme at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. The scholarship came after he bagged the first prize at the KTH Master’s Challenge 2016 in Wireless Systems track.
As part of the challenge, Mohammed Kamal Khwaja, who is studying Electronics and Communication Engineering at VIT, went through a number of quizzes, essays and interviews. He was declared one of the top three students in India during December 2015. The positions of the top three prize winners were announced at a prize ceremony in Bengaluru, a press release said.
“The KTH Master’s Challenge is a nation-wide competition organised by KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The competition has multiple rounds to test various skills and knowledge of students,” he said.
He added that the first prize winner was offered a full scholarship of INR 23,00,000 to pursue the master’s programme at KTH along with an internship opportunity at FormulateIP.
Khwaja, who is currently pursuing his final year project at Singapore University of Technology and Design, said he was delighted to be declared the first prize winner, and as part of the prize, he has been awarded a two-year scholarship to pursue master’s studies at KTH.
The Wireless Systems programme, which is part of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, is ranked 16th in the world by the QS rankings 2015.
Khwaja has also been offered an internship to work at FormulateIP – an intellectual property, innovation management and consulting firm co-founded by a KTH alumni.
He has pursued research internships at Hong Kong and Singapore. Presently, he is pursuing his final year semester project at Singapore as part of the Semester Abroad Programme offered by VIT.
VIT Chancellor G. Viswanathan said their goal has always been to help students reach their full potential be it through academics or extra curricular activities, the release added.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Tamil Nadu / by Staff Reporter / Velllore – February 29th, 2016
City-based Legacy Custom Motorcycle has brought huge laurels to Belagavi by winning first prize for its superbike Immortale, in India Bike Week held recently at Goa. Immortale has been designed and built in Belagavi.
The motorcycle is conceptualized by Faizal Sait, the son of Belagavi (North) MLA Firoz Sait. MLA Sait unveiled the bike in Belagavi for public view on Thursday evening in a small programme. Motorcycle has won appreciation and prize for its design in Bike Build Off segment.
Around 30 bike builders from across the India had submitted applications to showcase their bike design in which five designs were adjudged as Best Bike Design of the year. Legacy Custom Motorcycle lifted the trophy by winning among the shortlisted five designs. Before it, the bike had gone into two days of toughest test monitored by Hyderabad-based top biker Reza Hussain, machine expert Anand Belerao, Pune based Auto car magazine editor Kartikeya and Arjun Raina of Dehradun.
When come to the specifications of the motorcycle, Harley Davidson 883 iron has upgraded to 1250 CC engine in Immortale to meet extreme speed of bike. Girder suspension technique has been adopted in frontal suspension segment while rear suspension is fitted with Mono Shock placed to fit nicely under tail to provide sporty look. The bike has been built in FRP fibre to reduce weight of the body.
Failzal Sait said he spent about two and half months to prepare the design of Immortale, which is now receiving thousands of appreciation messages from bike lovers and riders across the country. Legacy Custom is the first firm to participate in India Bike Week from Belagavi and it’s first in Karnataka in fetching prestigious prize. “I and my team of Legacy Custom is not interested in manufacturing of motorcycles in large scale. But we do hand build bikes for close ones and for the bike enthusiasts,” Faizal said.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Bangalore / by Ravindra Uppar, TNN / February 25th, 2016
Pointing out that cervical cancer is less among Muslim women, Dr V Shanta, chairperson, Cancer Institute WIA, attributes this to the religious ritual of circumcision practised by them.
Addressing the gathering at a symposium on women’s oncology organised by Apollo Hospitals and National Cancer Institute of the United States (USA NCI) on Monday, Dr Shanta says only 8.9% of the Muslim women have cervical cancer compared to 15.4% among the Christian women and 22.1% among the Hindu women against a total ratio of 1 lakh.
“The main reason for such a drastic change is the practice of circumcision and penile hygiene,” she adds. “Circumcision has a protective effect against sexual transmission of human papilloma virus (HPV), which is a causative agent in cervical cancer,” said a doctor at the symposium.
The country has seen an uneven literacy pattern which has affected cancer detection and curing, according to Dr Shanta. Various research have proved that uneducated adults are more likely to die from cancer than the educated as awareness is a big problem for illiterate people, she said.
Further, she says that there has been a decrease in cervical cancer among women in the urban centres when compared to rural areas. But city women have recorded an increase in breast cancer. Dr Shanta cited the figures of 2009-12 to show that cervical cancer reported in Chennai is only 16.5% when compared to 22.8% in rural areas. Likewise, breast cancer reported in the Chennai is 38.6% when compared to 15.1% in rural areas.
“This is because of education and socio-economic status of the people. The attitude among the urban populace is more towards the cure than prevention. Only when they realise that prevention is better than cure can the rates of cancer death be brought down,” she explained.
State health secretary J Radhakrishnan said that private and government hospitals along with NGOs are working together to fight oncology among women. He pointed out that around 1.09 crore women were screened for cervical cancer in Tamil Nadu out of which 3.7 lakh were found to have the the disease. Similarly, around 1.33 crore women were screened for breast cancer out of which which 1.64 lakh were found to have the disease.
A symposium titled ‘Marga’ focused on a road map towards women’s oncology care in India was held. It was pointed out that 35 million deaths occurred due to NCDs (non-communicable diseases) each year which is due to sedentary lifestyle, poor diet regime and high stress levels. While many schools had banned fast foods in their canteens, parents must avoid giving kids such items, they said.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Chennai / by Express News Service / February 23rd, 2016
