The president said he was hopeful about ramping up capacity, as parts of the country start to bump up against limitations on how many shots they can administer.
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Five distinguished personalities from Karnataka get Padma Awards: Full list
Dr Belle Monappa Hegde has been awarded the Padma Vibhushan.
FIve distinguished personalities from Karnataka have been conferred with the Padma awards in 2021 following the tradition of the awards being announced on the eve of Republic Day. Dr Belle Monappa Hegde has been awarded the Padma Vibhushan for his excellence in the field of medicine. The other four awardees from the state include Kannada poet Chandrashekhara Kambara who won Padma Bhusan under the Literature and Education category. Rangasami Lakshminarayana Kashyap, Matha B Manjamma Jogati and KY Venkatesh are the other three recipients who won Padma Shri awards under Literature and Education and Sports categories respectively. The Padma Vibhushan is awarded for exceptional and distinguished personalities, the Padma Bhushan for distinguished service of high order. The Padma Shri is awarded for distinguished service in any field. Though announced on January 25 every year, the awards are given to the recipients usually around March or April every year, in a ceremonial event at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Chandrashekhara Kambara Kambara is a popular Kannada poet, playwright and film director. He is also the found-Vice Chancellor of Hampi University in Karnataka. He was previously awarded the Padma Shri and Jnanapeeta awards. He was also a contemporary of late playwright Girish Karnad. Rangasami Lakshminarayana Kashyap A scholar in the field of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kashyap is currently a professor emeritus at Purdue University in the US as well as director of the Sri Aurobindo Kapali Sastry Institute of Vedic Culture. He is a recipient of the King-Sun Fu award (1990) for fundamental contributors to pattern recognition for machine learning and has also been awarded the JC Bose Award for the best paper at the National Electronics Conference in the following year. He has also earned recognition by translating Rig Veda Samhita, Krishna Yajurveda Samhita and Sama Veda, and Atharva Veda. KY Venkatesh He is a champion para-sportsman and disability rights activist who has achondroplasia (dwarfism). Among other achievements, he has represented India in International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics World Championships. In his playing days, he had been a star performer in shotput and had won gold in a multi disability championship held in Australia in 1999. In 2005, he won six medals including two gold medals in the World Dwarf Games. Matha B Manjamma Jogati Currently the president of Karnataka Janapada Academy, Manjamma Jogati is a stalwart in the field of folk arts. Assigned male at birth, she witnessed hardship in the initial years due to her identity as a transgender woman. But although she had a life of destitute in her younger years after being disowned by her parents , she established herself as a celebrated theatre artist.She had to even lead her life by beginning for sometime before she joined the Jogathis— transgender persons who are ‘married’ to the Yellamma goddess. It is during her time as a Jogathi, she was introduced to folk artist Kaalavva and she entered the world of performing arts. She was awarded the Karnataka Rajyotsava Award in 2010
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Fauci: U.K. coronavirus variant leads to worse infections
The CDC first warned last month that travelers could bring the newly identified U.K. coronavirus variant into the U.S.
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Moderna making booster shot to fight Covid-19 variants
New strains of the coronavirus have emerged in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil.
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Olive Ridley turtle eggs found in Karnataka’s Kundapura for first time in four years
It was spotted by an elderly fisherman who informed a volunteer beach cleaning group 'Clean Kundapura'.
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Babu Mogaveera, an elderly fisherman was on his daily stroll on the beach when he spotted what he had not seen on the beach for four years – Olive Ridley turtle eggs. Babu, who is experienced in spotting turtle footprints, informed 'Clean Kundapura', a volunteer project cleaning the beaches in Kundapura for the last three years. Two days later, Babu observed a second batch of eggs, 50 metres north of the first batch. "This was in the same spot we had planned a beach clean-up drive on Sunday. Instead, we decided to build a temporary enclosure to protect the eggs," says Bharat Bangera, a member of Clean Kundapura. The eggs were spotted in Kodi beach in Kundapura in Udupi district of Karnataka. The sighting of the eggs is not uncommon as sea turtles lay eggs across the Karnataka coast. "There were 30-40 nests spotted this season in coastal Karnataka, from Mangaluru to Karwar. Earlier, the turtles would nest across the coast. But now, because of development and anti-erosion rocks placed on the coast, breeding sites have become restricted. The turtles are moving into other spaces where eggs have not been spotted in recent years," said Shantanu Kalambi, a conservationist based in Kundapur. He works with Reef Watch, a marine conservation organisation headquartered in Mumbai, India. The development has enthused volunteers working with Clean Kundapura. "The turtle is a sensitive creature and they don't lay eggs where the area is polluted. After over four years, we are spotting the turtle nesting here," Bharat Bangera told TNM. Shantanu says that in the past, 20-30 turtle nests would be found in the same area. "The number has reduced now. Last year, we spotted sea turtle nests in Gangolli and this year, those have been spotted in Kundapura.” The Forest Department has been informed about the Olive Ridley turtle eggs and is now working to protect the eggs until they hatch. The Department is also working with Reef Watch to help in sea turtle and marine conservation.
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Karnataka CM Yediyurappa reshuffles cabinet for second time in 3 days
Among the changes, Dr K Sudhakar, the Health Minister, has been given back the additional charge of the Medical Education Department.
Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday shuffled some members of his cabinet yet again, making it the second change in two weeks, since he expanded his cabinet on January 13. It was only on Friday that the CM had reallocated some portfolios owing to dissidence and now, on Monday, he changed portfolios of three ministers. Among the changes, Dr K Sudhakar, the Health Minister, has been given back the Medical Education Department after it was allocated to JC Madhuswamy on January 23. Sudhakar had publicly expressed his apprehension that the handling of the Medical Education Department by a different minister may negatively impact the ongoing vaccination drive. "Separating Health and Medical Education ministries could weaken the state's vaccination effort, as 60% of district hospitals are under the latter and the remaining under the former," Sudhakar had told reporters on Saturday. In another change made on Monday, Madhuswamy, who was stripped off his prime portfolios of Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Minor Irrigation on January 13 has now been given the Tourism Department and Ecology and Environment Departments. On Friday, Madhuswamy was allocated the Kannada and Culture department in lieu of Hajj and Waqf portfolio along with Medical Education on January 13. In the process, Anand Singh who was previously holding portfolios of Ecology and Environment Departments, had been given Infrastructure Development Department and Haj and Waqf Department. The government was in the face of criticism of giving him this portfolio as he was arrested in connection with an illegal mining scam. On January 13, CM Yediyurappa had inducted seven new ministers — Umesh Katti, Aravind Lumbavali, MTB Nagaraj, CP Yogeshwar, R Shankar, S Angara and Murugesh Nirani after a 17-month-wait. However, BSY has kept high profile portfolios like Finance, Bengaluru Development, Energy and Intelligence with himself.
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'No lecturers for many subjects': Karnataka govt colleges have acute teacher shortage'
For years, many colleges have been short-staffed and students fear that they will be forced to attend exams without being taught.
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Graduation colleges run by the state government under the Higher Education Department across Karnataka including those in Bengaluru, are facing a severe shortage of teachers. The shortage is so acute that students have had to stage protests over the issue. For years, permanent faculty for these colleges have remained low and guest lecturers are being recruited on a yearly basis to make up for the shortage. Final year students from the Maharani’s Arts, Commerce and Management College for Women resorted to protests earlier this week by sitting in front of their college gate, stating that although they have seven subjects as part of the course, only two subjects are being taught for the last three months since the college reopened after the COVID-19 lockdown. “From the time college has restarted, we have been asking our principal when the guest lecturers will start to teach. Constantly, we are being told that it will happen this day or that day. Till today, it hasn’t happened, so we couldn’t wait anymore,” said Bhavana (name changed on request). The students fear that they will be forced to attend the exams without being taught. When asked about why the situation was so dire, Manjunath T, Principal, Maharani's Arts and Commerce College, suggested that efforts were being made to hire more teachers on an ad-hoc basis. “We need 70 lecturers but only 28 have been given. Government has only allowed 50% of those who taught last year to teach this year. We will try our best to complete the syllabus with the time remaining. The students need not protest as we also wish for their benefit and we will solve all of their problems. This problem is not restricted to our college but across 400 colleges in the state,” he told TNM. Students of Government Arts College in Bengaluru said that they are also facing a similar problem. “We don’t have lecturers for multiple subjects. We are currently having combined classes with other sections and other streams, just so they can engage the classes,” Shanti, a second-year student said. The situation is no better in districts away from cities like Bengaluru and Mysuru. Amar, a student of Government First Grade College in Dharwad said, “In the previous years, we used to have guest faculty but this year, there is no guest faculty. The lecturers are struggling to take classes and we are not having practical classes. At this pace, the syllabus cannot be completed before exams.” Similarly, Eranna, a student of Sarladevi College in Ballari said that while usually, 130 guest faculty members are hired every year to make up for the low number of permanent faculty. This year, they have not been appointed. This has resulted in students having to attend a single or two classes in a day on average. The Hindu on Sunday reported that while 14,000 such guest faculty were to be hired, only 7,000 have been hired. The report stated that the Finance Department is yet to approve the Higher Education Department's proposal to hire the other 7,000. ‘Hire permanent faculty’ Niranjanaradhya VP, Senior Fellow and Programme Head, Universalisation of Equitable Quality Education Programme, Centre for Child and the Law, at National Law School of India University said that the current policy of hiring ad-hoc faculty is the problem. “The problem really is that we are not making permanent recruitment. Whenever there are vacancies, permanent appointments need to be made. Only then, we can do justice to students. Contractual appointments won’t serve any purpose as there is no job security and because of that, they don’t show much interest. What research shows is that when there is permanency in a job, automatically the job satisfaction goes up, making them engage with students in a full-fledged way,” he told TNM. “Permanent appointments are key to smoothen this process and it also increases the quality of teaching. The government should stop this ad hoc arrangement. I feel that we must do away with this contractual appointment as it doesn’t help the learning process. This is a neo-liberal model of hire and fire where they don’t want to provide social security and sectors like education and health are not a priority for the government now, unlike earlier. After 1990, education became open for privatisation and commercialisation,” he added.
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