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Van Motor Cycle collide, two killed
Mangalore, November 18:
Two Motorcycle riders were killed on the spot and another injured when a milk van dashed against them from rear near Baikampady, about 10 kms from here, in the wee hours of on Monday, police said. The deceased and injured were identified as the students of the KMC hospital here, police said. The three students were coming to the city when the mishap occurred, police said. The injured has been admitted to KMC hospital here police added.
A book on
Mangalorean Catholic community releasedBangalore, November 18: The Mangalorean Catholic Community: a professional history/ directory, the third in a trilogy of books about the community written by Michael Lobo, was launched in Bangalore recently. The book was released by Mr. Godfrey Saldanha, former general manager, Southern Railway, Madras, in the presence of Rt. Rev. Dr. Ignatius Pinto, Archbishop of Bangalore.
The book is a historical study of the community as seen from the perspective of various professions in which members of the community have been involved in over the past two centuries. The 1,000-page book is divided into nine major groups or chapters and each chapter relates to a particular profession or theme. The contents include Bishops of Mangalore and other dioceses, religious orders, award winners, founders of institutions, freedom fighters and pioneer achievers.
The first two books in the trilogy - Mangaloreans Worldwide and Distinguished Mangalorean Catholics - were released in 1999 and 2000 respectively. All three books are based on the multi-volume Genealogical Encyclopedia of Mangalorean Catholic Families, a major project of research over the past eight years and nearing 6,000 pages. The author, Michael Lobo (born 1953), passed out of Montfort School, Yercaud, in 1968 and graduated from St. Aloysius College, Mangalore in 1972.
As a student, he was a keen chess player and qualified for the National-A (India's top 20) in 1975. However, he gave up chess in favour of an academic career and obtained a doctorate in Applied Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1982. His Ph.D. thesis on Transonic Aerodynamics earned him a Young Scientist Award from the Indian National Science Academy.
In 1984, he was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to the Cranfield Institute of Technology, England and subsequently joined the faculty at this Institute, being employed there until 1993. On his return to India, he has been involved full-time on a major research project on the genealogy of Mangalorean Catholic families. The present book is one of the four spin-offs to this magnum opus. The books are available at the following bookshops in Bangalore: Asian Trading Corporation, Cooke Town; Gangarams, Premier Book Shop, Strand Book Stall and St. Paul's Publications Bookshop (near St. Patrick's Church).
Auto fares
revised from Monday
Mangalore, November 18:
In view of the fluctuations in fuel price and hike in the price of spare parts, the Regional Transport Authority has reviewed the auto rickshaw fares in South Kanara applicable from Monday. It has decided to hike the minimum fare for the first 1.5km at Rs. 9 instead of Rs. 8 charged at present. The revised fare per kilometre is Rs. 6, says a release giving details of the revision. The waiting charges is as follows: Free for first five minutes and thereafter Rs. 1 for every 15 minutes or part of it.Luggage charges up to 20 kg is free and after that, for every 20-kg or part of it, it is Rs. 1, says the note. Under directions of the Government, the autorickshaw drivers should not charge more than one and half times of the rates between 10 p.m. and 5 am in the morning. Autoriskshaws moving beyond the Corporation limits should not charge more than one and half times of the revised rates and revised rates will be in force from Monday, November 18, the release said.
Under the revised rates, the metre runs from Rs. 9 and jumping rate is 50 paise instead of 20 paise and the list of approved revised rates must compulsorily be displayed in autorickshaws, says the release. The drivers and the owners of autorickshaws have been asked to finish the formalities like erecting metres with revised rates before February 25, 2003.
South Kanara
champs, Roshan D'Souza II place
Bangalore, November 18:
South Kanara won the team championship with 41 points in the Mr. Karnataka
Senior bodybuilding championship conducted by the Karnataka Association of
Bodybuilders here.
Results: Seniors: 60kg: M K Areef (Udupi) 1; Nithin Jadhav (Belgaum)
2; Purushotham (South Kanara) 3. 65kg: Sathish Kumar M S (Bangalore) 1;
Premkanth Patil (Belgaum) 2; Noor Sanadi (Belgaum) 3. 70kg: R Vijayakumar
(South Kanara) 1; Shekar Shetty (South Kanara) 2; Ayub Khan (Dharwad) 3.
75kg: Rajesh D. Alva (South Kanara) 1; Anil Killekar (South Kanara) 2; G T
Sathyanarayana (Belgaum) 3. 80kg: Lavin K (South Kanara) 1; B Bhusannavar
(Belgaum) 2; Guruprasad (Udupi) 3. Above 80kg: R Rajesh (Bangalore) 1;
Ganesh (D K Dist) 2; Hemanth Kumar (Hassan) 3. Title: R Rajesh. Team
championship: South Kanara (41 points)1; Belgaum (38 points) 2.
Juniors: 60kg: M K Areef (Udupi) 1; J N Govindaraj (Davanagere) 2;
Roshan D'Souza (South Kanara) 3. 65kg: Sathish Kumar M S (Bangalore) 1;
Shekar Shetty (South Kanara) 2; Premkant Patil (Belgaum) 3. 70kg: R Vijaya
Kumar (South Kanara) 1; Rajesh Lohar (Belgaum) 2; Raghavendra Shetty
(South Kanara) 3. 75kg: Anil Killekar (Belgaum) 1; Sathyanarayana R T (Davanagere)
2; Mallu Hongekar (Belgaum) 3.
Above 75kg: Lavin K (South Kanara) 1; Ganesh (South Kanara) 2; V T
Tonnenavar (Belgaum) 3. Title: Lavin K.
Eye hospital by
Lions Club in Udupi district soon
Mangalore, November 18:
The Lions district 324-D4, which comprises eight revenue districts and 138
clubs, had, till now, spent Rs. 3.18 crore on service projects in the last
four months, Basrur Rajiv Shetty, Lions Governor, said here on Saturday.
He told media reporters; the funds had been spent on blood donation camps,
education, and civic amenities, providing artificial limbs to the
physically challenged, hearing aids to the hearing impaired, aid to cancer
patients, diabetic detection camps and AIDS awareness programmes. A
haemodialysis unit had been mooted at Udupi at a cost of Rs. 40 lakh and a
blue print was being prepared for an eye hospital, through Lions club of
Brahmavar-Barkur, at a cost of Rs. 60 lakh, he added. Shetty said, f ive
new clubs had been established and 30 more were on the anvil.
"District 324-D4 will be split into D4 and D5 with an aim to give impetus
to service related projects. While D4 will comprise of Udupi, Shimoga,
Davanagere, Chitradurga and Hoovinahadagali in Bellary and Bhatkal in
Uttara Kannada, D5 will comprise of Kodagu, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan and
Chikmagalur." H. Ashok Shenoy, president, M. Arun Shetty, secretary,
Lions Club Mangalore were also present. The district governor also
inaugurated a computer centre at Lions Seva Mandir here.
State Housing Board to build 254 houses
Mangalore, November 18: Under the State Government’s ambitious ‘100 house project’ Karnataka Housing Board (KHB) plans to build 254 houses and allot 110 sites to beneficiaries in the city. According to a press release from KHB, over 254 houses located in Kankanady, Padavu Shakthinagar, Kunjathabail, Ullal, Someshwar, and Kumbhashi are in various stages of construction and will be handed over to their respective owners.
The Board under the same project was also developing sites and selling to the beneficiaries. “Within a few months, 110 sites will be developed and distributed to the beneficiaries,” KHB Assistant General Manager Ananda Mudhalabhavi said. Expressing some of the salient features of the housing project, the press release said it was the dream of every family to own a “warm hearth and an independent home.” KHB, which is an autonomous board, has been striving to deliver the dream and each home is designed to suit the budget of middle class income group.
KHB said residential layouts designed by the board include gardens and reserved sites for building hospitals, schools among others. Beneficiaries are also eligible for housing loans, he release added. The ‘100 house project’ has a target of building 13,500 houses and developing 15,000 sites in 100 towns of the state. KHB invited persons keen on owning sites or homes to their public relations office in Kavoor- Bondel. The office besides providing guidance will also help candidates to fill up applications. Interested persons can contact the KHB office (ph-481480).
First Indians came from Africa?
* The exciting journey has been chronicled by a team of genetic investigators
* All modern humans descended form one man in Africa 60,000 years ago
* The new findings suggest people had entered India from the western side
New Delhi, November 18: The first men to set foot on India were a group of Africans who took an arduous journey from the Dark Continent along the coasts of central Asia and Middle East to arrive in India around 50,000 years ago. Those men and women are the ancestors of Dravidians - considered as the oldest Indians. Through a massive global scientific exercise supported by National Geographic, the exciting journey has been chronicled by a team of genetic investigators, who concluded that all modern humans descended form one man in Africa about 60,000 years ago.
By painstakingly stitching together bits and pieces of evidences, written on human genes all over the world, scientists found that in the grip of an Ice Age, which made food and natural resources scare men in Africa began their journey 60,000 years ago. Braving burning deserts and chilling ice lands, they walked to Australia, the Middle East, Central Asia, India and China before reaching Europe around 35,000 years ago. From Europe, early men and women went to Siberia and ultimately reached North America 13,000 years ago thereby occupying every nook and corner of the globe, geneticist Dr. Spencer Wells, who coordinated the entire project involving 50-odd laboratories across the world, said.
The awesome tour opens up a new window to witness how the first people came to India, which still puzzles scientists, because of lack of evidence beyond 30,000 years. The new findings suggest people had entered India from the western side and traveled along the West coast because of better food availability to reach southern part of the subcontinent.
Clinching evidences have been found in a Sri Lankan cave. "Batadomba Lena cave contains earliest skeletal material from anatomically modern humans, dating back 30,000 years as well as vintage artifacts. Since early Indians moved along the West Coast, their artifacts may lie in the existing sea. An underwater excavation may be worthwhile to look for those artifacts off Mumbai coast and Palk Strait," he said.
When the investigators looked into the genetic pattern of a small village west of Madurai, they found the same genetic abnormalities in their genes as in the genes of the Africans and native Australians, indicating that everybody came from a common father. However, the study poses new questions - for instance when did boats originate and whether the journey depicted by the scientists is accurate?
In addition, it does not answer what happened beyond 60,000 years ago in Africa as scientists had earlier shown that Eve - the first women - originated in Africa between 80,000 to 120,000 years ago. In the quest of the paternal link of modern man, the team probed genetic pattern of Y-chromosome, which is inherited from father and mostly conserved over generations. The route was chronicled after probing about 2,000 blood samples from exotic tribes.