KSRTC city services hit Mangalore streets

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August 23, 2012

Mangalore, August 23: One of the long pending dreams of citizens of Mangalore was finally met on Thursday with Karnataka State Road Corporation formally launching seven city services.

While three schedules will be from KSRTC central bus station at Bejai to Mudipu, two are from Mangalore central railway station to Mangalore airport, Kenjar, and two others from KSRTC central bus station to Surathkal railway station. The first schedule entails 18 round trips to Mudipu, second schedule 6 round trips to airport and third schedule 7 round trips to Surathkal railway station. There will be 2 round trips to Jokatte in this schedule as well.

The pricing is competitive in that the 23-km trip to Mudipu will cost Rs 16. This is the same fare for a 20-km ride to Mangalore Airport or a 22-km ride to Surathkal railway station. The low floor buses with hydraulic doors that the drivers can control are capable of seating 41 passengers with provision for 20 passengers to commute standing. Incidentally, the price is a trial offer for the first week of operations and will be made more competitive.

With inkling that RTA would issue it limited permits to start city services, divisional authorities had sourced these seven low floor buses manufactured at the regional workshop at Kengeri. Costing Rs 26 lakh, these buses come with a destination indicator LED board. "We have kept our fares almost Rs 1-2 less than the private operators per stage and the minimum fare is Rs 4 as against Rs 5 charged by competitors," M Mahesh, KSRTC DC said.

Aimed at taking competition from local private bus operators head on, KSRTC has taken care to employ local drivers and conductors, who know the local culture and ethos, said M Sairam, KSRTC divisional controller. Hopeful that the deputy commissioner, who is the chairman of RTA would permit KSRTC to start scheduled from SBI terminus to destinations, Sairam said it is for the DC to take a call of relaxing a DM notification to facilitate this.

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March 6,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 6: PVR Cinemas on Friday launched its five-screen multiplex in here, augmenting its presence in Karnataka across 15 properties to 103 screens and to 46 properties and 286 screens in southern India.

With this opening, PVR consolidates its growth momentum in the current financial year 2019-20, so far opening 83 screens in the year and bringing its portfolio to 841 screens at 176 properties in 71 cities.

"We feel proud to cross the 100 screens milestone in the state of Karnataka at the very beginning of the year," said Joint Managing Director Sanjeev Kumar Bijli.

"Southern India has a strong market with significant growth potential. In Bengaluru, we have introduced some of our best formats and offerings owing to the nature of preferences by our customers," he said in a statement.

Pramod Arora, Chief Growth and Strategy Officer at PVR Ltd, said the company will continue to enhance the consumer experience through innovation and set new benchmarks in the Indian multiplex industry.

PVR is the largest and the most premium film exhibition company in India, serving over 100 million patrons annually. 

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February 17,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 17: Karnataka State Government have plans to establish three more ultra Mega Renewable Energy power parks, each of 2500 MW capacity, Karnataka Governor, Vajubhai Wala informed the joint legislative meeting, here on Monday.

Addressing a Joint Legislative meeting here, he said that the proposed Ultra Mega Renewable Energy parks would come up at Koppala, Bidar and Gadaga in the state.

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February 23,2020

Udupi, Feb 23: Tanushree Pithrody, a 10-year-old girl from Udyavar and class 6 student of St Cecily’s School, here and a Guinness World Record holder, erased the old record by covering the 100 metres 'Chakrasana race' in one minute 14 seconds to write her name in the Golden Book of World Records.

This was announced by Manish Bishnoi, Head, Golden Book of World Records, who handed over the Certificate to Ms Tanushree, who was accompanied by her father Uday Kumar and mother Sandhya here on Saturday.

The previous record-holder in this category was Samiksha Dogra [11 years and 1 month] from Rampur Bhushar, Himachal Pradesh, who had set a time of 6 minutes and 2 seconds on June14,2018.

Later speaking to scribes here, Ms Tanushree said that she was delighted that she was able to break the record. “When I was practicing, I used to finish it in around 2 minutes. This is my fifth record. I dedicate my success to my parents and my Yoga guru,”she added.

Ms Tanushree has also created a record for the ‘most forward rolls with Dhanurasana Yoga pose in 1 minute’ by performing 62 rolls and she also created the ‘fastest 100 forward rolls with Dhanurasana Yoga pose’ in 1 minute and 40 seconds on February 23, 2019 and entered the Golden Book of World Records.

In 2018, she set the Guinness World Record for ‘most full-body revolutions maintaining a chest stand position’ with 42 full-body revolutions in one minute, and on 21 March, 2019 she broke that record with 44.

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