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U T Khader leads International Yoga Day celebrations in Mangaluru

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June 21, 2018

Mangaluru, Jun 21: Urban Development and Housing Minister U T Khader inaugurated the international yoga day celebrations organised by the district administration and department of Ayush at Mangala indoor stadium in the city today. 

He performed yoga with Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, Manggaluru South MLA Vedavyas Kamath and others.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Khader said that it was necessary to practise yoga for a healthy life. 

Reminding that yoga is a contribution of India to the world, the minister said that regular practice of yoga helps to achieve perfect balance between mind and body. 

Across Mangaluru

The Yoga Day was also celebrated across schools, colleges, industrial units and social organisations here on Thursday.

Among the few to hold the programme early in the day was the Ramakrishna Mutt where the event was conducted by yoga instructor Mohan Kumblekar. Mr. Kumblekar, who has been conducting yoga sessions at the mutt for several years now, started the session at 6.15 a.m. with warm-up exercises which were followed by several asanas. The session ended at 7.30 a.m. with meditation.

A session by personnel of Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited was held at the MRPL Recreation Centre between 6.15 a.m. and 7.15 a.m. The session was conducted by a yoga teacher from Mangaluru University. A separate session was held for students for Delhi Public School, personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force and family members of MRPL employees. MRPL on Wednesday started a week-long yoga programme, according to a press release.

Among the several educational institutions that held yoga sessions on Thursday included the one organised by Nitte Deemed to be University’s NSS wing on the K.S. Hegde Hospital campus in Deralakatte. Following the yoga session, the university felicitated Iddya Karunasagar, Senior Director, International Relations of the University, who has been practising yoga for over four decades. The university also felicitated Nhehern Acharya, the third year Bachelor of Physiotherapy student from Nitte Institute of Physiotherapy, who has won gold medal for two years in a row in the Artistic Display Yoga Competition organised by the International Yoga Federation.

The NCC units of St. Aloysius College celebrated the day on the college premises. Zeena, Assistant Professor of the College’s Commerce Department, conducted the yoga session. Administration Officer of NCC Mangaluru Group, Lt. Colonel Amith and Principal of the College Praveen Martis participated in the programme.

Senior Yoga teacher Gopalakrishna Delampady conducted an hour-long yoga session at the Expert PU College in Kodailbail. Students from Excellent PU College too celebrated International Yoga Day.

Konkan Railway Corporation organised the celebrations at the Konkan Rail Vihar in Nerul, Navi Mumbai. Sanjay Gupta, Chairman and Managing Director of the corporation, participated in the programme. Similar celebrations were held at the regional offices of Konkan Railway in Karwar and Ratnagiri, a press release said.

Indian Coast Guard also celebrated the day. A Coast Guard release said that earlier it had organised the practice sessions on Yoga on June 10, June 17 and June 20 for officers and men in uniform to help acclimatise them to yogic postures. The participants had been introduced to Yogasanas, Kapalbhati, Pranayama, Dhyana, Sankalpa and Meditation as per the common protocol issued by the government.

S.S. Dasila, Commander, Coast Guard Karnataka, also performed yoga along with other Coast Guard personnel. Uma Prashanth, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mangaluru, was the guest.

All officers and men in uniform from all Coast Guard Air Enclave, 75 Air Cushion Vehicle Squadron, Indian Coast Guard Ships Savitri Bai Phule, Rajdoot, Amartya and Kasturba Gandhi at the disposal of No 3 Coast Guard District Karnataka at New Mangaluru participated in the event.

“Braving the rough and high seas, newly based state-of-the-art indigenously built ship, Vikram, showcased the importance of Yoga in facing the challenges posed by high seas so as to enhance a safe and secure coast for the people while on routine patrol off the coast of Karnataka and Lakshadweep and Minicoy group of Islands,” the release said.

Yenepoya University and Father Muller Education Institutions, also celebrated the day.

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April 2,2020

The current physical distancing guidelines provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may not be adequate to curb the coronavirus spread, according to a research which says the gas cloud from a cough or sneeze may help virus particles travel up to 8 metres. The research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, noted that the the current guidelines issued by the WHO and CDC are based on outdated models from the 1930s of how gas clouds from a cough, sneeze, or exhalation spread.

Study author, MIT associate professor Lydia Bourouiba, warned that droplets of all sizes can travel 23 to 27 feet, or 7-8 metres, carrying the pathogen.

According to Bourouiba, the current guidelines are based on "arbitrary" assumptions of droplet size, "overly simplified", and "may limit the effectiveness of the proposed interventions" against the deadly pandemic.

 She explained that the old guidelines assume droplets to be one of two categories, small or large, taking short-range semi-ballistic trajectories when a person exhales, coughs, or sneezes.

However based on more recent discoveries, the MIT scientist said, sneezes and coughs are made of a puff cloud that carries ambient air, transporting within it clusters of droplets of a wide range of sizes.

Bourouiba warned that this puff cloud, with ambient air entrapped in it, can offer the droplets moisture and warmth that can prevent it from evaporation in the outer environment.

"The locally moist and warm atmosphere within the turbulent gas cloud allows the contained droplets to evade evaporation for much longer than occurs with isolated droplets," she said.

"Under these conditions, the lifetime of a droplet could be considerably extended by a factor of up to 1000, from a fraction of a second to minutes," the researcher explained in the study.

The MIT scientist, who has researched the dynamics of coughs and sneezes for years, added that these droplets settle along the trajectory of a cough or sneeze contaminating surfaces, with their residues staying suspended in the air for hours.

"Even when maximum containment policies were enforced, the rapid international spread of COVID-19 suggests that using arbitrary droplet size cutoffs may not accurately reflect what actually occurs with respiratory emissions, possibly contributing to the ineffectiveness of some procedures used to limit the spread of respiratory disease," Bourouiba wrote in the study

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August 1,2020

Mangaluru, Aug 1: Former member of Karnataka Legislative Council Ivan D’Souza has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. 

The Congress leader took to social media to break the news. “I and my wife Dr Kavitha have been tested positive covid-19 positive. There are no symptoms. We had voluntarily given our throat swabs for testing,” he said in a Facebook post.

He also requested his friends and well-wishers not to visit him until he recovers. 

Mr D’Souza had participated in a party meeting at Congress Bhavan when KPCC chief DK Shivakumar visited city yesterday. He was seen meeting several Congress leaders including U T Khader.

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July 5,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 6: With a record 1,925 new cases across the state during the last 24 hours, Karnataka's Covid-19 tally rose to 23,474 including 13,251 active after 9,847 were discharged till date, an official said on Sunday.

"Of the total cases across the state on a single day, Bengaluru accounted for 1,235, taking its positive tally to 9,580, including 8,167 active," said the health official in a statement.

With 37 succumbing to the disease in the state, including 16 from Bengaluru, the state's death toll increased to 372, with 145 from this tech city since March 9.

Of the 603 discharged from across the state during the day, 302 were from Bengaluru, taking its total number of cured to 1,267 so far.

Of the 243 cases in the intensive care unit (ICU) across the state, 132 are in Bengaluru, 15 at Dharwad, 12 at Kalaburagi and 10 each at Ballari and Raichur.

Of the 16,899 samples tested in the day, 14,649 were negative and 1,925 positive. Of the total 7,06,425 samples tested so far, 6,65,525 were negative and 23,474 positive.

After Bengaluru, Dakshina Kannada reported 142 positive cases followed by Ballari 90, Vijayapura 57, Kalaburagi 49 and Udupi and Dharwad 45 each.

Of the total 603 discharged, 52 were from Kalaburagi, 37 from Ballari, 36 from Dakshina Kannada and 22 each from Udupi and Dharwad.

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