Radio Jockey and Program Production training for Mangalore women

December 8, 2011

Mangalore, December 8: Women from Mangalore can now have an experience of being a Radio Jockey without incurring any expenses.

Community Radio Sarang 107.8FM is organizing a week-long training workshop for women from December 12 to 17 at St. Aloysius College premises.

The free training programme for women begins at 10:00 am and is a golden opportunity for Mangalore women to participate and take their first step in the radio broadcast industry. The training workshop will dedicate special sessions on producing radio programs on health programs for women.

The women joining the workshop will be associated with Community Radio SARANG 107.8FM on a regular basis, for the future, in producing and presenting programs, and help empower themselves.

Any woman from Mangalore and its surroundings, interested in producing radio programmes on any topic, specially health and hygiene, is welcome to join the training workshop. They can produce programmes on various topics, issues, talks, interviews, etc. While the week-long workshop is full-time, the ensuing production will be according to their convenience.

The workshop is a part of National Council for Science and Technology Communication (NCSTC)'s initiative 'Science of Women's Health and Nutrition' in popularizing science and scientific temper among rural masses, and making science applicable in day-to-day life. The NCSTC is an extension activity of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.

In its effort to inculcate scientific temper in promoting women's health and nutrition and empowering community women, Community Radio SARANG 107.8FM is partnering the DST and NCSTC in this venture.

About Radio Sarang

Community Radio SARANG 107.8FM, (run by St. Aloysius College, Mangalore) has been serving the communities of Mangalore by broadcasting various subject-based, informative and educative programmes for the last two-and-a-half years. The station started broadcasting on 24 June 2009 and presently broadcasts 24 hours of programmes every day. Radio SARANG 107.8FM is the only Community Radio in India which broadcasts round the clock programs. The broadcast covers areas of Moodbidri, Udupi, Siddakatte, Bantwal, B.C.Road, Puttur, Sullia, Belthangady, Ujire, Manjeshwar, Ullal, Kotekar, Katapadi and near-by towns.

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Karnataka govt to build Rs 200 crore pilgrim complexes at Tirumala

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July 5,2020

Tirupati, Jul 5: The Karnataka government will soon build a massive pilgrim amenities complex and marriage hall at Tirumala, the hill abode of Lord Venkateswara, at an estimated cost of Rs 200 crore, a temple official said here on Saturday.

The state would soon submit a blueprint for the construction of the Rs 200 crore mega complexes to the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) that governs the hill shrine, the official said.

Consequently, based on the designs, TTD would construct the complexes with the given fund and after completion, they would be handed over to the Karnataka government, he said.

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa would lay the foundation stone for the mammoth complexes on the hills some time next month, he said.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is likely to take part in the programme, he added.

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Dear Sir,

Keep aside all these type of extra expenditure like spending for statues, monuments, pilgrim amnesties etc.

During this period of virus pandamic, please use all these amount for medicines, medical facilities, food and development of the state. We are facing shortage of medical facilites and the people are dying on the road by not getting a bed in the hospital. Please use these amounts for the same. During this Pandemic not even hindu brothers also accept this offer. Leave all vote politics and concentrate to develop the state.

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Bird flu: Migrated birds under close surveillance in Mysuru-Mandya region

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March 18,2020

Mysuru, Mar 18: Even though the migration season is coming to end and the winged visitors are set to fly back, the water bodies where most birds nest and breed are under close surveillance with the report about spread of bird flu in Mysuru as unusual death of birds can be a cause for worry and hence the authorities are on high alert.

At Karanji Lake, the birds are watched in detail twice – morning and evening. If any sick bird or dead bird is noticed, the Zoo Vets are alerted. So far, no such birds had been sighted. The surveillance data is maintained every day. Intensive surveillance and passive surveillance is done.

Zoo Authority of Karnataka (ZAK) Member Secretary B P Ravi said the birds are doing well and there is no cause for worry with their health monitored constantly along with tests on the bird droppings done every month at the National Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases in Bhopal.

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Mumbai returnee tests covid-19 positive in Belthangady; DK's tally reaches 62

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May 22,2020

Mangaluru, May 22: Dakshina Kannada today reported a fresh case of coronavirus infection, taking the coastal district's tally to 62.

The new patient is a 29-year-old womon, who was under instituional quarantine monitored by the district administration in Belthangady.

She had returned from Mumbai on May 18. Her throat swabs were sent for covid-19 testing on the following day and today she received positive result.

Out of the 62 covid-19 cases detected in Dakshina Kannada so far, only 50 are residents of the district. Among 12 others 4 are from Kasaragod and 3 from Karkala, 2 each from Uttara Kannada and Mumbai, and 1 from Kalaburgi.

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