Bengaluru boy builds drone that can deliver newspapers at doorstep
Bengaluru's Rohit Dey, a first-year BSc student, has built a drone named Nayan that can be used not only for surveillance, photography, and crop monitoring but also doorstep deliveries. The prototype weighs 2.6kgs and can fly for 30 minutes; it can be controlled using a smartphone. Nayan can even deliver newspapers; Dey earlier conducted a newspaper delivery experiment in Marathahalli. Tap in for more news from Bengaluru.
A book to bring back lost Kannada words
While Kannada words are used in spoken language, Sanskrit words are increasingly replacing them in the written language. To address this issue, a Kannada linguist and two techies - Shankar Bhat, Bharat Kumar, Sandeep Kambi - compiled a book named "Samskruta Padagalige Kannadadde Padagalu". The book lists 7,000 such Sanskrit words along with two or more Kannada equivalents that are being ignored while writing.
3 infants die due to doctors' negligence in Kolar Hospital
Alleged negligence by doctors and lack of facilities at Kolar's SNR District Hospital claimed the lives of three newborns in 72 hours. Karnataka's health department denied the allegations but accepted that about 90 infant deaths were recorded at the hospital since Jan'17; 82 neonatal deaths were registered there in 2016. The incident created panic among the patients of the government-run hospital.
Former CM Kumaraswamy renovates his lucky bungalow
Ahead of 2018 Karnataka polls, former CM HD Kumaraswamy renovated his "lucky" bungalow after an astrologer recommended. The JDS Karnataka President bought the bungalow in JP Nagar Phase-III when he was a film producer and moved into it in 1999. After purchasing the bungalow, his political career took off, and he became the CM in 2006; before 1999, he faced two humiliating defeats.
Kidnapped victim manages to save herself from miscreants
Uramara Kasalagere's Ramya, a 21-year-old engineering student, escaped from the clutches of an unidentified kidnapping gang. She was receiving calls from an unknown number, who she thought was her uncle; the caller asked Ramya to meet at a said location. She was kidnapped in a Scorpio but she daringly swerved the SUV's steering wheel after which the vehicle lost control; the driver, however, escaped.
Fake RTE activists arrested in Bengaluru
The police arrested 44-year-old Ravi Kumar and 40-year-old Raja Nayak allegedly for extorting money from schools posing as Right to Education (RTE) activists. Ravi heads Karnataka Students Parents Awareness Forum, which reportedly helped parents file petitions against educational institutions denying RTE quota admissions and demanding high fees. He allegedly visited these institutions to threaten them with the petitions and extort money.
