Month: September 2021

** Harmilan, Aishwarya claim golden doubles in National Open Athletics

Harmilan Kaur Bains (Punjab) completed the women’s middle-distance double while Railway’s B. Aishwarya achieved the same feat in women’s horizontal jumps at the 60th National Open Athletics Championships at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Saturday.

** TVS acquires 80 per cent stake in Swiss e-bike company

Chennai-based TVS Motor Company has acquired 80% stake in Swiss electric bicycle and personal mobility company EGO Movement for around $18 million. 

This is also TVS’ second major acquisition in Europe after taking over Norton Motorcycles in July 2020.

** Kerala nurses win National Florence Nightingale Award for their selfless service

President Ram Nath Kovind presented the National Florence Nightingale Award 2020 to 51 nurses across the country. Adhering to Covid protocols, the presentation of the awards was held as a virtual ceremony. 

** Chhattisgarh creating India’s biggest man-made forest on barren land, abandoned mine

Chattisgarh is on its way to accomplishing an action plan to develop the nation’s largest man-made forest on a vast area, mostly the abandoned and non-functional mining belt, at Nandini in Durg district, about 55 km from Raipur.

** World-famous physicist Thanu Padmanabhan dies of a heart attack in Pune

A distinguished professor at Pune’s Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics and a cosmologist, Professor Padmanabhan was selected for ‘Kerala Shastra Puraskaram’ 2021 last month.

** Doha: Voice of World – Season 1 winners declared

he most awaited trending and entertaining Doha Music Lovers ‘Voice of World’ Online singing competition ended on September 10, 2021 by finding its three winners of both Hindi and Telugu languages simultaneously.

The three winners announced in Hindi were Tejaswi from California, USA, Jyotisha Santosh from Doha, Qatar and Shruthi Prabhala from Bilaspur, India. For Telugu the three winners were Medha Anantuni from Texas, USA, Geeta Lakshmi from Pennsylvania, USA and Mavuru Sravani from Vishakhapatnam, India. Many contestants are left in the show to entertain the viewers.