One dies of swine flu affected persons now to 28

6:24 PM Posted by ukmad

One person who had died on 30-08-09 in a private hospital was suffering from kidney and lung problems whose swab test was taken on 29-08-09, today his result showed up that he had H1N1 virus.

The name of the deceased was declared late night as Dattatray Ramchandra Kulkarni (45) of Athani Police station. He sis survived by his wife, son and daughter.

This means the first death by swine flu in Belgaum.

Today 9 results were received from NIMHANS out of which 3 were found positive for H1N1 influenza virus. All the 3 are males. Two are from Belgaum city and one from Ramdurg.

With this the total persons affected by H1N1 virus has now risen to 28.

Congress road should be declared Accident zone

4:24 PM Posted by ukmad


Today at 2.05pm two motorcycles collided with each other injuring one seriously and two others.

The accident occurred near Arun Theatre on Congress Road (the cross road towards hotel Panchamrut). A motorcyclist coming in full speed from First gate towards military Mahadev collided with another motorcyclist who was coming wrong side on the same road trying to go towards first gate.

The police immediately came in and fortunately a Police jeep was passing by which took the injured to hospital. The 108 ambulance which was called in by on lookers came later.

Residents of the area demanded that speed breakers be put up near the side roads approaching the Congress road so that such accidents done take place. Similar accidents have take place many a times on the same road and most of the time they go unreported and hence nothing is done by the authorities, Santosh Purohit a local resident told this blog. There are as many as 8 cross roads on Congress road from Military Mahadev to first railway gate.

Commuters on Congress road normally are in full speed and suddenly when some vehicle comes in cross the road either they collide or skid after applying brakes urgently.

Fortress Belgaum for tomorrow

11:24 AM Posted by ukmad

Come public festivals and the city of Belgaum is made into a fortress. May it be Shiv Jayanti or Ganesh Idol immersion which is tomorrow September 3, security in the city has been tightened.21495328

52 CCTV cameras will record the entire idol immersion procession from the control room at Khade Bazar Police station. SP Sonia Narang said they have taken preventative measure to maintain law and order during idol immersion and procession. Ten 10 KSRP and 15 DARP platoons, 200 police officers, 2,000 police personnel, 200 women constables and 200 Home Guards will keep vigil in the city. Liquor shops will shut from tomorrow morning and will open only on September 4 after 10 am.

The idol immersion procession in which 195 mandals will take part will start at 4pm from Hutatma Chowk, and will take the following route- Hutatma Chowk, Ramdev Galli, Samadevi Galli, Ramling Khind, Hemu Kalani Chowk, Tahshildar Galli and will end at Kapelishwar.

The BCC has also made elaborate arrangements at Kapelishwar where 2 cranes have been installed for faster idol immersion.


People travelling to Belgaum tomorrow in the evening will need to take diversions from the regular route as traffic will be closed towards Bogarves and will be diverted as usual from Camp.

Tomorrow’s weather forecast by IMD-

Rainfall (mm) 27
Max Temperature ( deg C) 25

Min Temperature ( deg C) 21
Total cloud cover (octa) 8
Max Relative Humidity (%) 97
Min Relative Humidity (%) 96
Wind speed (kmph) 024
Wind direction (deg) 250

25 H1N1 positives in Belgaum

7:43 PM Posted by ukmad

Today 14 results were received from NIMHANS out of which 6 were found to be positive with the H1N1 virus. This takes the total of patients affected with the H1N1 Influenza to 25 in Belgaum.

Out of the 6 detected today 3 are males and 3 females between the age group of 19 to 34 years. One is from Kolhapur, one from HHHukkeri Taluka, one from Raibag Taluka and other three from Belgaum city.

As of today 110 results have come in and another 85 results are still awaited.

Mysterious divider

10:37 AM Posted by ukmad

This is strange story of divider, which disappears as soon as the cops who replaced it went off.

Yellow line marked shows the divider removed
Yellow line marked shows the divider removed


The spot is between 2 and 3rd gate near the Shantesha Motors. The beginning of the story, there was a divider from second gate to Gogte’s house where there is a break in the divider to go to R C Nagar.

Recently with the blessings of a high profile, person the divider was removed from the spot. People complained that this will cause accidents and hence the divider was replaced. Again after sometime the divider were removed and this time speed breakers were put on the main roads near the spot.

A couple of days back the Traffic police took notice of the situation and decided to do away with the speed breakers and re install the divider, but as soon as the police went off the divider also. This is causing many hardships and can cause major accidents as trucks and heavy vehicles from Udyambag side pass from here.

Why the high profile person is interested in removing the divider so often is a mystery. Why does not the authorities take strict action against the ones who is removing the dividers?

No mobiles in colleges

8:04 AM Posted by ukmad


Karnataka government has banned the use of mobile phones in all government and aided first grade colleges under the Department of Collegiate Education (DCE).

The ban applies to all students, teachers and the non-teaching staff. If there is a need, a STD booth can be set up in the college premises the chief of DCE said.

Belgaum Panthers road show on Sept 5

7:52 AM Posted by ukmad


After getting the blessings from master blaster Sachin Tendulkar the Belgaum Panthers is all set for the KPL. The team will arrive in Belgaum on 4 September and a road show has been organized on 5 Sept.


The road show will start from Chennamma Circle and will take the following route- Chennamma circle, College road, Kirloaskar Road, Ramdev Galli, Samadevi Galli and will end at Union Gymkhana.

Belgaum Panthers has 5 players from Belgaum district. Ramling Patil, Sachin Shinde, Zeeshan Sayed, Ronit More & Mordi.

ITBelgaum’s Seminar presentations now available for download

6:32 PM Posted by ukmad





The ITBelgaum group launched its site ITBelgaum [http://www.itbelgaum.com]. The site has been designed dotCORD IT solutions.

The site will contain useful information for anyone seeking any information of IT and related areas. Dedicated pages have been made for Jobs, Discussions, Events, company information & many more will come up with time.


The first event by the special interest group ITBelgaum was organized on Saturday, 29th August 2009 at GIT Auditorium. The same was very well received by both the students and the faculty.


From day one of the formation of the group the need was felt to share knowledge with others, and taking this forward ITBelgaum group has been kind enough to upload the various presentations made at the vent for all.


Feedback received from the students was overwhelming and here is what they thought:




  • 33% of the students attended the workshop for 'content' while 45% of them attended it for 'career orientation'.

  • 51% of the audience was impressed by Swapneel while Dr.Ameet impressed 28% and RK impressed 21%.

  • 65% of the audience was happy and satisfied with the workshop while 34% were not fully satisfied.

  • 50% of the audience felt that emerging concepts and technologies demonstrated were the most beneficial aspects of the conference while 46% of them felt technologies demonstrate live were key.

  • 20% of the audience wants more workshops on LAMP | Linux | Networking while 14% of them are interested in Web Development | Rich Internet Applications. 9% of the audience would be interested in Entrepreneurship | Soft Skills | Insight into Corporate India while another 9% subset would be interested in Hacking | Network Security followed by 8% in VLSI.


Introduction - R K Patil, Vayavya Labs Pvt. Ltd.
(Download this Presentation)

Topic 1: Embedded Systems: Timing and Optimization – Dr.Ameet Patil, Spundhan Softwares
(Download this presentation)

Topic 2: Open Source Tools in an Enterprise: LAMP - Swapneel Patnekar, eth1 Network Solutions
(Download this presentation)

Swine flu now to 19

10:08 AM Posted by ukmad

Yesterday two children aged 9 & 10 were found positive with the H1N1 virus taking the total number of persons affected with this virus in Belgaum to 19.

Sachin launches Belgavi Panthers logo

4:42 PM Posted by ukmad

Sachin Tendulkar the Master blaster launched the logo and also the colours of the Belgavi Panthers Team for Karnataka Premier League (KPL).

Belgavi Panthers is the name given to Belgaum Franchise and will be led by

J Arun Kumar, the former Karnataka Ranji team captain, in the first season.

"I want to wish Belgavi Panthers all the very best for the current season and enjoy the game. I know the captain J Arun Kumar who is going to invite a lot of lot of energy in the team. And I just want to wish Belgavi Panthers all the luck and make the most of this. So all the very best," said Sachin Tendulkar.

Source: Reuters

I have searched the web for the logo and pics did not find any, anyone got one please share.


17 persons now affected by swine flu in Belgaum

8:43 PM Posted by ukmad

Today out of the 7 results that came in from NIMHANS, 4 were found positive, which takes the total number of persons affected by the virus to 17 in the city.

ITBelgaum’s initiative highly appreciated

5:48 PM Posted by ukmad

The premier Special Interest Group of the IT-BPO companies in Belgaum,ITBelgaum’s initiative of doing technical seminar and workshops was exceedingly appreciated by the students and the faculty as well.

Wondering whats this ITBelgaum?
Wondering whats this ITBelgaum?


A formal inauguration was done at the hands of Principal M D Kulkarni, IS HOD Vidya Kulkarni, and ISEC – SS Rodd & Hanji.

R K Patil of Vayavya Labs Pvt. Ltd. gave an introduction which enthralled the audience all time. His presentation was an eye opener to a many in the audience when they came to the existence of so many IT companies in Belgaum. IT Belgaum concept was well received by all and the idea of ITBelgaum were appreciated.

R K Patil from Vayavya Labs Pvt. Ltd
R K Patil from Vayavya Labs Pvt. Ltd


Dr.Ameet Patil from Spundhan Softwares enlightened the audience on software timing issues and code optimization techniques pertaining to embedded systems.

Dr.Ameet Patil Spundhan Softwares
Dr.Ameet Patil Spundhan Softwares


Swapneel Patnekar from eth1 Network Solutions made a presentation on Open Source Tools in an Enterprise: LAMP.

Swapneel Patnekar  eth1 Network Solutions
Swapneel Patnekar eth1 Network Solutions


The students got their queries answered from the people in the industry and that made many understand what they need to learn. Most of the queries came in after the event in a one to one interaction with the presenters who tried to clarify to their best.

The staff of GIT also liked the idea of ITBelgaum and assured their full co operation for more such workshops to be held. The faculty was pleased that people in the industry came to share their experiences with the students and gave practical sessions other than just theoretical.

The series of workshops and technical seminars on different subjects and aspects will be held at different colleges including MBA, BBA, and BCA by which the local talent supply could be enhanced and the student coming out of college is aware exactly what the companies expect from them.

Interaction
Interaction

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A special mention is needed here for all the members of the ITBelgaum group who made this workshop an ostentatious achievement & the staff of GIT College. All the members took up their errands and saw that the function was a success. Here a special mention is required of Dot Cord It Solutions team of Sandeep Hegde and Manoj Nair who arranged everything in the college and also designed the ITBelgaum.com website in no time.

Photos: Shrawan Zadoo

KARNATAKA PREMIER LEAGUE FIXTURES Belgavi Panthers schedule

11:27 AM Posted by ukmad

Belgavi Panthers will play 6 matches in Bangalore’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium and the last match will be played in Mysore.

September 9: Bangalore Brigadiers (Urban) vs Belagavi Panthers (7.45 pm)

Sept 12: Belgavi Panthers vs Mysore Maharaajas (7.15 pm)

Sept 13: Belgavi Panthers vs Malnad Gladiators (3.30 pm)

Sept 14: Mangalore United vs Belgavi Panthers (3.30 pm)

Sept 16: Belgavi Panthers vs Bijapur Bulls (7.15 pm)

Sept 17: Provident Bangalore vs Belgavi Panthers (3.30 pm)

Sept 20: (in Mysore) Belgavi Panthers vs Shamanur Davangere Diamonds (10.00 am)

Sept 22: First semifinal (team 1 vs team 4, 3.30 pm);

Second semifinal (team 2 vs team 4, 7.15 pm).

Sept 23: Final (7.15 pm).

Unclean Belgaum beautiful Belgaum

7:15 PM Posted by ukmad



“Swach Belgaum Sundar Belgaum” I read this somewhere written by the corporation. It means Clean Belgaum Beautiful Belgaum.

While going around in the night on Thursday to see Ganpati’s I took the below photo at Kadolkar Galli-Ganpat Galli corner. All the vegetable waste is seen lying in the centre of the road. There are thousands of people moving around to see the Ganpati’s and while passing by have to close their noses and pass.

There have been huge hoardings been put up by the corporation on swine flu in which keep yourself hygienic is mentioned. But who will keep the roads hygienic?

Personal hygiene is ok but what about social hygiene. The health department should look into such matters seriously and not as part of daily routine and clean up this stuff daily.

Godse’s Moreshwar collection

1:20 PM Posted by ukmad

By Sujay Nimbalkar

Mr. Kishore N Godse has a leisure pursuit of gathering photos of Lord Ganesh from various Temples & also in various incarnations. Owner of “Moreshwar Xerox and communication services shop” at Basawan Galli (Belgaum City), Mr.Godse has Collection of more than 90 photos for past 8 years and the collection is increasing day by day.

Kishore Godse in his xerox shop with Ganesh photos in the background
Kishore Godse in his xerox shop with Ganesh photos in the background


Among the 90 photos fixed in his shop following are some of the famous incarnation of Lord Ganesh

  • Ashta Vinayak
  • Trishund and Mandi Ganapati (near Pune)
  • Dagdushet Ganapati (Pune)
  • Siddhivinayak (Mumbai)
  • Mahaganapati (Titawala- Thane Dist.)
  • King of Lalbaugh ( known as Lalbaugh cha Raja at Mumbai)
  • Kanna Drushti Ganapati (Udupi)
  • Ganapati With 16 Hands
  • Ganapati drawn by painting “OM” 121 times.

And the list goes on and on.

He told this blog, “I am a devotee of Lord Ganesh from my childhood, but whenever I fix a new and a different photo of lord Ganesh from the previous one in my shop Lord Ganesh has favored me in some or the other way”. “I bring it whenever I visit historically important Ganesh Temples or my friends and relatives gift me on some or the other occasion”.