BITS, BEADS, BIES Celebrate Coastal clean-up day with beach clean-up in Ullal
Mangaluru: BIT BEADS and BIES on Sunday organised a Beach Clean-up drive to raise awareness on respecting the nature and importance of maintaining hygiene. The drive was held at the Ullal Beach here in the city.
One of the motives of the drive was to create awareness on the need of putting an end to littering beaches with garbage and plastic, a press release from the organisation stated.
Garbage and plastic that are being dumped in the sea are destroying and depleting marine life in the oceans, it added.
The students displayed banners on environmental cleanliness and created public awareness with slogans at Ullala Beach. Hand gloves, Sanitizers and cleaning bags were distributed to all the participants.
“In keeping with its sustainable green vision of contributing significantly to a progressive, peaceful greener world and creating leaders in every field, the above Science & Technology institutions of the Bearys Group has introduced a futuristic concept of learning where nature and nurture come together to inspire young minds to become proponents of sustainable architecture and environment conscious leaders of the world.” The press statement further added.
The program was inaugurated by Dr. S.I Manjur Basha, Principal of BIT, the welcome address was delivered by Safwan, Physical Director who was also the coordinator for the event. Heads of various departments, faculty, non-teaching staff along with students of BIT-Engineering, Polytechnic, BEADS and BIES Institutions joined hands to clean the Ullala beach.
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Rickelton's ton in vain as SRH beat MI by 6 wickets
Mumbai (PTI): Ryan Rickelton's whirlwind unbeaten ton was overshadowed by Heinrich Klaasen's unbeaten 65 as Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Mumbai Indians by six wickets in an IPL match here on Wednesday.
Chasing an imposing 244-run target, Travis Head (76 off 30) and Abhishek Sharma (45 off 24) shared 129 runs for the opening wicket to set the platform for SRH.
Klaasen (65 not out off 30 balls) then displayed his all-round hitting abilities to guide SRH home with the help of Nitish Kumar Reddy (21) and Salil Arora (30 not out off 10) in 18.4 overs.
Earlier, Rickelton's knock powered MI to 243 for five.
MI rode on a 93-run stand between Rickelton (123 not out off 55 balls) and Will Jacks (46 off 22) in 7.1 overs for the opening stand to power the side.
MI skipper Hardik Pandya scored a valuable 31 off 15 balls before being dismissed.
Praful Hinge (2/54), Eshan Malinga (1/29), Sakib Hasan (1/39) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (1/31) were the wicket-takers for SRH.
Brief Scores:
Mumbai Indian: 243 for 5 in 20 overs (Ryan Rickelton 123 not out; Praful Hinge 2/54).
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 249 for 4 in 18.4 overs (Travis Head 76, Heinrich Klaasen 65 not out; AM Ghazanfar 2/51).
