Bhagavad Dwaja dispute: Two youth attacked
Six persons arrested, released later
Koppa, May 29: When a cold war which has been there for the last eight months between the groups of two communities regarding installing Bhagavad Dwaja turned frenzy on Monday night, two youths were attacked by the youth of another community, near the Lal Bahadur Shastri stadium in the town.
The injured youth Sannakere Srikanth and Sudarshan were admitted to Koppa government hospital. Based on the complaint lodged by the victims, the Koppa police have arrested Tazil (19), Rehman (23) of Sannakere, Rizwan (19), Nissar (23), Razeem (19) of Hanuman Nagar and Abbu (22) of Jhatpat Nagar. However, Rijaz of Melinapete is absconding. All the arrested were produced before the JMFC court which has granted them bail.
Background
Around eight months ago, bhagavad dwaja was installed in a private land near Sannakere circle. But the local Muslim youth objected to this. Later, the RSS has started doing its activities at the place and local Hindu youths were going to the RSS Shakha. In the recently ended Assembly election, among two communities, one group has supported BJP and another supported the Congress. As the Congress candidate was elected in the election, the youth who supported the BJP were upset.
In his complaint, Srikanth said that on Monday at 9 pm, the accused have surrounded the victims near the stadium and insulted them before attacking.
However, newly elected Congress MLA TD Raje Gowda said that as the BJP workers were desperate for losing the constituency, they have been trying to disturb the peace in the constituency. No one is above the law. Action will be taken against those who violate the law. BJP and Sangh Parivar leaders have been trying to blown a small issue out of proportion, he said.
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Six scholars, including two women, win Infosys Prize 2024
Bengaluru: Two women scientists are among the six winners of the Infosys Prize 2024 for Economics, Engineering and Computer Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, and Physical Sciences, announced on Thursday by the Infosys Science Foundation (ISF) in Bengaluru.
The award was instituted by ISF in 2009.
The two women, who have been selected for the award this year, are Neena Gupta for Mathematical Sciences and Vedika Khemani for Physical Sciences.
Gupta, Professor in the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, was awarded for her work on the Zariski Cancellation Problem, a fundamental problem in algebraic geometry first posed in 1949 by Oscar Zariski, one of the founders of modern algebraic geometry.
According to a statement released by ISF, she proved the striking result that Asanuma’s three-dimensional affine variety yields a negative answer to Zariski’s original Cancellation Problem in positive characteristic, in 2014.
Khemani, Associate Professor in the Physics Department at Stanford University, has been recognised for her wide-ranging and groundbreaking contributions to theoretical and experimental non-equilibrium quantum matter, most notably the discovery of time-crystals.
Arun Chandrasekhar, Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University, won the Economics Prize for his contribution to the study of social and economic networks, using innovative data sets and drawing on theoretical methods from machine learning and computer science.
Engineering and Computer Science Prize is to be awarded to Shyam Gollakota, Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington for his research in societally relevant areas such as smartphone-based affordable healthcare tools for low- and middle-income countries, battery-free computing and communication, and augmentation of human auditory sensing with artificial intelligence.
The Infosys Prize 2024 in Humanities and Social Sciences goes to Mahmood Kooria, Lecturer, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, for his seminal contributions to the study of maritime Islam in a global perspective, with particular focus on Kerala in the pre-modern and early modern eras.
The Life Sciences Prize goes to Siddhesh Kamat, Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, for his discoveries concerning bioactive lipids, their receptors, and their metabolic and signaling pathways.
Speaking at the event organised to announce the award, Kris Gopalakrishnan, President, Infosys Science Foundation said the Infosys Prize has played a pivotal role in recognising brilliant minds whose contributions are shaping the future of research and science.
“This year, we refocused on early career researchers under the age of 40, recognising their immense potential and the promise of paradigm-changing work,” he added.
The prize for each category comprises a gold medal, a citation, and a prize purse of $100,000 (or its equivalent in INR). Narayana Murthy was also present at the event that was hosted at ISF’s office in Bengaluru.
According to the press note issued by ISF, previous laureates of the Infosys Prize, one of the biggest prizes announced in India, have gone on to receive several prestigious international awards, including the Nobel Prize (Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo), the Fields medal (Manjul Bhargava and Akshay Venkatesh), the Dan David Prize (Sanjay Subrahmanyam), the MacArthur ‘genius’ Grant (Sunil Amrith), the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (Ashoke Sen), and the Marconi Prize (Hari Balakrishnan).
