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Chinmaya Vidyalaya winners at The Hindu Academic Pentathlon
State-level finals of the event will be held in Kochi later this month
A 10-member team from Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Thripunithura, walked away with the first prize at the Kochi edition of The Hindu Academic Pentathlon held at Oberon Mall in the city on Saturday.
The team, comprising Hari Ganesh, Anand K.S., Amal K.R., Megha Madhavan, Jayakrishnan K., Parvathy Anil, Aparna S. Nair, Shreya M.P., Vishnu Chandrasekharan and Saraswathy, scored 90 points.
A team from Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir, Eroor, was the first runner-up, scoring 74 points. The two teams will vie with eight winning teams from other regions of Kerala, in the State-level final event that will be held in Kochi later this month.
Other participants
The other teams which made it to the final of the Kochi edition were Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Vaduthala; Kendriya Vidyalaya, Ernakulam; Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir, Poochatty; and Bhavan’s Adarsha Vidyalaya, Thrikkakara.
The event, organised by The Hindu Future India Club in association with Vignan’s University, saw brainy young minds battle it out in a scholastic competition covering five disciplines — mathematics, physics, chemistry, English elocution and fine arts (music/dance).
Focus on humanities
The Commanding Officer of INS Venduruthy and Kochi Station Commander of the Navy Commodore G. Prakash was the chief guest. He exhorted the 440 participants from 44 schools to accord due importance to humanities as well, since they cover various disciplines, including governance and politics.
The obsession with medical and engineering courses is not good. A scientific approach to life helps though, he added.
Speaking of his rural background and Malayalam-medium schooling, Cmde Prakash cited how he became a voracious reader of books by famous English authors. He called upon youth to prioritise co-curricular activities and sports, so that failures in life were taken with a sportsman spirit. “The upcoming generation must also be highly adaptable and flexible, so that they can get jobs in a fast-changing and competitive world. Love life and live life,” he signed off.
The judges for various disciplines were K. Pradeep, Rangarajan, C.L. Jacob, N.K. Vijayan, Anu, Sen, Jayasree P.D. and Manju C. Kaimal. Also present were Suresh George and Suresh Pillai, Senior Deputy General Manager and Assistant General Manager respectively of The Hindu, and Jaison, Consultant, Vignan’s University.
Oberon Mall was the venue partner of the event.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Kochi / by Special Correspondent / Kochi – November 04th, 2018
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Wayanad vets score a first in bovine surgery
Give inhalation anaesthesia to open udder to remove tumour
A team of veterinarians at the College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at Pookode under Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University has successfully performed gas anaesthesia on a bovine, a first in the State.
Under the procedure, vapours of isoflurane, a general anaesthetic, is delivered to the lungs using oxygen as carrier gas with the help of a gas anaesthesia machine.
Also called inhalation anaesthesia, this method is widely practised in human anaesthesia and anaesthesia of pet animals such as dogs and cats.
“It is for the first time in the State this method of anaesthesia is practised on a cow – that too in one which weighing 300 kg,” says S. Sooryadas, assistant professor, Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology at the varsity.
The cow had a tumour like mass in the udder towards the base of her two teats, which was obstructing milk flow, Dr. Sooryadas, who led the surgery, said.
Apart from the anaesthesia, it is for the first time the udder of a cow is being opened for surgical removal of a tumour like mass, he said.
“Gas anaesthesia in cows requires a dedicated anaesthesia machine that is manufactured for the particular purpose,” P.T. Dinesh, assistant professor at the department, said.
Such machines are imported and may cost around ₹25 lakh. Hence, as an alternative, doctors at the surgery department modified their small animal anaesthesia machine to suit it for the procedure in the cow, Dr. Dinesh, who was also in the surgery team, said.
Cost of machine
“The cost of the customised machine will come around ₹2 lakh. The gas anaesthesia procedure is the first of its kind for a cow in our State,” he added.
N.S. Jinesh Kumar and Reji Varghese, assistant professors, were the other team members.
The doctors have been invited to present a paper on the procedure at the annual congress and national symposium of the Indian Society for Veterinary Surgery to be held in Gujarat from November 22 to 24.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Kerala / by F.M. Manoj / Kalpeta – October 30th, 2018