Sandeep Patil took charge as Superintendent of Police of Belgaum today.

He is the 67th SP and was placed in Davengere earlier. He is a 2004 IPS .

The Vodafone store situated on Dr.Ambedkar road opposite Civil hospital caught fire this evening and the entire store was converted into ashes.
Loss of Lakhs has been reported.

All the oil marketing companies have issued letters to the Petrol/Diesel retailers that beginning from Sept 1, it would their responsibility to collect and transport the fuel from the depot to their outlet. Until now the fuel used to be transported by the OMC’s to the door of the retailer.

The Belgaum District Petroleum Dealers’ Association have strongly opposed this unilateral decision and have decided not to buy anymore fuel from Sept 1.

Under the new system of delivery, the dealer will have to lift the fuel in tank trucks owned or arranged by him, thereby passing on the responsibility of safety, security, quality and quantity of the product upon the retail dealers.

If an amicable solution is not found in time citizens could face hardships. Apart from this the prices of Petrol might be increased by Re.1 from September 1.

Three day Aero Fest 2010 started yesterday and is jointly organised by National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR), Bangalore and the Belgaum-based Karnataka Law Society’s Gogte Institute of Technology and K.L.E. Society’s College of Engineering and Technology.

Demonstrations of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) were held at GIT Grounds on the inaugural day.

NAL’s technological innovations and recent achievements are on display at the 3-day technological exhibition organised at GIT.

Exhibits cover wind energy, power generation from solar ponds, weather forecasting, support to India’s space programme, smart materials and structural health monitoring, composite materials, and design and development of small civil aircraft.

Hang Gliders namely Clipper and Cruiser at Sambra also demonstrated different formations.

Thanks Biddu.

See more photos of AeroFest here Thanks Biswajit Baruah

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), in association with Intel Corporation, has announced its plans to revise its curriculum for undergraduate engineering courses to include multicore programming. The revision aims at integrating parallel programming at the undergraduate level to prepare future software developers to write codes on emerging technologies.

The Intel-VTU multicore curriculum revision initiative is a tailor-made programme developed with inputs from the Indian Institute of Scien-ces (IISc), Intel and senior faculty members from VTU in the area of multicore technology. It aims at encouraging faculty from the university’s affiliated colleges to participate in the course and the lab development in an open source model.

Speaking to press persons here today, CM B S Yedurappa said that the Global Kannada convention would be held in February and the district administration has been asked to tell the dates for the event.

Earlier CM inaugurated the new building of the circuit house and also the Belgaum One offices in the city.

CM further said that the work on the Suvarna Soudha has been satisfactory and about 50% of the work worth Rs.90 crores is over and by December the entire building would be ready and the assembly session would be held here.

Earlier the CM inaugurated a 30 bed hospital at Nidasoshi and also laid foundation stone for the government Industrial Training Institute at Udaymbag.

22-year-old trainee software engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, a fresher in the industry, plunged to death from the 11th floor of an office building at the ITPB around 5 p.m. In Bangalore on Friday.

Selected through a campus interview in Belgaum, Sudarshan S. Moothedath joined the tech major on March 13. He was a graduate from Gogte institute of Technology Belgaum.

The incident took place around 5 pm when many techies were wrapping up for the day. Sudarshan, who was in Explorer building, walked up to the window of the 11th floor and jumped out.

Sudarshan hailed from Belgaum and his father was a doctor. Sudarshan completed his engineering in Belgaum and was staying at Sai paying guest in AECS Layout. The reason behind committing suicide is not known.

DNA mentions- He committed suicide on Friday unable to bear the work pressure.He was seen hanging around with his colleagues about 10 minutes before he jumped to death. The incident left all the employees at the tech park shocked.

ITPB authorities said that Sudarshan committed suicide by jumping from a window of his office. However, his colleagues claimed that ITPB was trying to cover up its security lapse. Sudarhsan had jumped from the terrace of the building, where no one other than the maintenance staff had access to, they said.

Source: Various media reports

The PG center of the Karnataka university at Bhutramatti after 28 years of its inception has become Rani Chennamma University and Prof B.R. Ananthan assumed charge as the first vice-chancellor of the new university.

B.R. Ananthan, VC

The new university, in effect, will take away colleges and PG centres in Belgaum, Bijapur and Bagalkot districts that were hitherto under the purview of Karnatak University. In all, 296 colleges will come under the new university.

Addressing presspersons here on Thursday, B.R. Ananthan sought Rs.65 crores for the development of the university. MBA course was being offered along with the Institute of Management Education and Research, Belgaum.

Now Belgaum has two universities, VTU and now the RCU. The starting of another university should help boom Belgaum to be a educational hub.
The mention of KLE university was done and we regret the same, but KLE university is a Deemed university.

In a reshuffle of IPS officers in the state Belgaum will get Sandeep Patil as the new Superintendent of Police. He was earlier working as SP of Davnagere.

Out going SP Sonia Narang has been appointed Deputy Commissioner of Police, Traffic West Division.

In a train accident TWO school going children were killed on the spot at First gate.

The train crushed the children. A group of five were trying to cross the closed gate when this accident occurred.

The deceased have been identified as Bhimmapa Naik (8th Std) and Vanshree (7th Std.)

The website of Belgaum Police was launched on August 15, 2010.

Happy Independence day.

Th above photo was taken on August 15, 2010 at 9.40am at Hutatma circle. A freedom fighter is seeing looking at the Martyr’s monument. He must be remembering all his fellow comrades in whose memoria this has been built.

Jai Hind!.