** Engineering graduate from Andhra Pradesh’s Tirupati shines in stencil art

A 21-year-old engineering graduate from Tirupati is making strides through her stencil art. Jyotsna, who had a penchant towards drawing and fine arts since her childhood, learnt the skills of stencil art by watching training videos on YouTube. 

Although the young woman has an inclination towards arts, she took up engineering due to some issues and completed her BTech with CSE specialisation from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering.

** Techie couple leave IT business in US to help stray animals in India

Peepal Farm, multidimensional enterprise, houses stray animals and also runs a clinic to treat them. It also helps people of different countries to adopt animals from India and rescue strays.

 A women-driven small scale social enterprise in Dhanotu village of Kangra district.

Peepal Farm, multidimensional enterprise, houses stray animals and also runs a clinic to treat them. It also helps people of different countries to adopt animals from India and works to rescue stray animals. Besides, the organisation also makes indigenous products by employing locals.

“We established this NGO in 2014 with a view to look after stray animals and give them shelter,” says CEO Robin Singh.

** Sania Mirza wins first title of 2021 season in Ostrava

 Star Indian tennis player Sania Mirza won her first title of the season as she and her Chinese partner Shuai Zhang beat the pair of Kaitlyn Christian and Erin Routliffe in the women’s doubles final of the Ostrava Open here on Sunday.

** Kerala sisters from Australia recite national anthems of 193 countries, win hearts, world record

Standing at the St John’s Cathedral in Australia’s Brisbane on World Peace Day (September 21), Teresa, 21, and Augnes, 18, set a world record.

The sisters, hailing from Thycattussery village of Cherthala taluk in Kerala, entered the Australian Book of Records and won a certificate from the Universal Records Forum by performing an incredible feat — they recited the national anthems of 193 countries, one after another, all from memory.  

** Electrical engineer from Bhopal emerges UPSC Civil Services 2020 woman topper in her second attempt

Jagriti Awasthi, the young electrical engineer from Bhopal, who emerged as the woman topper and second overall ranker of UPSC Civil Services Exam 2020 idolizes author and Infosys Foundation chairperson Sudha Murthy.

** 17 Indians triumph in Canada’s snap elections as Trudeau fails to win majority

Seventeen Indo-Canadians, including NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, won Canada’s parliamentary elections on Tuesday with Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returning to power in the snap polls.

** 49 Canadians of Indian origin in election fray : September 2021

In the last elections in 2019, 20 Indo-Canadians, including 19 Punjabis, were elected as MPs.

Among the 49 Indo-Canadian candidates this time, 16 are from the Conservative Party, 15 from Trudeau’s Liberal Party, 12 from Jagmeet Singh’s New Democratic Party (NDP) and six from the far right-wing People’s Party of Canada.

Three Cabinet ministers Harjit Sajjan, Bardish Chagger and Anita Anand are among the Indo-Canadian candidates.

** Veerappa Moily, Arundhathi Subramaniam, other winners receive Sahitya Akademi Award

While Moily received the prestigious award for his epic poetry ‘Sri Bahubali Ahimsadigvijayam’ in Kannada, Subramaniam won the award for her poetry collection, “When God is a Traveller”, in English.

The other winners in poetry include Harish Meenakshi (Gujarati), Anamika (Hindi), RS Bhaskar (Konkani), Irungbam Deven (Manipuri), Rupchand Hansda (Santali), and Nikhileswar (Telugu).

Nanda Khare (Marathi), Maheshchandra Sharma Gautam (Sanskrit), Imaiyam (Tamil) and Sri Hussain-ul-Haque bagged the award for their novels.

Apurba Kumar Saikia (Assamese), (late) Dharanidhar Owari (Bodo), (late) Hiday Koul Bharti (Kashmiri), Kamalkant Jha (Maithili) and Gurdev Singh Rupana (Punjabi) have received the award for short stories.

The Akademi has named Gian Singh (Dogri) and Jetho Lalwani (Sindhi) the winners for their plays, while Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay, popularly known as Shankar received the award for memoir (Bengali).