Souramana Yugadi celebrated, Good Friday ceremonies held across coastal belt
The Hindu
MANGALURU
The ‘Souramana Yugadi’ or Vishu festival was celebrated and Good Friday ceremonies were observed by a large number of people in the coastal belt on Friday.
Many people kept “Vishu Kani” displaying vegetables and fruits in their homes. The International Bunts Welfare Trust organised a function at the mini town hall in Hampankatta to celebrate the Vishu festival which is also called Bisu Parba in Tulu.
The ‘Vishu Kani’ displayed at the town hall had tender coconut, coconut, cucumber, tender jackfruit, banana, pumpkin, tubers and many other locally grown vegetables and fruits. There was a dance programme and a talk on the importance of Yugadi.
After two years of COVID-19 restrictions, cathedrals and other churches in Mangalore were seen fully packed with people for the Good Friday ceremony.
Bishop of Mangaluru Peter Paul Saldanha led the evening ceremony in Our Lady Rosary Cathedral, Rosario. People participated in huge numbers to take part in the passion of the Lord. As part of the liturgy, there was no celebration of Holy Mass. The solemn ceremony of lowering the body of Jesus from the cross was held with great devotion and reverence.
ACS Ignite, a start-up event aimed at empowering deep science start-ups to raise funding and mentorship was organised by the Student Chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in collaboration with ACS and Fortytwo at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) on Thursday. Over twenty start-ups got a platform to pitch their ideas to Venture Capitalists, who would go on to provide access to networks and funds.
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) has been chosen, along with IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Hyderabad, and IISc. Bengaluru, to establish centres of excellence (CoE) by the Wadhwani Foundation in Bioengineering and Biotechnology with a funding support of $1 million annually.