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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday congratulated weightlifter Gururaja Poojary after he clinched a bronze medal in the Men's 61 kg final during the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham.

After clinching a bronze medal in weightlifting, weightlifter Gururaja Poojary dedicated his medal to his wife. Indian weightlifter Gururaja won a bronze medal with a combined lift of 269kg in the Men's 61 kg final at the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham on Saturday.

Udupi district administration on Thursday honoured its own son-of-the-soil Gururaja Poojary, 25 who bagged a silver medal in the just concluded 21st Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast, Australia.

India’s Gururaja claimed silver in the men’s 56kg weightlifting event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games handing India its first medal at the quadrennial event on the opening day.

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Weightlifter Gururaja Poojary clinched a bronze medal in the men's 61kg category at the Commonwealth Games, adding to India's tally on Saturday.

Along with eight other researchers, Dr Gururaja KV, a batrachologist at the Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, and his wife Dr Priti Gururaja, studied the foot flagging behaviour among frogs in the Western Ghats, a paper on which ‘A Common Endocrine

Former Chief Justice of India Justice M N Venkatachalaiah called for revolutionary changes in judiciary to make it relevant to the present society.

When CR Naik, Deputy Range Forest Officer, Dandeli Anshi Tiger Reserve asked Dr Gururaja KV, Adjunct scientist at Gubbi labs and Faculty at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology and Batrachologist to identify a call that he found unique, Dr Gururaja thought it was that of a kingfisher. When Naik told him that it was frog call, Dr Gururaja was convinced that an indepth study was required.

Rio Olympian S Mirabai Chanu (women's 48kg) and Gururaja (men's 56kg) bagged gold medals in their respective categories on the opening day of the Senior National Weightlifting Championships on Monday.

As part of Mapping the Malabar Tree Toad project, a species endemic to the Western Ghats, and to promote citizen science, researchers are encouraging the use of the progressive web app (PWA)—Frog Watch.

Batrachologist Dr Gururaja KV has launched a campaign called Finding Petu, to document the Malabar tree toad, an endemic, endangered toad species in the Western Ghats. Finding Petu is inspired by ‘Finding Nemo’, an American animated adventure film.

In the streams running through the Western Ghats lives a frog that appears to have remarkable skills in acrobatics and pottery, both of which are on display during its mating ritual, which can last up to four hours.