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The Zilla Parishad School in Badampudi village, West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, usually filled with children’s laughter and lesson chants during the day, was eerily silent on February 13. The school courtyard, where students played and chased each other during recess, is littered with fallen leaves. The school was declared a holiday that Thursday and … Read more
From Chandra Sagara Convention Centre and Sindhoor Convention Centre in the south to the Sapthapadi Sapthagiri Palace and Sri Rajhans Convention Hall in the west, for decades, Bengaluru’s weddings were synonymous with Kalyana Mantapas in the heart of the city. These halls were compact and functional. But today, couples are stepping away from these local venues, … Read more
RSS volunteers at a rally in Chennai. | Photo Credit: Praveen P.K. Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar led the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) from 1940 until his death in 1973. With Golwalkar at the helm, the RSS spread its wings across the country. His book, ‘We or Our Nationhood Defined’, remained at the core of RSS ideology, … Read more
The Dubai-inspired collection features five grand pieces, each inspired by the region’s diverse aspects The dunes, mountains, architecture, water bodies, and razzmatazz of Dubai have found representation in a new form. These have been interpreted by couturier Gaurav Gupta in his quintessential style in a capsule collection that is a collaboration between him and Dubai … Read more
It is as though a festival is in progress on a patch of forest at the Periyanayakkanpalayam range. Scooters and cars are parked haphazardly along a stretch as families arrive in droves, children in tow. A young father leads his daughter through the crowd, while a mother walks briskly, hugging her baby to her chest. … Read more
For P. Srinivas Reddy, sugarcane is now just a memory. At 55, the farmer from Narayankhed in erstwhile Medak district of Telangana has adapted to the changing times, cultivating cotton and pulses on his 25-acre rainfed land. With groundwater depletion rendering irrigation impossible, he no longer battles the uncertainties that once came with sugarcane farming. … Read more
An economy’s growth is like sailing on two boats tugged to each other. On one side is the supply or the production of goods and services. GDP, or gross domestic product, is the value the production process adds. On the other side, there is demand or expenditure for purchasing these goods and services from the … Read more
COIMBATORE Vijayan Srinivasan of Eco Dynaamic in Coimbatore is into the manufacturing of electric three-wheelers for more than a decade and has sold over 4,000 vehicles that are operated within the premises of the buyers. It is only in 2022 that Tamil Nadu came out with a policy for electric three-wheelers and there are a … Read more
Sipping a cup of hot filter coffee, 32-year-old Arun Kumar wears a faraway and worried look. Braving the stench of urine that fills the air, he carries his coffee up the stairs littered with paper cups and plastic bags. There is no missing the gutka stains on the walls all along. Mr. Kumar’s day begins … Read more
Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A team of researchers from IIIT- Delhi have come up with AI-powered data integration and predictive analytics tools, to understand the patterns of antibiotic resistance in real time, enabling various agencies to act on them speedily. As part of a collaboration between Indraprastha … Read more