It is one of the most sustainable crops to cultivate, one that can even survive amid harsh drought, making it perfect for the more arid parts of Karnataka. The benefits of ragi (finger millet) are man

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Come August 17, Bengaluru’s best IT brains will hack their way to social reforms. Equipped with extensive, national-level data sets, some of the city's most brilliant analytical minds will pit themsel

A harrowing scream greeted us as we walked into the Advantage Elder Care home in Kothanur. It came from an old woman completely bent over with arthritis, whose closest companion is utter agony. She ca

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India is a rapidly growing source of granite and is already one of the leading suppliers of granite and sandstone in the world. The granite quarrying business flourishes around Bengaluru. An estimated

“If we keep our beards long, we are suspected to be al-Qaeda or the Taliban opeatives by the U.S. military. If we keep our beards short, we are assumed to be agents of international agencies by the Ta

What Joyce Jayaseelan has come to learn in her 30- odd years as a family counsellor is that tenderness will take you far, for, those who are hardest to love are the ones who need it the most.

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Beware the present dry spell might just get worse. The effect of El Nino, a climatic cycle that affects rainfall all over the world, has got a stranglehold over monsoon causing a shortage of over 60 p