When India's Silicon Valley goes nuts over groundnuts On two days every year, India's IT hub literally goes nuts over groundnuts. Thousands buy peanuts by the kilo as offering to Basava or Nandi, the great bull of Hindu god Shiva.
Polio vaccination drive from Dec 9 Around 13 lakh children are likely to be covered under the mop-up programme of polio vaccination between 8 am and 5pm on December 9, in Bangalore (urban and rural districts), Ramanagaram, and areas falling under the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike limits.
Prisoners toil...to Salsa and Samba music! For once, inmates of Parappana Agrahara jail have found an aesthetic outlet for their energies. Shaking
their legs to the rhythm of Salsa and Samba, they have been discovering tranquillity in dance divine.
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Spurned by girl, youth commits suicide Unable to face rejection, a teenage boy consumed poison and died in RMV extension, in Sadashivnagar police station limits on Wednesday.
He died just before tying knot Just before he could tie the knot, a bridegroom died of kidney failure in the Sreenagar, Girinagar police station limits on Wednesday.
The Centre's proposal to introduce one year compulsory rural service for doctors has drawn the ire of medical students. Are the doctors justified in their stand? What should the government do to make rural posting attractive?
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