Cooking in progress at Anandam Home Caterers’ kitchen | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT A legacy built on trust and goodwill. That is how Raji Gopalakrishnan summarises the 50-year-old journey of Anandam Home Caterers in Thiruvananthapuram, started by her late mother, L Anandavalli or Anandam G Nair. The golden jubilee year is special for 60-year-old Raji
Mountains of muck, those stinky black spots of mixed garbage, are rising across the city again. But even as the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) claims to tackle them with a steep 36% garbage tax, a workable way out remains largely ignored: Wet waste composting. Localised ward-level composting with a multi-stakeholder approach could potentially solve
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Mumbai: BlackRock, Inc. has made a big bet on the Adani Group, snapping up nearly a third of about $1 billion bonds sold by a group promoter entity, marking the first investment in any Adani entity by the world’s largest asset manager. Apart from BlackRock, at least five other top global funds also bought the
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A coalition of farmers, environmentalists, religious leaders and advocates organised a protest meeting in Khanapur on Wednesday against the State government’s proposed land acquisition for the Banduri Nala Irrigation Scheme in an ecologically-sensitive Mahadayi basin. The Save Mahadayi, Save Malaprabha meeting also witnessed the participation of some religious leaders, women’s groups and activists. Resource persons
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Dear reader, Imagine a grim underground cavern. Here, prisoners have been chained since childhood. Their necks and legs are fixed in place, forcing them to stare perpetually at a blank wall before them. Behind these wretched souls burns a great fire, and between this fire and the prisoners runs a raised walkway where hidden figures
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Tourism Secretary Smita Sabharwal. File | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL With less than a month to go, Telangana is gearing up to host the 72nd edition of the Miss World beauty pageant with preparations underway round-the-clock. On Tuesday, the State government officials ran through the gamut of the line up at the Chowmahalla Palace. Speaking
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One of India’s leading public intellectuals and an authority on the Dalit movement, Anand Teltumbde, has been in the news across the country for his book on Ambedkar, Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. The book offers a deep analysis of not just Ambedkar’s philosophy, but also the man he was—complex, visionary and
Bhaskar’s departure comes as the digital-only bank navigates a slowdown in revenue, delays in its plans for an initial public offering, and rising pressure to deliver profitability. His departure is significant for Niyo also because the company has been exploring acquisitions to bolster its offerings. Bhaskar was in charge of mergers and acquisitions, fundraising, and
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Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) faces an internal crisis of sorts after a spat between its Lok Sabha Member of Parliament (MP) Kalyan Banerjee and other parliamentarians was out in the open on April 8. A video of a recent verbal spat between Kalyan Banerjee and a party’s woman MP, and screenshots of heated exchanges
The routes, which include Delhi-Chandigarh, Delhi-Jaipur, Pune-Aurangabad, Chennai-Bengaluru and Indore-Bhopal, among others, will be fitted with electric vehicle (EV) charging stations on priority. The move comes after the PM E-Drive scheme announced that the ministries of heavy industries and road transport and highways, along with other stakeholders, would identify routes for setting up charging infrastructure
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