Love Me Twice’s second store was opened at Bengaluru recently | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement “You feel good when you shop,” says Mridula Pai, the founder of the thrift label Love Me Twice, the first branch of which opened in Kolkata in 2020. She has recently opened Love Me Twice’s second shop in Bengaluru at the … Read more
Within a week, two sensational and high-profile murder cases emerged in India. On January 3, reports surfaced regarding the murder of 27-year-old former model Divya Pahuja under suspicious circumstances at a hotel in Gurugram, Haryana. Three individuals, including the hotel manager, were arrested by the Gurugram Police, although Pahuja’s body is yet to be found. … Read more
An inscription written in Kannada and Sanskrit was found in the Mahadeva temple at Cacoda in southern Goa. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement An inscription written in Kannada and Sanskrit and said to be of 10th century A.D. Kadamba period has been discovered in the Mahadeva temple at Cacoda in southern Goa. T. Murugeshi, … Read more
Mangaluru Central-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express began its inaugural run after Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off six VB trains across India from Ayodhya, on December 30, 2023. | Photo Credit: Anil Kumar Sastry The Vande Bharat (VB) Express to Madgaon left Mangaluru Central railway station at 12.10 p.m. after being flagged off by Prime Minister … Read more
In a corner of The Aguad, Goa, stands a black velvet female mannequin, on which is draped a metallic bikini-armour — a helmet with bison horns on its head, a curtain of chain mail covering the crotch. Behind it is a large poster showing a model wearing the same costume, with the addition of bat-wings … Read more
Come Christmas, home cook and culinary expert Marina Charles is busy baking her signature Orappam, a dessert that is must at homes in St. Andrews, a serene, beachside village, 14 kilometres from Thiruvananthapuram. Rice flour is cooked in coconut milk with sugar and ghee till it achieves a thick paste-like consistency. A little fennel is … Read more
Goa’s Public Works Department Minister Nilesh Cabral has resigned from the Pramod Sawant-led State Cabinet to make way for the induction of MLA Aleixo Sequeira. Mr. Sequeira was among the eight MLAs who left the Opposition Congress last year and joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Chief Minister Sawant told PTI on Sunday that … Read more
Doctors from Arihant Hospital with the 28-day-old baby from Iraq and its mother in Belagavi on Thursday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Doctors of Arihant Hospital in Belagavi have saved the lives of two babies, by performing complicated heart surgeries on them. A 10-day-old baby from Goa and a 28-day-old infant from Iraq are the … Read more
There is so much more to Goa than just beaches, shacks and its party scene. With a history so eventful, Goa has many untold stories to tell. And, Aguad Interactive Museum: The Land, The People, and The Struggle is an effort in that direction. The recently-launched museum, which is set in a decommissioned prison, narrates … Read more
More than two decades ago, when she was a hotel management trainee at the Taj Culinary School, Amninder Sandhu called her father to complain about the long working hours. “My father only had one thing to say — Ya toh naukri karo, ya nakhre karo. Dono cheezein ek saath nahi chalti (Either work, or complain; … Read more