Attibele, where 14 people were killed in a firecracker accident in 2023, bustling with cracker sales in 2024 season

Attibele, where 14 people were killed in a firecracker accident in 2023, bustling with cracker sales in 2024 season

A firecracker accident killed 14 persons in Attibele in October, 2023. | Photo Credit: file photo Even before memories of the firecracker accident that killed 14 persons in Attibele last October have faded, the neighbourhood on the outskirts of Bengaluru is bustling again with hundreds of cracker stalls this season.  Following the accident in the … Read more

Dress up tangerines

Dress up tangerines

For four years now, Kamna Vohra and Vaishnavi Reddy have been creating floral wonderlands in Chennai and Hyderabad. Having met at their children’s school, it took the slow-living vibe of the pandemic years and the need to find oneself to result in Iris Lane. Today the duo works with dahlias, peonies, and native blooms to … Read more

Dress up tangerines for Diwali

Dress up tangerines for Diwali

Wax flowers in tangerines converted into vases. | Photo Credit: Rosella Stephen For four years now, Kamna Vohra and Vaishnavi Reddy have been creating floral wonderlands in Chennai and Hyderabad. Having met at their children’s school, it took the slow-living vibe of the pandemic years and the need to find oneself to result in Iris … Read more

Grocery baskets in Bengaluru households get costlier by ₹150-200 in the festive season

Grocery baskets in Bengaluru households get costlier by ₹150-200 in the festive season

Due to weather fluctuations, the prices of essential vegetables like onion, tomato and potato have also gone up. (Representational image) | Photo Credit: Sudhakara Jain Grocery baskets of staples this festive month have become costlier by at least ₹150 to ₹200 per household in Bengaluru as the rates of many kitchen essentials, including pulses and … Read more

Prices of essentials unlikely to rise during festive season: Centre

Prices of essentials unlikely to rise during festive season: Centre

Representational file image. | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar The Centre said on Wednesday (September 18, 2024) that it does not expect an increase in prices of essential commodities such as sugar and edible oils during the festival season. Talking to reporters on decisions taken by the Food Ministry in the first 100 days of … Read more

Diarrhoea claims 17 lives in 3 districts of MP in ongoing rainy season

Diarrhoea claims 17 lives in 3 districts of MP in ongoing rainy season

A temple seen partially submerged in flood water after heavy monsoon rains lashed Jabalpur last month | Photo Credit: PTI Seventeen persons have died due to diarrhoea in three districts of Jabalpur division in Madhya Pradesh so far in the ongoing rainy season, a health official said on Thursday, August 1, 2024. Of these 17 … Read more

BRS demands ₹25,000 per acre relief to ryots who suffered crop loss this season

BRS demands ₹25,000 per acre relief to ryots who suffered crop loss this season

Farmers of Chintabai Thanda in Jangaon district pouring their woes at BRS leaders on Sunday. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has demanded that the Congress government in Telangana announce a relief of ₹25,000 per acre to farmers whose crops have withered and were abandoned due to lack of water for … Read more