Dwindling Blackbucks put Mowgli’s brothers at peril

Even as Mowgli, immortalised by Kipling in his Jungle Books lives on, the Indian Wolf is perilously close to extinction in Karnataka especially after the recent survey which put total number of Blackbucks-the major prey of the wolves at 458.
The Free People once ran across the entire subcontinent, and were subject to none but the [...]

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Patriotic Central College turns political cauldron!

Protests and dharnas are not new to the Central College located in the heart of Bangalore. It used to be a hub of activity for freedom fighters. On Wednesday, the college saw police ordering a ‘lathi charge’ on the Congress activists protesting against the government’s ‘Anti-Terrorism Awareness Campaign’.
The college, [...]

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Wanna die? Try Bangalore borewells’ water

There is no doubt that water is the elixir of life. But in IT City, circa 2008, it would be advisable not to drink it raw. That is, if you value your health, and even your life. For the plain reality is that Bangalore’s borewells and even open wells are teeming with bacterial and faecal [...]

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The story of AK-56

Sanju Baba’s release from the Yerawada Jail on an interim bail might have provided some respite to Bollywood. But ‘Munnbhai’s’ episode has certainly flashed enough light upon Ak-56 rifle! The rifle, after Sanju’s incident, seem to have surpassed the reputation of AK-47 as the most advanced and preferred weapon by the terrorists in India and [...]

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Bamboo; new raw material for construction crazy Bangaloreans

Soaring prices, crunch of construction materials like cement, sand and bricks and increased concern over eco-friendly homes, have made people to mull alternatives for building construction in near future. Fly ash bricks, mud bricks seem to be passe with the engineers and architects and use of bamboo for both commercial and domestic construction seem to [...]

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