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Latest Articles

Ajay Hinduja on Hinduja Foundation's Holistic Approach to Childhood Diabetes

In India, the challenge of managing Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) in children goes far beyond access to insulin. For many families living on the economic margins, the demands of this lifelong condition are compounded by financial stress, lack of awareness, and limited access to continuous care. Recognising this, the Hinduja …
By Ajay Hinduja
• Deccan Chronicle

Bible Mission Gooty Church of India becomes the world’s largest church | Bible Mission Gooty Church of India becomes the world’s largest church

Bible Mission Gooty Church founded and established on 31st January 1938 in Anantpur district of Andhra Pradesh has been recognised as the world’s largest church by World Book of Records – London. The presentation of the certificate to Rev.B.Adbutha Kumar was done by Dr. Rajiv Srivastav ( vice - president, …
By Trisha Banerjee
• Deccan Chronicle

Bible Mission Gooty Church of India becomes the world’s largest church | Bible Mission Gooty Church of India becomes the world’s largest church

Bible Mission Gooty Church founded and established on 31st January 1938 in Anantpur district of Andhra Pradesh has been recognised as the world’s largest church by World Book of Records – London. The presentation of the certificate to Rev.B.Adbutha Kumar was done by Dr. Rajiv Srivastav ( vice - president, …
By Trisha Banerjee
• Deccan Chronicle

Lagori: The streets come alive with their music

The traffic wound its way along Brigade Road, jam-packed as usual, one evening in 2013. The commuters, no doubt, resigned themselves to the smoky chaos of the evening rush, windows up, helmets pulled all the way down. The lively strains of a song pulled them out of their stupor. Pedestrians …
By Ayushee Chaudhary
• Deccan Chronicle

Something wicked this way comes: Clowning around with Macbeth

Hamlet-the Clown Prince began as an experiment and went on to become one of the most successful contemporary productions and will complete a ten-year run in 2018. “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.” …
By Ayushee Chaudhary
• Deccan Chronicle

Blessing chimanga and the rhythm divine

What: Blessing Chimanga & Dreams Band (Zimbabwe) - LIVE! When: Saturday, June 16, 9 pm Price: Rs 499 Where: bFlat, Indiranagar Zimbabwe in the 1970s was a land of racial divide, with people living together in close-knit communities. Blessing 'Bled' Chimanga and his family would join the other devout church-goers …
By Ayushee Chaudhary
• Deccan Chronicle

‘Tied’ down? Shadow of patriarchy over choice of sterilization

A recent survey has revealed that as many as 38.7% of married couples opt for female sterilization as opposed to male sterilization which is at a mere 0.2%. The survey covered married women in urban Bengaluru between the age of 15 and 49. BENGALURU: When it comes to family planning, …
By Ayushee Chaudhary
• Deccan Chronicle

Sing us a song, you’re the piano man

India has an extraordinary emerging audience space and a growing womb of talent, believes the globally-acclaimed pianist Karl Lutchmayer who has been spreading the magic of music as he moves fingers on keys across nations and generations. The renowned artiste and music educator was born of Indian parents in London. …
By Ayushee Chaudhary
• Deccan Chronicle

Peace Oudh: Music without boundaries

You're driving home on a silent night when suddenly, you're surrounded by three military jeeps and the unmistakable sound of gunfire. That's life as usual in certain parts of violence-torn Palestine, where children grow up amidst machine guns. Every day is reduced to a mere struggle for survival, the higher …
By Ayushee Chaudhary
• Deccan Chronicle

Despite green signal, Railways tardy over automatic signalling

While Automatic Signalling was sanctioned on Cantonment-Whitefield stretch in every Railway budget since 2013-2014 till the most recent 2017-2018 and Intermediate Block Signalling sanctioned as a part of the Suburban Rail memorandum signed in January 2017, SWR is dragging its feet over them.
By Ranjani Madhavan
• Deccan Chronicle

It's not fare! BMTC should slash prices

The BMTC runs as a corporation surviving on profits, unlike transport divisions of other metros where public buses are funded by the state. Respective state governments waive off taxes and take care of employee salaries, irrespective of revenues generated. Though the state Transport Department reduced AC bus fares recently, activists …
By Ranjani Madhavan
• Deccan Chronicle

Many takers for metro feeder bus passes in Bengaluru

A simple move by the BMTC at the Baiyappanahalli Metro station in May 2017, has turned out to be a big success in achieving inter-modal integration. A BMTC pass counter opened at the terminal station of the Metro's purple line for commuters using its feeder bus services is receiving a …
By Ranjani Madhavan
• Deccan Chronicle

AC bus fares to be cut, but not of non-AC: Karnataka Transport Minister

“BMTC is considering reducing the fares of air-conditioned buses as the patronage has fallen to unprofitable levels,” Transport Minister Revanna told Deccan Chronicle. “We don't have such plans with non-AC services as of now, as BMTC is under losses,” he said.
By Ranjani Madhavan
• Deccan Chronicle

Whitefield pollution: Metro served notice

Pollution levels touched disastrous levels, 300 for PM 2.5 and 400 for PM 10. A push from ward committees of Whitefield and Mahadevpura areas got the State Pollution Control Board to issue an immediate notice to BMRCL, instructing them to clean up the construction dust caused by Metro work off …
By Ranjani Madhavan
• Deccan Chronicle