Saving Sillahalla – The Hindu

Plea rejected: Activists have asked the government for details of the project and of explosives being used at the site. | Photo Credit: M. SATHYAMOORTHY For the last few months, residents of Bellathycombai village near Manjoor in the Kundha taluk have been a worried lot. The Adivasi residents have been reporting strange explosions along River Sillahalla…

Can universal healthcare be saved?

Tiffanie Turnbull Reporting fromStreaky Bay, South Australia BBC From an office perched on the scalloped edge of the continent, Victoria Bradley jokes that she has the most beautiful doctor’s practice in Australia. Outside her window, farmland rolls into rocky coastline, hemming a glasslike bay striped with turquoise and populated by showboating dolphins. Home to about…

BBMP polls likely to be delayed beyond October

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Head Office at Hudson Circle, in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: File Photo The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), which has been without an elected council for over three years, is unlikely to get one soon, with the Governor’s assent to the Greater Bengaluru Governance Bill, 2024. Transport and Muzrai Minister…