Archive for August, 2009

About 100 workers employed in two garment factories were taken ill after they inhaled gas, suspected to be chlorine, from a leaking cylinder which was abandoned near their factories in Kodichikkanahalli near Bangalore on Monday, police said.

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People from all walks of life got together at Marthoma Syrian Church, Primrose Road, on Sunday to pray for the hundreds who have laid their lives for the country.

At the event, the NGOs accompanied kids from economically weak families and organized a feast too. The children danced to the tune of great music, forgetting their difficult circumstances for some moments.

Attention has finally been diverted towards our own backyard. The Western Ghats, one of the bio-diversity hotspots of the world, is also vulnerable to the increasing impact of climate change.

Gaja is nine years old. At the AHA! International Theatre Festival for Children, he wowed the audience with his bulti-jumping and drum stick tricks.

The event was divided into two sections: the non-TATA Track (external) — for corporates other than the TATA group — and the TATA track (internal), where the company’s techies participated.

Born in Thamirapatti, a small village in Madurai, to a poor family with four siblings, becoming an IAS officer was never part of Thangaraj’s thoughts when growing up.

BBMP officers got a chance to understand law in a deeper level. A workshop for them on Sunday introduced the nitty-gritties of legal cases and ways to handle those.

A software engineer from Andhra Pradesh, who had lost his job over a year ago, committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving train on Saturday night.


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