Tired of eating vegetables and fruits doused in chemicals, the agricultural collective was on the look-out for farmers who did not use fertilizers. They were able to identify farmers from Mangaluru, Kalaburagi and Mandya.
A group of researchers at IISc have pitched a sustainable water resource development strategy for Bengaluru and Mangaluru, under which the floodwater from Nethravathi river could be harnessed and flown into a reservoir in the Arabian Sea.
As part of a project started by the local government school, children in Malali are digging percolation pits to recharge groundwater and cope with water scarcity.
Sudiksha, a two years and nine months old resident of Mogeradka village of Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka, was diagnosed with bilateral sensor neural hearing loss. The daughter of Vijay Kumar and Harinakshi, she now requires cochlear implantation surgery before she turns three years old this December.