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Tamahar provides assessment and rehabilitation services to children with special needs and support services to their families by providing affordable and quality developmental interventions appropriate to thier mental age.

Tamahar: Helping special children lead a normal life

Tamahar founder 's journey to help children with intellectual disability began more than 25 years ago.

20 April 2018 2:12 AM IST

The view of the Den Haag

Going Dutch, definitely

Beyond Amsterdam and tulips, take a walk through the Netherlands and its Gothic ethos, quaint canals and wintry wows.

27 March 2018 12:30 AM IST

Green The Red activists promoting eco-friendly sanitary products in rural areas

Greening the Red: Promoting eco-friendly substitutes for pads

It is estimated that a woman uses up to 10,000 sanitary pads during her reproductive age.

10 Feb 2018 6:50 AM IST

Going by the India Aging Report 2017, 9.2 per cent of Karnatakas population is elderly and of this number 5.3 per cent are either living alone or only with their spouse and have to take care of their material and physical needs on their own.

No country for old people

Government policies exist, especially for BPL card holders but administrative shortcomings prevent these benefits from...

29 Dec 2017 1:56 AM IST

The average citizen doesnt have an adequate understanding of the nitty-gritties of the civil services to know whether it was right or wrong.

The chat room: Good intentions or bad, Roopa's was an act of courage

DIG Roopa Moudgil, whose scathing allegations exposed the corruption in Karnataka prisons, is being widely lauded for...

28 July 2017 2:27 AM IST

Paul DSouza (left), who invented a device that could tell fake currency from real. (Photo: Paul DSouza/Facebook)

B'luru man invents device for blind to detect fake currency

Dedicating the device to his friend, Tiffany Brar, Mr D'Souza named it TIFFY Template.

31 Jan 2017 12:47 PM IST