Since the first meet nearly a year ago, the Qatar Pamboorians have evolved into an active community with a mission. Their past gatherings have coincided with our festivals, which provided opportunities to partake in community meals, small talk, banter...

Udupi Power Corporation Limited (UPCL) synchronized its second unit with the national power distribution network a fortnight ago. The company ignored the deadline for suspension of operations, which the environmentalists, local branch of state farmers association,

The farmers in villages around Udupi Power Corporation Limited (UPCL) are aggrieved. Their soil, water, and air are polluted. Their traditional livelihood is threatened. The yields and incomes from agriculture, floriculture and horticulture are dwindling, which they ascribe to damage to local environment. The damage is ascribed

I am neither a resident nor a voter in India. I have a job in Qatar, what people back home call a cushy one. Till I have that job, I have this luxury of reading about local issues of Belle and comment about them; if the issue excites me sufficiently. One of the recent interesting

It has been less than six months since the ice-breaking inaugural meet of Pamboorians in Qatar. The parishioners met again on Friday, 10th December 2010, a day most of them can take a breather from work here in Qatar. This occasion marked the first ever collective celebration of their

We awoke from deep slumber after nearly twenty-six years when a junior court in Bhopal in the state of Madhya Pradesh convicted seven Indian managers of erstwhile Union Carbide India Limited of ’criminal negligence’ and sentenced them to two years simple imprisonment