Colour me red
The Hindu
Bond over recipes, storytelling, art and craft connected to the pomegranate at the annual festival in Goychoy, Azerbaijan.
Who can eat the most pomegranates? Who can squeeze the most juice from this red fruit? Who can showcase the largest pomegranate? Head to the Festival of Pomegranates, celebrated in Goychay district, Republic of Azerbaijan, for the answers. The area is renowned for the most number of pomegranate species in the world and is considered the global pomegranate capital. The Goychay Pomegranate Festival (Nar Bayrami) was instituted in 2006 (and first held on November 3) and is held annually in October-November. In 2020, the UNESCO added this festival to its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity to celebrate the traditional uses of the fruit, the practices, traditions and skills related to its cultivation, and its varied uses as food.
Urging the OBC Advisory Council set up by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) to strategise to bring pressure on the current regime to complete the nation-wide socio, economic and educational caste census, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said that there should be fight for reservation of 75% for backward classes or proportionate representation based on the caste census. He also favoured reservation in private sector.

In order to advance science-based conservation of the Asian elephant (elephas maximus), the Karnataka Forest Department and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) on Tuesday signed a MoU to implement a five-year collaborative project titled ‘Landscape-Level Management of the Asian Elephant in the Mysore Elephant Reserve’.