Baggundi pond in Kulai is choked with hyacinth and residents want it to be <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/hyacinth-chokes-a-pond-and-a-tradition/article5787615.ece"> developed </a> like the Pilikula pond. Photo: H.S. Manjunath
The <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/conservation-given-a-goby-in-restoration/article5811304.ece"> restoration work </a> currently under way on the more than 150-year-old heritage edifice in Lalbagh Botanical Gardens is being done with little regard to conservation. Photo: G. Sampath Kumar
Summer has well and truly <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/brace-yourself-summer-has-arrived/article5811169.ece"> set </a> in Karnataka with the maximum temperature going up to 35.9 degree Celsius. Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.
As many as 70 children with Down Syndrome participated in a function organised to observe <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/children-with-down-syndrome-celebrate-life/article5815888.ece"> World Down Syndrome Day </a> in Bangalore. Photo: K. Murali Kumar
A group of young IT professionals gathered at a mall in Bangalore to conduct a <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/it-professionals-find-novel-way-to-urge-youngsters-to-vote/article5815885.ece"> flash mob </a> to raise awareness about the need to vote. Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.
A Madhwacharya monolith at Kunjargiri in Udupi district is likely to be <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/madhwacharya-monolith-likely-to-be-ready-in-may/article5814139.ece"> ready </a> in May. Photo: Special Arrangement
Devotees and disciples gather in Sri Raghavendra Mutt in Mantralayam to pay their last respects to the mutt's chief pontiff Sri Suyateendra Teertha, who <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/senior-seer-of-mantralayam-math-passes-away/article5815095.ece"> died </a> on Friday. Photo: Santosh Sagar