** This ‘Postcard’ serves the best of taste from 12 states

When Ashish Nichani and Sudarsan Metla first met while working together at the ING Group, they bonded instantly over a common love for food and travel.

Driven by passion, both quit their banking jobs to foray into the world of speciality food.

The duo founded Postcard in November 2019 to elevate the experience of enjoying traditional Indian snacks procured from 12 states

** Best out of waste: Professor forms team, transforms metal scrap into pieces of art

Nothing in this world is useless. Believing in this concept, a professor has been turning scrap into pieces of art. Professor Srinivas Padakandla, HoD, Fine Arts in the University College of Architecture and Planning, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, has been transforming recycled automobile metal scrap into sculptures.

Andhra Pradesh

** Mallannasagar reservoir: A 400-year-old Singaram village set to go off the map

 This village is in Kondapaka mandal of Gajwel constituency, represented by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, is soon going to disappear from the map and be submerged under Mallannasagar.

The village has about 200 houses with a population of about 600 persons. This village has some 400-year history. The residents say the village was founded on an Inam given to a family some 400 years ago. The family that was given the Inam settled here with five families and slowly it grew to its current status.

** Column: A Belgian monk, Swiss largesse and Kerala cows

In the early 1930s, John Mahieu, an impressionable student from Belgium, could not get enough of the… Father Francis

Indo-Swiss Project The proposals from Switzerland were studied by the Indian and Swiss governments and in 1963 the Indo-Swiss Project was born.

This was the first project from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in India.

An experimental station was set up in Mattupetty for crossbreeding experiments and pasture improvement trials.