** Learning beyond classrooms: Udupi woman grooms 500 kids

Roopa Ballal educates children from underprivileged backgrounds and looks after their nutrition and well-being.

Children of migrant labourers from the slum at Beedinagudde, located three km from the house, are here to shape their future. They forget their miseries and nurture their dreams during the time they spend at this house.

“My house has been their home and I have been their mother since last 15 years,” says home maker and Yoga expert Roopa Ballal. In a classroom constructed by her husband Nagaraj Ballal on the terrace, she teaches Kannada and English to these children.

** Air chief reviews helicopter programme

Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) Air Chief Marshal R.K.S. Bhadauria undertook his maiden flight in HAL designed and developed Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) on Friday. The aircraft took to the sky at 11.45 hours and remained airborne for an hour. The CAS was accompanied by HAL’s Deputy Chief Test Pilot, Wg. Cdr. (retd.) S.P. John.