Bengaluru: If "fickle English weather" is what one would normally associate with ‘Old Blighty', then Bengalureans had their brush with a mercurial day as rain played truant for most of Monday ...

The number of elementary and junior high school students who failed to attend classes for 30 days and deemed "futoko" truant hit an all-time high in the last fiscal year, which ended in March 2022.