Akshaya Patra vows to feed 100,000 more children

The Akshaya Patra Foundation, which provides free and nutritious meals to nearly a million children in government schools in half-a-dozen Indian states, last week made a $7 million commitment to......

Row erupts over Akshaya Patra serving 'satvik' food as midday meal

A controversy has erupted over the midday meal served to school children in Karnataka by the Akshaya Patra foundation with the state government directing it to include garlic and......

SC to hear review plea in ISKCON Bengaluru temple case

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a petition of ISKCON India seeking review of its May 16 verdict which held that the iconic Hare Krishna temple in Bengaluru belongs to ISKCON Society......

Cop dies after car collides with Rajasthan CM's convoy

An assistant sub inspector of traffic police died and six others were injured when two vehicles of Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma's carcade met with an accident in Jagatpura area of Jaipur on......

Deshpande to co-chair Obama's advisory council

India-born Gururaj Deshpande, chairman of Tejas Networks, A123 and Akshaya Patra, has been appointed co-chairman of United States President Barack Obama's National Advisory Council on Innovation......

Clinton lauds IITians' role in global development

Hailing the role the Indian Institutes of Technology have "played in the growth of India and the United States" and expressing his "immense respect" for the academic and humanitarian work carried......

Absolutely no plans to join politics: Narayana Murthy

Murthy said he was friendly with politicians of all hues and had tremendous respect for certain politicians N R Narayana Murthy, a co-founder and former chairman of Infosys, on Wednesday said that......

'Jobs are not a problem in India'

'If we chose to do the right things, it is possible to avoid job losses at a mass scale,' ABB MD Sanjeev Sharma tells Raghu Krishnan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The ISKCON temple in......