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......

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......

Cow important part of India's culture, rural economy: Modi

IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, UP Governor Ram Naik and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath serve food to underprivileged children during a programme organised to mark the serving of the 3rd......

Bhatnagar to run largest NGO-run school lunch plan

Shikha Bhatnagar, 30, has been appointed executive director of the new US office of the Akshaya Patra Foundation, the world's largest non-governmental organisation-run school lunch program, thanks......

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......

How 2 IIT-ians built a $1 billion company in 3 years

OlaCabs has presence across 19 cities, of which nine were added in the last 45 days. Image: Actress Gul Panag hands over the keys to an OlaCabs driver, in the presence of the company's co-founder......

Why Sajjan Jindal now wants to make cars

'We will have a well-designed product, and not a compromise.''We will make a completely contemporary vehicle, in keeping with consumers' aspirations, not like the Nano, which disappointed them,'......