To mark International Day of Yoga, Maharashtra government has decided to initiate from June 21 physical, mental and spiritual training for prisoners across the state to help inmates come out of depression.
Delhi-based Jasmeet Singh Sandhu, an Indian Revenue Service officer, has secured third position in the test.
Rediff readers tell us what their first salaries meant to them.
A crafts NGO in New Delhi is giving wings to India's first all-women puppeteer group, discovers Geetanjali Krishna.
Raju Dabhade is the creator of the game of roll ball that will see its third World Championship in December, 2015, in Pune.
'Where did this fungus suddenly come from and get all over the country?'
Eleven-year-old Roshan Lama, who was battling for life after his head was pierced by a javelin in his school playground a fortnight ago, succumbed to his injuries at AIIMS trauma centre in New Delhi on Monday.
The first player to win a Grand Slam, the ATP World Tour Finals, the men's singles at the Olympic Games and a Masters title in the same calendar year.
Google India announced a new social campaign called #ReachForTheSky, in association with MARD initiative.
It also advocated adoption of technology platforms and innovative models.
Shuvajit was confident of making a huge difference in the lives of people in rural India.
Drawing and painting can be employed to develop students into critical thinkers, problem solvers and communicators.
'A person should not be caught in the pursuit of enjoyment alone, he should experience enlightenment too. I mean, there should be action and motion. We must enjoy the action, not the motion,' BKS Iyengar told Rediff.com in September 2000.
'Wanting to see the bright side of things, we always told ourselves, 'It could have been worse!', when the situation got tough.' Air Commodore Nitin Sathe (retd), who helped rebuild the IAF's Car Nicobar air base after the 2004 tsunami, recalls the devastation on United Nations World Tsunami Awareness Day.
From 17 pre-school centres to 285 in less than five years - Hippocampus has brought the joy of learning to kids.
Mentally-challenged children find themselves ignored by India's education system.
The school is a place where your child will spend the next 14 years of his/her life. Is it equipped to meet the future?
Two young engineers educate children with iPads n remote villages.
Meet Sabriye Tenberken, a German woman who is changing lives in India.
Since Balakot strike, India is trying to build maximum pressure on Pakistan on the issue of terrorism, sources said.
Overseas education consultant NNS Chandra shares advice on entrance examinations, admission procedures at international universities.
Thanga Meenkal is a heartwarming story told brilliantly with a simplicity and honesty that is seen so rarely in films these days.
There is too much focus on building, infrastructure, the number of teachers (as opposed to quality), number of laboratories and so on, says Vineet Gupta.
'Today, music directors do not work on a song that turns out to be the biggest hit of the year.' 'Their main focus is on creating a song which becomes an instant hit.' 'Whether the audience remembers that song after a couple of months or not, that does not concern them anymore.'
The man who inspired Dangal tells Saurabh Duggal how the quest for an Olympic gold began.
The dastardly attack by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan on a school in Peshawar claimed many precious lives, including that of innocent students whose lives were mercilessly cut short by those claiming to be fighting the righteous war.
'I always say I am a teacher by choice and an entrepreneur by chance.'
'We need good teachers at the primary, secondary and higher education levels.'
Sridevi Raghavan, co-founder and CEO of Amelio, a childcare centre that has huge expansion plans, says she wants every working mother in India to have a successful career along with a happy family life.
It is important to understand the resources that each boarding school offers.
We must work in the direction of an innovation and technology driven economy which could boost up creation of jobs and open advanced and newer avenues of employment within the country.
She spins Bollywood tracks when she's not doing her investment consultant job.
'AMU is a secular university with an Islamic ethos.' 'We do not discriminate on the basis of religion. Let me tell you Muslims do not need reservations. They need affirmative action in education.'
'Madhuri is the best (dancer). She's is not mechanical. Most dancers like Aishwarya, Deepika, Priyanka and Kareena are fabulous but I don't see then enjoying it the way they should. Their focus is on, 'Am I looking beautiful?'' Straight talk from choreographer Terence Lewis.
The police said 10 companies have been deployed outside JNU. One company comprises 70 to 80 personnel.
It will carry out most banking operations like accepting deposits but can't advance loans or issue credit cards.
Bhanu Athaiya on the films she has designed for, how Gandhi happened, and what it means to be a woman in a man's world.
