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 raises $41,000 for children

The Akshaya Patra Foundation USA's Chicago chapter raised over $41,000 to educate poor children in India during its annual Food for Education benefit at Waterford Banquets in Elmhurst, May 1.......

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......

'Indian cities generate some of the most lethal forms of unsanitary living'

'Mumbai's corroding infrastructure, Delhi's pollution, Bangalore's rain water drainage, Kolkata's electricity -- these are all real and serious life threatening situations.' IMAGE: A resident......

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......

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......

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......

'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......