Mangaluru students grow their own rice for midday meals

A newly installed pedestrian bridge over a six-lane highway in Miami on a college campus collapsed Thursday, crushing a number of cars below and reportedly leaving several people dead.The Miami Herald reported that an unknown number of people were trapped ...

Charles 'Biharilal' Thomson, is an Australian who speaks fluent Hindi learnt on the streets, trains and buses of India's hinterland.Biharilal tells Rediff.com's Archana Masih how India has bewitched him. IMAGE: Biharilal Thomson with a sadhu at a yoga institute in Madhya Pradesh while travelling with his mother to see the Kumbh Mela in Ujjain. Photograph: Kind courtesy Charles Thomson/Facebook Biharilal Thomson is a white Australian who speaks Hindi better than many Indians. The first time he ...

Citizens for Bengaluru (CfB) has launched #BengalurigeBeku #BetterStreets, a competition to redesign streets to make them sustainable. Srinivas Alavalli of CfB said: "Students will be designing streets to understand public transport and urban landscape. For ...

Hundreds of students on Monday took to the streets in Allahabad town, pelting stones and torching a bus, to protest the brutal lynching of a Dalit law student by a group of people following an argument at a restaurant. The students, from Allahabad University ...

Lahore, Feb 11 (IANS) Doughty Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jahangir, who fought her battle on the streets as well in courts, opposed military strongmen and steadfastly championed the rights of women, minorities and LGBTs, passed away here on Sunday.

Thousands of devotees took out a procession on the streets of Shravanabelagola as part of Janmakalyana Mahotsava of Pancha Kalyana of Adinath Theerthankara, on Friday. The event is part of the Mahamastakabhisheka of Bhagawan Bahubali. Jain Mutt seer ...

People living near JSS College in Jayanagar, South Bengaluru, are outraged that the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is unnecessarily relaying a footpath built just three years ago. While street vendors on the footpath complained they are severely ...

College students across Tamil Nadu continued to hold protests for the fifth day today against the recent hike in bus fares, and demanded immediate rollback of the revision.Actor Kamal Haasan, who has announced his foray into politics, also hit out at the government on the issue.Students held protests in Madurai, Thanjavur, Perambalur and Dindigul among others, with several of them boycotting classes opposing the government move, police said.Many students said the hike has 'severely' affected ...

The horror of Kathua rape and murder has found an echo in Surat where a body of an 11-year-old girl who was raped and tortured was discovered with no less than 86 wounds. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi or the Bharatiya Janata Party 's (BJP) national ...