Who’s Winning This War – With the increasing use -and abuse- of antibiotics, bacteria are learning to fight back against the deadly drugs

Karnataka chief minister Ramakrishna Hegde’s bad patch may finally be over. The “unanimous election” of his nominee, M.P. Prakash, as the new Karnataka Pradesh Janata Party president on 5 October has proved the chief minister’s supremacy in the state unit in spite of the challenge from a vocal dissident group.

Rohini Nilekani, wife of Infosys cofounder Nandan Nilekani, disclosed Friday that she has recently sold 577,000 shares out of the 8 million shares that she holds in the outsourcer. The sale reduced her stake marginally from 1.41% to 1.31% which is still worth close to $370 million. The funds from the share sale, amounting to […]

1 in 4 people in the world will be affected by mental health disorders at some point in their lives. How can all persons with mental illness have access to care and support to live to their full potential?     View PDF

Rohini Nilekani and Sridhar Sarathy with kids in the Akshara Khazana library. JUNIPER Networks, Inc has committed US$34,080 to Akshara Foundation over three years to fund the creation of a children’s library and an Educational Resource Centre (ERC). The new library and resource centre were inaugurated by T M Vijay Bhaskar, IAS, Secretary for Primary and Secondary Education, Education […]