Poor, homeless and unprivileged people of Kerala have a reason to cheer. The state government has launched a Rs 50 billion project to provide homes for the scheduled castes (SC) and scheduled tribes (ST) category.

Houses would be provided by the end of May 2011 to thousands of poor families as per Kerala chief minister, V .S. Achuthanandan, who was addressing the representatives of 27 organizations, campaigning for the rights of the underprivileged.

London, Nov 25 : A 68-year-old man in Johannesburg is facing prosecution for keeping his 8-year-old son hidden from friends and visitors in a garage for four years.

The boy, who was born to the former Austrian airline pilot''s black domestic worker, was kept in torn and tattered clothes.

Their identities have not been revealed, reports the Scotsman.

The child, currently, is undergoing assessment in the children''s psychiatric ward of a Johannesburg hospital.

Washington, November 25: Deploying robotic lizards in a Puerto Rico forest, UC Davis researchers have confirmed that animals can use body language to alert their neighbours before conveying any message, when the environment around them is noisy.

Research associate Terry Ord and professor emerita Judy Stamps, both with the Department of Evolution and Ecology, have found that Puerto Rican anole lizards perform eye-catching push-ups before beginning head-bobbing displays that advertise their territory and status.

Here’s good news for the viewers of daily soap operas.

The workers of the television industry finally decided to end their strike, and went back to work on Monday.

The producers are now hoping to telecast the new shows as soon as possible.

While speaking on this, Dinesh Chaturvedi, General Secretary of Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) said, "We all are back to work and there is no problem now. Shooting has begun everywhere."

Re-polling in 16 booths across five districts in Chhattisgarh will be held on today.

The districts are Sarguja, Jashpur, Korba, Raipur and Rajnandgaon.

Some of these booths had recorded more polling than the number of listed voters, while balloting could not take place at the others due to different reasons, officials in the State Election Office said.

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is considering appointing a regent to lead the Tibetan movement after his death.

According to a newspaper report, the idea was discussed this week at an unprecedented meeting of 600 Tibetan exiles in Dharamsala.

Dalai Lama is now 73 and has been suffering from ill health. So he intends to ensure a smooth succession after his death.

The most likely candidate for the regency is the 23-year-old Karmapa Lama, the third highest in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy, who was born and raised in Tibet but escaped to India in 2000.