Even as the government clears the way for foreign universities to set up shop in India, the giants will be conspicuously absent. By the HRD ministry`s own admission, India is still a long way from playing host to a Harvard or a Stanford. The best
Following the ususal kneejerk course, the government has swung into action in the aftermath of this evening massacre at Dantewada. Action begins at 8.30 p.m. tonight at 7, Race Course Road (the PM`s official residence) with a high-level re
Trucks loaded with essential supplies and petroleum products have begun entering Manipur which remains cut-off with two highways from Assam and Nagaland blockaded by Naga students since April 16, official sources said today. Around
A constant stream of updates on this evening`s Maoist attack, killing over 40 civilians and police personnel, will be fed by all information received at a special control room set up at North Block. A government official of additional secretary ta
The killing of over 40 people in Dantewada, Chhattishgarh this evening has cast a pall on the UPA`s impending sixth anniversary celebrations. The government, it is believed, will be shifting the celebrations to a later date. At the
A member of high rise committee, which prevents developers from violating open space and other norms governing construction of towers, has been arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs one crore, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said today.
The Prime Minister`s Office has directed the Kurung Kumey district administration to ask the kin of each victim of the February 10 school hostel fire in Palin in Arunachal Pradesh to open bank accounts to receive exgratia. Prime Min
Home Minister P Chidambaram today made a fresh offer to hold talks with Naxals if they "suspend" violence even for just 72 hours, a day after Maoists unleashed another attack in Chattisgarh. "Maoists should say `We wi
Discussions between leaders of Congress and Kerala Congress (Mani) failed to resolve the differences between them over the proposed merger of Kerala Congress (Joseph) with KC (M). "Leaders of both the parties agreed to disagree
It was during the Asian Games in 1982 when the ring railway, a circular rail network started in Delhi. And now it’s the Commonwealth Games 2010 that the Railways wants to use as an opportunity to popularise this public transport system.
Does Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit think parliament terrorist attack convict Afzal Guru is innocent? The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday wondered Dikshit might be thinking so, since she is sitting over his mercy petition. If so, she should
The Punjab government is setting up a secondary school within five km radius of every locality as part of its efforts to implement Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RSMA), state education minister Upinderjit Kaur said here today.
Right to Information (RTI) activists in Hyderabad will soon file a writ petition at Andhra Pradesh high court seeking to vacate the stay order exempting the Hyderabad international airport operator, a public-private partnership (PPP), from the RTI
The industry ministry today proposed FDI up to 74 per cent in the defence sector from the present 26 per cent, stating urgent upgrade of equipment in the armed forces was needed as a bulk of them suffered from obsolescence. The department
Arjun Munda, the Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Jamshedpur, will be the next chief minister of Jharkhand as the party has yielded to the coalition partner Jharkhand Mukti Morcha`s demand to share the post by rotation. An official announcem
The great fatwa churn is in full swing at Dar Ulloom. The Islamic seminary has now declared birthday-celebrations as being against Islamic tenets. In a fresh fatwa, Darul Uloom Deboand has said that Islam does not permit celebrating birthd
The BCCI whip will crack hard for a many on the Indian cricket team. The board, faced with public outcry over the dismal performance of an under-the-weather team at the recent T20 world cup, has decided that selection norms for the Indian tema nee
Even as the BJP`s dilemma over a suitable chief minister from party ranks refuses to get resolved, the impasses seems to be all set to continue with the JMM sticking to its demand of reinstating party chief Shibu Soren as the chief minister.
Blaming the Mayawati government for various problems plaguing the people, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today said "a sorry state of affairs" continued despite several crores of rupees being provided to Uttar Pradesh by the Centre.
The entire ilk of VIPs, VVIPs, and hotshot celebs would do well learning about how not to throw one`s weight around from former Speaker Somnath Chatterjee. Chatterjee, stopped for violating a traffic rule in Mussoorie, paid the fine for th
