British Prime Minister David Cameron, who has spoken of forging a 'special relationship with India' and is currently in India, will leave the country without meeting Congress president Sonia Gandhi and considered the real power behind the throne.
The Rajya Sabha is likely to work till 8 pm from Tuesday to discuss and dispose of the innumerable pending bills and other legislative business.
The Tamil Nadu government has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the United States-based Tamil Nadu Foundation to reduce the number of school dropouts in the state's villages.
Union Minister of Railways Mamta Bannerjee, who is extremely perturbed by the disastrous train mishap in West Bengal early on Monday morning, has asked her ministry to carefully oversee the postmortem of M C Dey, the driver of the New Coochbehar-Sealdah Uttarbanga Express, which rammed into Bhagalpur-Ranchi Vananchal Express in Sainthia station of Birbhum district, killing 62 people and injuring 92 others.
Unless ratified by eight states, a Constitutional amendment cannot be signed by the President of India.
Twenty-six year old Casey Brinegar and 22-year old Kartik Kalaichelvan, both flight instructors, and Kartik's brother Pratik Kalaichelyan, 19, died in the accident. Brinegar and Kartik died on the spot while Pratik died in the hospital. Officials have not determined yet, who piloted the plane.
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has called a meeting of the chief ministers of seven states affected by Naxal violence on Wednesday, where he is likely highlight the importance of approaching the naxal issue as a national problem. He will also dispel the impression about various voices being heard on Naxal issue.
The Election Commission will dispatch a team to Gujarat to probe allegations of "bogus voters" being included in the electoral rolls. A three-member Congress party delegation including Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee chief Siddharth Patel, leader of opposition Shakti Singh Goel and general secretary in charge of Gujarat, Sidharath Reddy on Friday called on the Election Commission, complaining against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Narendra Modi government.
National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon will be leaving on a four-day trip to China on Saturday.
Union Minister M K Alagiri is taking his mother Dayalu Ammal to the US for a health check-up.
What happened to six-year old Indian American girl Alyssa Thomas, happened to late Senator Edward Kennedy a few times, when he was stopped at airports because his name was seen on a no-fly list. When the family tried to clear up the issue with Homeland Security, they received a letter notifying them that it could not be changed.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a sub divisional engineer of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd of Roorkee, Ashok Chaudhary, and four private persons of Faridabad (Haryana) and Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh), including an NRI kingpin based in Saudi Arabia, Sayeed Zaidi, for running a racket to cheat BSNL to the tune of several crores of rupees by illegally activating unmentioned ISD facility to local landline numbers.
The government has announced 17 holidays for the central government staff for the year 2011, although three of these holiday -- Mahavir Jayanti (April 16), Mahatma Gandhi's birthday (October 2) and Christmas (December 25) -- fall on a Saturday or Sunday, thus leaving 14 effective holidays.
Dr Jay Narayan has won the 2011 Acta Materialia Gold Medal and Prize, an international award given to one person annually for exceptional research contributions and leadership in materials science worldwide.
The new notes will be available from 2012.
The monsoon session of Parliament will begin on 26 July.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has said that it is unhappy with the recommendations suggested by the Group of Ministers on the Bhopal tragedy case.
Ekal Vidyalaya, a charitable trust engaged in one of the largest non-formal, basic education projects for underprivileged children in rural India, raised close to half a million dollars last month during five charity shows in the mid-Atlantic region including New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
The Punjabi Cultural Society of Chicago collaborated with the Chicago Children's Museum to organize 'Passport to the World: India Festival Celebrations' at Navy Pier on May 16.
The skit was part of SAYA!'s annual event to showcase the efforts of the youth, held in the First Presbyterian church in Elmhurst, the basement of which serves as the SAYA! office. The program included skits and performances by various groups, including those from Middle School 137, Richmond Hill High School and Flushing High School. Desi Girls, one of SAYA!'s own groups, had a skit on stereotypes and the South Asian girl;
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