A ‘special category’ quota for weaker communities with similar rights enjoyed by Other Backward Classes, farm loan waiver, setting up of ‘Indira canteens’ to......
'What is surprising is the scale and spontaneity of the mobilisation and the social profile of the mobilisation.''Not just the youth, but women, children and families are part of this now.''This is......
'How can middlemen disappear as long as our political parties are sucking in massive amounts of black money?''There is an old political art well practised in New Delhi -- people create artificial......
'Children should be brought up connected to our culture and should be introduced to characters from our mythologies.''What is this Baa Baa Black Sheep?'Nikita Puri makes sense of Mohandas Pai's......
India should enhance its economic, cultural and defence ties with Mongolia. It is high time Modi should focus on gaining clout in smaller Asian countries such as Mongolia. It is in this context,......
IMAGE: Villagers queue outside a bank on the outskirts of Allahabad. Photograph: Jitendra Prakash/Reuters 'The execution has been 100 per cent faulty.''The scheme is also a stupid one, a real......
It is surprising to see that there is no direct focus being given to the IT industry in the budget this year.World over, this decade is defined as a decade of information technology driven......
As the finance minister increased the education outlay by 24 per cent, the stocks of education services companies cheered the move, with a few touching an intra-day high by rising between 2.5 per......
The Youth Affairs and Sports Ministry has been allocated Rs 1,121 crore (Rs 11.21 billion) in the annual budget for 2011-12, which is nearly one-third of last year's Rs 3,315.67 crore (Rs 33.15......
Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......
In Tamil, Periyar means 'the respected'. How the reformist leaderEV Ramaswami Naicker came to be known by that name is an amazing story, with all the elements of controversy well in place. It is to......
A hike of Rs 214 crore was allocated to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, with Finance Minister P Chidambaram earmarking Rs 1219 crore for it in the 2013-14 budget presented in Parliament......
A hike of Rs 214 crore was allocated to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, with Finance Minister P Chidambaram earmarking Rs 1219 crore for it in the 2013-14 budget presented in Parliament......
The exposure draft of the National Youth Policy, 2012, was unveiled by Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Ajay Maken on Thuursday. The Draft NYP 2012, said Maken, is a first of its kind as it......