Maharashtra assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar has urged the state government to rename Alibaug as 'Maynaknagri' in memory of Maynak Bhandari, who played a crucial role in the naval prowess of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
Apply for the Young Creative Entrepreneur Award organised by British Council India or nominate a girl student for the Sharmila Erom scholarship and help fund their education.
All about the British Council's Young Creative Entrepreneur award, Gateforum scholarships and QS MBA Tour.
The anti-encroachment drive at Vishalgad Fort in Maharashtra's Kolhapur district turned violent as a mob hurled stones at police personnel and damaged properties, leading to the registration of cases against 500 people and the arrest of 21 others, police said on Monday.
Practice is the key to good band-scores and Indian students should make frequent use of the English language to improve their communication skills, says British Council's IELTS head in India, Kevin McLaven.
British Council invites applications for the International Climate Champions (ICC) 2010 programme.
The British Council invites Indian students and working professionals who wish to study or train in the UK, to apply for the British Chevening Scholarships, 2007.
British Council's Corporate Social Responsibility Case Writing Competition -- 2007
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's goal of making India a high-income economy by 2047 is unlikely to be achieved, but the country should become an upper middle-income nation by then, Financial Times chief economics commentator Martin Wolf said on Friday. Wolf further said that India would also become a superpower by 2047. "India wishes to become a high-income country by 2047.
The British Council invites Indian students and working professionals who wish to study or train in the UK, to apply for the British Chevening Scholarships, 2006.
British Council in partnership with the Ken Sprague Fund UK announces a cartoon contest on climate change.
The veteran actor is presented with the British award.
Hindu women plaintiffs who have filed a civil suit before the Varanasi court seeking declaration and asserting the right to darshan and worship Hindu deities whose idols are located on an outer wall of the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi has referred to stand taken by the British government in a 1936 suit seeking it to be declared as Waqf property.
'Our strong support is there to India becoming a Security Council member,' British High Commissioner to India Michael Arthur said.
If you are cool enough to have that streak of madness, if you are hot enough to display that splash of lunacy, well, the admissions to the MTV Mad House are open already.
Scotland Yard's War Crimes Team, which is part of its Counter-Terrorism Command, has launched an investigation into the role of British mercenaries in fighting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels in Sri Lanka during the 1980s.
A poll says people think mother is the most beautiful word in the English language
The British Council is organising Education UK Exhibition 2007 in six Indian cities this month.
These graduates will have the opportunity to spend a year training and working for TCS at its Innovation Labs and software development centres across India between 2016 and 2020.
Saturday's Quad meeting in Delaware is taking place against the backdrop of China's assertive behaviour in the South China Sea, its sabre-rattling in the Taiwan Strait and increasing footprints in the Pacific and Indian Ocean, asserts Rup Narayan Das.
The British Council is organising a souvenir design workshop in Mumbai and Kolkata.
British Council invites applications for the De Souza Trust Goa scholarship, for the forthcoming academic year.
Education UK experts at the British Council Nim Bahadur and Sonu Hemanii hosted a chat with GA readers on October 29. The transcript.
The British Council announces free English lessons for adults by teacher trainees on the University of Cambridge CELTA course.
The British Council Library, Mumbai, is looking for young Reading Agents to explore different places through a world of books.
The Training and Advanced Studies in Management and Communications Ltd invites applications for its one-year, full-time and two-year part-time MBA programmes.\nTASMAC is accredited by the British Accreditation Council, UK.
Former Punjab Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta was on Thursday appointed as the new Director General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), an anti-terror probe agency formed after the 26/11 attack in Mumbai.
'The Indian government is better prepared this time and has reached out to all contenders and not putting all eggs in one basket.'
rediffGURU Dr Pananjay Tiwari lists the options and cost of pursuing an MBBS education outside of India.
'There is uncertainty regarding job opportunities for our children after they serve for just four years under the Agnipath scheme.'
The suggestions have been part of the final position paper on social sciences, which is a key perspective document that helps in the development of new NCERT textbooks on the subject. The proposal has yet to get a final nod from NCERT.
The rally was being planned by UK-based Kashmiri groups to mark the first death anniversary of the commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist outfit killed in a gun battle with Indian armed forces in the Kashmir Valley on July 8 last year.
Proprietors Yadgar Marker and his daughter Phiroza launched a "Save India Club" appeal as they fought to keep it going but have now announced its impending closure.
Grappling with the intractable issue of Aligarh Muslim University's minority status, the Supreme Court said on Thursday the 1981 amendment to the AMU Act, which effectively accorded it a minority status, only did a "half-hearted job" and not restore to the institution the position it had prior to 1951.
As Ae Watan Mere Watan and Swatantra Veer Savarkar release this week, Utkarsh Mishra takes us down history and reminds us about India's freedom struggle.
Shah said the new laws would give priority to providing justice, unlike the colonial-era laws that gave primacy to penal action, and made reporting of crimes even easier by recognising e-FIR, Zero FIR and electronic or digital evidence.
The Training and Advanced Studies in Management and Communications Ltd invites applications for its MA programmes in Advertising, Public Relations and Journalism.
Former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns has reportedly been interviewed by British police in London regarding their investigation into allegations of corruption and match-fixing.
Quoting officials, The Washington Post said, the foiled assassination was part of an escalating campaign of aggression by RAW against the Indian diaspora in Asia, Europe and North America.
India's bid for a permanent seat in a reformed United Nations Security Council has received a strong support from many UN member states, including the UK and France, who emphasised that the the world body's top organ must reflect the emergence of new global powers.
