The proposed Indian Institute of Management in Bihar will be set up at Bodh Gaya in Gaya district, state Education Minister Brishen Patel said on Wednesday.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh also endorsed the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to entrust the anti-dowry case registered against Arjun Singh and his family members to the CBI.
Changes will be carried out, essentially to "de-saffronise" the books, in the next session, Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
Kalyan Singh's counsel B B Saksena cited a statement by the then Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh while making this allegation before Justice Liberhan.
Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh said the government had, however, launched an Adolescence Education Programme for secondary and higher secondary classes.
Senior leader Arjun Singh said the Congress would continue to support the UP government despite rumours to the contrary.
Though there was no official word on the discussion, sources said the government was 'anxious' for a solution.
With over a million Indians residing in the UAE, there is need to set up more Indian institutes of higher education in the emirates, Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh has said.
The award was presented to Helmunt Neunzert for his 'pioneering contribution' to industrial and applied mathematics.
The Centre plans to open one of three proposed IITs in the 11th Plan period in Bihar.
The former HRD minister said the Congress is changing the education system of the country under 'unwanted influence of Left ideology'.
The Union Human Resources Development minister had said that the RSS was involved in Mahatma Gandhi's assassination.
The Union human resource development minister allegedly held the RSS responsible for Mahatma Gandhi's assassination.
Sitaram Yechury said the party will make a detailed comment after studying the order of the special court.
The court also adjourned hearing on a petition seeking review of its earlier order upholding transfer of Ayodhya case trial to Rae Bareilly.
The condition of Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh, who was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi after stomach pain, is improving, doctors said on Friday."His condition is stable and he is improving," said All India Institute of Medical Sciences Medical Superintendent Dr D K Sharma."He was in an acute phase when admitted. In the beginning, we will try antibiotics to cure the infection," said a doctor.
"This is in thinking process. No decision has been taken. After the committee gives it report, it will go the Central Advisory Board for Education and Council of Boards of School Education in India (CoBSE)," he told media person on the sidelines of a conference on Sarva Siksha Abhiyan and other education programmes.
Even as consensus eluded on the entry of foreign universities in the country, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh on Wednesday indicated the reservation policy will apply in these institutions.
There is no guarantee that if we speak in only Indian languages, all our faults will be washed away and India will shine. Why then do they bully and belittle the English-speaking? asks Shyam G Menon.
22,413 rooms in schools are in a dilapidated condition, in need of extensive repair.
The opposition has demanded that Arjun Singh apologise.
The BJP leadership too has rallied behind Vajpayee, saying he would remain the party's undisputed leader.
The book titled Mohin kahan vishram (No rest for me) penned by noted Hindi writer Dr Kanhaiyalal Nandan spanning half a century of Arjun Singh's political career is full of understatements that may kick off many controversies even while he escapes saying he did not mean it. In an interview to the author, Arjun Singh talks of the internal democracy that was once the hallmark of the decision-making process of the Congress.
The minister said the quota will be applied to existing number of seats in all centrally aided educational institutes.
The government has said it would implement the Supreme Court verdict on the OBC quota and does not want to seek a review of the judgment. Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh sought to mollify allies upset over the exclusion of creamy layer, stating the government as also the United Progressive Alliance favoured reservation benefits for the creamy layer. Singh steered clear of the demands by allies, including the DMK, for a fair and just review of the verdict.
Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh, the man who proposed the 27 per cent OBC quota, wants to implement the reservation from academic year 2008-2009.
Arjun Singh said he will speak after election results are out.
Opening a new front, Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal favoured more weightage be given to Class 12 Board exam for the Indian Institute of Technology entrance and felt that the required minimum of 60 per cent marks could be raised but left it to a committee to take a decision.
The minister said that IIMs have to amend MoAs to set up centres abroad.
A spokesperson told reporters in New York that Vajpayee has been in touch with Joshi, who resigned after a special court in Rae Bareli decided to frame charges against him and six others in the Babri Masjid demolition case on Friday.
Will this improve the system, giving students a better, low-stress education? Or will it put them at a disadvantage when they appear for higher-level exams?
Faced with increasing incidents of ragging in campuses, the government is launching a round-the-clock helpline to assist students in lodging complaints about such incidents for prompt action.
HRD Minister Arjun Singh was speaking at a UNESCO meet in Paris.
At the first meeting of Governing Council of NITI Aayog on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek views of Chief Ministers.
The defamation suit was filed after the minister alleged that the RSS had a hand in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
Justices Imtiyaz Murtaza and V K Verma also asked the Uttar Pradesh government and the complainant Madhvendra Singh to file their counter-affidavits.
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