The amended bill envisages giving the right to Minority Educational Institutions to seek affiliation to any university of their choice subject to rules, ordinances and acts of these universities.
The loan being extended on concessionary terms will have an interest rate of 1.3 per cent with repayment period of 30 years including a grace period of 10 years.
Tea major Hindustan Lever Ltd, facing threat to its employees from ULFA, will not withdraw its operations from Assam following an assurance by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.
It is for the first time in the history of Independent India that not a single Muslim is part of the Union Cabinet.
The bill also empowers a magistrate to pass protection orders in favour of an aggrieved person.
According to an Andhra government statement, Naidu 'reposed confidence' in the PM's leadership.
India lacks in innovation in education as children are discouraged to ask questions in schools something which should not be allowed to go on, Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Thursday, contending "unless you rebel, unless you challenge the status quo, how can you innovate anything".
The government was considering the report of the S K Joshi Committee to constitute an expert group to assess the suitability of transforming seven institutions to the level of Indian Institutes of Technology
The share of Information Technology industry in India's GDP was 5.2 per cent or $ 48.1 bn in 2006-07, the government said on Monday, quoting a Nasscom report. Minister of State for Human Resource Development D Purandeswari said of the $ 48.1 bn, hardware and software products comprised $ 11.5 billion and IT services $ 36.6 bn. Nasscom report also pointed out that around 16.30 lakh people were employed in the IT sector during 2006-07 & 375,000 more jobs were to be generated.
Terming Naxals the biggest human rights violators, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said security forces have been carrying out 'offensive operations' instead of defensive against the insurgents and have achieved big successes in recent times.
A war of words broke out on Monday on Twitter between Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani and Congress leader Priyanka Chaturvedi, with the Bharatiya Janata Party leader taking a dig at Rahul Gandhi, saying that losing Assam elections was "his forte".
The students' union has been on a strike against the draft hostel manual, approved by the Inter-Hall administration, which it claims has provisions for hostel fee hike, dress code and 'curfew' timings.
The government has not given permission to open a branch of Indian Institute of Technology at Singapore, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
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His remarks assume significance at a time when a large number of Indian students, many of them studying medicine, have been stuck in Ukraine following the Russian attack on that country.
The President has accepted many other recommendations, including making announcements on Indian aeroplanes in Hindi followed by English.
Amid Opposition uproar over reports of schools being ordered to remain open on Christmas Day to observe 'good governance day', the government on Monday clarified that no such instruction has been issued and only an online essay competition on the subject is being organised.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday accused the Congress of practicing appeasement politics, saying the party's priority was "family first." He asserted that the BJP-led government operates on the principle of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas' (development for all) and prioritizes "nation first." Modi further criticized the Congress's approach to reservations, claiming it was aimed at creating divisions within the country. He highlighted the BJP's initiatives to empower marginalized communities, including the constitutional status to the OBC commission and the introduction of 10% reservation for economically backward groups.
M M Pallam Raju, who has been allocated the human resources and development portfolio, on Sunday said he will carry forward the "good work" initiated by his predecessor Kapil Sibal, who set in motion several reforms during his tenure.
The preventive aspect of cancer is strengthened under comprehensive primary healthcare through the Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centre scheme by the promotion of wellness activities and targeted communication at the community level.
The government may save over Rs 70,000 crore (Rs 700 billion) on capital and revenue expenditure allocated towards new schemes in the FY25 Budget that are yet to be implemented.
The Indian Council of Medical Research is conducting three different studies to ascertain the facts regarding rising cases of cardiac arrest after the pandemic, Mandaviya said in response to a question in the Lok Sabha.
Nomination papers of Pranab Mukhejee, for the Presidential poll on July 19, are being readied, according to sources. Senior Union ministers and Members of Parliament have been summoned to Parliament House on Wednesday to affix their signatures on Mukherjee's papers.
Asserting that there is an overwhelming feeling of pessimism in India, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the biggest challenge is to use human resources to its full potential.
The minister was on his way to Motihari to attend PM Modi's rally. He never made it.
Satyapal Singh again questioned Darwin's theory of evolution on Friday saying human beings are descendants of sages and not monkeys as propounded by the British scientist.
AAP leaders Ashish Khetan and Ashish Talwar on Wednesday reached Hydrabad to meet protesting students.
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He accused Modi of reducing the cabinet to a 'rubber stamp', 'betraying' backward classes and giving Bihar only 'jumlas'.
The Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states' education ministers on Wednesday trashed Human Resources and Development Minister Kapil Sibal's road map for education, stressing that fiddling with examinations and a single board for 12th class examination cannot reform the education.
Union minister Satya Pal Singh on Wednesday called for inculcating scientific temper and curiosity among students.
He dropped those perceived to be non-performers or whose integrity came into question, and also where it was felt they needed to learn a lesson or two in humility.
Semiconductor makers need thousands of engineers and technicians, and though India has one of the largest pool of engineers in the world, they do not have experience in the semiconductor manufacturing space.
A day after the Budget was presented, chaos is expected to return to Parliament on Tuesday with the Opposition prepped to target Education Minister Smriti Irani in both Houses over her statements on the death of Hyderabad Central University student Rohith Vemula and the Jawaharlal Nehru University controversy.
Apparently Human Resources and Development Minister Kapil Sibal -- the Harvard-educated, erstwhile Wall Street lawyer -- still occasionally pines for the United States, going by his waxing nostalgic for the opportunities America afforded him during the time he spent in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Big Apple.
Sharad Yadav on Wednesday expressed regret and said he respected her and had defended her earlier
Choudhary also posted on his Twitter account, a letter written by Union minister for Labour Bandaru Dattatreya to Irani using "dear", and accused her of "double standards" on this count.
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