The National Commission for Women has been slammed by a Parliamentary panel for not playing any "proactive" role in safeguarding the rights of the fair sex despite the massive nationwide outrage over the Delhi gang rape incident.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre and the Indian Air Force to consider granting permanent commission (PC) to 32 retired women short service commission (SSC) officers based on their suitability for the purpose of giving them pensionary benefits.
Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal announced the possibility of changing the marking system of the Class XII board exams to a grading system. Good move or bad?
The JNUSU holds the Vice-Chancellor responsible for the violence. "He is using henchmen to perpetrate violence on students and vandalise the university," said JNUSU. "The JNU community has a single point of demand. That either this VC resign or the human resource development ministry as the competent authority remove him! Those who are trying to malign and destroy this university will not succeed," demanded JNUSU.
Human Resources and Develeopment Minister Kapil Sibal was on Tuesday greeted with protests from Anna Hazare supporters at a seminar on Lokpal in New Delhi, hours after the arrest of the Gandhian.
MIT School of Distance Education, Pune announces admissions to diploma courses in engineering and management.
L Capital Asia is the largest investor in Fabindia.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to meet United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi again on Sunday to discuss matters related to Monday's expected Cabinet reshuffle. Dr Singh had met Sonia Gandhi in this regard earlier on Saturday. Dr Singh also met Kapil Sibal, who is presently holding the telecommunications and human resources development ministerial portfolios. It is likely that he may be relieved of some responsibility in the reshuffle.
The guidelines have been framed by the ministry, following concerns raised by parents about schools conducting online classes like regular schools, which has increased children's screen time after the COVID-19 pandemic mandated a shift from classroom teaching to online learning as schools continue to remain shut for over four months.
Stepping up its offensive against the Bharatiya Janata Party, the government on Saturday said the opposition party should ask its chief ministers to resign in connection to the coal-gate row since the state governments decide who gets the mining lease. "The basic question is that who executes the lease," Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said.
Hitting out at the United Progressive Alliance and the Bharatiya Janata Party for the present stalemate in Parliament, the Communist Party of India-Marxist has said both did not want the truth about 'coalgate' to come out.
Union Human Resource Development Minister of State Jitin Prasada, who shared the stage with UP Chief Minister Akhikesh Yadav said in one voice that they would shun any kind of politics on the issue, which they declared was close to their hearts.
The Delhi high court on Friday refused to interfere with the arrest and subsequent police remand of NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and portal's human resources department head Amit Chakravarty in a case lodged under anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
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.
Union HRD minsiter Kapil Sibal now wants 'one nation, one test' format for admissions to all disciplines.
WCH Training Solutions is organising a three-day certification workshop on Training and Facilitation Skills. The workshop is available in both residential and non-residential formats.
The Institute of International Education will honour Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal during its annual international awards gala on September 21 in New York City.
Aon Hewitt, the global human resource consulting and outsourcing business of Aon Corporation, has announced the results of its 7th Best Employers in India 2011 study.
Global human resource outsourcing and consulting major Mercer will spend $50 million over the next three years on its upcoming global operations centre in Noida
14 bills were passed by the Lower House while 15 bills were passed by Rajya Sabha.
In a development considered an offshoot of the ongoing restructuring at Infosys, Aditya Nath Jha, a company veteran heading branding and corporate marketing, has resigned.
Shashi Tharoor, the minister of state for human resources development, the moderator for a discussion on heritage and the diaspora, was suave as ever as he described how Indians had influenced the world and drawn the best of foreign influences.
MHRD Minister Kapil Sibal had assured the state government during his last visit to Agartala that one IIIT would come up at Agartala to give a major push to the IT sector in Tripura.
Tuition fee does little to even meet the institutes' operating expenses; directors differ on fee hike.
NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha, arrested in a case lodged under anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for allegedly receiving money to spread pro-China propaganda, told the Delhi high court on Monday that the allegations against him were "false" and "bogus", and "not a penny has come from China".
The Centre on Tuesday placed before the Supreme Court the 'relevant' material and documents on the basis of which it carved out 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities in the central educational institutions such as IITs.
In what is seen as a flat rebuff to Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal's proposal to bring about major changes in the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination, IIT-Kanpur on Friday decided to hold its independent entrance test from the next session.
Ram had on Monday urged the chief minister to remove Singh on the ground of "non-performance" and that the people would blame his department in the non-performance of JAC.
21-year-old Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colimenares, a human resource graduate from Venezuela is the new Miss World 2011.
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing offers full-time modular programmes on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
Educationalists and eminent cartoonists described the day as a sad day for the Indian democracy. It was the day when members of Lok Sabha flashed photocopies of a cartoon from Class XI textbooks, and argued that the cartoon hurt the sentiments of the Dalits and showed dalit leader B R Ambedkar in bad taste.
Holding that the issue is not about the content of the cartoons but about their inclusion in textbooks, he said the impression should not go to the world that the political class is corrupt and bereft of any principles.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday elicited the views of their junior cabinet colleagues and Congress leaders from Andhra Pradesh on the Telangana statehood demand, which has virtually divided the party on regional lines.
India has recorded 1,134 new coronavirus cases, while the active cases increased to 7,026, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Wednesday.
In the second quarter, attrition for the IT firm hit an all-time low of 8.9 per cent, a fall of 120 basis points on quarter-on-quarter basis.
In an online chat with readers on November 1, Nitesh Salvi, co-founder and director, Plancess Edusolution Pvt Ltd addressed reader queries related to the entrance exam and offered advice on how students can optimise their preparation and score better.
Union Minister for Human Resource and Development Kapil Sibal said on Wednesday that the Indian Institute of Technology Council has proposed that students seeking admission into IITs all over the country will have to pass just one test instead of appearing in separate tests for various institutes.
The Cabinet reshuffle of October 28 seems to have left some Congress ministers dismayed. While some are reportedly upset over being demoted, others are unhappy about being ignored for key ministerial posts.
Withdrawing the amount each time you move job(s), or otherwise, can make a huge dent in your retirement corpus.
IT major Tata Consultancy Services plans to hire 37,000 professionals for its domestic and overseas markets through campus placements in the next fiscal.
