India would have a new World Trade Organisation-compliant patent regime by January 1, 2005, apart from making India competitive
Maintaining the zero-loss claim, therefore, involves justifying the failure to do proper price discovery, as through the spectrum auction in 2010 for 3G services.
After engaging in a war of words with industrialist Ratan Tata, Rajya Sabha member Rajeev Chandrasekhar has now given a 7-point agenda to Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal suggesting that the ministry be made "free of lobbyists and wheeler-dealers" to clean up the sector.
Manufacturing market in India is huge, said Kapil Sibal in California.
The Supreme Court has directed states to consider deploying additional staff to ease the workload on booth level officers (BLOs) engaged in the special revision of electoral rolls, following concerns about extreme work pressure and related issues.
Says inordinate delay on this and other issues raised by firm earlier are impacting investor confidence.
Union Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal dismissed Bharatiya Janata Party General Secretary Arun Jaitley's view that the new anti-terror law is likely to be misused against the minorities. "This is not true," Sibal said.
Seeking to take forward reforms in education, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday asked the IITs to expand into new areas like medicine and law and evolve a framework in this regard.
The Supreme Court has begun hearing petitions challenging the Election Commission's decision to conduct a special intensive revision exercise in Bihar ahead of elections, raising concerns about voter exclusion.
Kapil Sibal said the operators need to change their mindset by moving away from voice services to data.
Taking a dig at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his 'India first' comment, Union Minister Kapil Sibal said the BJP leader should first "demonstrate" in his state that he was secular before talking about the rest of the country.
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.
According to reports, CAG has sought details from the department of telecommunication on the total available spectrum in the country and how much has been allocated to private telecom operators from 2000 onward and at what value.
As a loyal foot soldier he continues to defend the indefensible.
It will help to lower their costs by 7-8 per cent.
There is nothing sinister or diabolic about Union minister Kapil Sibal's latest argument regarding the findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India pertaining to the loss to the exchequer from 2G telecom licences in 2007.
Union Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal signed a joint ministerial statement with Australia's Minister for Education Julia Gillard on Thursday to build on ties between the two countries' schools, higher education, vocational studies and training.
Human Resource and Development minister Kapil Sibal announced that efforts are being made to conduct a single-level entrance test by 2013.
The HRD minister says he doesn't want to impact the autonomy of IITs and insists that the exam that is being contemplated is going to be set by the IIT, not by the government.
After Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh, another Congress leader has incurred social activist Anna Hazare's wrath. This time Hazare has slammed Human Resource Minister Kapil Sibal for sabotaging the Lokpal bill by not bringing a good bill before the Parliament.
These universities are a part of the ministry's 'brain gain' policy to attract talent from all over the world. Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal had last August announced that 14 Innovation Universities will be set up in the country under the 11th Five-year Plan (2007-12).
Controversy dogged the joint committee set up to draft an effective Lok Pal even before it starts its work with Gandhian Anna Hazare on Monday asking Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal to resign from it "if he feels nothing will come" out of this institution.
Admitting to difficulties in identifying people using websites to spread communal hatred, the government on Wednesday said it was working with social networking sites to create an institutional mechanism to prevent misuse of technology.
The Supreme Court has sought responses from the Centre and Union Territory of Ladakh regarding the detention of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk under the National Security Act. Wangchuk's wife filed a plea seeking his release. The court has scheduled the next hearing for October 14.
BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar rubbished Union Minister Kapil Sibal's comments that Modi's induction in the parliamentary board poses a challenge to the main opposition.
Refusing to be defensive on the 2G spectrum scam, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday hit back at BJP for raking up the issue, alleging that "irregularities" had taken place during the Vajpayee government and these would be exposed within weeks.
Taking exception to the action taken against the two girls for their comments on Facebook in Maharashtra, Union Communication Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday said that his ministry has convened a meeting on November 29 in this connection.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi once again hit out at Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on the issue of Aakash tablets on Sunday.
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday said the mobile phone operators must move from voice-based revenue model and customers should gradually be charged only for data services and not for making calls.
Spot fixing and match fixing would fall in the category of criminal offences under the new law being contemplated by the government, Law Minister Kapil Sibal said on Monday. Sibal has emphasised that there was a need for a separate law to deal with the menace of fixing in cricket as the Indian Penal Code does not recognise match fixing and spot fixing as offences.
Chief Justice of India Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai retired, reflecting on his career, commitment to the Constitution, and social justice.
Whether Sibal has effectively defended Raja or not as a counsel is unclear, but his target seems to be the prime minister, feels M R Venkatesh.
Sibal said faculty in IITs and IIMs get good exposure which may not be available in other institutions.
No "fly-by-night operators" will be allowed to set up shop in India when the country opens up its higher education institutions for foreign tie-ups, Minister for Human Resources Development Kapil Sibal has said.
Amid growing consumer dissatisfaction, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal will hold the first round table with consumer user groups to look into their grievances in issues like pesky calls, hidden costs in tariffs and ineffective redressal system, among others.
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.
The tablet will be produced domestically, and in this regard the government is talking to various manufacturers from across the world.
The Union HRD minister stresses the use of technology to spread education to dispossessed areas of the country.
