Gandhian Anna Hazare on Friday announced a 'jail bharo' movement across the country on April 13 after the government rejected his demands of chairmanship of the joint drafting committee being given to a civil society member and for a formal notification.
Aziz Haniffa reports from Washington, DC, on a summit designed to transform India's education.
The recent controversy over faculty pay at the IITs and IIMs suggests that they need to radically reorient themselves as academic institutions
In the wake of shocking allegations of spot-fixing in IPL, a new standalone law to deal with such "dishonest practices" in all kinds of sports will be enacted soon.
'If the US faces challenge in the 21st century, it will not be from India; (but) somebody from neighbour (China),' believes Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal.
The government is wasting tax money and making a laughing stock of Indian technological prowess. It isn't its job to create and sell cheap PCs.
The one-man panel that went into the procedures for giving 2G licences between 2001 and 2009 on Monday submitted its report and is understood to have held some officials responsible for improper spectrum allotment.
Canadian firm Research in Motion is installing and testing a new service, to be made available before January 31, which will automatically render lawfully intercepted BlackBerry messenger messages in a format readable by Indian agencies.
In an interview with CNN-IBN, Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari has slammed Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal for questioning the 2G report and rubbished the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh's alleged links with terror. Here are some excerpts from the interview:
Human Resource Development Mminister Kapil Sibal makes an emotional appeal to the Diaspora to collaborate with Indian educational institutions on Day one of the 9th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas, reports Prasanna D Zore.
Rajya Sabha member Kapil Sibal has criticised Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for questioning the judiciary over the timeline for the president to take decisions, calling it "unconstitutional " and a lowering of the dignity of the chair. Sibal asserted that Dhankhar's remarks are not neutral and amount to an attack on the judiciary by the executive. He also pointed out that the president acts on the aid and advice of the council of ministers, and therefore, the president's power cannot be curtailed. Sibal urged Dhankhar to seek a review of the judiciary's decision or an advisory opinion from the Supreme Court if he has problems with it. He also questioned why Dhankhar only focuses on actions taken during Congress governments and not after 2014.
The committee will submit its report in four weeks.
The government on Thursday appointed a one-man committee of retired Supreme Court justice Shivaraj V Patil to probe the alleged irregularities in the allocation of 2G spectrum since 2001, a period involving the NDA regime.
Emphasising on the need for self-regulation on sharing information on the Internet, Sibal said that media needs to realise its role in sharing news, which should 'empower' people and not cause 'disruption'.
IIT Council approves proposal to allow IITs to offer MBBS course. Good move or bad? Tell us!
The government faced embarrassment in the Rajya Sabha today as it was forced to defer a key education reforms bill, following strong opposition from members cutting across party lines. HRD Minister Kapil Sibal had to make a hasty retreat after the Education Tribunal Bill, 2010, came under all- round attack, including from senior Congress leader K Keshava Rao.
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A move to confer an honorary doctorate on world chess champion Vishwanathan Anand was on Tuesday embroiled in a raging controversy over his citizenship, forcing him to decline the honour at least for now.
The CJI's remarks came amid mounting concerns in India over widespread incidents of attacks on the minority Hindu community in Bangladesh after prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled on August 5 following weeks of violent unrest.
India has unveiled a $30 'laptop' which makes it the world's cheapest computing device of this kind.
The policy was earlier expected to be unveiled by December this year, but delays in receiving recommendations have pushed the date to next year.
Some senior Congress leaders including Kapil Sibal have called for introspection after the party's dismal performance in the recently held Bihar assembly polls, after which the ruling National Democratic Alliance returned to power in the state despite the main member of the grand opposition alliance, Rashtriya Janata Dal, putting up a strong show and emerging as the single largest party.
Anand Kumar, the founder of Super 30 tells Aditi Phadnis that IIT-JEE is not error-free and why he trains economically backward students each year to help them crack the exam.
Tablet PC, named Aakash, will cost the government Rs 2,276.
It was after a long gap that an aggressive and united Congress took the Bharatiya Janata Party head on in both the Houses of Parliament over the WikiLeaks exposure on the cash-for-vote scam as the party fielded its brightest and the best.
As part of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's state visit to the United States at the invitation of President Barack Obama on November 24, India and the US are endeavoring to announce the convening of a India-US Education Council on the lines of the US-India Business Council, Human Resource Minister Kapil Sibal disclosed in Washington on Friday.
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group stocks plummeted on Wednesday after ADAG chairman Anil Ambani reportedly met Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal.
Hyperactive Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal -- busy trying to 'rescue' the UPA government in the 2G scam ever since he took over after Andimuthu Raja resigned in November -- finds himself caught up in another spectrum scam of the Indian Space Research Organisation's gift of 70Mhz at throwaway prices to its former officer in 2005 that is now turning out to be a Rs 2-lakh crore (Rs 2 trillion) scandal.
The IIT faculty federation decided on Monday to observe a one-day hunger strike on Thursday to protest anomalies in the pay structure. The federation has been demanding flexible cadre system and regular appointment of Ph D holders at entry level.
Mobile phone firms are willing to let go of inactive subscribers because holding on to them doesn't help in any way in the new order.
At present, GSM operators such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular earn 10-12 per cent of their revenues from the national roaming services, which amount to Rs 10,000-Rs 13,500 crore.
Rubbishing government's claim of any wrongdoing in the 2G spectrum allocation, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday asked why was A Raja forced to quit as telecom minister if the loss to the exchequer estimated at Rs.1.76 lakh crore was not true.
Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram is Congress nominee from Maharashtra for the biennial elections to Rajya Sabha while senior leaders Kapil Sibal and Jairam Ramesh have been named from Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka respectively.
After a not so pleasant experience of engaging with Anna Hazare's team in drafting of the Lokpal Bill, the government says that there will be no such experiment in the future.
The Supreme Court dismissed Allahabad High Court judge Yashwant Varma's plea seeking invalidation of a report that found him guilty of misconduct in the cash discovery row.
With the talks between him and the government failing to reach any breakthrough on Friday, the yoga guru held bhajans in the wee hours followed by yoga sessions, even as his associates kept announcing the participation of various religious leaders in the stir
The Centre on Tuesday said it has accepted the recommendations of an expert committee which has found 44 deemed universities unfit for the status but left it to the Supreme Court for appropriate course of action against them.
Pitching for transfer of clean technologies to enable the developing countries to adapt to climate change, Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal asked the developed nations to keep politics aside while addressing environmental issues. Addressing a seminar on climate change here, he said it was time to think about 'alternative and workable' solutions to address the issue of carbon emissions.
The centrally-funded technical Institutions, including IITs and IIMs, are suffering due to about 25 per cent shortage of faculty, the Lok Sabha was told on Wednesday.
