Sibal's statement is significant in the light of the fact that the Foreign Education Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations) Bill, 2010, was tabled in the Lok Sabha two weeks back.
If private schools are indeed better, as Aser says, and cost a lot less than government ones, involving them in programmes like Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and the Right to Education Act may be a good idea.
Congress on Friday sought the dismissal of Divestment Minister Arun Shourie from the Cabinet for his statement terming as "idiotic" the Comptroller and Auditor General's
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered withdrawal of the Look Out Circular (LOC) issued against Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira in connection with the money laundering cases against them linked to an alleged coal smuggling scam in West Bengal.
What is really needed is a tenure track where higher pay goes with accountability, not peer review which tends to favour the upward drift of the incumbent mediocrity.
Social changes take a "little time" and sometimes it is easier to bring a law but difficult to persuade society to change with it, the Supreme Court observed on Thursday while deliberating upon the issue relating to the dissolution of marriages.
The observations came after counsel for the Centre and the J-K administration informed the court that Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who was appearing in the matter, is arguing in another court.
The minister had last month said that the guidelines will be out by October 15.
Observing that India was on the "threshold of biotech revolution", International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank, has said the country was the "centrepiece" of its global strategy.
Several flaws in carbon development mechanism scheme of the United Nations have defeated its purpose, India said on Friday and suggested a fresh approach at local level to tackle global warming. India currently accounts for nearly 14 per cent of the world's total multi-billion dollar CDM market which allows developed nations to give financial incentives to companies in developing countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
India on Tuesday commissioned its permanent research base at the North Pole, which will enable scientists to carry out studies on a range of subjects including climate change, in one of the cleanest environments on earth.The research station -- Himadri -- was inaugurated by Earth Sciences Minister Kapil Sibal at Ny-Alesund, on the west coast of Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway.
The government said it has no 'magic wand' to bring it down immediately though it is taking and will take all possible steps to contain price rise. According to official figures, inflation has touched a 40-month high of 7.41 per cent for the week ended March 29. It included 88 per cent rise in prices of food products, followed by 74 per cent rise in wheat prices, 72 per cent in rice prices, 71 per cent in fat and oil prices and 35 per cent increase in sugar prices.
Noting that the biotechnology industry in Asia is still at a nascent stage, India has announced the launch of an annual 'Asia Biotech' meet.
India first needs to innovate the solution itself, and then focus on the product.
Arjun Singh said he will speak after election results are out.
The tsunami warning centre, which has taken shape at the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services in Hyderabad, will issue alerts for the killer waves within 30 minutes of an earthquake. The centre will generate and give timely advisories to the Ministry of Home Affairs for dissemination to the public for which a satellite-based virtual private network for disaster management support has been established.
The Union Cabinet rejected the ordinance route for a set of anti-corruption measures despite pressure from Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi for bringing such laws.
Legal experts debate the SC judgment which allows for judicial review of laws under the Ninth Schedule.
The government has approved Rs 347.54 crore (Rs 3.47 billion) for the implementation of the technology vision 2020 project, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
He said it was a tale from a great country, where a child was born into an impoverished household in a small village and it was predicted by an astrologer that he will go on to become a king.
India and ASEAN have reached an accord to enhance partnership in the field of science and technology with a thrust on bio-technology and agriculture. \n\n
In a letter to Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra, senior Congress leaders and former law ministers Ashwani Kumar, Kapil Sibal and Salman Khurshid said the Governor's office, as envisaged under the country's constitutional scheme, is above and beyond the constraints and compulsions of partisan politics, 'so that its holder can act freely and fairly to uphold the Constitution'.
Union Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal on Friday said that because of lack of data on local seismic activities in those urban areas falling in seismic zones V and IV, construction activities so far done in those cities couldn't be termed very safe in the event of incidence of mega earthquakes.
There are no plans of creating artificial rain.
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed Congress MP Karti Chidambaram, who is facing criminal cases that are being probed by the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation, to travel abroad.
He could have blazed a trail that few Indian judges had. It was a missed opportunity of a lifetime, notes Ramesh Menon.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the Thackeray faction, told the bench there is no constitutional protection for disqualification under the 10th schedule.
The court extended the judicial custody of Chidambaram after the Central Bureua of Investigation sought extension of the veteran Congress leader's judicial remand.
Negating a Supreme Court order, Parliament on Friday passed a bill that maintains the right of those in jail to contest polls, with the government saying the court verdict was wrong and the legislature has constitutional duty to correct it.
While that created a stir so did the decision on his penultimate day at work with the Supreme Court rechristening its summer vacation "partial court working days", an issue that has led to criticism that the apex court judges enjoyed long breaks.
The amount deposited in the Employees Provident Fund as on December 31 was Rs 60,874.99 crore (Rs 608.74 billion), Minister of State for Labour Vijay Goel informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.\n\n
There was near unanimity among the guests at the Sibal dinner that the country is ready for a change, that the ruling party has lost popularity. However in the same breath speaker after speaker lamented that without Opposition unity Modi could as well win a third successive term, reveals Virendra Kapoor.
The Delhi high court on Thursday reserved its order on an appeal by former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray challenging a single judge's decision dismissing his plea against an Election Commission interim order freezing the Shiv Sena name and election symbol.
The civil aviation minister did not pay for the accommodation at Hotel Taj Exotica.
Senior lawyer Kapil Sibal told a five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud that Koshyari had sworn in Shinde without even asking him which party he and the other legislators supporting him belonged to.
Even though it was stated that no action would be taken against the senior leaders who had written to Sonia Gandhi, they say that the retaliation had already begun, reports Aditi Phadnis
'Because if a Dalit is made the chief minister, they ask who is taking the decisions in the Congress?'
'Nothing has been removed or added to my Twitter profile. The profile is as it was earlier'
