India is sending a 800-plus contingent, including 572 athletes, to the Asian Games, to be held from August 18 to September 2 in the Indonesian cities of Jakarta and Palembang.
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Chief M Karunanidhi has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to rein in Hindutva outfits who are making a "mockery of communal harmony" and joined other parties in voicing apprehension that observing Good Governance Day on December 25 could hamper Christmas festivities.
Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday described the Congress-Dravida Munetra Kazhagam alliance for the May 16 Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu as an "unholy" one while bringing up the 2G spectrum allocation scam.
Situation at the NIT continued to be tense with a small group of outstation students staging a protest march within the campus, demanding shifting of the institute.
The Telangana Group of Ministers on Friday reviewed the progress made by the Andhra Pradesh government with regards to the bifurcation of the state on various fronts.
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.
The chief minister has asked vice chancellors to go on a 'mission mode' to improve their positions by next year.
There has been no leak outside India, hence no re-examination will be held outside the country, he said.
Eyewitnesses alleged the attackers entered the premises when a meeting was being held by JNU Teachers' Association on the issue of violence on campus and assaulted students and professors.
Stepping up pressure, the University Grants Commission on Saturday asked the Delhi University to scrap the four-year undergraduate programme even as the DU Vice Chancellor is understood to have cautioned against taking any step "in a hurry".
In the third reshuffle since coming to power, Prime Minister Modi raised the strength of his Council of Ministers from 73 to 76.
It is likely to take at least six months for the proposed new state of Telangana to see the light of the day as the move involves a number of steps, including adoption of state re-organisation bill by Parliament by a simple majority.
Students sought "unconditional" revocation of suspension of four Dalit students and action against those responsible for the alleged suicide of research scholar Rohith Vemula.
Presenting the Top 20 of 100 science colleges as per India Today's findings.
Presenting the Top 20 of 100 science colleges as per India Today's findings.
"As far as the demands of some students to shift the NIT campus out of Srinagar is considered, let me make it clear that it won't be possible," she said.
This is the text of the statement put out by the People's Media Advocacy and Resource Centre on IIT Madras's derecognition of the Ambedkar-Periyar Study Circle.
'This government has made it compulsory to teach some languages that have died.' 'You can't keep languages alive by making them compulsory.'
St Stephen's college principal Valson Thampu, who is embroiled in a controversy over shielding the accused in a molestation row, on Sunday claimed "the victim is being used against him" and a forensic investigation of the "purported" recordings will clear the air.
'The D K Adikesavulu clan is so wealthy, owns so many houses, and has so much jewellery,' notes T V R Shenoy, 'that it did not notice a servant stealing at the rate of Rs 66 lakh every year!'
Organiser, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's organ, has alleged that prestigious institutes like Indian Institute of Technology were being turned into places for "anti-India and anti-Hindu" activities.
Human Resource Development minister Smriti Irani on Monday engaged in a twitter war with a financial daily journalist whose newsreport claimed that the minister had recommended over 5,000 admissions in Kendriya Vidyalaya schools in the current academic year.
Many leaders from non-Hindi states, especially Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, had opposed the policy.
Devanik Saha wonders if saffronisation of India is on the rise
Friends and family of Rohith Vemula, the Hyderabad university PhD scholar who committed suicide, on Friday said that they would 'expose the lies' of HRD Minister Smriti Irani .
Non-ABVP student unions have called for banch on Monday after Vermula Rohit, a 22-year-old research scholar, allegedly hanged himself at a hostel in the Hyderabad Central University.
With what joyous expectations I welcomed you! You have tumbled me into a cauldron of gloomy forebodings, says B S Raghavan.
How can we compare say an upcoming Munjal University to an IIT-Mumbai?
Never in his long political career has the Union labour minister attracted such attention.
The Human Resource Development Ministry on Tuesday sought an explanation from the Aligarh Muslim University Vice Chancellor Zameer Uddin Shah over not allowing access to women undergraduates to the main library in the campus, with Minister Smriti Irani saying that it amounted to an 'insult to daughters'.
A top Home Ministry official said no note has been prepared yet to be placed before tomorrow's scheduled meeting of the Cabinet to be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The governor justified her decision to invite the BJP, saying the party has requisite numbers.
'Now is the time for India to course correct and for the government also to course correct,' says businessman Mangesh Khatri.
Ministers who were in the news for all the wrong reasons
Taking a leaf from the US, Canada and the UK, where students and research scholars get to work with Parliamentary panels, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan is pushing for induction of interns in the Parliamentary standing committees.
Union minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday alleged that a malicious attempt was being made to project Rohith's suicide as a "dalit versus non-dalit issue to ignite passions".
Though the Cabinet reshuffle on July 5 has a clear stamp of the Prime Minister's Office, the changes have also increased the coherence between the Bharatiya Janata Party, the government and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre as one being 'run' by RSS, social activist Teesta Setalvad on Saturday alleged that issues such as 'Sanskritisation' were part of a process to change India into a Hindu state.
All international passengers will henceforth be screened at airports, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said at a press conference. Earlier, travellers from only 12 countries were screened at airports for the disease that has claimed over 3,000 lives and infected more than 90,000 worldwide.
Is no-detention policy encouraging performance anxiety among students in higher classes?
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