'India has asked Pakistan to take certain steps and talks are not possible unless Pakistan convinces India on that,' Sibal said.
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.
India shares a good relationship with the US and was not under any pressure to send troops to Iraq, the foreign secretary said.
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.
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.
He could have blazed a trail that few Indian judges had. It was a missed opportunity of a lifetime, notes Ramesh Menon.
It will help to lower their costs by 7-8 per cent.
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.
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.
Human Resource and Development minister Kapil Sibal announced that efforts are being made to conduct a single-level entrance test by 2013.
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.
Allegations against Sibal include approving Reliance Industries' four-fold increase in capital expenditure to $8.8 billion for the nation's largest gas field KG-D6 in return of personal benefits.
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.
The agency would probe whether Sibal had shown undue favour to RIL.
The mere fact that some part of administration of an educational institution is also looked after by non-minority officials does not "dilute" its minority character, the Supreme Court observed on Wednesday while hearing the hugely disputed minority status of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).
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.
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.
Sibal said faculty in IITs and IIMs get good exposure which may not be available in other institutions.
After civil society activists slammed the government's Lokpal Bill, the Centre on Friday said that people who are not satisfied with the Bill can approach the Standing Committee of Parliament and persuade it to make changes. Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal, who was part of the joint committee to draft the bill, said the government has already reconciled taking into account a number of provisions suggested by the civil society.
Cyber laws and communications experts feel that Union Minister Kapil Sibal's suggestion of pre-monitoring content of social media websites is a flawed argument, which completely ignores the pre-existing IT-Act in the country, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
With CVC finding a 'deficit of trust' in him on the allegations, Sibal was denied an extension as head of India's upstream nodal agency till his superannuation age of 60 years in January 2012.
Union Human Resource Development minister Kapil Sibal's move to increase the class XII cut offs for the IIT entrance has been slammed by all parties in Bihar.
The tablet will be produced domestically, and in this regard the government is talking to various manufacturers from across the world.
Grappling with the intractable issue of Aligarh Muslim University's minority status, the Supreme Court said on Thursday the 1981 amendment to the AMU Act, which effectively accorded it a minority status, only did a "half-hearted job" and not restore to the institution the position it had prior to 1951.
Congress on Wednesday made known its unhappiness over its senior leader Kapil Sibal representing West Bengal government in the multi-crore rupees Saradha scam in the Supreme Court, two days after its state unit expressed objection to it.
He also rejected all charges of alleged cheating and siphoning off money by Congress in the matter.
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 the government will have enough radio waves for all operators after it is released from the defence services as well as the cancellation of 122 2G new licences by the Supreme Court in the 2G spectrum allocation case.
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.
Rejecting Bharatiya Janata Party's charge that he was shielding Tarun Tejpal, Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday said law must take its course in the sexual assault case against the Tehelka editor and if he is guilty, he should be punished.
As professors of Indian Institutes of Technology resorted to the unprecedented step of day-long hunger strike on Thursday over the salary issue, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said he is open to having any kind of dialogue with them to discuss their demands, but ruled out world-class salaries due to lack of resources.
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.
Every single day counts in matters concerning the liberty of citizens, the Supreme Court said on Friday while asking the Delhi high court to decide on the regular bail plea of a businessman in a corruption case related to the now scrapped Delhi excise policy.
Aditi Phadnis in a free-wheeling chat with Telecom and Law Minister Kapil Sibal
Kanwal Sibal retires on November 30 this year.
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.
Inviting American businesses to invest in India, Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal has said the country now has the right incentives and the appropriate intellectual laws in place for technology to come.
