The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand to cooperate with the Gujarat Police in connection with a case filed against them over alleged misappropriation of funds.
Stressing on professionalism, hardwork and ethics as the key to success, Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said the popular perception in some quarters that being cunning and manipulative pays in corporate world was wrong.
HRD minister Kapil Sibal calls 100 per cent cut-off for Delhi University's Sri Ram College of Commerce irrational. Says students need not worry.
Union minister Kapil Sibal, who was holding negotiations with Ramdev over the last few days, said there were apprehensions about the law and order situation in Delhi as Ramdev had collected 50,000 people for "political asanas" although he had sought permission for a yoga camp only for a gathering of 5,000
The fine is based on the loss estimated by internal committees of DoT to the national exchequer due to violation of licence norms by Vodafone.
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday said the growth in the sector is essentially centered on adequate spectrum availability, assuring government will make all efforts to provide requisite airwaves to meet industry's demand.
The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Gujarat government's response on social activist Teesta Setalvad's bail plea and posted the matter for hearing on August 25.
A day after Arvind Kejriwal put his name on a list of corrupt politicians, Union minister Kapil Sibal on Saturday shot back, saying that the Delhi chief minister should prove his allegations within two days or resign.
Talking to mediapersons at a dinner hosted by him at his residence in New Delhi on Friday evening, Union Minister of Human Resource Kapil Sibal said that there are no dictators in democracy.
The eight new IITs that were permitted to be set up in 2008 do not have the necessary infrastructure and are not up to the mark making it difficult for these institutes to retain their faculty, Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal said.
"Children have enormous potential to know what they want for the future of their cities and government and civil societies should give them a chance to explore their creativity," Union Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal said.
The government will in next three weeks decide on pricing of spectrum that will be sold in the second round of auction beginning March 11, Telecom Minister Kabil Sibal said on Tuesday.
After radioactive material was sold as scrap by the Delhi University, leading to the death of a labourer, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday directed the University Grant Commission to frame guidelines immediately on the procurement, use and disposal of hazardous substances by varsities. The Department of Atomic Energy has framed certain guidelines which are supposed to be followed by the universities for procurement and handling of such material.
In a big relief to activist Teesta Setalvad, the Supreme Court on Wednesday granted her regular bail in a case of alleged fabrication of documents to frame innocent people in the 2002 post-Godhra riot cases while terming as "perverse" and "contradictory" the Gujarat high court order denying her bail.
Former Foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal on Friday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should have visited Tawang during his tour of Arunachal Pradesh in 2008 as this would have sent a clear signal to China that the northeastern state is part of India.
Telecom and IT Minister Kapil Sibal Monday said he was "deeply saddened" by the arrest of two girls over their Facebook post questioning the shutdown in Mumbai for Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray's funeral and said the IT Act should not be used to "throttle dissent".
Official data released on Friday showed the economy grew by 5.5 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal as against 8 per cent during the same period of previous fiscal.
'Kapil Sibal has passed a law that anyone posting anything "offensive" on Twitter can be jailed for three years. That's section 66A of the IT Act amended by United Progressive Alliance II in 2008. It's a cognisable offence so you have to be arrested and apply for bail. As though you had committed murder!' notes Shivam Vij.
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice KM Joseph asked the mobile messaging app to give advertisement in five newspapers to publicise its undertaking given to the government.
Justice Subramonium Prasad issued notice to the Centre seeking its stand on the former MP's petition for a direction to the authorities to give an "effective response" to his query.
'Aakash', the world's cheapest tablet, will be fully indigenous soon and its improved version will be launched by the government at the same price.
Hints at taking support from Opposition if allies continue to show reservations
The porn clip controversy in Karnataka Assembly led Union Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal to take a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday saying the party is having "all the entertainment".
Retaliating against the Bharatiya Janata Party, after more than a week of Parliament being stalled and the government put on the mat, the Congress said, "Jis soch ne Mahatma Gandhi ki hatya ki thi, Wahi soch loktantra ki hatya kar rahi hai (democracy is being killed by the same mentality which killed mahatma Gandhi)."
The joint letter to Manmohan Singh was written by Sunil Mittal, chairman of Bharti Airtel, Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of the Aditya Birla group which has promoted Idea Cellular, and Vittoria Colao, chairman of Vodafone Group Plc.
"Look at the policies of world around, we are far less protectionist than any other country in the world. There is no question of India becoming protectionist," Indian Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said here on Monday.
Holding that the issue is not about the content of the cartoons but about their inclusion in textbooks, he said the impression should not go to the world that the political class is corrupt and bereft of any principles.
National Conference leader Mohammed Akbar Lone on Tuesday filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court reiterating his oath as Lok Sabha MP, saying he will preserve and uphold the Constitution and protect the country's territorial integrity, an undertaking that irked the Centre which claimed it added "insult to injury to the nation".
Operators oppose levying of charges for additional spectrum with retrospective effect.
Union Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal Saturday said India "converted adversity into opportunity" by developing its own civilian fast-breeder reactors when it was denied nuclear technology post-Pokhran.
Apparently Human Resources and Development Minister Kapil Sibal -- the Harvard-educated, erstwhile Wall Street lawyer -- still occasionally pines for the United States, going by his waxing nostalgic for the opportunities America afforded him during the time he spent in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Big Apple.
Kapil Sibal has caused a furore by suggesting that internet companies need to 'pre-screen' pages. Here's a peek at some of the chief issues being debated.
Sibal rejoined OIL on October 31 and immediately applied for early retirement, government sources said. In 2004, he had gone as directorate general of Hydrocarbons on lien from where he was reverted to his parent company OIL.
Indian laws permit an individual to adopt a child irrespective of marital status, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday while asserting that the law recognises there may be situations apart from an "ideal family" having its own biological children.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought responses from Tamil Nadu and Bihar on a plea filed by a YouTuber, arrested for allegedly circulating fake videos of migrant labourers being attacked in the southern state, seeking clubbing of the FIRs lodged against him.
Sibal alleged that seven wrestlers, including a minor, have made alleged sexual harassment allegations but no FIR has been lodged so far despite the law being very clear on this aspect.
Seeking to galvanise public opinion in favour of its version of Lokpal Bill, the Anna Hazare team on Thursday initiated a "referendum" on the law in Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha constituency represented by Human Resources and Development Minister Kapil Sibal.
We had asked our readers for their opinion about the government's attempts to censor online content. While an overwhelming number of readers condemned such a move, some of our readers supported the move to regulate online content.
Refusing to be labeled as an enemy of the social media, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal has called for the Internet to be governed by regulations similar to the print and the electronic media.
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