'India's relationship with China has been and will continue to be complex, delicate and sensitive,' says Rup Narayan Das.
His resignation as chairman of the government's skill development agencies triggered talk that he may be headed back to the Tata Group where a search committee is looking for a full-time chairman.
'A lack of strategic trust and the 'persistent security dilemma' prevails between India and China,' points out Dr Rup Narayan Das.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj formally inaugurated Nalanda University in Bihar on Friday. Inaugurating the university, Swaraj called it a historic occasion for her as well as the country.
Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi was on Sunday appointed as Lt Governor of Puducherry.
The CBI has booked officers and employees of the shelter home.
Had it not been for the intellectual dominance and political legitimacy of the Leftist philosophy since 1970, would EPW have become what it did? After all, there were other more established journals around then, says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
The stress experienced by partners, and not the individual's stress, was associated with increased waist circumference, a new study has revealed.
"That is fantastic. A (former) cabinet minister is not traceable. Fantastic. How could it happen that a (former) cabinet minister is not traceable and nobody knows where she is? Do you realise the seriousness of this? You have to explain to us how a (former) cabinet minister is not traceable," the bench said.
'There has been a marked increase in four types of cases.' 'One is fraud related to online deliveries, online shopping and online groceries and liquor.' 'Second fake news, third hate speech and fourth sextortion.'
'Once our voices are crushed, they can bring in an agenda of privatisation.'
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Beijing visit, a state-run newspaper on Tuesday carried a highly critical article of him.
Hiccups in Chinese economy and the overall strength of the dollar will continue to be a drag on the rupee in the coming year
'His contributions in setting up transparent precedents of governance are still basically intact despite the cynicism of several of his successors,' notes Jamini Bhagwati.
Facing widespread criticism over the death of 23 children after eating mid-day meals in Chhapra, the Bihar government on Thursday denied receiving any alert from the Centre over shortcomings in its implementation and insisted that the food was 'poisonous'.
NASA has released new global maps of Earth at night.
Protests were held in many cities across the country. So far, no one has been arrested for the attack on students and teachers at JNU even as clamour for resignation of the V-C grew.
China which rejected the verdict initiated by the Philippines petition has stepped up air and naval patrols to assert its controls over the region.
In June alone, property investment was up only 3.5 per cent from a year ago.
The apex court also said CBI officers probing the shelter home cases in Bihar shall not be transferred without its prior permission.
Several protests -- some peaceful, some violent -- erupted across India on Monday against the police crackdown in Jamia Millia Islamia and the controversial citizenship law as students and political leaders took to the streets, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi called these protests "deeply distressing" and appealed for peace.
Former ABVP member Pradeep Narwal, who resigned from the party earlier this week, has appealed to PM Modi to ensure "security" and "respect" to all the university students.
Three office-bearers of the Jawaharlal Nehru University unit of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad on Wednesday resigned from the student wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party strongly protesting against the Centre's handling of the raging row at the premier university and "legitimising" actions of right wing fascist forces.
There cannot be a 'blanket ban' on media reporting on cases of rape and sexual abuse, it said.
All the officials, suspended with immediate effect, have been charged with "failure to take adequate legal action" with regard to "assault.
'Culture is our asset. Culture is our identity.' 'Wherever you go in India, every millimetre can be measured with culture.' 'There is so much to see that even one life is not enough.'
Seven young students from different parts of the country had a wide-ranging discussion from bringing out Congress manifesto in Braille, setting up gender-neutral toilets to steps for removing inequalities in education system and caste discrimination in society with the Congress chief.
China is training Buddhist monks and nuns in Tibet to carry out anti-espionage operations along the remote Sino-Indian border.
Various Maratha organisations had held massive 'silent marches' across the state last year for various demands, including reservation.
Nationalist Congress Party workers in Pune on Friday agitated outside the Maharashtra State Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board Education Board against dropping of party president Sharad Pawar's name from the text books.
The court referred the NCRB data and said 38,947 women were raped in India in 2016. "What is to be done? Girls and women are getting raped left, right and centre," the bench said."
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'If Modi arrived like a juggernaut, he left like a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces were being dismantled bit by bit. It was as if India had seceded quietly from him.' Shiv Viswanathan's social science fiction about what India would be like in 2020.
The three former office-bearers of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, who had resigned from the party in protest against the Centre's handling of the raging row at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, said they were being "mocked" at for supporting the BJP's student wing and the "guilt" made them take the strong step.
RatanTata is the only Indian among five foreigners to be awarded Britian's civilian honour this year.
'No country can ever be free to make its choices and remain independent if it continues to wear borrowed plumes,' warn Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (retd) and Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
At the end of 2014, 70.17 million of China's rural residents lived below the country's poverty line.
'The common belief in political circles is that if you provide reservation to somebody, s/he will automatically come up.' 'This is a very faulty understanding.'
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