The political and ideological differences between the Congress and Shashi Tharoor is no longer a matter of whispers.
Jitin Prasada was once considered as among Rahul Gandhi's 'young Turks' and was a minister in successive Manmohan Singh governments but defected from the Congress to the BJP in 2021, where he has again established himself as a prominent Brahmin face of Uttar Pradesh.
References to freedom fighter and India's first education minister Azad have been removed from the new class 11 political science textbook by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
Shashi Tharoor, minister of state for HRD, outlines his plans for the young in India.
In an exclusive interview with Shobha Warrier, Shashi Tharoor, minister of state for human resources development, outlines his plans for the young in India.
During her long career, writer-journalist Shobha Warrier has come across people of varied hues, many of whom left a lasting impression on her. Warrier narrates the fascinating stories of some of them in her recently-released book The Little Flower Girl and the others, Diary of a Journalist.
Minister of state for HRD Shashi Tharoor feels that the University's decision is a potentially positive one.
Congress steered clear of the controversial remarks of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor favouring making public the identity of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim.
Shashi Tharoor, the minister of state for human resources development, the moderator for a discussion on heritage and the diaspora, was suave as ever as he described how Indians had influenced the world and drawn the best of foreign influences.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday elicited the views of their junior cabinet colleagues and Congress leaders from Andhra Pradesh on the Telangana statehood demand, which has virtually divided the party on regional lines.
Satyapal Singh again questioned Darwin's theory of evolution on Friday saying human beings are descendants of sages and not monkeys as propounded by the British scientist.
The Indian Institutes of management came under attack on Sunday when Minister of State for Human Resource Development D Purandeshwari said the institutes had failed to keep pace with the demand.
Under the 'educational loan scheme' of Indian Bank's Association, "the government is considering providing interest subsidy on the loans taken by students belonging to non-creamy layer to ensure that nobody is denied professional education," minister of state for human resource development D Purandeswari said in a written reply. Her reply came in response to apprehensions raised in the House about the exorbitant fees being charged by private institutes.
The minister said on Tuesday it may not be immediately feasible for the IITs and IIMs to open campuses abroad as they are facing faculty shortages and have to undertake 54 per cent expansion in their intake to implement OBC quota. Setting of campuses abroad may further strain the IITs' limited manpower and other resources, Purandeswari said in a written reply.
National Association of Software and Services Companies has raised the issue of lack of employability of engineering graduates in IT and IT enabled Services sectors, Minister of State for Human Resources Development D Purandeswari said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
The government on Tuesday ruled out setting up an IIT in Orissa, saying it has already approved three such institutes in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan.
The report of the survey would, however, be available after ten years of its commissioning.
The Indian Institutes of Management will have to provide reservation for the other backward classes in addition to SC and STs from the coming academic session, Rajya Sabha was informed Tuesday.
The share of Information Technology industry in India's GDP was 5.2 per cent or $ 48.1 bn in 2006-07, the government said on Monday, quoting a Nasscom report. Minister of State for Human Resource Development D Purandeswari said of the $ 48.1 bn, hardware and software products comprised $ 11.5 billion and IT services $ 36.6 bn. Nasscom report also pointed out that around 16.30 lakh people were employed in the IT sector during 2006-07 & 375,000 more jobs were to be generated.
Steps have been taken to raise awareness in society about this evil, the minister said.
Kanti Singh is alleged to have blessed the couple -- Pinki Kumari (14) and Ashok Kumar Giri (15) -- after their marriage was solemnised on December 12.
The government has decided to set up three new Indian Institutes of Technology during 11th Five Year Plan, Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
A Bihar councilor with a criminal record has alleged that a Union minister for state paid him Rs 5 lakh to kill a deputy mayor. Ward councilor of the Darbhanga municipal corporation Allan Khan on Tuesday said before an executive magistrate that Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development M A A Fatmi gave a supari (a contract to kill) of Rs 5 lakh to kill Darbhanga Deputy Mayor Babby Khan.
The amended bill envisages giving the right to Minority Educational Institutions to seek affiliation to any university of their choice subject to rules, ordinances and acts of these universities.
The Union minister, along with some others, was on way to Thalwara in Hayaghat block when the engine of the motorboat fell silent and the vessel was being swept downstream by the strong current.
The bill also empowers a magistrate to pass protection orders in favour of an aggrieved person.
Ashok Pradhan on Monday took charge as the Minister of State for Telecommunications and Information Technology.
The government has not given permission to open a branch of Indian Institute of Technology at Singapore, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
The government was considering the report of the S K Joshi Committee to constitute an expert group to assess the suitability of transforming seven institutions to the level of Indian Institutes of Technology
Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development Sanjay Paswan had on Monday had walked barefoot on a 15-feet stretch of smouldering coal as part of a faith healing ritual.
"In the last about two decades, the way the Constitution has been interpreted and the laws have been interpreted, it requires revisit. Let us revisit them," he said.
'Nobody, including our ancestors, in written or oral, have said they saw an ape turning into a man'
The condition of Kushwaha, the former Union Minister, is all right, although he has been advised rest, hospital sources said.
He accused Modi of reducing the cabinet to a 'rubber stamp', 'betraying' backward classes and giving Bihar only 'jumlas'.
School principal suspended, vice-principal and 14 other teachers transferred after a video emerged of a boy being thrashed by other schoolboys.
Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi's lawyer Mehmood Abdi said that his client stands vindicated on the controversy surrounding the erstwhile Kochi franchise following outbursts by Shahshi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar who died recently.
E-ticketing for Taj Mahal to begin soon.
Kushwaha was absent at a get-together of the NDA in Patna on Thursday night and his party demanded that the next Lok Sabha and assembly polls be fought under his leadership.
The minister was on his way to Motihari to attend PM Modi's rally. He never made it.
While the assembly elections are being seen as largely a contest between the NDA and the Grand Alliance, the state has been witness to mushrooming of "morchas" (fronts) which may queer the pitch for the lead players in a tight contest.
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