Telangana crisis: Pranab, PC consult Andhra Cong leaders

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......

What Dr Singh's Cabinet looks like now

Rediff.com takes a look at the revamped Cabinet of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh: Dr Manmohan Singh Prime Minister and also in-charge of the Ministries/ Departments not specifically allocated to......

'Getting Gandhi memorabilia highlight of UK visit'

President Pratibha Patil has said that bringing back Mahatma Gandhi''s memorabilia to India would be the most exciting occasion of her visit to the United Kingdom. The memorabilia includes signed......

US First Lady invites Union Minister for a talk

Union Minister D Purandeswari has received a surprise letter from US First Lady Laura Bush inviting her as a featured speaker at the White House symposium on Advancing Global Literacy Building a......

Govt may allow IITs, IIMs to open campus abroad

Shifting from its earlier stand, the governmentindicated on Tuesday that it may allow the IITs and IIMs to open campuses in foreign countries. Minister of state for human resource development D......

IIT-Madras director on IITs and Pan-IIT event

Prof Madaboosi Santanam Ananth is one of the most vocal academicians in the country. He has been the director of IIT-Madras since 2001. Prof Ananth joined as faculty in the department of chemical......

Govt Subsidy on poor students' loans mulled

The government is mulls a scheme to provide interest subsidy on loans taken by poor students for pursuing professional courses in India, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Under the......

IT share in GDP pegged at 5.2%

The share of Information Technology industry in India's GDP was 5.2 per cent or $ 48.1 billion in 2006-07, the government said on Monday, quoting a Nasscom report. In a written reply to the Rajya......