President Pranab Mukherjee has stressed upon the need to promote technology enabled learning. Speaking after inaugurating the National Education Day 2012 at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi, the President said that education system of a country should be measured on the basis of number of intellectual citizens it provides to the country. Human resource development […]
Former President, Mrs Pratibha Devisingh Patil visited ailing Shiv Sena Chief Balasaheb Thackeray at his residence in suburban Mumbai yesterday. She was accompanied by her husband Devisingh Shekhavat and spent about ten minutes with the Shiv Sena Chief. Family sources said, health condition of Mr Thackeray is stable and doctors are monitoring it continuously.
The CBI has busted a gang allegedly involved in cheating in high profile entrance examinations. The probe agency arrested 17 people for facilitating copying using sophisticated gadgets during the post-doctoral entrance examination of PGI Chandigarh yesterday. During a surprise check by CBI in Chandigarh, it was found that some women candidates were using camera, phones, […]
In a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence in Assam’s Bodoland, two persons were killed in Kokrajhar district on Saturday, a senior police official said. One person was shot dead at Badugaon under Gosaigaon police station at around 1340 hrs and in a retaliatory attack, a youth was hacked to death with sharp-edged weapons at nearby […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said creating economic growth and employment remains to be the focus of government’s policies. The government will soon announce steps to stave off investors’ fears ensuing from taxations measures like anti-tax avoidance rule and retrospective tax amendments. “We have dispelled gloom and doom, improved the climate for foreign investment, […]
President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said there is a high degree of public frustration over protracted and expensive court litigation in the country and suggested that alternate dispute redressal mechanism like mediation should be used to provide speedy justice. “It is important to recognise that despite the robust, independent and impartial judicial system we have […]
In an audacious ambush, heavily armed Maoists attacked a police van carrying their rebel friends from the local court back to jail in the heart of Jharkhand’s Giridih town and escaped with eight of them on Friday. Eyewitnesses said the hold-up took place around 4 pm near Uduabag Square, 5km from the district headquarters. As […]
The controversy-hit Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) will start production by the first week of December, the Union minister, V Narayanasamy said on Friday. He said enriched uranium has been fed into the core of the vessel and the lid was closed. “Now, the vessel is being pressurised. After that, trial run will start. That […]
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has stressed on fast tracking growth in the country. Addressing the Congress Leaders meeting in Haryana’s Suraj Kund, Dr Manmohan Singh said that under Congress leadership the UPA govt has done a lot for the poor during the last eight years. Prime Minister admitted that inflation was a challenge and […]
The ambitious electronic Direct Cash Transfer scheme for beneficiaries of subsidised items will be rolled out from January next year and is expected to cover 16 states by April 2014, the government announced on Friday. The scheme, which is aimed at curtailing corruption and pilferage of subsidised items, will be based on the payment platform […]
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