Najeeb Jung, Delhi Lt. Governor, has defended his decision to cancel the “management quota” in the criteria for nursery school admissions, and told the Delhi High Court that “commercialisation of education” cannot be allowed. His response came on a petition by the Action Committee of Unaided Recognised Private Schools against the December 2013 guidelines for […]
An Indian American scientist on Monday said that the application of computers in biology or computational biology was progressing well in India due to its increasing resource of students in the IT field.Computational biology involves application of computational simulation techniques to the study of biological, behavioural, and social systems. “India is advancing well in computational […]
President of India, Pranab Mukherjee Sunday said tuberculosis (TB) cannot be controlled globally unless it is controlled in India. “India has the world’s highest burden of tuberculosis. TB kills one person every two minutes in India or almost 750 people daily,” the president told a conference on TB and allied diseases here. “Global TB control […]
New Delhi, Feb 22 A survey on Saturday said, the BJP-led NDA is likely to bag 236 seats with the main party getting 217 seats in the Lok Sabha elections. The Congress will be reduced to double-digits at 73 of the 92 seats projected for the UPA, while the Aam Aadmi Party is likely to […]
New Delhi Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel does not seem to be satisfied with the Feb 14 judgment of the Lagos Court of Appeal and will lodge an appeal at the Supreme Court of Nigeria, a company statement said here Thursday. The ruling of the court means Bharti Airtel will now have to pay up […]
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday said 410 students who did not get admit cards for the secondary examinations and were on the verge of losing an academic year, would be allowed to register for the exams Sunday. The students of Kakinara Adarsha High School in North 24 Parganas of the state were denied […]
India has to increase its turnout of quality maritime personnel and its ship-building capacity if it has to emerge as a major economic power, President Pranab Mukherjee said here Saturday. Delivering his address at the convocation function of Indian Maritime University. he said: “If India is to emerge as a major economic power in future, […]
Ranchi, Feb 22 (IANS) Two opposition parties Saturday called a shutdown March 2 to seek special status for Jharkhand on the lines of that to be given to Seemandra after Telangana is carved out of Andhra Pradesh. The opposition parties wanted to pass a resolution in the assembly, condemning the central government move to grant special […]
New Delhi, Feb 21 AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal Friday asked the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to state his position on gas pricing involving industrialist Mukesh Ambani, alleging that the matter was already costing the exchequer an annual loss of Rs.54,000 crore. Kejriwal wanted to know if Modi would reduce natural gas prices, which […]
New Delhi/Hyderabad, Feb 21 The gazette notification for creation of separate Telangana state is likely to be issued in four to five days after the president gives his assent to the bill passed by parliament, said Rural Development Jairam Ramesh Friday. Ramesh told reporters in the national capital that two news states (Telangana and Andhra […]