Hemant Soren distributes portfolios; keeps home, gives finance to Cong

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Friday distributed portfolios among the new ministers, keeping key departments such as home, personnel and several others to himself, according to a......

K'taka student faces action for saying minister 'doesn't know Kannada'

A boy's alleged remark that the Education Minister 'doesn't know Kannada', irked Madhu Bangarappa, who holds the portfolio, as he directed officials to take action against the student. IMAGE:......

Centre to recruit private sector experts in key posts across 12 ministries

The Centre has decided to recruit private sector specialists as joint secretaries, directors and deputy secretaries on contract basis in its different departments, an official said on Tuesday.......

Bureaucratic reshuffle: Coal secy shunted out; 19 new babus appointed

Coal Secretary Anil Swarup was appointed school education secretary as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effective from Wednesday. As many as 19 new secretaries have been appointed in......

Laptops for students, at Rs 400!

Students across the country will be able to buy specially designed laptops at affordable prices with the government planning to provide them the gadget at around Rs 400. Research in this direction......

How the wealth of India's richest can make a difference

An additional one per cent tax on the richest 10 per cent can provide the country with nearly 17.7 lakh extra oxygen cylinders, while a similar wealth tax on the 98 richest billionaire families......

Microsoft to train school students

Microsoft Corporation India on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of West Bengal, for the roll out of Microsoft's Partners-in-Learning programme in the state.The......

Rs 1,064 crore outlay for girls' education plan

The Centre will implement the National Programme for Education of Girls at Elementary Level in 21 states. In the Tenth Plan, over Rs 1,064 crore (Rs 10.64 billion) will be spent on the......

Agassi hopes to make a generational change in India...

'What I hope to do is provide a vehicle for that scale and growth in literacy and English as a second language here.' IMAGE: Tennis taught me how to navigate a very intense environment and......