Amid criticism over a controversial remark of senior Trinamool Congress leader and West Bengal minister Firhad Hakim on the Muslim percentage in the population, the ruling party in the state on......
'It seems to be a hasty step ahead of the election.'Arnab Dutta reports. Photograph: Kind courtesy IIT-Delhi The recently introduced 10 per cent reservation for students from economically weaker......
Firhad Hakim, a senior minister in West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress, has defended his remarks on the Muslim population in the state and India, saying he is a diehard secular and patriotic......
Sections of our media and elite take Western reports/judgements at face value and are ready to condemn the targets without understanding the deeper power linkages behind such actions, asserts......
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said the positive concept of secularism required the state to treat minority institutions at par with secular ones and treat all equally irrespective of faith, belief.......
More than 50 per cent of SIP accounts come from semi-urban and rural areas. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com India's smaller cities and rural areas give a wider picture of how the economy is......
To meet this week on representation to HRD ministry for degree granting power, autonomy. Restive over the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bill, 2017, other business schools offering a post......
In a major blow to the country's technical education regulator, the Bombay High Court is understood to have given a stay order on the recent guidelines issued by it, which, among other things,......
Management institutes, which dragged the All India Council for Technical Education to the Supreme Court, now wish to withdraw their case. But the AICTE is in no mood to relent.Last February, the......
Though India still has to travel a long distance to eradicate poverty, it is pursuing 'inclusive growth' schemes which have been designed to ensure that all sections of society benefit from them,......
IMAGE: India’s squad for AFC U-19 Championship. Photograph: AIFF. With an aim to make the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup a huge success, the Sports Ministry has urged all the states and Union......
'There is no reason why a nation of 1.3 billion people cannot be amongst leading medal-winners on the international stage.' IMAGE: Reliance Foundation founder chairperson Nita Ambani believes......