Applicants for Indian citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 (CAA) can submit any of nine documents, including valid or expired passport, ID cards and land tenancy records, to prove......
The government faced embarrassment in the Rajya Sabha today as it was forced to defer a key education reforms bill, following strong opposition from members cutting across party lines. HRD Minister......
Duping students by charging capitation fee or failing to keep promise of quality education could now attract a fine of up to Rs 50 lakh for errant institutes or imprisonment up to three years for......
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has invited a few editors to his residence on Monday morning. According to sources in the Prime Minister's Office, nearly a dozen editors will meet Dr Singh at his......
Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday clarified that the party did not have any deal with the United Progressive Alliance government on the crucial nuclear liability bill passed by......
There have been many innovative and helpful developments in the Indian education sector in the last 4-5 years. The government has been putting consistent efforts to strengthen the sector as a whole......
HRD Minister Kapil Sibal's unsuccessful efforts to get key legislations on reforms in higher education passed, his push for examination reforms, rise in IIT tuition fees and launch of world's......
The Centre on Monday earmarked a separate Rs 2,217 crore for 42 urban centres to tackle air pollution and announced the much-awaited voluntary vehicle scrapping policy to phase out old and......
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman read out the Union Budget speech in the Lok Sabha from a tablet on Monday instead of a conventional paper document. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......
The government on Thursday introduced a new Companies Bill, 2008, in the Lok Sabha that makes it easy for a company from the stage of incorporation to winding up by doing away with host of obsolete......
The film Hotel Rwanda -- released in 2004 but set to arrive in India this week-- is about a man called Paul Rusesabagina (played by Don Cheadle), who ran a hotel in Kigali, the Rwandan capital,that......