Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday elicited the views of their junior cabinet colleagues and Congress leaders from Andhra Pradesh on the Telangana......
President Pratibha Patil has said that bringing back Mahatma Gandhi''s memorabilia to India would be the most exciting occasion of her visit to the United Kingdom. The memorabilia includes signed......
Union Minister D Purandeswari has received a surprise letter from US First Lady Laura Bush inviting her as a featured speaker at the White House symposium on Advancing Global Literacy Building a......
The centre will conduct a linguistic survey of the country, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. The report of the survey would, however, be available after ten years of its commissioning,......
Rediff.com takes a look at the revamped Cabinet of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh: Dr Manmohan Singh Prime Minister and also in-charge of the Ministries/ Departments not specifically allocated to......
Shifting from its earlier stand, the governmentindicated on Tuesday that it may allow the IITs and IIMs to open campuses in foreign countries. Minister of state for human resource development D......
The government is mulls a scheme to provide interest subsidy on loans taken by poor students for pursuing professional courses in India, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Under the......
The share of Information Technology industry in India's GDP was 5.2 per cent or $ 48.1 billion in 2006-07, the government said on Monday, quoting a Nasscom report. In a written reply to the Rajya......
Governmentsaid on Tuesday steps are being taken to overcome the shortage of quality engineers in the IT industry.National Association of Software and Services Companieshas raised the issue of lack......
The Indian Institutes of Management will have to provide reservation for the other backward classes in addition to schedulecastes and schedule tribes from the coming academic session, Rajya Sabha......