Monday, January 3, 2011

India will soon have own Ivy League universities, says Sibal

India will soon have own Ivy League universities, says Sibal

India will soon have own Ivy League universities, says Sibal

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 05:09 PM PST

Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal said these 'navratna' universities would be given ample funds and also freedom from the shackles of the government.

Govt to amend law to curtail forest dept powers

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 05:06 PM PST

Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh announced on Monday that the government would amend the colonial period legislation – Indian Forest Act, 1927 – to curtail the powers given to forest department to foist criminal cases against tribals.

'UK must outsource NHS administration to India'

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 05:04 PM PST

Britain's National Health Services administration should be outsourced to India to save million of pounds, John Neilson, the head of the government-backed company leading healthcare efficiency reform in the UK, has said, praising the capability of Indian workers in the sector.

New tapping tech can bypass service providers

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 05:02 PM PST

The central monitoring system for telecom services that the government plans to set up will be able to scan all mobile traffic routed through service providers for unauthorized tapping while also monitoring conversations without approaching networks for technical access.

After 60 yrs in France, painter Raza back home

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:58 PM PST

At a time when M F Hussain has taken up Qatar citizenship, another distinguished painter Syed Haider Raza has moved back to India after spending nearly six decades in France.

Pilots ring in New Year on a sober note

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:57 PM PST

The recently-implemented rule of losing flying licence for good if caught high has had a sobering effect on pilots with none caught on the wrong foot this New Year.

'US was advised to start trade war over GM crops'

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:55 PM PST

The US government was advised by its officials to start a military-style trade war against European countries that oppose GM crop cultivation, a new Wikileak release by the UK-based newspaper Guardian has shown.

Ex-chief postmaster general charged with graft

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:51 PM PST

The CBI has filed a chargesheet against the former chief postmaster general of Maharashtra and Goa for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 2 crore for issuing a no-objection certificate for the development of a plot reserved for the postal department on Mira Road in Thane.

India's 11th IIM to open at Trichy today

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:43 PM PST

Tuesday will see the birth of a new IIM. The country's 11th IIM at Trichy will open its doors with executive education programmes this academic year.

Did CAT results jump the gun?

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:39 PM PST

CAT scores could be seen online for a few hours on Monday afternoon even though the official date for announcement of the results for the 2010 test is January 12.

Telangana trouble brewing in TDP too?

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:36 PM PST

The storm brewing in the T-cup enveloped the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Monday with at least one MLA from the region deciding to quit the party and join the TRS amid indications that more are likely to follow.

TDP leader's murder accused killed

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:33 PM PST

Rayalaseema faction warlord Gangula Suryanarayana Reddy alias Maddelachervu Suri, the prime accused in the murder of TDP leader Paritala Ravi, was shot dead by his close aide on Monday evening.

Avoid redtape, PM tells universities

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:24 PM PST

"Our universities have to be more hospitable to creativity and genius, and less captive to bureaucracy and procedure," PM Manmohan Singh said at the 98th Indian Science Congress opened in Chennai on Monday.

400 Pak Hindus await Indian citizenship

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:42 PM PST

With the Centre agreeing before the Punjab and Haryana High Court, a couple of months ago, to grant citizenship to 120 Pakistani Hindus staying near Jalandhar for years, around 400 more such people placed in a similar situation here have intensified their demand for citizenship.

$10 billion mistake? IAS officers under lens

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:32 PM PST

Two IAS officers of the defence ministry are under the scanner for the mysterious way in which a "secret" file connected to the $10.4 billion project to acquire 126 new fighters went missing and was then found by a roadside.

BJP, Cong spar over Assam migrant issue

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:29 PM PST

With the Assam elections approaching, Congress and BJP have begun sparring over the issue of illegal migration from across the Bangladesh border into the state and made it clear that the issue will snowball into a major issue.

Samjhauta plot hatched in Dangs, Chittaranjan: NIA

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:28 PM PST

In an important development in the Samjhauta blasts case, NIA on Monday asserted that the conspiracy to attack the train was hatched during meetings in Dang district of Gujarat and Chittaranjan in West Bengal in February 2006.

Abdul Ghani Bhat stands by anti-separatist tirade

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:22 PM PST

In perhaps the first such admission that has raised hackles among the hardline camp, moderate Hurriyat leader Abdul Ghani Bhat has called on the separatist to introspect over the killing of two of their colleagues "by our own people".

First Ulfa, then Bodos: Govt in hurry to bring all to talks table

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:19 PM PST

With an eye on the forthcoming assembly elections in Assam, the government — both Centre and state — appear to be keen on beginning the much-awaited talks with the insurgent group Ulfa as early as possible.

Montek tells dalit firms to set up fund for community

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:12 PM PST

Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Monday urged a group of dalit entrepreneurs to set up a dedicated venture capital fund to finance business projects taken up by the socially neglected community.

Mayawati goofs up, says OBC victim out of SC panel purview

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:10 PM PST

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has goofed up by arguing that the National Commission for SCs cannot seek a report from the state on the Banda rape case involving a BSP MLA, as the victim is an OBC and not a dalit.

Political donors don't discriminate: Study

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:06 PM PST

Entrepreneurs like to plan for all political eventualities. At least that's what an analysis of voluntary contributions made by major corporates like Bharti Airtel, Torrent Videocon, Ambuja Cement and Adani Group reveals.

SC notice to KCR for stalling HC

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:03 PM PST

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K Chandrashekhar Rao, other party leaders and advocates who participated in an agitation disrupting the work of Andhra Pradesh High Court for several days.

Probe ordered into ex-CJI kin's wealth

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:02 PM PST

Complicating matters for NHRC chairman and ex-Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan, Kerala CM V S Achutanandan on Monday ordered the state home department to start a vigilance probe into charges that the former top judge's son-in-law P V Sreenijan had amassed huge wealth.

Diesel hike not before March

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 02:59 PM PST

The Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council feels a revision of diesel price may be carried out only at the beginning of the next fiscal if the inflation rate comes down.
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