Haryana poll law will hit 50% people: apex court Insisting on minimum educational qualification for those contesting the Panchayat elections will strike off 50 per cent from participating in the grassroots democracy for the sole reason that they are illiterate, the Supreme Court observed on 21st September. A Bench led by Justice...
India, Japan, U.S. plan to push ties to next level India, the U.S. and Japan are set to raise their trilateral engagement to the ministerial level, with a meeting of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry planned on the sidelines...
P.V. Chandran elected INS president P.V. Chandran was elected president of the Indian Newspaper Society for 2015-16 on 18th September. The annual general meeting of the INS here chose him to succeed Kiran B. Vadodaria. Mr. Chandran represents Grihalakshmi, a Malayalam magazine published by the Mathrubhumi group of publications, of which he...
Nehru museum director quits Mahesh Rangarajan has stepped down as director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) as he saw the BJP government questioning the nature of his appointment approved by the previous UPA government on its last legs. Minister of State for Culture (Independent charge) Mahesh Sharma told journalists...
Centre firm on withdrawing Indira, Rajiv stamps Amid a war of words between the Congress and the BJP over the government’s decision to discontinue postage stamps featuring the former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday that there was no question of reconsidering...
Indian govt\'s new Bharat Operating System likely to replace Microsoft Windows Indian government is finally set to launch the latest version of its own operating system dubbed as the Bharat Operating System Solutions, also known as BOSS. The operating system which was originally developed in 2007 by National Resource Centre for Free/Open...
IISc, IIT-D in top 200 rankings MIT and Harvard hold the top two positions in the world university rankings India has made its debut in the Quacquarelli Symonds’ (QS) list of top 200 universities globally. The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-D) have been placed...
Modi to visit Facebook HQ in California Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on 13th September, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would visit Facebook�s headquarters in California for a town hall question-and-answer session on September 27. Mr. Modi and Mr. Zuckerberg will discuss how communities can work together to address social and economic...
Minimum qualification set as Haryana passes Panchayati Raj Bill The State Assembly on Monday passed a Bill, fixing the minimum educational qualification for elections to the Panchayati Raj institutions besides laying down other conditions including making it mandatory for the candidates to have functional toilets. The Assembly on the concluding day of...
Mission Indradhanush gaining ground in Kerala Mission Indradhanush, an initiative launched by the Union Health Ministry in December last year, as a special drive to vaccinate all unimmunised and partially immunised children and pregnant women by 2020, under the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) in the country, seems to have gained much...
Uday Prakash decided to return his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the murder of Kannada scholar and rationalist M.M. Kalburgi. The former assistant professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University here announced his intent through a Facebook post in Hindi. Currently in a village in Chhattisgarh, he will officially communicate his...
Vijayawada native Yellepeddi Padmasree, now Padmasree Warrior, is in the race for the post of Twitter CEO, according to a report by Bloomberg Business. The news agency said Twitter’s search firm Spencer Stuart has reached out to three or four senior business executives, including Ms. Warrior, to lead the company. Twitter...