It was a term coined by Mayawati and now everybody is studying ‘social engineering’.

When HRD Minister Arjun Singh recently called the first IIT Council meet in his term to belatedly have the constitutional body ratify all decisions he had taken on its behalf,everyone present knew it was done only because of the fear of getting entangled in legal complications. Whatever doubts the council members had were also cleared […]

While the HRD Ministry has considerably liberalised its selection criteria for a new CBSE Chairman...

There may be few things BSP chief Mayawati and the SP’s Mulayam Singh Yadav can agree upon,but that’s not including former solicitor general Harish Salve.

Beggars can’t be choosers,and Kalyan Singh is learning this the hard way.

It was a presentation from a three-member Google India team at L K Advani’s residence a couple of months ago that led the BJP to target every conceivable brand in cyberspace to advertise Brand Advani. It was,in fact,some research done by the Google team that drew up close to 2,000 subjects that top the search […]

Huge cutouts of former prime ministers as also distinguished Congress leaders were installed on the dais at the national convention of Block...

Among the entire top party leadership that has descended on the “orange city” for the BJP’s National Executive-cum-Council meeting...

Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal,who used to have a field day under his previous boss Shivraj Patil...

Last week,after the Cabinet amended his Ministry’s proposal fixing the age limit of 40 to 64 years for grant of pension to widows from BPL category...

A prelude to the recent drama between Chinese warships and an Indian submarine in the Gulf of Aden...

With the $10-billion MMRCA contract to provide 126 fighter aircraft for the Indian Air Force up for grabs...

The chairman of the department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law...

Law Minister H R Bhardwaj has changed his stand on initiating impeachment proceedings against Calcutta High Court judge Justice Soumitra Sen...

The HRD Ministry’s penchant for regulation has led to a plethora of regulatory bodies,creating a tangle in the higher education sector.

By refusing to meet Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh,CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat has given rise to voices of discontent in the CPI.

Apparently anxious about the model code of conduct that is set to come into force ahead of the Lok Sabha elections...

Thanks to Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh,the Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow has remained headless for the last six months.

AICC secretary Bhanwar Jitendra Singh,who is attached to AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi...

Talking about youth,while the Madhya Pradesh Congress unit,despite a number of high-profile leaders...

While youth remains the buzzword in the Congress with party leaders talking about AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi

With the Lok Sabha elections round the corner,Union Human Resource Development Minister is apparently keen to be seen as being very much in....

While most of the IIMs sent in scathing comments against the IIM Review Committee’s recommendation to create an overarching....

Union Minister and senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal is a worried man these days. While he was already facing a tough contest....