HRD Ministry is set to sanction 7,000 scholarships for students enrolled in technical programmes.
The scholarships would be disbursed by AICTE, 5,000 of which would be sanctioned for women students, ministry officials said.
Officials said the rest 2,000 scholarships would be equally distributed among physically challenged and PhD students.
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–PTI
Amid no signal so far on granting of Leader of the Opposition post to Congress, its leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge met Speaker Sumitra Mahajan today.
Congress Chief whip Jyotiraditya Scindia as also four members of the UPA were part of the delegation led by Kharge at the meeting held just four days ahead of the commencement of Budget session of Parliament.
In an effort to check the rise in prices of some essential commodities, Home Minister Rajnath Singh Thursday asked the Delhi government to increase the strength of mobile vans to ensure availability of onions and potatoes at reasonable prices and also sell these food items through 300 shops in government premises.
Rajnath Singh, who Thursday held a meeting with Lt Governor Najeeb Jung and senior officials of the Delhi administration, told media persons here that the Narendra Modi government would make maximum efforts to ensure that prices do not rise.
President Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit Mukherjee, who once courted controversy for a sexist remark, has now sprung to the defence of Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Paul seeking forgiveness for the latter’s rape comments but drew flak from his own Congress party.
Slamming Abhijit’s comments, state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said he will seek an explanation from the Jangipur MP.
“Tapas has written an apology letter. I feel since he has apologised and his party has pardoned him, the debate should not be dragged any further,” Abhjiit told media persons here.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika requested Bosnian Vahid Halilhodzic to continue as the head coach of the national football team following their remarkable show in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Media reports suggested that Algerian Football Federation (FAF) wants Halilhodzic to continue coaching the Desert Foxes but the Bosnian is yet to make up his mind. Bouteflika has now asked FAF president Mohamed Raouraoua to make sure that Halilhodzic extends his contract, reports Xinhua.
Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit had 31 air-conditioners, 15 desert coolers and 25 heaters installed at her official residence when in power, a RTI activist said Thursday citing the response to his query.
“Consumption of electricity and expenses on such a large fleet of electrical equipment can be well imagined that too at a time when ‘austerity drive’ was there in existence with shortage of electricity for commoners having been a common phenomenon,” said Right to Information (RTI)activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal.
Wipro chairman Azim Premji Thursday met Communications and Information Technology (IT) Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and discussed issues concerning the IT industry like visa, taxation and security.
“He (Premji) discussed certain issues which are major concerns for Indian IT industry – visa, taxation and security issues of the employees. I have assured them and asked them to give me a proper note and I will take it up with the Prime Minister myself,” Prasad told media persons after the meeting.
Dortmund striker Julian Schieber has joined league rival Hertha Berlin by putting pen to paper on a four-year deal, both sides confirmed Thursday.
Berlin completed their sixth transfer for the upcoming season as Schieber joined the “Blue-Whites” until June 2018, reports EFE.
“We observed Julian Schieber’s career with interest for a long time. He fits perfectly into our requirement profile. We are glad that he opted for Hertha,” Berlin’s sporting manager Michael Preetz said in an official statement.
Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal accompanied by AAP legislators Thursday met President Pranab Mukherjee to demand immediate dissolution of the assembly and fresh elections in Delhi.
Kejrwal was accompanied by all 26 party legislators and also submitted a letter to the president.
If the Spanish press is to be believed, both FC Barcelona and Real Madrid are closing in on major signings which will be announced shortly after the end of the World Cup, if not before.
Barcelona’s pursuit of Liverpool’s Uruguay international, Luis Suarez is entering a new phase with both the British and Spanish press reporting the two clubs held a meeting in London Monday during which Barcelona made an offer of 70 million pounds ($120 million) for the controversial striker, reports Xinhua.
A Delhi court has said “several unscrupulous auto and cab drivers” harass and lure flyers at the airport. The court’s observation came while convicting an auto-rickshaw driver for acting as a tout and luring passengers at the domestic airport here.
“It is in knowledge of everyone that in airport outside arrival hall several unscrupulous TSR and cab drivers lure passengers to cheap hotel, low fare and other benefits.
“Most of the cases TSRs do not have registration with the pre-paid taxi booth,” said Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma.
Condemning President Pranab Mukherjee’s son and MP Abhijit Mukherjee for seeking to defend Tapas Paul on the latter’s rape and violence comments, West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Thursday said he will seek an explanation.
Abhijit, a Congress parliamentarian from Bengal’s Jangipur, described Trinamool Congress MP Paul’s rape and violence remarks as a “slip of tongue” and said debate on the matter should not be dragged further.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the Kashmir Valley Friday amid a shutdown called by separatists and warnings by Muslim groups not to create a separate enclave for Kashmiri Pandits.
Modi will chair a high-level security review meeting at the Badami Bagh headquarters of the army’s 15th corps here. He is also to inaugurate a 240 MW hydro-power in the border town of Uri in Baramulla district.
He will earlier fly to Jammu to open a 25-km rail link between Katra and Udhampur, providing a direct link to the Mata Vaishno Devi temple with the rest of the country.
India’s Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek moved into the semi-final of the men’s doubles at Wimbledon with a hard fought win over Nenad Zimonjic and Daniel Nestor in the quarter-finals at the All England Club here Thursday.
The fifth-seeded Indo-Czech pair won 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3, 6-4 against the third seeded Serbian-Canadian pair in an encounter that lasted a gruelling two hours and 37 minutes on court 1.
The presidents of China and South Korea Thursday reaffirmed their opposition to North Korean nuclear tests at a historic meeting in Seoul which highlighted the growing isolation of the Pyongyang Communist regime.
“Denuclearisation, peace and prosperity in the Korean peninsula” are the objectives of Beijing’s foreign policy, said Chinese President Xi Jinping at a press conference after holding a bilateral summit with his South Korean counterpart, Park Geun-hye.
Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president Dr N Raghuveera Reddy on Thursday alleged that the White Paper released by Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu on Energy was a bunch of lies.
Inspector of Survey, Office of the Assistant Director Survey and Land Records, Nizamabad Town, Nizamabad District
was caught red handed by the ACB officials on 03-07-2014 at 11.50 AM in front of his office, when he demanded and accepted an amount of Rs.20,000 (Rupees Twenty Thousand only) as bribe from the complainant, for doing an official favour i.e. “ to survey the land of complainant ”.
The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has won the post of Chairman and Vice-Chairman in Bhainsa of Nizamabad district.
While MIM candidate Sabiha Begum was elected as Chairman, Md Jaber Ahmed got elected as Vice-Chairman of Bhainsa Municipality. Similarly, the MIM candidates emerged victorious on six other municipalities. They are Nirmal (Azeem Bin Yahya), Mohammed Farooq (Adilabad), Mohammad Rafi (Korultla), Sayyed Sajid Ali (Tandur), Mohammed Qadeer (Bodhan) and Azmath Pasha (Zaheerabad).
Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president Ponnala Lakshmaiah on Thursday strongly criticised the procedures adopted for the election of Swamy Goud as the Chairman of Telangana State Legislative Council.
The Raj Bhavan on Thursday dismissed the reports that appeared in a section of the media stating that a decision has been taken by Governor ESL Narasimhan during President’s rule, that a barricade be constructed between two Secretariats of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
In a press communique, the Raj Bhavan has denied the statement and said “No such decision was taken nor any instructions were issued by the Governor during President’s rule.” (INN)
Telangana Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao on Thursday offered to conduct talks with the Andhra Pradesh Government to sort out contentious issues among the two States.
Needling India ahead of Narendra Modi’s first visit to Jammu and Kashmir as Prime Minister, Pakistan today harped on Kashmir being a “disputed territory”.
“We do not accept the so-called accession of the State of Jammu and Kashmir to India. Kashmir is not an integral part of India. Our position is that Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory,” Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam Khan said during a briefing.
Her remarks came on the eve of Modi’s one-day visit to Jammu and Srinagar.
Congress Party leader Manish Tewari on Thursday said that it was extremely unfortunate that the government has done so little for the Indians trapped in Iraq, and added that they should act in a more responsible way. “It is most unfortunate that government had done very little. They receive phone calls from Punjab almost everyday. They have not rescued anyone yet. The question is what is the government doing?” asked Tewari. “It is the responsibility of the government. Ever since trans-national activity started, Indians have never been a part of it.
The Israeli military deployed reinforcements to the southern border with the Gaza Strip Thursday amid a sharp spike in Gaza rocket attacks and retaliatory Israeli airstrikes, the Israeli army said in a statement.
An undisclosed number of armoured units ceased headed south to augment the army’s Gaza Division in preparation for a possible large-scale operation to quell rocket fire, Xinhua reported citing the statement.
A small number of reservists assigned to headquarters were called up as well, and Palestinian media reported that navy vessels were taking up positions off the Gaza coast.
The Delhi High Court Thursday extended for one month the parole to Manu Sharma, serving a life term in the Jessica Lal murder case, so that he could prepare and submit his masters’ thesis.
Justice S. Muralidhar, extending Sharma’s parole, asked him to surrender on Aug 2.
Sharma was earlier granted 15 days’ parole to sit for his exams which were scheduled to commence from June 19 and to end on June 24.
He has been pursuing his post-graduate examination in human rights.