Hrd Ministry

Pakistan seeks India's help in training its teachers

Press Trust of India | Friday April 19, 2013

Pakistan has asked India to present it with methods of teachers' training and research materials of various teacher training institutes.

NDTV launches Toyota University Cricket Championship

NDTV | Thursday February 7, 2013

University Cricket Championship is an all-India T20 League brought to you by NDTV and the Ministry of HRD starting February 2013.

Education Ministry orders ragging probe at architecture college SPA

Press Trust of India | Monday January 7, 2013

Taking a serious note of the ragging incident at the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) here, the HRD Ministry has ordered a fresh inquiry into the episode that took place in September last year.

No subsidised LPG cylinders for mid-day meal programme

Friday November 23, 2012

The Petroleum Ministry has turned down a request of the HRD Ministry to allow supply of subsidised LPG cylinders for the mid-day meal programme. "The request of HRD Ministry has not been agreed to," said Minister of State for HRD Shashi Tharoor.

Shashi Tharoor's boss defends him over BJP's 'love ministry' taunt

Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday October 31, 2012

New Human Resource Development Minister M.M. Pallam Raju on Wednesday came out in defence of his ministerial colleague Shashi Tharoor, terming as unfair the BJP's taunt that the Minister of State for HRD should be made minister of "love affairs".

IPL controversy over many years ago: New minister Shashi Tharoor

Edited by Prasad Sanyal | Sunday October 28, 2012

The suave, multi-lingual Shashi Tharoor is Sunday's Comeback Kid. He is back in the union council of ministers after two and a half years and will be minister of state for Human Resource Development.

Land bill: Government overrules changes proposed by parliamentary panel

Oineetom Ojah Sinha | Thursday July 5, 2012

Rural ministry has rejected the Standing Committee's suggestion that government should not acquire land for PPP projects.

Entrance test row: IIT Directors discuss compromise formula proposed by Kapil Sibal

Reported by Um-e-Kulsoom; edited by Mala Das | Saturday June 23, 2012

It's a compromise formula devised by Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal ahead of a crucial meeting of the IIT Council on June 27 on the new entrance format for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

IIT entrance exam row: Breakthrough soon?

Reported by Um-e-Kulsoom, written by Abhinav Bhatt | Tuesday June 19, 2012

After an acrimonious fight between the Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry and the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) over the new 'one nation, one test' entrance format for all centrally-funded engineering colleges, there are indications o...

Entrance exam row: After IIT Kanpur, Delhi likely to follow suit

Reported by Um-e-Kulsoom | Saturday June 9, 2012

The government's 'one nation, one test' format for admission into the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) is raising many voices of dissent. The decision of the IIT Kanpur Senate on Friday to conduct its own entrance examination in 2013 has taken ...

IIT Delhi alumni write to PM against common entrance exam

Reported by Um-E-Kulsoom Shariff | Wednesday June 6, 2012

The alumni association of the IIT or Indian institute of Technology has written to the Prime Minister, attacking Education Minister Kapil Sibal over his one-nation one-exam policy. The association writes that "IITs are being destroyed by mindless tam...

Single entrance test for IITs? Crucial meeting to decide today

NDTV Correspondent | Saturday June 2, 2012

In what could decide the fate of several students aspiring to get into the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the government will today hold a crucial meeting to on whether there should be a single entrance test for admission to the prestigious ...

143 technical institutes seek to shut shop: Govt

Sunday April 29, 2012

The phenomenon can be largely attributed to the mushrooming of technical institutes across the country.

Government: 6,100 tonnes foodgrains reported to be damaged in 2010-11

Monday March 19, 2012

The government today said out of the 60 million tonnes of foodgrains distributed in the country in 2010-11 through the Public Distribution System (PDS), only 0.061 lakh tonnes were reported to be damaged.

HRD Ministry should focus on schools: Digvijaya Singh

NDTV Correspondent | Saturday September 11, 2010

After taking on Home Minister P Chidambaram, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has now trained his guns on Human Resources Minister (HRD) Kapil Sibal. Speaking in Jabalpur, Digvijaya said the HRD Ministry should shift its focus from higher education to developing the school system."The need at ...