Prakash Javedekar

The government has no plan to remove Rabindranath Tagore from school textbooks, HRD Minister Prakash Javedekar told Rajya Sabha today.

There is no proposal for holding morning prayers in schools in the draft education policy, the government said today, allaying apprehensions that it would infringe on the rights of the states.

Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar will be on a three-day visit to the Northeast states of Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura starting tomorrow where he will hold meetings with forest officials and farmers to discuss various issues.

India today hit out at US Secretary of State John Kerry for his remarks that India will be a "challenge" at the upcoming crucial Paris climate meet.

The Centre, which was keen on amending key green laws as early as second half of the budget session, will now reportedly adopt a slower and a more studied approach. This shift in pace, comes after opposition from various state governments at its two day conference.

India has said it cannot accept the bail granted to 26/11 accused Lashkar-e-Taiba co-founder and commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, by a court in Pakistan. The court's order comes as Pakistan pledged to root out terror in the wake of the Taliban massacre at the Peshawar school in which over 130 children died. The prosecuting authorities in Pakistan s...

Top Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, accused of plotting the 26/11 terror attack on Mumbai in 2008, has been granted bail by an anti-terror court in Pakistan, a day after the country's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif pledged to root out terrorism.

The crisis within the BJP caused by the resignation of its senior most leader, LK Advani, seems to be nearing a settlement. Mr Advani spoke to Mohan Bhawgwat, the head of the BJP's powerful ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, and is expected to meet BJP chief Rajnath Singh soon.

Ahead of the Budget session of Parliament beginning today, the Opposition has its strategy ready.

The government has no plan to remove Rabindranath Tagore from school textbooks, HRD Minister Prakash Javedekar told Rajya Sabha today.

There is no proposal for holding morning prayers in schools in the draft education policy, the government said today, allaying apprehensions that it would infringe on the rights of the states.

Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar will be on a three-day visit to the Northeast states of Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura starting tomorrow where he will hold meetings with forest officials and farmers to discuss various issues.

India today hit out at US Secretary of State John Kerry for his remarks that India will be a "challenge" at the upcoming crucial Paris climate meet.

The Centre, which was keen on amending key green laws as early as second half of the budget session, will now reportedly adopt a slower and a more studied approach. This shift in pace, comes after opposition from various state governments at its two day conference.

India has said it cannot accept the bail granted to 26/11 accused Lashkar-e-Taiba co-founder and commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, by a court in Pakistan. The court's order comes as Pakistan pledged to root out terror in the wake of the Taliban massacre at the Peshawar school in which over 130 children died. The prosecuting authorities in Pakistan s...

Top Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, accused of plotting the 26/11 terror attack on Mumbai in 2008, has been granted bail by an anti-terror court in Pakistan, a day after the country's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif pledged to root out terrorism.

The crisis within the BJP caused by the resignation of its senior most leader, LK Advani, seems to be nearing a settlement. Mr Advani spoke to Mohan Bhawgwat, the head of the BJP's powerful ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, and is expected to meet BJP chief Rajnath Singh soon.

Ahead of the Budget session of Parliament beginning today, the Opposition has its strategy ready.