President stress on spiritual development

The country needs to focus on spiritual development along with academic excellence to regain lost values and traditions, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Sunday. The President was speaking at..

Mother Teresa award for Afghan activist and Pakistani girl shot by Taliban

Afghan rights activist Dr Sima Samar along with Pakistani education campaigner Malala Yousufzai was Wednesday conferred with the Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice..

1.35 lakh people committed suicide in 2011: Crime Bureau Data

West Bengal tops states for the highest number of suicides reported in 2011. More than 1.35 lakh people committed suicide in the country last year. West Bengal reported the highest number of..

Justice Ranganath Misra passes away

The former Chief Justice of India, Ranganath Misra, died at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar, Orissa on Thursday after prolonged illness. Misra, 86, is survived by his wife, daughters-in-law and..

Notion of majority and minority 'un-Indian', says Tharoor

The notion of majority and minority is fundamentally un-Indian and fails to reflect the real nature of our society, said Dr Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament and a former Minister. He was..

Govt doubles pre-matric scholarships for minority students

The Ministry of Minority Affairs has doubled the number of scholarships to students belonging to minority communities for FY 2012-13. The Ministry has set a target of distributing 75 lakh..