Repeated blockage of Parliament an act of betrayal: Tharoor

There should be no political interference in the decisions of a university, said minister of state for human resource development Shashi Tharoor after several MPs sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs intervention to stop the proposed four-year undergraduate ...

Strongly favouring the learning of English to succeed in the modern world, Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD) Shashi Tharoor has said denial of opportunity to children to stu... Related Stories Centre's stand on Tamil Nadu fishermen ...

Sanskrit universities in the country are facing a shortage of teachers, Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor told the Lok Sabha Wednesday.In a written reply, Tharoor said that due to "vast expansion" in higher education during the ...

Terming the news of Sreesanth caught by Delhi police for spot fixing as extremely unhappy, Minister of State for Human Resource and Development (HRD) and Kerala MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said Indian pacer is innocent until proven guilty.

New Delhi, Apr 26 (IBNS) The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has outlined criteria for setting up Model Schools under Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) mode for achieving Right to Education (RTE) objectives. The Ministry will set up 2500 ...

Against the backdrop of incidents of violence and sexual assaults on girls, the Human Resource Development ministry has directed state governments to include training in self-defence as part of physical education for upper primary classes. Minister of State for HRD Shashi Tharoor said in Rajya Sabha that in January his ministry wrote to education secretaries of states suggesting inclusion of "training in self-defence" in physical education classes for girl students. Describing reports of ...

Dubbing Italy's stand in the marines' case as "legally, morally and diplomatically" wrong, Minister of State for Human Resources Development Shashi Tharoor today said the best course for it would be to send back to India the duo charged with killing Indian ...

The Karnataka state elections mark a decisive step forward in the Indian electorate's journey from the politics of identity to the politics of performance The overwhelming victory of the Indian National Congress in elections in the southern state of ...

NEW DELHI ― The sea of humanity besieging the Shahbag area in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, for the last two months, has had an unusual demand ― unusual, at least, for the Indian subcontinent. The demonstrators have been clamoring for justice ...