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New Delhi: The Union Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment, Shri Mukul Wasnik has said that a new Legislation will be brought very soon to replace Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (PwD Act), which would be suitably aligned with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).

New Delhi: The Education sector in India is expanding rapidly to meet the increasing demand resulting from rise in Gross Enrolment Ratios. Human Resource Development processes have gained high significance in India during the last few years. There is a need for expansion while ensuring excellence and equity. The challenge ahead is large.

New Delhi: An FIR in Crime No. 257/2008 dated 19.06.2008 was registered at Mundakayam PS, Kottayam District, Kerala under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967 against 30 Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activists on the basis of a complaint that a secret training camp was organised by them at Thangalpara, Wagamon during Dec, 2007. The case was initially investigated by the local Police and later Crime Branch Kottayam conducted the investigation.

New Delhi: The Vice President Shri M. Hamid Ansari released the “Annual Status of Education Report (ASER)- 2010 at a function here today. Addressing on the occasion, he has said that ASER’s simple, reliable and scientific methods of sampling and assessment on a nation-wide scale are important for highlighting the “quality agenda” in education. This is more glaring in the context of our public policy because we neither have an inbuilt evaluation culture nor adequate trained human resources with both technical knowledge and field experience to check and monitor outcomes.

New Delhi: Qatar has agreed to increase supply of LNG to meet India’s requirements. It also agreed to facilitate participation of Indian companies in the oil and gas sector.

Anand Sharma, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, inaugurated the “India Show” in Singapore today in the presence of his Singaporean counterpart Mr. Lim Hng Kiang, Minister for Trade & Industry at the Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Centre.

It was an amazing public statement coming from a responsible senior minister of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government ahead of the official release of the wholesale price index in the first week of January, 2011, that it did not know the reasons for the current food price inflation, which was over18 per cent. The only grace was that this misleading statement did not come from either the Prime Minister or the Union finance minister, and also not from the agriculture minister. Of course, the government is fully aware of all the reasons behind the skyrocketing foods and vegetable prices since it was their own doing although under somewhat desperate circumstances.

Till three months back, the 87-year old DMK veteran was riding high with abundant self-assurance, but his pick, whom he got ensconced in Telecommunications at the Centre, Mr. A Raja, has cruelly altered the electoral landscape for his party, with charges of corruption hanging on his head. His tenure of defiance of authority and disdain for collective responsibility in Cabinet system has ended, but inquiries and criminal cases are on, will be for quite some time, under the watchful eye of the Supreme Court.

Executive Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed with the thrust of the staff appraisal. They noted that a sharp decline in revenue transfers from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and excessive growth in the public sector wage bill have set the stage for a fiscal crisis which threatens external stability and the soundness of the financial sector. The immediate policy challenges are to restore a sustainable fiscal position, regain competitiveness, and strengthen financial sector supervision. Directors welcomed the authorities’ plans on all these fronts, but emphasized the need for more ambitious and sustained efforts to revitalize Swaziland’s economic performance.

Executive Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) noted The Gambia’s continued favorable economic performance in 2010. They welcomed the authorities’ efforts to address the fiscal slippages incurred in the first half of last year and to adjust to a reduced overall resource envelope. Directors encouraged the authorities to maintain fiscal discipline and limit government’s domestic borrowing. Stronger fiscal performance would be important to generate the necessary savings to help finance future infrastructure investment under the government’s envisioned Programme for Accelerated Growth and Employment.