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- We have empowered the people by giving them access to entitlement backed by legal enactment,” he said, while mentioning steps like Right to Education, Right to Information, Right to Employment and Right to Food.
- A prominent Indian businessman has called upon the Keralite expatriate community in the Gulf to join hands to establish a NRK (non-resident Keralite) university in the state for the higher education of their children.
- The key factors affecting Indian citizen’s well-being are income, education and employment,” said Jim Cliffton, Gallup chairman and chief executive, during a press conference. The survey was conducted from January to March 2012.
- When we listen to young people in North Africa and Middle East, it becomes clear that what they want are skills for employability, skills for entrepreneurship, and education that is going to give them jobs in the real world.
- First Indo-Bangla Joint Consultative Commission to be held shortly in New Delhi; Extradition treaty, Teesta water treaty and boundary implementation agreement likely to be discussed.
- First Indo-Bangla Joint Consultative Commission meets in New Delhi tomorrow; Bilateral issues like extradition treaty and Teesta water treaty likely to dominate the agenda.
- The United Nations has said that Kofi Annan’s peace plan in Syria is on track although progress in implementing the ceasefire is slow. Annan’s spokesperson Ahmad Fawzi told reporters in Geneva that Syria has not fully complied with the peace plan.
- Chhattisgarh government has ordered the constitution of the high powered standing committee to review all cases of persons for whom investigation and prosecution is pending in Chhattisgarh jails, including the maoist related cases.
