Category: INDIA

Founded in 2001, the SCO currently comprises eight member states, India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan. PM Modi has reached Qingdao in China to attend the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation or SCO summit. Leaders of the eight Shanghai Cooperation Organisation members and four observer nations will attend the summit. The SCO has two sub-divisions, including Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) and SCO Secretariat.The four pillars of the SCO Summit are: political, security (terrorism), economic, cultural. This is the first time India will be participating in the summit as a…

The rankings, by British higher education analysts QS, feature the 500 top universities in the world, based on a QS survey. NEW DELHI: The QS World University Rankings report released on Wednesday night has brought good news for the Indian academia. At 162, IIT Bombay has moved up 17 places since last year’s rankings.Last year’s top-ranked Indian institute – IIT Delhi, remained at the same position of 172nd. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is at second after IIT Bombay, at ranking 170. IIT Delhi which led the list of Indian…

NAGPUR: Former President Pranab Mukherjee addressed the closing ceremony of the ‘Tritiya Varsha Sangh Shiksha Varg’, an Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) event to mark the conclusion of a three-year training camp for swayamsevaks in Nagpur. Former President Pranab Mukherjee described Keshav Baliram Hedgewar as a “great son of Mother India’ as he visited the birthplace of the RSS founding Sarsanghachalak. “Today I came here to pay my respect and homage to a great son of Mother India,” Mukherjee wrote in a visitor’s book at Hedgewar’s birthplace ahead of his much-anticipated…

NAGPUR: Former President Pranab Mukherjee is slated to address the valedictory function of the RSS’s third-year officers’ training camp at its headquarters in Reshimbagh on Thursday. According to sources, he will stay for two nights at the governor house before leaving for the national capital on Friday noon. This isn’t the first time the former president will meet with the RSS head Mohan Bhagwat; they have met on a few occasions since Mukherjee’s retirement.’ Mukherjee, who has been critical of the RSS as a Congress leader, will address its activists…

The Mandsaur agitation last year was the epicentre of farmers’ protests across Madhya Pradesh.  Congress president Rahul Gandhi addressed a farmers’ rally in Piplya Mandi town of Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur district. Earlier, Rahul paid tributes to the dead farmers in Piplia Mandi town of Mandsaur district. Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said if his party is voted to power in Madhya Pradesh, it would waive farmers’ loans in 10 days.The Congress is out of power in the state since 2004. Congress president Rahul Gandhi meets family members of farmers…