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Gujjar agitation continues, cabinet calls emergency meeting!

Gujjars agitation in Rajasthan, demanding inclusion in the Scheduled Tribes list, is getting worse day by day. The protest is affecting other cities and states also. Agitation by the Gujjars which has already claimed 37 lives, continued to disrupt rail and road traffic in the state. According to the reports the Rajasthan government has called an emergency cabinet meeting to decide on the strategy of talks with the protesting community. A delegation is planned to send to have talks with the...

Union Cabinet Expansion!

In a recent move Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has reshuffled the cabinet ministry today. The new included face in the cabinet are Raghunath Jha, Jyotiraditya Scindia, M S Gill, Jitin Prasada, V Narayanasami, Rameshwar Oraon and Santosh Bagrodia. Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi said that she wanted to include Rahul Gandhi in the cabinet but he refused the offer. Six Congress minister resigned to make space for these new ministers. Those who resigned the cabinet are...

Four new IITs, six IIMs to be set up in the country!

Four new IITs and six IIMs are announced on Friday to be established by Government in various states besides upgrading some of the state universities to the status of central universities. The decision is taken to encourage higher education in the country. The new IITs would be located in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh (Indore), Gujarat and Punjab and the IIMs would come up in Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh (Raipur), Uttarakhand and Haryana. These new institutions would be...