Arjun Singh to lay foundation stone of IIT Orissa Thursday

September 25th, 2009 BIHTA - Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Friday laid the foundation stone for a hospital in here, about 40 kilometers from Patna, capital of Bihar. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was present on the occasion.

September 15th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - South Korean steel major Posco will establish a social responsibility foundation to promote understanding on its Orissa project which is the largest foreign direct investment in India, a senior company official here said Tuesday. The company is going to set up a foundation to deal with different CSR (corporate social responsibility) activities like vocational training, health care and food arrangements for the poor people, Posco CEO Joon-Yang Chung told reporters.

July 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday said that communalism should not be the agenda of education. Initiating a debate on the Demands for Grants for the human resource development (HRD) ministry in the Lok Sabha, former HRD minister and BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi alleged that his successor Arjun Singh tried to play a communal card in order to please the minorities.

June 9th, 2009 Amritsar, June 9 (ANI): Nearly 200 Sikh pilgrims left for Pakistan on Tuesday from the Golden Temple in Amritsar to mark the 403rd martyrdom anniversary of fifth guru of Sikhs, Guru Arjun Dev. The group led by Baldev Singh, a member of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), will also visit various holy Sikh shrines situated in Pakistan, including Nankana Sahib, birthplace of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism, Gurdwara Panja Sahib in Hassan Abdal and Gurdwara Sacha Sauda in Farooqabad.

April 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior Congress leader and Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh Monday vented his deep disappointment over his son and daughter being denied the party ticket, saying he was shocked at what the party had given him in return for his loyalty. In an interview to NDTV, Singh said the Congress party did not differentiate between 'honour and humiliation'.

April 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior Congress leader and Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh Monday vented his deep disappointment over his son and daughter being denied the party ticket, saying he was shocked at what the party had given him in return for his loyalty. In an interview to NDTV, Singh said the Congress party did not differentiate between 'honour and humiliation'.

April 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior Congress leader and Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh Monday vented his deep disappointment over his son and daughter being denied the party ticket, saying he was shocked at what the party had given him in return for his loyalty. In an interview to NDTV, Singh said the Congress party did not differentiate between 'honour and humiliation'.

April 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Denied a Congress ticket for the Lok Sabha elections, central minister Arjun Singh's daughter Veena Singh Saturday filed her nomination papers from Madhya Pradesh's Sidhi constituency as an independent. Accompanied by her husband V.P.

February 28th, 2009 SURAT - Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel Friday laid the foundation of a new terminal at Surat airport, the eighth such terminal project in the country since Feb 20. The new domestic terminal, a glass and steel structure, will have a floor area of 8,474 square metres and offer modern passenger friendly facilities like central heating and air conditioning system, Patel said.

February 10th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The eighth regional office of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to be inaugurated in the Orissa capital Thursday will benefit schools of three eastern states affiliated to the board, an official said Wednesday. The centre, to be be inaugurated by Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh, will initially function from a rented building, the regional office in charge, Piyush Sharma, told IANS.

February 10th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The campus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Orissa would be complete in four years from now with Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh laying the foundation stone Thursday. The institute at Bhubaneswar is one among eight new IITs to be established in the country by the ministry of human resource during the Eleventh Plan period.

January 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A memorial in honour of revolutionary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh will come up in his native village in Punjab, officials said Friday. The memorial, which would be built at a cost of Rs.168 million in Khatkar Kalan village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, was given the go ahead in December 2008 by the National Implementation Committee set up by the central government in 2007, an official at the ministry of culture said.

January 28th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Selectors Thursday announced an 18-member Indian hockey team for the inaugural four-nation Punjab Gold Cup tournament to be played here from Saturday. The team, led by drag-flicker Sandeep Singh, will include Arjun Halappa and Ignace Tirkey.

January 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Supporting the demand for a judicial enquiry into a shootout in Jamia Nagar of south Delhi in which the police killed two alleged terrorists four months ago, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh Tuesday indicated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh too was considering the demand. 'In democracy, it is always better if things get clear,' Singh told reporters on the sidelines of a function here.

January 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The human resource development (HRD) ministry plans to set up a Central Madrassa Board on the lines of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), HRD Minister Arjun Singh said Tuesday. This would help modernise the education imparted in the Islamic seminaries across the country, the minister said.