Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani Friday said the government would soon launch an online library to make study materials available to all.
Prime minister Narendra Modi Friday exhorted students to remember the importance of teachers in social life and called for making India a hub for exporting teachers.
In a sensational case, a mango vendor battered a boy to death for stealing a fruit from his pushcart here, police said Friday. The murder triggered tension in the area.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court Friday ordered the the Chandigarh Administration's electricity department to pay compensation of Rs.22.81 lakh to the family of a man and his daughter who were electrocuted in a village of this union territory May 2003.
Two Chola period (11-12th century AD) idols were returned to India by Australia as Prime Minister Tony Abbott Friday handed them over to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi here Friday.
A truce between the Ukraine government and pro-Russian rebels came into effect Friday evening after President Petro Poroshenko ordered government forces to stop military action against the independence-seeking insurgents in the country's eastern region.