Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal has already laid out some of his proposals aimed at revolutionsing education. Now CNN-IBN has learnt that the minister is proposing a legislation to clean up the system. This would include fines of upto Rs 50 lakh and 10 years in jail for those running fake colleges and asking for capitation fees.
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With Kapil Sibal's entry in the Human Resource Development Ministry it seems the era of Arjun Singh has come to an end. The 100-day agenda set by the new minister will make the board exams optional, percentile system to replace percentage and one single test after class XII for admissions in colleges.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/sibal-says-scrap-class-x-boards/95686-3.html
B C Khanduri on Tuesday became the first victim of the BJP's electoral defeat. Even as the central leadership refused to take responsibility for the debacle, party's president Rajnath Singh on Tuesday accepted the resignation of the Uttarakhand Chief Minister.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party's senior leader L K Advani may have been rejected by the people in the elections but he wants to prove his strength before his party members. Reacting to reports of the BJP being confused about ideology, he stated that the party stood for tolerant and liberal Hindutva.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bjp-supports-liberal-hindutva-says-advani/95362-37.html
After the round of letter leaks and angry outbursts, the BJP leadership met in the Capital on Saturday to discuss what went wrong with campaign 2009. Party President Rajnath Singh came out with his own interpretation of Hindutva, while accepting responsibility for the defeat in the elections.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/the-road-ahead-rajnath-redefines-hindutva/95303-37.html
The Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal has called for a review of 80 deemed universities. The Ministry is unhappy with the way the commission and other regulatory bodies went about giving recognition to universities and technical institutes.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/hrd-to-review-ugcs-recognition-giving-process/95133-3.html
BJP Leader Bhagat Singh Koshiyari says he has resigned because he wants to devote time to his party.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bjps-bhagat-singh-koshiyar-quits-as-rs-member/95104-37.html
Rajya Sabha Opposition leader Arun Jaitley on Tuesday quit as party general-secretary. He says he did it follow the one-man, one-post principle. But the timing of the move has raised questions, coming as it does on the back of Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha's questioning of the party leadership giving itself a clean chit after the poll debacle.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/jaitley-quits-as-bjp-general-secretary/95038-37.html
It's a battle that has been played out in the public as BJP continues to fight the mutiny within its ranks. On the one side are the old war horses from the Vajpayee-era and on the other side are the Generation next leaders backed by leader of the Opposition, L K Advani. In all this, no one is listening to the gag order issued by BJP President Rajnath Singh.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party faces a revolt by disgruntled party MLAs in Uttarkhand who want Chief Minister B C Khanduri removed for the BJP's rout in the Lok Sabha elections. Former chief minister and dissident leader Bhagat Singh Koshiari has been camping in Delhi with eight MLAs for the last three days, pressurising senior BJP leaders to remove Khanduri.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bjps-many-battles-rebels-within-rss-without/94910-37.html
Just a week after her poll debacle, there is another setback to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bhaujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati. The Supreme Court on Monday ordered reinstatement of 18,000 police constables in Uttar Pradesh.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/sc-orders-mayawati-govt-to-reinstate-18000-cops/93380-37.html
The battle for Rampur is turning ugly with actor-turned-politician Jaya Prada alleging that rebel leader Azam Khan is doing everything, including circulating her nude pictures, to ensure her defeat in the elections. Ironically, all the fracas in the Samajwadi Party (SP) camp is only helping the Congress candidate Noor Bano.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/azam-khans-antijaya-tirade-benefits-congress-bano/92385-37.html
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