Pratibha Patil News

NEW DELHI: They were born and grew up on two sides of the border. They met on the web and fell in love.

A cricket match was to be held in Pune on November 26th by the unit of a De Dana Dana as a fundraiser for 26/11 victims.

A bill seeking 50 percent reservation for women in urban local bodies was introduced Tuesday in Parliament.

President Pratibha Patil Friday hosted lunch for children of an orphanage from Jharkhand at Rashtrapati Bhavan and gave a cheque of Rs.50,000 for their welfare.

Unesco has evinced interest in jointly certifying select programmes being offered by the Indira Gandhi National Open University .

The 'anti-Islam' remarks by former law minister Ram Jethmalani who linked Wahhabis, a conservative Muslim sect, with terrorism, is a closed chapter for him, but Saudi envoy to India Faisal Hassan Trad says Muslims have a long way to go and work hard to rid their faith of the Islamic terror stigma.

President Pratibha Patil will Wednesday do what no woman before her has ever done - fly in a Sukhoi-30MKI, an Indian Air Force fighter jet.

Despite getting suitably politically empowered, the Indian fair sex continues to lag behind on almost all crucial developmental parametres like education, health and economic participation.

President Pratibha Patil with Chief Justice of India Justice K. G. Balakrishnan, Union Minister for Law and Justice Veerappa Moily and All India Senior Advocates Association president Ram Jethmalani at the International Conference of Jurists in New Delhi on Saturday.

Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan Saturday endorsed a suggestion for joint international probes into acts of terrorism and trial of terrorists by a supranational tribunal such as the International Criminal Court.

NEW DELHI: Saudi Ambassador to India Faisal Al-Trad walked out of an international conference of jurists in protest after noted Indian jurist Ram Jethmlani's accusation that the Wahabi sect of Islam was responsible for terrorism.

President of India Pratibha Patil is being received by Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on arrival at Naval Enclave, Dabolim on Saturday.

Senior lawyer and former Union Law Minister Ram Jethmalani on Saturday ruffled feathers by terming the Non-Aligned Movement and Panchsheel as "evil" in the presence of President Pratibha Patil and several international dignitaries, but the government quickly responded by rejecting his views.

It's nothing short of a Bollywood love story. India's Zubair Khan and Bangladesh's Shazia Zarin met on Facebook, fell in love, she fled from home, they got married and are expecting a child.

New Delhi, Nov 19 : President Pratibha Patil said here on Thursday that education is a very powerful tool for empowering people and for giving them self-dignity. Addressing the silver jubilee celebrations of the Indira Gandhi National Open University here Patil said: 'The importance of education cannot be over emphasized.

Goa Police Thursday dismissed media reports about a possible terror threat to the forthcoming International Film Festival of India which gets underway here Nov 23.

The Indian Council of Jurists has selected former Supreme Court judge Justice Arijit Pasayat and Haryana Chief Minister B.S. Hooda among others for its National Law Day awards, 2009.

President Pratibha Patil, who is scheduled to fly in a two-seater Sukhoi-30 of the IAF next week at Pune, has said that she is not scared of undertaking a sortie in the frontline fighter jet plane.

During her maiden flight in a fighter aircraft, President Pratibha Patil would be airborne for 30 minutes in a Su-30MKI, flying at sub-sonic speeds and at an altitude from where she would be able to see the earth.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday.