Bhopal:Monday, August 30 : From the current academic session, 20 new English medium Ashram Shalas have` been started in the tribal-dominant areas of Madhya Pradesh. These Ashram Shalas have been started keeping the need of the hour in view. Out of these, 11 English medium Ashram Shalas are for girl students. The Tribal Welfare Department had taken the decision of opening 20 Ashram Shalas every year during the 11th Five Year Plan 2007-2012. In view of opening of these Ashram Shalas, this year 150 posts of superintendent, school teacher grade-2 …

30 Aug : Rajpal Singh was named captain of the 16-member hockey squad, announced by Hockey India on Monday, for the Commonwealth Games to be held in New Delhi.
The side has only one goalkeeper in Bharat Chetri and five defenders, including Sandeep Singh, who was awarded Arjuna Awardee on Sunday.
There are six midfielders and Rajpal is leading the forwards line-up along with Shivinder Singh and Tushar Khandker and Dharamvir Singh.
“The team was selected after the trials conducted at Balewadi, Pune in the presence of Hockey India Selectors Col. Balbir Singh …

30 Aug : Mumbai is set to get another medical college, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has said.
Supported by public-private partnership, the college would come up in western suburbs.Chavan made the announcement at the inauguration of Rajasthani Sammelan’s Durgadevi Institute of Management Studies in suburban Malad on Sunday.
Minister for Higher and Technical Education, Rajesh Tope and Mumbai University Vice-Chancellor Dr Rajan Welukar were present on the occasion.
Chavan said the state government has proposed introduction of two new bills— Private University Bill and Maharashtra Technical University Bill.

Universities in the state are …

Chandigarh, August 30 – While the Union Health and Family Welfare Minister,  Mr. Gulam Nabi Azad said that there was a proposal to introduce a special degree course in rural health care to meet the shortage of doctors in rural areas, Haryana Health Minister, Mrs. Geeta Bhukkal sought special incentives like residential accommodation for doctors severing in rural areas.
They were speaking in the 11th conference of Central Council for Health and Family Welfare in New Delhi today.
Mr Azad commended the health services being provided to the poor people in Haryana, …

30 Aug : Fox Star Studios, who brought ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ and ‘My Name Is Khan’ are now releasing the big screen version of popular TV comedy ‘Khichadi’ on 1st October.
It is for the first time that a TV serial has inspired a movie in India but the big screen adaptation of TV series is a popular trend in Hollywood where television shows like ‘Mr Bean’, ‘Batman’, ‘Mission Impossible’, ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Sex and the City’ have been made into successful movies.
Titled ‘Khichadi-The Movie’, the film takes off from the popular …

30 Aug : Actress Deepika Padukone has praised Congress MP Rahul Gandhi as a “classical role model” for youth and hopes he leads the country as prime minister one day.
“I don’t know much about politics, but from whatever I see on TV; whatever Rahul Gandhi is doing makes him a classical example for the youth. Hopefully, he will be prime minister one day,” Deepika told DD News Correspondent in an interview.
Do you wish Rahul Gandhi becomes Prime Minister?
‘Yes, of course,’ Deepika told Manoj Tibrewal Aakash while appearing on the show …