New Delhi : The US State Department has decided to impart information technology (IT) training to teachers and students in India and overseas. The training will be imparted in collaboration with Intel Corporation, a US Embassy release said here.

The U. S. State Department Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau
(ECA) with Intel Corporation will be starting a program to provide IT skills and development training to teachers in India.

New Delhi - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said governments in South Asia had a "moral duty" to take firm action against terrorism in the wake of November 26 attacks in Mumbai.

"In our region there is today growing awareness that terrorism and extremism pose a threat to democracy and development," Singh told an international conference in New Delhi.

"Governments and authorities in our region and elsewhere have therefore a moral duty to act firmly and quickly," he said.

New Delhi, Dec13: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today said that the governments of the region have a moral duty to take firm and expeditious action against terrorism.

New Delhi, Dec. 13: A career with an Indian Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) establishment is the least preferred among law students, according to a survey.

In its survey, ValueNotes Database, a leading provider of business intelligence and research, says that 45 percent of respondents felt that the pay package at an LPO was better as compared to the pay package at law firms, but they still did not consider it as a preferred career choice.

New Delhi, Dec 13 : Polling has begun in the Rajendra Nagar Assembly constituency in West Delhi here today.

The polling was rescheduled after the death of the BJP candidate, Puran Chand Yogi.

According to the Delhi Electoral Office, voting is being held in 160 polling stations of the constituency.

Yogi, 73, was a three-time BJP legislator from Rajinder Nagar. He was seeking re-election for the third time from the seat.

He was first elected to the Assembly in 1993 and was re-elected in 1998 and 2003. In the last Assembly polls, he had defeated Raj Kumar Kohli of Congress by 891 votes.

New Delhi, Dec. 13 : The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, will inaugurate a two-day international conference of jurists on terrorism, the role of law and human rights here on Saturday.

The event, which is taking place on the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament, comes almost three weeks to the day Mumbai was subjected to a terror strike.