Pratibha Patil News

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.

New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil on Monday called for strengthening the rural health infrastructure and urged young doctors to work in these areas for better health care facilities.

New Delhi, Nov 14 With the first phase of Jharkhand assembly polls less than a fortnight away, the war of words between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress over the alleged corruption by former chief minister Madhu Koda has intensified.

President Pratibha Patil with Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit during the inauguration of the India International Trade Fair 2009 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi on Saturday.

Cultural programmes, NGOs taking street children on a trip to the zoo and distributing warm clothes, an award ceremony to encourage talented kids - Children's Day celebrations in the capital Saturday were multi-hued. Commemorating the birth anniversary of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Children's Day is marked with cultural ...

New Delhi, Nov 14 : President Pratibha Patil n Saturday expressed the hope that the country's economy would return to the higher growth track of above seven per cent from the present rate of 6.5 percent.

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Saturday inaugurated the state pavilion at the 29th India International Trade Fair at the sprawling Pragati Maidan grounds here.

New Delhi, Nov 13 : President Pratibha Patil Friday called for monitoring of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, for its effective implementation.

The 29th edition of the India International Trade Fair kicks of at the sprawling Pragati Maidan exposition grounds here Saturday with 7,500 domestic and overseas exhibitors from 28 countries taking part in the 14-day event.