Almost one third of all Central Universities in the country do not currently have a functional department or school of education, despite the fact that India faces a shortage of an estimated 1.4 million trained teachers.

Roma remained perfect in Serie A with a 2-0 win over rivals Lazio in the Rome derby on Sunday, with fullback Federico Balzaretti scoring the decisive goal and the Giallorossi’s 36-year-old captain Francesco Totti again proving decisive.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday asked parties to refrain from taking advantage out of communal strife and said states should crackdown on elements fanning such violence irrespective of their political affiliations or influence.

In what may affect several developmental activities of northeastern states, heavily armed Bodo rebels abducted a general manager of the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) from Sonitpur district in Assam.

Title holders Indian Oil Corporation beat Indian Overseas Bank 6-4 in the final of the 88th MCC Murugappa hockey tournament here on Sumday.

The CBI is beginning to tighten the noose around Amit Shah, the former Gujarat home minister and a close aide of chief minister Narendra Modi. Highly-placed CBI sources have revealed that controversial senior Gujarat police official D.G. Vanzara, who is currently under suspension, has told CBI interrogators that Mr Shah had personally cleared and supervised high-profile alleged fake encounters of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, Tulsiram Prajapati and Ishrat Jahan.

Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa has demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh facilitate a dialogue between fishermen associations in the state and Sri Lanka in December in Chennai, to discuss ways and means to avoid instances of attacks on and arrests of fishermen, particularly from Tamil Nadu, by Lankan naval personnel.

Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska rallied from a set down on Sunday to beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-4 and win the Korea Open.

Colombo, Sept. 22: Sri Lanka’s main Tamil party on Sunday secured a landslide win in the historic provincial council polls held after a gap of 25 years in the former LTTE-ruled Northern Province, an outcome set to renew demands for greater autonomy for Tamils after the end of decades of ethnic war.

The government on Sunday said that there is no truth in the charges being levelled by yoga guru Swami Ramdev that it was behind his detention at London’s Heathrow airport.