Minister of Earth Sciences Kapil Sibal of India

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Kapil Sibal is the Union minister in Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences in the Cabinet of India.

Mr Sibal has held several important positions in the Government and the Society, such as: Additional Solicitor General of India (December 1989-1990); Member, Board of Management, Indira Gandhi National Open University (1993); President, Supreme Court Bar Association (1995-96, 1997-98 and 2001-2002); Member, Rajya Sabha (July 1998); Member, Executive Council, Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies (July, 2001); Member, Business Advisory Committee (August, 2001); Member, Committee on Home Affairs (January, 2002); Co-chairman, Indo-US Parliamentary Forum (2002); Member, Board of International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (2002); Member, Programme Board of the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation's Indian AIDS initiative (2003); Member, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention set up by the Human Rights Commission, Geneva.

Mr Sibal has contributed several articles to national dailies and periodicals on important issues such as security, nuclear proliferation, terrorism etc.

Mr Sibal has traveled the world and visited several countries such as USA, Canada, Switzerland, China, Bhutan, Vietnam, South Africa, Nigeria, Senegal and several South East Asian Countries, throughout Europe and North Africa.

Mr Sibal was the first Indian Minister to have traveled to the icy continent of Antartica and stayed at the Maitri base in sub-zero temperature, for getting a first hand experience about the hardships being faced by the Indian scientists.

In an exclusive interview with Rediff India Abroad Senior Editor Ajit Jain, Sibal said he was hopeful of signing the 123 Agreement that would help India to get rid of the denial regime, and emergence from nuclear apartheid.

Kapil Sibal inaugurates Indo-German Science and Technology Centre Submitted by Sahil Nagpal on Tue, 09/09/2008 - 14:49.

Shri Kapil Sibal was born on 8th August 1948 to Shri Hira Lal Sibal and Smt.

Throughout his political career Kapil Sibal has been the Additional Solicitor General of India from Dec1989 to Dec1990.

Kapil Sibal has also been the member of Joint Parliamentary Committee (J.

Kapil Sibal has the honor to address the Parliament of India in the historic formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office proceedings against Justice V.

Kapil Sibal has also participated in the International Workshop on ``Peaceful Nuclear Use and the Future of Non-Proliferation: Coping with the diversion of Nuclear Materials and Nuclear Terrorism.

Kapil Sibal has represented India in the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum, 2005 at Davos, Switzerland, January 2005 and also led the Indian delegation to visit Antarctica, February 2005.

Kapil Sibal was the member of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions set up by the Human Rights Commission in Geneva and inquired cases of arbitrary detentions throughout the world.

Slamming country's premier educational bodies like UGC and Medical Council of India (MCI) for 'destroying' efforts to improve education system, Union Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal said that a bill permitting FDI in education would be tabled in Parliament not too far from now.

The scheme will be implemented during both the 11th and 12th five year plans, science and technology minister Kapil Sibal said while briefing reporters on decisions taken by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA.

The HRD Ministry scheme would cost Rs 4,612 crore in the 11th Plan, Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal said on Friday.

New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal knows how to get the creative juices flowing from his mobile.

Moving the notice soon after the question hour, Sibal said Sinha had misled the House during the course of his reply to a short duration discussion on the UTI fiasco by saying that the former UTI chairman P S Subramanyam had kept the finance ministry in the dark about the freeze of US-64 scheme on July 2.

Sibal said a newspaper had extensively quoted the bail application as saying that Subramanyam had written to Sinha on May 18 and June 30 to apprise the government about the difficult situation and that he had met him on July 2 just before the UTI board meeting which took the decision.

Accordingly, the UTI board had decided to freeze US-64 for six months from July 2, Sibal said flaunting a certified copy of the bail application.

To this, Sibal said unlike Sinha he was cautious in slightly delaying in moving the privilege notice as he was awaiting a certified copy of the bail application which had been quoted verbatim by the newspaper.

Degree in law from the prestigious Harvard Law School, USA.

up by the Human Rights Commission, Geneva.

as security, nuclear proliferation, terrorism etc.

experience about the hardships being faced by the Indian scientists.

MYSORE: The Union Minister for Science and Technology and Ocean Development Kapil Sibal said the Government had taken all measures to stem the inflation rate and results would be obvious in three months.

Sibal said you may have hunger for politics but do not politicise hunger.

Sibal said that the people of the State would vote for stability which only the Congress could provide as they were fed up with the coalition tamasha enacted by the JD(S) and the BJP.

Sibal said this had enabled Bangalore, in particular, and Karnataka in general, to be what it is today an information technology and bio technology hub of the country.

Sibal was in Mysore to campaign for the Congress candidates.

WHAT A THOUGHT! Sibal says he thinks Rahul will lead the party in the next elections.

Sibal said the Lefts opposition to the 123 agreement is for oppositions sake.

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LEGAL EAGLES: Arun Jaitley and Kapil Sibal had an animated discussion on the new anti-terror law.

Govt's looking at 26/11 as a watershed, Kapil Sibal says on Devil's Advocate.

Sibal was joined at the inauguration by Dr Annette Schavan, federal minister of Germany, Tora Aasland, Norwegian minister thanked India for its interest in establishing a station in Ny-Ålesund, Christian Gaudin, French senator besides many eminent polar scientists, diplomats and scientific policy makers from various countries.

While inaugurating the research base Himadri, Sibal expressed satisfaction at the rapid progress of the Indian Arctic Programme which started in August 2007 as a small contingent of five scientists, which has expanded to a full fledged research station in less than one year.

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) must apologise to the nation for freeing three terrorists following the 1999 hijack of an Indian plane and the terror attack on parliament, Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal said Wednesday.

Kapil Sibal turns poetical on a BlackBerry.

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Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal said today the bilateral agreement, also called "123 agreement", would not make it binding on India to buy nuclear fuel from just the US.

Sibal said the agreement would also give India, unlike other countries like China, the right to reprocess spent fuel needed for augmenting nuclear power generating capacity.

Asked for his comment on veteran CPI(M) leader Jyoti Basu's statement that there would be no compromise between the UPA and the Left on the Indo-US nuke deal, Sibal said "I will not like to say anything on this.

To a query why the Left parties were opposing the deal, Sibal said India was a democracy and everybody had the right to speak.

Sibal said the waiver of the 123 clauses of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 would give India the benefit of procuring nuclear fuel from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), which was an exclusive club.

India will open nuclear power sector to private players - Union minister for Science and Technology, Kapil Sibal said on 05-12-2008 at New Delhi.

Mon, Aug 18 10:02 AMNew Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal knows how to get the creative juices flowing from his mobile.

Sibal has no high-brow pretensions about poetry; he loves reading poetry and writing in rhymes.

But Sibal has no illusions about his poetic voice.

Sibal said that India is in the midst of innovation and at the state level government should be able to provide choice to the people and to do that education is important.

Sibal said that India is destined to be the agricultural export hub of the world.

Fri, Sep 5 04:37 PMBangalore, Sep 5 (IANS) Better known for his arguments in law courts and defence of Congress policies, lawyer and Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal says poetry helps him express his thoughts.

Sibal says Modi is anti-development and anti-Gujarat Submitted by Ashok Dixit on Sat, 12/08/2007 - 07:31.

New Delhi, Dec 8: Union Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal has joined the growing bandwagon of critics of the BJP Government in Gujarat, which is led by Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

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New Delhi, Dec 5 (ANI): Union Minister of Science, Technology and Earth Sciences Kapil Sibal has emphasized the need for low cost technological solutions to overcome the challenges of terrorism, poverty and climate change.

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ANILow cost solutions must to overcome terrorism, poverty and climate change: SibalUnion Minister of Science, Technology and Earth Sciences Kapil Sibal has emphasized the need for low cost technological solutions to overcome the challenges of terrorism, poverty and climate change.

ANIIndia needs ICT revolution to move forward: Kapil SibalUnion Minister of State for Science and Technology and Ocean Development Kapil Sibal has said the country needs an Information Communication and Technology (ICT) revolution if it has to move forward.

New Delhi, Nov 4: Union Minister of State for Science and Technology and Ocean Development Kapil Sibal has said the country needs an Information Communication and Technology (ICT) revolution if it has to move forward.

Speaking at the 55th Convocation Day of the Institution of Electronics andelecommunication Engineers (IETE) here over the weekend, Sibal said that ICT should be recognized as the vehicle of success and growth of the nation and initiatives should be taken at political level.

While launching the Government of India's Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Wellcome Trust India Fellowships here, Sibal said that the ?80 million scheme jointly funded by the DBT and the Wellcome Trust over five years - aims to strengthen the research base of Indian biomedical science by providing fellowship programmes to support researchers from newly-qualified senior researchersHe said that the Biomedical Research Career Programme will fund cutting-edge biomedical research in India, and complement recent Wellcome Trust investment to support public health research in the country.

Bangalore: Better known for his arguments in law courts and defence of Congress policies, lawyer and Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal says poetry helps him express his thoughts.

Poetry enables me to put things in better perspective and has a lyrical quality and allows me to express myself in a more focused manner," Sibal said here Thursday evening at a function to promote his collection of poems "I Witness: Partial observations.

Sibal was forced to talk about politics.