Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar is an Indian politician and leader of Bharatiya Janata Party who has been Chief Minister of Goa since 14 March 2017. Earlier he was Chief Minister of Goa from 2000 to 2005 and from 2012 to 2014. He was born on 13 December 1955 in Mapusa, Goa. He studied at Loyola High School, Margao and completed his secondary education in Marathi. He graduated in metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1978. He is the first IIT alumnus to serve as MLA of an Indian state. He had served as Defence Minister of India from 2014 to 2017. He is a former member of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh. Parrikar joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and became a sanghchalak at the age of 26. He was active in the RSS's North Goa unit, becoming a key organiser of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. As a member of the BJP, Parrikar was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Goa in 1994. He was leader of the opposition from June to November 1999. On 27 October 27 2018 the Goa government announced that CM Manohar Parrikar has pancreatic cancer.
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Having signed Rs 59,000 crore Rafale deal, the government will have to increase the defence budget midway through this financial year to pay for new orders.
A day after a jawan was killed in firing by Pakistani troops, defence minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday said the Indian Army was giving a befitting reply to such ceasefire violations. "Ceasefire violations have taken
Taking strong exception to Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s statement on “surgical strikes”, senior Congress leader and former Defence Minister AK Antony today said that somebody must control him.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, responding to a somewhat different question amid the raging debate on India's surgical strikes, commented yesterday that he dresses "better than" his predecessors. At an event in Mumbai, Mr Parrikar, 60,
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday reviewed the security situation in the country, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir at a high-level meeting in New Delhi.
The Congress today said Manohar Parrikar was blinded by political vote garnering and was unabashedly lying and misleading people by denying that any surgical strike was carried out during the UPA's tenure.
Defence minister Manohar Parrikar today said 127 crore people of the country and the Indian armed forces deserve the credit for the operation.
The Indian Army’s Special Forces (SF), which carried out surgical strikes in PoK targeting at least seven terror launch pads, used weapons that should have been replaced with modern ones as per Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s directives last year
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today targeted Rahul Gandhi and said those who focused on dalali in defence deals fully understood the meaning of the word.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday hit out at politicians seeking proof of surgical strikes conducted by the Indian army in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) saying no one had ever doubted the bravery of our forces.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today termed terrorism as the foremost challenge in the region and urged ASEAN countries to ‘cooperate unreservedly’ to locate and destroy terror networks.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar is believed to have told Prime Minister Narendra Modi there was no need to release the footage of Indian Army’s surgical strikes across the Line of Control.
Amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan following the ‘surgical strikes’ by Indian Army on terror launch pads in PoK, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Sunday said the country was "fully prepared for any escalation".
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today hinted that India may get getting Rafale fighter aircraft from France earlier than the agreed-upon 36 months
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said that the efforts to bring back Indian soldier has been activated at the DGMO level.
Defence minister Manohar Parrikar, in his first remarks post the cross Line of Control (LoC) anti-terror strikes, likened Pakistan’s condition to that an “anaesthetised patient” after a surgery. He also said that like Hanuman, Indian
India on Friday signed the much-awaited deal with France to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets worth Rs 59,000 crore (7.87 billion euro). The deal is crucial for the Indian Air Force as it will
Congress today demanded Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar's resignation in the wake of Uri attack, claiming he lacks commitment and focus, and wants to be the chief minister of Goa.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday accepted that there may have been some lapses on part of India
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Sunday paid tribute to the 17 brave soldiers who martyred in the Uri attack and also said that their sacrifices will not go in vain. Parrikar also visited the
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