Piyush Vedprakash Goyal is an Indian politician. He was born on 13 June 1964. He is the son of Late Shri Ved Prakash Goyal who had served as a Union Minister for shipping in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee cabinet. He is the currently serving as minister of Railways, Coal and Corporate Affairs in the Government of India. He was elevated to Cabinet Minister position on 3 September 2017. He is currently a Member of Parliament for Rajya Sabha from the state of Maharashtra and was earlier the National Treasurer of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).He did his schooling from Don Bosco High School, Matunga. Also he is all-India second rank holder in Chartered Accountant and second rank holder in Law in Mumbai University. Piyush was a member of the Standing Committee on Finance and the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Defence. He headed the BJP's Information Communication Campaign Committee and oversaw the publicity and advertising campaign of the party including the social media outreach for the Indian General Elections 2014. Mr. Goyal is the 2018 Carnot Prize Recipient for distinguished contributions to energy policy.
Read MoreUnion Minister Piyush Goyal slams the opposition for misbehaving in the parliament. He said that this behavior of the opposition shows a complete lack of in Army which is demoralising the armed force.
AAP Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh raised the issue of raids conducted at the premises linked to opposition leaders and alleged that 3,000 such raids were conducted by government agencies that were deliberately aimed at harassing the opposition.
Nearly five months after their first meeting, India and the United Kingdom will again start negotiations on Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on Monday.
Chunav Manch 2022: Piyush Goyal said, "This year, being the 75th year of Independence, we will again create a new record by crossing last year's $675 billion exports figure."
The commerce ministry, in a statement ,said that India and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have agreed to expedite the conclusion of the requisite legal and technical requirements for the formal resumption of the free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations.
National Technical Textiles Mission: The projects were cleared under the leadership of Piyush Goyal, Minister of Textiles, Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
Suvendu Adhikari, through his letter to Piyush Goyal, took a dig at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Festive Schemes.
India is negotiating all trade pacts to boost the country's exports and create jobs in the domestic market. It is aiming to take exports of goods and services to USD 2 trillion by 2030.
Cyrus Mistry death: Several people expressed their condolences to the death of former Tata Sons chairman, Cyrus Mistry.
PM Modi attended a religious programme at his cabinet colleague Piyush Goyal's residence. Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi and businessman Sunil Bharti Mittal also attended the puja there.
According to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the BRAP report includes 301 reform points that cover 15 business regulatory areas such as access to Information, single window system, labour, environment, sectoral reforms and other reforms spanning across the lifecycle of a typical business.
Taking to Twitter, Union Minister Piyush Goyal wrote "fighting for the rights of our farmers within an hour of landing WTO Geneva at the G33 Ministerial Meeting."
The BJP has released the list of candidates for elections to the Rajya Sabha. Nirmala Sitharaman to contest from Karnataka, Piyush Goyal from Maharashtra.
Goyal said the Yogi Adityanath govt has done a remarkable job in all fields, including agriculture, industry, infrastructure, health and education, and asserted that UP will leave a mark as a "golden state".
Hyundai had issued a clarification after it faced calls for a boycott of its cars, but there have been demands for the company to apologise unequivocally over its Pakistan partner expressing solidarity with the cause of separate Kashmir.
The Rajya Sabha on Monday suspended 12 MPs for the entire Winter Session of Parliament for creating ruckus in the House during the Monsoon Session on August 11.
The theme of the Global Services Conclave 2021 was 'India Serves: Exploring Potential Growth Sectors Beyond IT/ITes'.
The WTO conference will be held from November 30 to December 3.
"The developed countries, which have already enjoyed the fruits of low-cost energy for several years have to go in for net-zero much faster and if possible going for net-negative," said India's Sherpa at G20 and Union Minister Piyush Goyal.
PM MITRA will offer an opportunity to create an integrated textiles value chain right from spinning, weaving, processing/dyeing and printing to garment manufacturing at 1 location.
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