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Prakash Javadekar

Prakash Javadekar

Prakash Javadekar is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was elected to the upper house Rajya Sabha as a Member of Parliament from Maharashtra in 2008, and re-elected from Madhya Pradesh in 2014. He is also a Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, and briefly held the portfolio of Information and Broadcasting.

After medical, Centre mulls single entrance test for all engineering aspirants from 2018
India | Dec 23, 2016, 09:06 AM
The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry is considering single national entrance test for engineering courses. The All India test will be on the lines of the NEET examination in Medical colleges. The move is expected
HRD ministry mulling NEET-like national entrance test for admissions into engg colleges
India | Dec 22, 2016, 11:00 PM
The Centre is considering holding a single national level test for entrance to engineering colleges on the lines of the NEET examination in Medical colleges.
HRD ministry to reintroduce compulsory class X board exams
India | Nov 14, 2016, 11:27 PM
The class X board examination will once again be made compulsory for CBSE schools from the 2017-18 academic year, Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar said today. In an informal conversation with reporters after a meeting
Implementation of no detention policy in schools should be left to states, recommends CABE
India | Oct 25, 2016, 08:01 PM
No child should be failed till Class 5 but the policy of no-detention upto Class X should be left to states, Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) recommended in its meeting today.
Scrap English as compulsory language, references that insult Indian culture: RSS body tells MHRD
Politics | Oct 21, 2016, 01:18 PM
the RSS-affiliated Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas (SSUN) has suggested the HRD ministry to gradually remove English as medium of instruction and emphasise on Indian languages at all levels of education.
IIT Council approves govt plans to increase seats to one lakh by 2020
India | Aug 24, 2016, 11:06 AM
The IIT Council has approved government plans to increase the number of seats in various courses for admitting non-resident students with an aim to take their total intake to one lakh by 2020.
Constitutionally guaranteed reservation to continue in new Education Policy: Prakash Javadekar
Politics | Aug 20, 2016, 09:59 AM
Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar has said that the constitutionally guaranteed reservation will continue in the new Education Policy and that the government has no plans to make any changes.

No tinkering with quota, minority education: Prakash Javadekar
Politics | Aug 12, 2016, 02:18 PM
The government was not tinkering with the provisions for reservation or minority education institutions, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar told the Rajya Sabha today.
Javadekar accepts PMO’s suggestion for no govt role in IIM chief appointment, Irani had rejected move
Politics | Aug 12, 2016, 11:30 AM
The HRD Ministry has agreed to relinquish the government’s role in appointing the chairman of the Board of Governors (BoG) at all IIMs. The decision comes a month after Prakash Javadekar took charge from Smriti Irani, who had rejected a panel of corp
India's education system should inspire innovation, says HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar
Politics | Jul 12, 2016, 09:31 PM
New Delhi: Newly appointed Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar today said that the Indian education system should inspire people for innovation. "Innovation is the key to the country's development. Therefore, our education sys
Zilla parishad, night schools top priority, says Prakash Javadekar
India | Jul 10, 2016, 01:34 PM
Mumbai: The priority of the government will be improving the condition of Zilla Prishad schools and nights schools, Union Minister for Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar has said. Javadekar, who recently assumed charge
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India | Jul 07, 2016, 07:55 PM
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Raising quality of education will be top priority: HRD Minister Javadekar
India | Jul 07, 2016, 01:00 PM
New Delhi: Raising the quality of education in the country will be the "top priority" of Prakash Javadekar who took over as the HRD Minister on Thursday. 65-year-old Javadekar, who was the Environment Minister, was

PM Modi refreshes Cabinet: Javadekar replaces Irani as HRD Minister
Politics | Jul 05, 2016, 11:11 PM
Soon after the long-awaited expansion of the Union Cabinet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made major changes in the portfolios of Union Council of Ministers.
Cabinet expansion: Meet the 19 new ‘doers and achievers’ of Modi govt
Politics | Jul 05, 2016, 08:00 PM
The new ministers have been chosen after an exhaustive vetting process based on a selection framework from the Prime Minister.
India ratifying Paris accord but needs assistance: Prakash Javadekar
India | Jul 05, 2016, 07:20 AM
New Delhi: Reiterating that India has already started ratification of the landmark Paris Climate Agreement signed by 195 nations at New York in April this year, Indian Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday said New
Culling of animals won't help mitigate human-animal conflict: Rights groups
India | Jun 09, 2016, 09:21 PM
With Union Ministers Maneka Gandhi and Prakash Javadekar locking horns over culling of animals including nilgai, animal rights bodies today expressed "shock" over the Environment Ministry's stand saying such killings will not help mitigate human-anim
‘Shame that it’s happening in BJP’s rule’: Modi's ministers at loggerheads after 250 Nilgais killed in 3 days in Bihar
Politics | Jun 09, 2016, 02:16 PM
New Delhi: An operation to cull Nilgai herds in Bihar’s Mokama district appears to have created a discord between two senior ministers of BJP-led NDA government at the Centre - Maneka Gandhi and Prakash Javadekar.
India says no to US study on pollution in the country
India | Jun 09, 2016, 08:10 AM
New Delhi: The central government on Wednesday rejected a study on pollution published in the Geophysical Research Letters Journal of the American Geophysical Union. "We reject the claims made in the so-called research article that
WHO report on India 'misleading'; will publish data on Pollution in US, Europe: Javadekar
India | May 19, 2016, 08:22 AM
New Delhi: Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday termed the latest WHO report on pollution, which listed over 30 Indian cities among hundred most polluted globally, as "misleading." He further said that India will

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After medical, Centre mulls single entrance test for all engineering aspirants from 2018

HRD ministry mulling NEET-like national entrance test for admissions into engg colleges

HRD ministry to reintroduce compulsory class X board exams

Implementation of no detention policy in schools should be left to states, recommends CABE

Scrap English as compulsory language, references that insult Indian culture: RSS body tells MHRD

IIT Council approves govt plans to increase seats to one lakh by 2020

Constitutionally guaranteed reservation to continue in new Education Policy: Prakash Javadekar

No tinkering with quota, minority education: Prakash Javadekar

Javadekar accepts PMO’s suggestion for no govt role in IIM chief appointment, Irani had rejected move

India's education system should inspire innovation, says HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar

Zilla parishad, night schools top priority, says Prakash Javadekar

7th July News in Nutshell: Important stories of the day

Raising quality of education will be top priority: HRD Minister Javadekar

PM Modi refreshes Cabinet: Javadekar replaces Irani as HRD Minister

Cabinet expansion: Meet the 19 new ‘doers and achievers’ of Modi govt

India ratifying Paris accord but needs assistance: Prakash Javadekar

Culling of animals won't help mitigate human-animal conflict: Rights groups

‘Shame that it’s happening in BJP’s rule’: Modi's ministers at loggerheads after 250 Nilgais killed in 3 days in Bihar

India says no to US study on pollution in the country

WHO report on India 'misleading'; will publish data on Pollution in US, Europe: Javadekar

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