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Non-NET fellowship not to be discontinued: Smriti Irani
National | Oct 25, 2015, 08:41 PM ISTNew Delhi: Putting an end to the anxiety among PHD aspirants, HRD minister Smriti Irani today made it clear that the non-NET fellowship is not being discontinued.Her assertion came on a day when she met
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HRD Minister Smriti Irani calls for simplifying Sanskrit
National | Sep 30, 2015, 07:20 PM ISTNew Delhi: HRD Minister Smriti Irani today made a strong pitch for promotion of Sanskrit and making it a language of the masses by simplifying it in schools and holding more research in the discipline.The
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New draft education policy by December: Smriti Irani
National | Sep 26, 2015, 06:49 PM ISTLucknow: Efforts are underway to prepare the draft of a new education policy by December with involvement of people at the district level, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani said today. "Till now, education policies were prepared
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Special meeting of NE NITs will be convened soon: Smriti Irani
National | Sep 18, 2015, 04:37 PM ISTAgartala: A special meeting of the NITs of the north eastern region would be convened soon to discuss the problems and opportunities for their improvement in the region, HRD Minister Smriti Irani today said."I am
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Smriti Irani and north east ministers to discuss education policy tomorrow
National | Sep 17, 2015, 04:52 PM ISTAgartala, Tripura: Union Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani will preside over a meeting of higher education ministers of the Northeast region tomorrow, as a part of the Centre's initiative to involve all
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Smriti Irani to visit Amethi on Sep 20
National | Sep 16, 2015, 12:59 PM ISTAmethi: Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani will arrive here for a day on September 20 to distribute 50,000 saplings in the constituency.Irani, who had unsuccessfully contested from here against Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, will
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Embarrassed Smriti Irani orders inquiry into spelling mistake in official letter
National | Aug 21, 2015, 09:21 PM ISTNew Delhi: Union HRD minister Smriti Irani today sought explanation from her ministry officials after a letter of appreciation to a Chattisgarh teacher containing spelling mistakes went viral on social media.The words "minister" and "sansadhan
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Lait Modi row: Congress tells Hansraj Bhardwaj to exercise restraint
National | Jul 02, 2015, 05:55 PM ISTNew Delhi: Congress today sounded a note of caution to former Union Minister H R Bhardwaj to exercise restraint, in the wake of him questioning party's strategy in Parliament over the Lalit Modi row."Bhardwaj is a
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AAP wants Smriti Irani out in three days
National | Jun 25, 2015, 03:03 PM ISTNew Delhi: Delhi's ruling AAP on Thursday threatened nationwide protests if HRD Minister Smriti Irani did not quit within three days over the discrepancies over her educational qualification.Stepping up its attack on the BJP-led government,
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Smriti Irani degree row: AAP workers protest outside Minister's residence
National | Jun 25, 2015, 02:33 PM ISTNew Delhi: Over 500 AAP workers staged a protest outside Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani's residence here on Thursday, demanding her resignation for allegedly misleading poll authorities about her educational qualifications, police said.The workers
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Smriti Irani case: Goa Police to record statements of 'other victims'
India | Apr 06, 2015, 07:45 AM ISTPanaji: Goa Police said that all the persons involved in the voyeurism case, registered following a complaint by Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani, would be brought to book and “other victims” too would be called
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HRD ministry laying special emphasis on modernisation of madrasas: Smriti Irani
India | Feb 02, 2015, 11:03 PM ISTNew Delhi: HRD Minister Smriti Irani today said that the government was giving special emphasis on modernisation and strengthening of madrasas in the country. The HRD Ministry has taken all the necessary steps towards modernization
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HRD Minister trashes report of school remaining open on X'Mas
National | Dec 15, 2014, 02:32 PM ISTNew Delhi: HRD Minister Smriti Irani today dismissed as "baseless and inaccurate" a media report suggesting that schools would remain open on December 25 to observer 'Good Governance Day'."It is unfortunate that misreporting has been
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Will resign as minister, MP if proved guilty: Ram Shankar Katheria
National | Nov 14, 2014, 08:33 PM ISTNew Delhi: Under attack for allegedly forging his graduation marksheet, Union Minister of State for HRD Ram Shankar Katheria today offered to resign if proved guilty even as Opposition parties stepped up their tirade against
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Govt seeks AMU's explanation over denying library access to UG
National | Nov 11, 2014, 11:53 PM ISTNew Delhi/Aligarh: Government today sought an explanation from the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) over not allowing access to women undergraduates to the main library in the campus, with HRD Miniser Smriti Irani saying it amounted
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ABVP delegation meets HRD minister Smriti Irani
India | Jun 07, 2014, 10:30 PM ISTNew Delhi: A delegation of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) met the Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani today at her office demanding a rollback of Delhi University's Four Years' Undergraduate Program(FYUP). The five
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Judge me by my work: Smriti Irani
National | May 29, 2014, 01:39 PM ISTNew Delhi: Breaking her silence as regards the controversy over her education, HRD Minister Smriti Irani today said "extraneous circumstances" were created to deviate her attention from work and asked people to judge her by
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Contradictions in Smriti Irani's election affidavits
National | May 28, 2014, 06:12 PM ISTNew Delhi: Even as a controversy rages over her educational qualification, it has now emerged that HRD minister Smriti Irani had given contradictory declarations in her affidavits in 2004 and 2014 when she contested Lok
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Mulling increasing spending on education sector: HRD Minister
India | May 27, 2014, 11:55 PM ISTNew Delhi: HRD Minister Smriti Irani said today that the government was mulling increasing the spending on education sector to six per cent of the GDP and will also have a relook at the legislations
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HRD minister Pallam Raju defends new entrance test system for IITs, NITs
India | Aug 14, 2013, 06:42 AM ISTNew Delhi: The new format of entrance test to IITs and NITs is "non-discriminatory" and has resulted in a "perceptible increase" in the number of girl students and those coming from rural areas compared to