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  Non-NET fellowship not to be discontinued: Smriti Irani

  Politics | October 25, 2015 20:41 IST

  New 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

  Politics | September 30, 2015 19:20 IST

  New 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

  Politics | September 26, 2015 18:49 IST

  Lucknow: 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

  Politics | September 18, 2015 16:37 IST

  Agartala:  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

  Politics | September 17, 2015 16:52 IST

  Agartala, 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

  Politics | September 16, 2015 12:59 IST

  Amethi: 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

  Politics | August 21, 2015 21:21 IST

  New 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

  Politics | July 02, 2015 17:55 IST

  New 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

  Politics | June 25, 2015 15:03 IST

  New 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

  Politics | June 25, 2015 14:33 IST

  New 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 | April 06, 2015 7:45 IST

  Panaji: 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 | February 02, 2015 23:03 IST

  New 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

  Politics | December 15, 2014 14:32 IST

  New 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

  Politics | November 14, 2014 20:33 IST

  New 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

  Politics | November 11, 2014 23:53 IST

  New 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 | June 07, 2014 22:30 IST

  New 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

  Politics | May 29, 2014 13:39 IST

  New 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

  Politics | May 28, 2014 18:12 IST

  New 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 23:55 IST

  New 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 | August 14, 2013 6:42 IST

  New 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