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

  India | December 23, 2016 9:06 IST

  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

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

  India | December 22, 2016 23:00 IST

  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.

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  HRD ministry to reintroduce compulsory class X board exams

  India | November 14, 2016 23:27 IST

  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

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

  India | October 25, 2016 20:01 IST

  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.

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

  Politics | October 21, 2016 13:18 IST

  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.

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

  India | August 24, 2016 11:06 IST

  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.

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

  Politics | August 20, 2016 9:59 IST

  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.

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  No tinkering with quota, minority education: Prakash Javadekar

  Politics | August 12, 2016 14:18 IST

  The government was not tinkering with the provisions for reservation or minority education institutions, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar told the Rajya Sabha today.

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

  Politics | August 12, 2016 11:30 IST

  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

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

  Politics | July 12, 2016 21:31 IST

  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

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  Zilla parishad, night schools top priority, says Prakash Javadekar

  India | July 10, 2016 13:34 IST

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

  India | July 07, 2016 19:55 IST

  Important news stories

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

  India | July 07, 2016 13:00 IST

  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

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  PM Modi refreshes Cabinet: Javadekar replaces Irani as HRD Minister

  Politics | July 05, 2016 23:11 IST

  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.

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

  Politics | July 05, 2016 20:00 IST

  The new ministers have been chosen after an exhaustive vetting process based on a selection framework from the Prime Minister.

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  India ratifying Paris accord but needs assistance: Prakash Javadekar

  India | July 05, 2016 7:20 IST

  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

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

  India | June 09, 2016 21:21 IST

  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

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

  Politics | June 09, 2016 14:16 IST

  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.

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  India says no to US study on pollution in the country

  India | June 09, 2016 8:10 IST

  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

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

  India | May 19, 2016 8:22 IST

  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