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  • PhysicsWallah CEO Alakh Pandey and wife meet education minister Dharmendra Pradhan: ‘Truly inspired’ March 02, 2023 04:10 PM IST

    PhysicsWallah CEO Alakh Pandey and wife meet education minister Dharmendra Pradhan: ‘Truly inspired’

    Alakh Pandey took to social media to share photos from the meeting, where they spoke at length about India's education system.

  • Two Australian universities to set up campuses in Gujarat's GIFT City: Dharmendra Pradhan March 01, 2023 04:06 PM IST

    Two Australian universities to set up campuses in Gujarat's GIFT City: Dharmendra Pradhan

    The two varsities will sign an agreement on setting up their campuses next week during Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s maiden visit to India.

  • Digital university to reduce cost of higher, skill education drastically in India: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan February 21, 2023 04:53 PM IST

    Digital university to reduce cost of higher, skill education drastically in India: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

    The Minister for Education and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship shared that multiple entry and exit points are being created in the education system to provide mobility across the general and skill education streams to youth.

  • Education minister terms current education system ‘burdensome’ as foundational learning gets an overhaul February 21, 2023 02:48 PM IST

    Education minister terms current education system ‘burdensome’ as foundational learning gets an overhaul

    Working on the mandate of no textbooks for children in the age-group of 3-8 years, a curriculum that involves toys, games, puzzles, puppets, playbooks, etc, has been developed.

  • Dharmendra Pradhan appointed BJP's Karnataka poll in-charge; Mandaviya, Annamalai co-incharges February 04, 2023 06:37 PM IST

    Dharmendra Pradhan appointed BJP's Karnataka poll in-charge; Mandaviya, Annamalai co-incharges

    Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and Tamil Nadu BJP unit president K Annamalai will be the party's co-incharges for the high-stakes polls, where both the ruling party and the opposition Congress have launched an intensive public outreach for the elections likely to be held in April-May.

  • BJP appoints Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan poll in-charge for Karnataka February 04, 2023 12:22 PM IST

    BJP appoints Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan poll in-charge for Karnataka

    Tamil Nadu BJP unit president K Annamalai will be the co-incharge for the high-stakes polls where both the ruling party and the opposition Congress have launched intensive public outreach for the elections likely to be held in April-May.

  • BJP appoints Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan poll in-charge for Karnataka February 04, 2023 10:53 AM IST

    BJP appoints Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan poll in-charge for Karnataka

    Pradhan, a veteran organisation man of the party, has been tasked with handling several elections in the past.

  • Will contest polls in 2024: Dharmendra Pradhan January 25, 2023 04:57 PM IST

    Will contest polls in 2024: Dharmendra Pradhan

    Assembly elections are due in the coastal state next year, along with the Lok Sabha polls.

  • PM Modi’s ‘Pariksha pe Charcha’ sees quantum jump in registrations January 24, 2023 08:04 PM IST

    PM Modi’s ‘Pariksha pe Charcha’ sees quantum jump in registrations

    While 22,000 registrations had come in, in the year 2018, the number has now grown, to stand at 38.8 lakh registrations this year.

  • India has to become manufacturing economy to achieve 'Make in India' goal: Dharmendra Pradhan January 16, 2023 06:16 AM IST

    India has to become manufacturing economy to achieve 'Make in India' goal: Dharmendra Pradhan

    Addressing a programme on 'Purvodaya - an instrument for Act East policy', Dharmendra Pradhan said economic empowerment in the eastern region has to be achieved by providing employment.

  • Views of countries outside G-20 should be included in discussions: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan January 13, 2023 06:50 PM IST

    Views of countries outside G-20 should be included in discussions: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

    The minister made the comments during his address at the two-day Voice of Global South Summit. The session was on the theme of ”human resource development and capacity building”.

  • Engaging e-commerce players to push sales of goods produced by tribals: Dharmendra Pradhan December 21, 2022 11:43 AM IST

    Engaging e-commerce players to push sales of goods produced by tribals: Dharmendra Pradhan

    Dharmendra Pradhan also said that the tribal community will be the major beneficiary of the emphasis of the National Education Policy on the use of mother tongue or local language as the medium.

  • Dharmendra Pradhan writes to Narendra Singh Tomar, seeks probe into farmers' insurance scheme implementation in Odisha November 17, 2022 10:00 AM IST

    Dharmendra Pradhan writes to Narendra Singh Tomar, seeks probe into farmers' insurance scheme implementation in Odisha

    Dharmendra Pradhan also sought a probe into the "conduct of private insurance companies empanelled in the PMFBY in Odisha, especially in Bargarh district".

  • Several nations approaching us for setting up IITs in their countries: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan October 14, 2022 02:11 PM IST

    Several nations approaching us for setting up IITs in their countries: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

    The minister said India's experiment with the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) is earning global recognition.

  • When will TMC govt wake up from Kumbhakarna-like sleep: Dharmendra Pradhan on school job scam September 23, 2022 06:40 PM IST

    When will TMC govt wake up from Kumbhakarna-like sleep: Dharmendra Pradhan on school job scam

    He also accused the Mamata Banerjee-led government of not being keen to redress grievances of candidates who have been protesting against the School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scam even though a former state minister and several officials have been arrested in the case.

  • NEP 2020 lays great emphasis on Indian languages, knowledge systems: Dharmendra Pradhan September 19, 2022 06:27 AM IST

    NEP 2020 lays great emphasis on Indian languages, knowledge systems: Dharmendra Pradhan

    The policy is "rooted in Indianness and emphasises on learning in the mother tongue", Pradhan said at the 36th convocation of SASTRA Deemed University here.

  • NEP India's guiding light for achieving vision of G20, promoting lifelong learning: Pradhan September 02, 2022 03:47 PM IST

    NEP India's guiding light for achieving vision of G20, promoting lifelong learning: Pradhan

    Pradhan was addressing the gathering at the G-20 Education Minister’s meeting in Bali on the theme ”Recovery, Re-imagine and Rebuild stronger”.

  • NEP aims to make education accessible to all: Dharmendra Pradhan August 19, 2022 10:59 AM IST

    NEP aims to make education accessible to all: Dharmendra Pradhan

    Speaking at a session by industry body ASSOCHAM here on Thursday, Pradhan said the Centre is looking to increase enrollment of students at the primary level and ensure they continue their education.

  • Age of incremental change is over, its time for exponential growth in higher education: Govt June 08, 2022 07:49 PM IST

    Age of incremental change is over, its time for exponential growth in higher education: Govt

    On the sidelines of Visitor’s Conference 2022, President Kovind met distinguished donors and philanthropists who have donated to IISc Bangalore and IIT Madras to strengthen the educational infrastructure and develop new research and innovation centers at these institutions.

  • Blueprint for India at 2047 set to be finalised next month before eventual rollout on Independence Day April 22, 2022 11:56 AM IST

    Blueprint for India at 2047 set to be finalised next month before eventual rollout on Independence Day

    In January, the government said it had begun work on the vision for India at 100.

  • Textbook states 'attractive' dowry helps ugly girls get married. Twitter calls it a 'shame' April 05, 2022 06:18 PM IST

    Textbook states 'attractive' dowry helps ugly girls get married. Twitter calls it a 'shame'

    Shiv Sena leader and Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi called upon Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to remove from circulation books that spread such message on dowry. The National Commission for Women (NCW) has also taken cognizance of the matter.

  • Govt assures Lok Sabha on future of Indian students evacuated from Ukraine, says will look into measures March 14, 2022 01:33 PM IST

    Govt assures Lok Sabha on future of Indian students evacuated from Ukraine, says will look into measures

    Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan also said that Operation Ganga, carried out under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to evacuate Indian students from Ukraine, is proof of the "collective wisdom of 130 crore Indians”.

  • Government to bring policy to regulate edtech companies January 03, 2022 08:27 PM IST

    Government to bring policy to regulate edtech companies

    The Union Education Ministry is in talks with the Ministry of Law and MeitY to develop a common policy to regulate edtech platforms.

  • Another year-end gift from Modi govt: P Chidambaram's dig over vacant posts for teachers December 16, 2021 12:36 PM IST

    Another year-end gift from Modi govt: P Chidambaram's dig over vacant posts for teachers

    In a written response to a question in Rajya Sabha, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Wednesday that 6,535 full-time teaching posts were vacant in the central universities, 403 across IIMs and 3,876 in the IITs.

  • In schools, 93% teaching staff, 87% non-teaching staff fully or partially vaccinated: Govt December 06, 2021 06:56 PM IST

    In schools, 93% teaching staff, 87% non-teaching staff fully or partially vaccinated: Govt

    Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan submitted state-wise data on the vaccination status of teaching and non-teaching staff employed in schools in response to a written question.