Dharmendra Pradhan is a BJP leader and currently the Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Skill Development and Entrepeneurship in the NDA government. He is the son of former BJP MP Dr. Debendra Pradhan. He started as an Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activist in the year 1983, and was elected President of Talcher College Students' Union in 1985. Soon he was elected as the national secretary of ABVP and Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha from 2004 to 2006. He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. Pradhan has represented the Deogarh constituency of Odisha. He was also a member of the 12th Assembly of Odisha (2000-2004). He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2012. Since then he was a member of several committees like Committee on Government Assurances, Joint Parliamentary Committee to examine matters relating to allocation and pricing of telecom licenses and spectrum, Committee on Rural Development and Committee on Agriculture. 2004 onwards, Pradhan was the party-incharge for Tripura, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Uttarakhand and Odisha.
Read MoreThe Education Minister has announced details of the PM Vidyalaxmi scheme on his X handle. Under this scheme, students with an annual family income of up to Rs. 8 lakh will be eligible for a 3% interest subsidy on education loans of up to Rs. 10 lakh.
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has today launched three AI centres of excellence focused on healthcare, agriculture, and sustainable cities in New Delhi.
Haryana Assembly Election 2024 Results: BJP is leading at 51 seats while Congress is leading on only 34 seats. As the counting goes on, the results are turning in favour of the BJP, which is eyeing to form the government for the third time.
Amazon India has announced a partnership with the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to streamline the sale of textbooks at maximum retail price (MRP) across all serviceable pin codes in the country.
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan dismissed Haryana BJP leader Anil Vij's bid for the chief minister's post, asserting that Nayab Singh Saini is the party's official candidate for the upcoming state assembly elections.
NIRF 2024 rankings will be announced by the Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on August 12. Check details here.
The Education Ministry said that Every student will take a fun course during classes 6-8 that gives a survey and hands-on experience of a sampling of important vocational crafts such as carpentry, electric work, and metal work among others.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday led the Opposition attack on the government over the exam paper leak issue in the Lok Sabha, saying there is a very serious problem in the country's exam system and that Pradhan has blamed everybody except himself for it.
The NEET UG row intensified as Dharmendra Pradhan launched a scathing attack on Rahul Gandhi and former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav.
By focusing on translation and academic writing, ASMITA aims to bridge the language gap in education, ensuring that students have access to high-quality study materials in their native languages.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan quashed a controversial proposal to include Manusmriti in the law curriculum.
NEET-PG 2024 exam: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had said the question paper was leaked on darknet and circulated on the Telegram app. The matter is being probed by the CBI.
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said a credible high-level committee has also been formed for reform, soon the date of all those exams will also be announced. He also urged the Opposition to come out of politics and join the discussion.
In order to ensure transparent, smooth and fair conduct of examinations through NTA, earlier, Ministry of Education constituted a high-level committee of experts to make recommendations on: Reform in mechanism of examination process, Improvement in Data Security protocols, among others.
In a major action amid the paper leak row, earlier, the Centre has sacked Subodh Kumar Singh as the director general of the National Testing Agency (NTA) and replaced him with Pradeep Singh Kharola.
The expert committee will have to submit its report to the Education Ministry within two months. The government's move comes as the students were marred by repeated paper leaks of top exams in the country.
The Centre told the Supreme Court that the decision to give grace marks to 1,563 NEET-UG 2024 candidates for admission to MBBS, BDS and other courses has been cancelled and they will be given an option to take a re-test on June 23.
UGC NET 2024: On June 19, the University Grants Commission received certain inputs from the National Cyber Crime Threat Analytics Unit of the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) under the Ministry of Home Affairs on the Examination.
The NTA announced the cancellation of the UGC-NET exam on Wednesday, a day after it was conducted, citing concerns that the "integrity of the examination may have been compromised."
The Ministry of Education has requested a detailed report from the Economic Offences Unit of the Bihar Police regarding alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG 2024 exam held in Patna.
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