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Ravi Shankar Prasad

Ravi Shankar Prasad

DOB: 30 August 1954

Ravi Shankar Prasad is an Indian lawyer and BJP leader, who defeated Shatrughan Sinha in the fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019 from Patna Sahib Lok Sabha constituency. He is also a designated senior advocate in the Supreme Court of India. In 2018 according to The Economic Times he features among the top twenty influential world leaders in digital technology and e-government.

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Undue importance given to conversion, good governance day: NDA

Politics | Dec 20, 2014, 07:01 PM IST

New Delhi: Faced with swirling attack from Opposition on a range of controversies, the government today put up a brave front, saying it was totally focused on development for all sections and that undue importance

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India inviting Smasung, LG for manufacturing: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Dec 14, 2014, 08:08 AM IST

Hyderabad: India is inviting technology majors like Samsung and LG to set up manufacturing facilities in the country under 'Make In India' programme, said Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad."We are promoting all

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Ravishankar Prasad takes dig at oppostion, asks them to "stay calm"

Politics | Dec 13, 2014, 10:15 PM IST

Hyderabad: Union minister Ravishankar Prasad today took a swipe at opposition parties, including Congress, apparently over the din in Parliament over various issues in recent days, asking them to “stay calm and relax” even as

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K Chandrasekhar Rao discusses ITIR project with Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad

Politics | Dec 13, 2014, 06:44 PM IST

Hyderabad: Minister for Communications and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad met Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao here today and discussed the upcoming Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR) project.The Union Minister asked the state government to

soon we will have a website to track missing kids

Soon we will have a website to track missing kids

Politics | Dec 13, 2014, 06:06 PM IST

Hyderabad: Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said that his department is currently working on a project to create a website which will help track missing children in the country."We see many children from

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Delhi polls: Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti back in action, to address street meetings today

Politics | Dec 08, 2014, 08:08 AM IST

New Delhi: With Delhi election fever soaring higher with every passing day, the BJP will today organize90 street meetings in the national capital. Union Minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti whose controversial remarks had created uproar in

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J&K attacks show frustration, despair of Pakistan-backed elements: BJP

Politics | Dec 05, 2014, 09:15 PM IST

New Delhi: BJP today condemned the terror attacks in Kashmir saying these were desperate attempts by Pakistan to disturb the peace in the Valley where people have rejected boycott calls and come out in large

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Government collecting evidence against black money offenders: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Politics | Dec 01, 2014, 12:58 PM IST

New Delhi:  Government is collecting evidence against those who have stashed black money abroad and the offenders will soon be punished, Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today.In an interview to news

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Manjhi warning to seven union ministers of no entry in Bihar

Politics | Nov 19, 2014, 04:44 PM IST

Patna: Known for his controversial remarks, Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi today again evoked a sharp criticism when he charged the Centre with ignoring the interest of the state and said seven Union Ministers

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DoT for commencing spectrum auction from February 23

Nov 18, 2014, 08:19 PM IST

New Delhi: Spectrum auction for mobile services is expected to start from February 23, a few days later than suggested by a ministerial group, according to official sources.The inter-ministerial group, formed to work out modalities

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Mobile is device of empowerment: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Nov 18, 2014, 04:35 PM IST

New Delhi: Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad, said mobile is a device of empowerment.He also talked about growth of cell phones in the country, and said mobile cannot be seen

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Arun Jaitley to re-launch Kisan Vikas Patra today

Nov 18, 2014, 09:29 AM IST

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will relaunch Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) today in the presence of Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister of Communication and IT and Jayant Sinha, Minister of State for Finance among

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Prasad to meet Amazon, Flipkart officials to discuss postal services

Nov 11, 2014, 01:03 PM IST

New Delhi: In a bid to reinvigorate the postal department by linking it with booming e-commerce, IT and Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is scheduled to meet heads of Amazon India and Flipkart this week.Amazon

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Leaving Law Ministry with 'supreme' sense satisfaction: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Politics | Nov 10, 2014, 06:33 PM IST

New Delhi: Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who relinquished the additional charge of Law Ministry, today said he is leaving with a “supreme” sense of self-satisfaction for achieving a lot in his short stint as

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Mechanism needed to reduce executive-judiciary friction: Gowda

Politics | Nov 10, 2014, 06:02 PM IST

New Delhi: Newly-appointed Law Minister D V Sadananda Gowda today said there was a need to find a “new mechanism” to reduce the friction between the executive and the judiciary. “Two issues are there. One is

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PM Modi to review schemes under DeitY today

India | Nov 05, 2014, 08:12 AM IST

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will review progress of various schemes run by the Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY) today. The Prime Minister will review the progress of schemes such as software technology

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Effective steps taken to bring back black money: Ravishankar Prasad

Politics | Nov 03, 2014, 05:06 PM IST

Patna: Slamming the Congress for "doing nothing" on the black money issue, Union Law minister Ravishankar Prasad today said effective steps were being taken to fulfil the commitment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring

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Government likely to seek Facebook's help to promote education

India | Oct 09, 2014, 09:25 PM IST

New Delhi: The government is expected take up with social networking giant Facebook social sector issues like education and empowerment of the girl child, female foeticide and ‘Clean Ganga' campaign and seek its help in

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BJP is for small states; Modi's remark linked to Mumbai: Prasad

Politics | Oct 07, 2014, 10:18 PM IST

Pune: There is no change in the BJP policy supporting creation of smaller states for faster development and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement rejecting division of Maharashtra was in the context of Mumbai, Union Law

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Madhya Pradesh needs to explore potential in defence manufacturing: Prasad

India | Oct 06, 2014, 04:21 PM IST

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh has immense potential in defence manufacturing sector and the state can benefit with the Centre allowing 49 per cent FDI in defence field, Union Minister Ravishankar Prasad said today.  “The government of

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