Smriti Irani is a prominent leader within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She is a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha, representing Amethi. In the Indian general election 2019, Smriti Irani defeated Rahul Gandhi. Gandhi's family had previously represented the constituency for four decades. Prior to this, she was a Member of the Rajya Sabha for Gujarat and held multiple portfolios as a Minister in the Government of India (GOI). Smriti Irani contested the 2014 general elections against Rahul Gandhi in Amethi constituency of Uttar Pradesh. Irani lost to Rahul Gandhi by 1,07,923 votes, a 12.32% margin.
Read MoreNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi shunted out Smriti Irani from crucial HRD ministry to low profile Textile ministry in a major cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday. Irani, a Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat, was hand-picked
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi after expanding his council of minsiters also reshuffled his cabinet bringing in some unguessable changes, biggest being Smriti Irani transfer to Textile ministry from the high profile Human Resource
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.
New Delhi: The government is mulling fee waiver to central university students belonging to economically weaker sections and differently-abled, HRD Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday said. Addressing a gathering of youth assembled by an NGO
New Delhi: Indian universities and colleges can approach the UGC if they want to tie up with the foreign institutions but they have to ensure that the students pursuing such courses be provided the opportunity
New Delhi: A day after Smriti Irani was seen engaged in a Twitter spat with Bihar education minister Ashok Choudhary over the use of 'Dear' word and the status of the National Education Policy, the
Patna: Bihar Education Minister Ashok Choudhary today firmly stood his ground on the issue of addressing Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani as "dear" and cited several references, including that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi using
New Delhi: Union Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Irani engaged in a war of words on the micro-blogging website Twitter, yet again, this time with Bihar Congress President and the state’s Education and IT minister
RJD supremo Lalu Yadav today held Union Human Resource Minister Smriti Irani responsible for the cancellation of OBC quota for the post of Associate Professors and Professors in central universities.
Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani has said that the report on National Education Policy will be made public only after taking views from the states.
New Delhi: Amidst renewed speculation about elevation of Rahul Gandhi as the Congress president, HRD Minister Smriti Irani has said that any such development will be the ‘achche din’ for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Ahmedabad: The HRD ministry has rejected a list of names forwarded by Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad (IIM-A) management for its chairman's post and sought a fresh list of candidates, sources said on Sunday.
Union HRD minister Smriti Irani today launched a blistering attack on Nehru-Gandhi family in Amethi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally in Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh today to mark the completion of two years of his government whereas the BJP plans to reach out to people to convey its achievements. T
New Delhi: The Union HRD ministry is planning to launch a unique scheme to track the academic performance of school children across the country and also identify the dropouts. The scheme has been named
New Delhi: HRD minister Smriti Irani took a swipe at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi for his party’s poll defeat in Assam During a bitter exchange of words with Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi on twitter
New Delhi: Aiming to combat the “menace” of coaching, the HRD ministry is coming up with a mobile app and portal containing free lectures from IIT faculty on various subjects and previous years’ question papers
HRD Minister Smriti Irani will be given 'Z' category security with armed commandos guarding her in view of increased threat perception to her life.
New Delhi: HRD minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday said the results of CBSE Board exams for class X and XII will be declared “on time” before the end of this month and, as per a
Ahmedabad: Delicacies conceived by celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor may soon be on the platter of students studying in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas. Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani on Monday said her ministry has decided to rope
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