New Delhi: Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani today rejected allegations that she was promoting vegetarian food in IITs, contending that it such meals were stopped during UPA rule, much before she assumed charge following

New Delhi: The HRD Ministry today said the decisions to ask those central universities to explore the possibilities of opening of Sanskrit department where it doesn't exist and to ask CBSE to make the language

New Delhi: Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani on Friday denied receiving any letter from the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) vice chancellor over an event planned by BJP members on the university campus on December

New Delhi: Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Vice Chancellor, Lt Gen Zameer Uddin Shah, has written letter to Minister of Human Resource Development, Smriti Irani, warning that the proposed plan of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

New Delhi: Government today withdrew from Rajya Sabha a bill which aimed at creating an overarching body in the higher education subsuming existing regulatory bodies such as UGC, AICTE and NCTE, scrapping a controversial move

New Delhi: A Rajasthan-based astrologer has predicted that Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani would become the President of India after five years.The Union Minister alongwith her family had visited Karoi village in Bhilwara

New Delhi: Union Minister Smriti Irani, who rose to fame as a popular TV actor, said she quit acting after becoming an MP to focus on her responsibilities as a politician.“When I came to politics

New Delhi: Taking on her critics, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani today dismissed charges that education was being saffronised even as she turned down demands that Sanskrit be made compulsory in the curriculum.“Those

New Delhi: It did not help that she was India's Education Minister—Smriti Irani had to appear in an interview to get her children admitted to a school here like any other parent who goes through

New Delhi:  HRD Minister Smriti Irani today said a controversy over German being replaced in KV schools has been created “deliberately” and asserted that its continuation as third language would have been a violation of

Greater Noida: In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ‘Make in India' campaign, the HRD ministry is planning to come up with a ‘Think in India' drive to encourage students and researchers to come up

Gurgaon: HRD Minister Smriti Irani today said the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' should not remain limited to the cleanliness of the environment but should also include the cleanliness of mind.Irani also announced Wasima, a Class VI

Amritsar: A new education policy is being framed in which emphasis will be laid on teaching students moral values as the present system is only producing degree holders, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani today said. Addressing

Varanasi: The NDA government was framing a new education policy to remove existing loopholes and give maximum and easy access to better education to all sections of the society, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani today

New Delhi: WIth the aim to promote educational opportunities among girl students and address the challenge of lower girl enrolment rates in engineering colleges, the CBSE's Udaan scheme was launched Friday.Udaan aims to provide a

New Delhi: Unfazed by the row, AMU VC Zameer Uddin Shah yesterday stood by his controversial comment on girl undergraduates' entry to the university library even as the HRD Ministry sought more details from him

New Delhi/Aligarh: Government today sought an explanation from the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) over not allowing access to women undergraduates to the main library in the campus, with HRD Miniser Smriti Irani saying it amounted

New Delhi: Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Zubin Irani has rubbished allegations by the Opposition that she was working on the RSS agenda for changing curriculum and rewriting history.Replying to questions from Rajat Sharma in

New Delhi:  Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Zubin Irani has rubbished allegations by the Opposition that she was working on the RSS agenda for changing curriculum and rewriting history.Replying to questions from Rajat Sharma in

Kochi: The new educational policy of the BJP-led NDA government is likely to be rolled out next year, Union HRD minister Smriti Irani said here on Sunday."The deliberations on the proposed new policy will start