Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in a written reply said 43.55 lakh cases are pending in the high court and out of these, 18.75 lakh relate to civil matters and 12.15 lakh are criminal cases.
Observing that there is "digital hunger" in rural India, the government target is to make one lakh digital villages in the country and it is working with Railways to lay the Optical fibre network at the gram level, said Ravi Shankar Prasad
"No proposal of the closure of MTNL and BSNL is under consideration," Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad informed the Lok Sabha.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has finalised the much-anticipated Personal Data Protection Bill, Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Friday. The next required step is a Cabinet approval before the Bill goes to the Parliament.
YouTube Thursday tightened its policies to combat hateful and supremacist content, as it resolved to protect the platform from being used to incite hatred, harassment, discrimination and violence.
Union Ravi Shankar Prasad, who took charge of the Law Ministry on Monday, said he and his ministry will not be merely a "post office" but a stakeholder in the judicial system, including in the appointment of judges.
The Department of Telecommunications will be auctioning the 4G and 5G spectrum by October that will carry out the sales at prices recommended by the regulator.
Ravi Shankar Prasad's stature in the Modi 2.0 government has got bigger and he has regained the telecom ministry, adding it to his heavyweight portfolio of IT as well as Law and Justice.
Ravi Shankar Prasad, 65, termed himself "Patna ka ladka" as he contested Lok Sabha polls - for the first time - from Patna Sahib seat after four terms in the Rajya Sabha. He won with a big margin, defeating actor-turned-politician and sitting MP Shatrughan Sinha, who had switched over to the Congress.
Ravi Shankar Prasad, Dharmendra Pradhan and Prakash Javadekar are set to take oath as ministers in Modi Sarkar 2.0 on Thursday when Narendra Modi will be sworn in as the 16th Prime Minister of India.
Ravi Shankar Prasad reacts to his massive victory in Patna Saheb against Shatrughan Sinha
Patna Sahib is one of the 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar. The constituency has seen a 43.10 % voter turnout in the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
Ravi Shankar Prasad meets people in Patna as part of his election campaign
Union Law Minister and BJP candidate from Patna Sahib Ravi Shankar Prasad today said that "India will carry out strike on Pakistan again, but we will not target common Pakistanis. We will only destroy terror camps".
Congress backs 'Tukde-Tukde' gang alleges Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
"BJP demands that Rahul apologise as SC order and CAG report on Rafale jet deal have exposed his lies," Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
The Union minister further asked Gandhi to answer how he got hold of the company's internal communication and accused him of acting as a "lobbyist" of foreign firms.
He said that even Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah have said that the matter should be resolved under a Constitutional ambit.
Speaking to media, Prasad said the Modi government had ushered in stability, development and growth with India now seen as an emerging global power and the prime minister as a global leader.
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