Dharmendra Pradhan is new Education Minister

Dharmendra Pradhan was on Wednesday inducted as India's new education minister while Annapurna Devi, Subhas Sarkar and Rajkumar Ranjan Singh will be the new ministers of state for education. Son......

PHOTOS: Shah, Mamata share lunch at Patnaik's home

Union home minister Amit Shah and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, who have been bitter critics of each other, had a lunch together on Friday at Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik's......

Dhankar terms coaching centre culture as gas chamber

The Delhi incident in which three civil services aspirants died resonated in Parliament on Monday with Rajya Sabha chairperson Jagdeep Dhankhar dubbing the culture of coaching centres as a "gas......

Govt forms cabinet committees on security, economic affairs; includes allies

The Modi government on Wednesday constituted various cabinet committees, including the country's highest decision making bodies on security, economic and political affairs. IMAGE: Prime Minister......

Minister Dharmendra Pradhan: 'Benefits of falling oil prices passed on to consumers'

‘If the benefit of falling oil prices was not passed on to the consumers, would inflation have come down to zero?’ ‘I haven't met a single family in the last 10 months that......

Minister for setting up statutory safety body for oil and gas sectors

With more than a dozen people killed in a deadly fire at a gas pipeline in Andhra Pradesh, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday expressed shock at the lack of a statutory body for formulating......

Govt postpones revision in natural gas prices by 3 months

The new government on Wednesday postponed revision in natural gas prices by three months pending a comprehensive review. Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said the current rate of $4.2 per million......

India to gradually move to gas-based economy: Pradhan

Gas accounts for 8 pct of energy mix, with oil at over a quarter India plans to shift to a gas-based economy by boosting domestic production and buying cheap liquefied natural gas (LNG) as the......

PIX: PM Modi declares open inaugural Khelo India University Games

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the first-ever Khelo India University Games at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, in Cuttack, on Saturday. As many as 3400 athletes from 159 universities......