Minister of State

‘Greatness of PM Modi that he gave ticket to a Nishad,’ Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti recalls her journey to becoming minister of state | India News

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‘Greatness of PM Modi that he gave ticket to a Nishad,’ Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti recalls her journey to becoming minister of state | India News

NEW DELHI: A 12-year-old whose family struggled to get two square meals despite toiling in irrigation canal construction work all day; living an unfulfilled dream of having a pucca house, to becoming the minister of state for food and public distribution and also the junior minister for rural development, a moving story of Sadhvi Niranjan … Read more

Our commitment for press freedom, and autonomy of public broadcast is absolute: Prakash Javadekar

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Our commitment for press freedom, and autonomy of public broadcast is absolute: Prakash Javadekar

Minister of state (independent charge) for information and broadcasting, environment and climate change Prakash Javadekar has been busy sorting out the various hats he’s expected to wear in this government. He spoke to ET on the Bharatiya Janata Party government’s approach towards media, social media, media controls and much more. Edited excerpts… In terms of … Read more