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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicRamesh Pokhriyal

Topic: Ramesh Pokhriyal

Ex-minister Pokhriyal gets 2nd notice to vacate official bungalow, which Scindia is waiting for

Former education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal needed to vacate the house after being dropped from cabinet 6 months ago. Scindia & his late father had both lived in this house.

Offer unused campus space for Covid wards, take part in pandemic fight: Govt tells IITs, NITs

Congratulating the institutions on innovations they have come up with to help the country fight Covid-19, the education minister also said students safety should be ensured.

‘Lot of enthusiasm’ among foreign universities to start branches in India, Pokhriyal says

Modi govt is set to woo nearly 750,000 students who spend about Rs 1.1 lakh crore each year pursuing degrees overseas, by allowing foreign universities to set up branches in India.

Don’t collect student fee until lockdown ends or hike costs: AICTE asks technical institutes

AICTE’s appeal to technical education institutions comes after the HRD Ministry asked all states and Union Territories to appeal to institutes in their region to not hike fees.

Parents worry over delayed exams, HRD minister asks them to wait and tell kids to do yoga

In a live interaction with parents on Twitter, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal also asked them to motivate their children to utilise this time by preparing for pending exams.

Modi govt dumps ‘liberal’ in favour of ‘holistic’ in its new draft of education policy

The draft NEP 2019 had a section titled ‘Towards a More Liberal Education’. The latest version has replaced the word ‘liberal’ with ‘holistic’.

HRD minister Pokhriyal has many PhDs, his office says & slams complaint against his degree

An appeal filed in President Ram Nath Kovind’s office has called for Ramesh Pokhriyal’s disqualification as minister for citing a ‘fake’ doctorate degree.

Sir Pokhriyal’s laws of emotion over motion and a crumbling Congress fort

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HRD minister ‘Nishank’ has written 44 books — high on patriotism, ‘low on literary value’

Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has written novels, self-help books, and even poetry. Several of them were published between 2009 & 2011, when he was Uttarakhand CM.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.