Tag: Pralhad Joshi

Taking potshots at the election for AICC chief, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi stated on Saturday that no matter who becomes the President, he will be the remote control of Nehru family.

The government on Wednesday said there is an appropriate amount of coal stocks in the country and there is no need to panic.

The hijab row is being created unnecessarily. Action has already been initiated. The court is looking into the matter in detail. This behaviour of rowdies outside colleges which is vitiating the academic atmosphere has to be dealt with, he stated.

Pralhad Joshi, who is on a three-day visit to the State, reviewed the progress made in auction of mineral blocks in the State with Steel and Mines Minister Prafulla Kumar Mallick and other officials of Ministry of Mines and Directorate of Mines, Odisha. 

New Delhi: The Union government is considering to extend the ongoing Parliament session by 10 days, sources said on Tuesday. Several MPs of the ruling dispensation were unofficially conveyed of such a possibility at the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting. Asked about the likelihood of the session’s extension, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi told reporters after […]

New Delhi:Speaker Om Birla on Thursday extended the first session of the Lok Sabha till August 7 on the government’s request. Birla made the announcement after Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi requested him to extent the House proceedings so that over 20 pending Bills could be passed. The first session of the 17th Lok Sabha […]

New Delhi: Mourning the demise of BJP leader and former Union Minister Sushma Swaraj, the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday deferred some bills including one that seeks to remove the Congress President as a member of the trust running the Jallianwala Bagh memorial. The House, however, returned the bill seeking to increase the number of judges […]

Talcher: Union Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi on Thursday announced a three-fold increase in ex-gratia amount from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 15 lakh for death of permanent and contractual workers due to accident at coal mines. The minister also said Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL), the subsidiary of state-run Coal India Limited (CIL), will invest more […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister for Mines, Pralhad Joshi and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday jointly inaugurated the production in two new iron ore mines of Odisha -Jiling-Langlota Iron ore block and Guali Iron ore block. Both the mines have production capacity of 15 lakh tonnes per month and possess 275 million tonnes (approx) of consolidated […]