Top News of the Day: July 26, 2026
- Pralhad Joshi took charge as Union Education Minister after Dharmendra Pradhan resigned amid protests over the NEET paper leak and student suicides.
- Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy noted that the last five Education Ministers, including Smriti Irani and Prakash Javadekar, have faced difficulties in the role and wished Joshi well.
- The Indian Embassy in Ukraine reported Indian seafarers safe after a projectile hit a cargo vessel in Odessa, with the status of others awaited.
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Prahlad Joshi's 2022 NEET exam remark resurfaces as he becomes education minister: ‘90% fail…’
In a statement, when thousands of Indian students were stuck in war-torn Ukraine in 2022, India's new Education Minister Prahlad Joshi had controversially said that 90 per cent of students going abroad to study medicine won’t clear Indian entrance examinations.
Following Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation, the Education Ministry has been handed over to Prahlad Joshi, a Member of Parliament from Dharwad, Karnataka. Both the new and former education ministers own assets worth crores.
Last 5 education ministers had bad luck, says Revanth Reddy
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has offered his best wishes to Pralhad Joshi, the senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader who took up the charge of the Union Education Ministry following the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan from the post. While Pradhan stepped down in the wake of nationwide protests led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), the CM was quick to point out that even his predecessors haven’t had it easy. Speaking…
The new Indian Minister of Education, Pralhad Joshi, has taken office this Sunday following student protests, baptized as the 'cucarachas' movement, which forced the resignation of his predecessor, Dharmandra Pradhan, from the leaking of questions from university entrance exams. "Pralhad Joshi has assumed the post of Minister of Education today in Kartavya Bhavan, New Delhi. He has chaired an evaluation meeting of the Ministry, at which he has e…
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