Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Communications and IT

Ravi Shankar Prasad

Ravi Shankar Prasad is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as 1st Minister of Electronics and Information Technology from 2016 to 2019 and 2019 to 2021. He is the member of Bharatiya Janata Party and Member of Parliament since 2000, first in the Rajya Sabha (2000–2019) and then in the Lok Sabha, Prasad has served as Union Minister multiple times: As Minister of State, he served in the ministries of Coal (2001–2003), Law and Justice (2002–2003), and Information and Broadcasting (2003–2004) under Atal Bihari Vajpayee's premiership; as Cabinet Minister, he held the Law and Justice, Communications portfolios under Narendra Modi's premiership.

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1954

August 30

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1950s

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1954 Born

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70 Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.
1057 Elderly Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringas abdicates after just one year on the throne.
1060 The Mirdasids defeat the Fatimid Caliphate at the Battle of al-Funaydiq, signalling the definitive loss of Aleppo for the Fatimids.
1282 Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.

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The world in 1954

When Ravi arrived

april 1 United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
april 18 Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
april 22 Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
april 25 The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.

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Anna Politkovskaya 1958–2006 Russian journalist and activist (died 2006) Evelyn De Morgan 1855– English painter (died 1919) Fred Hampton 1948–1969 American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (died 1969) Huey Long 1893–1935 American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (died 1935) Jack Swigert 1931–1982 American pilot and astronaut (died 1982) John Phillips 1935–2001 American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2001) Roy Wilkins 1901–1981 American journalist and activist (died 1981)

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Alan Kulwicki 1954–1993 American race car driver (born 1954) Annie Lennox 1954– Scottish singer-songwriter and pianist Archie Griffin 1954– American football player Chris Huhne 1954– English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Clem Burke 1954–2025 American drummer (born 1954) Cliff Martinez 1954– American drummer and songwriter David Keith 1954– American actor and director David Lee Roth 1954– American singer-songwriter and producer Dawn Primarolo 1954– English politician

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