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Who is Hardeep Singh Puri

A politician and former diplomat, Hardeep Singh Puri is the Union minister for civil aviation and housing & urban affairs in the second term of the Narendra Modi-led central government.
 
A 1974 batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, Puri served as the Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013. Previously, he had been the chairman of the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee, president of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) from August 2011 to November 2012, secretary-general of the Independent Commission on Multilateralism in New York, and vice-president of the International Peace Institute.
 
Puri was born in Delhi and went to Hindu College of the Delhi University (DU), where he received his bachelors and masters degrees in history. He then went on to work as a lecturer of history at DU’s St Stephen's College.
 
Puri served as a joint secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, from 1994 to 1997, and then for a second time from 1999 to 2002. He was also a joint secretary in the Ministry of Defence from 1997 to 1999. He subsequently became secretary (economic relations) in Ministry of External Affairs from 2009 to 2013.
 
During his career as a diplomat, Puri was stationed at important posts in Brazil, Japan, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom. Between 1988 and 1991, he was the coordinator of the UNDP/UNCTAD Multilateral Trade Negotiations Project to help Developing Countries in the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations. He also served as the chairman of the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee from January 2011 to February 2013.
 
From 2009 to 2013, Puri was the Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations. He joined International Peace Institute as a senior advisor in June 2013.
 
In January 2014, Puri joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), expressing an admiration for the party's approach to national security. In May 2019, he became the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing and Urban Affairs and Civil Aviation and Minister of State for Commerce and Industry.

Latest Updates on Hardeep Singh Puri

Waste processing in India has gone up by over four times from 17 per cent in 2014 to 75 per cent

Updated On: 30 Mar 2023 | 7:47 PM IST

The BJP leader categorically rejected Gandhi's claims on the prevailing situation in India and urged him to clarify if he was "playing to an agenda

Updated On: 20 Mar 2023 | 2:08 PM IST

He also reminded the Congress that it was under the Indira Gandhi regime that civil liberties were curbed. Puri questioned Rahul Gandhi's objective behind his statement and asked him to apologise

Updated On: 20 Mar 2023 | 11:47 AM IST

This comes days after Delhi HC asked Centre to decide on issue of granting sanction for attaching moveable and immovable assets of DMRC

Updated On: 07 Mar 2023 | 12:11 AM IST

Petroleum Minister Puri to take stock of the delayed project on Tuesday

Updated On: 20 Feb 2023 | 12:40 AM IST

Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Sunday said the implementation of central schemes in Uttar Pradesh has accelerated significantly since Yogi Adityanath took over as chief minister of the state

Updated On: 12 Feb 2023 | 8:17 PM IST

The European Union ban on seaborne Russian fuel shipments, coupled with earlier restrictions on the bloc's crude purchases, give more impetus for Moscow to ramp up the flows to India

Updated On: 07 Feb 2023 | 11:18 PM IST

Petroleum minister hints at sustained lifting of Russian crude; hails IEW 2023 as a watershed event

Updated On: 06 Feb 2023 | 8:31 PM IST

Blending of 15 per cent methanol in gasoline can result in at least a 15 per cent reduction in the import of gasoline/crude oil

Updated On: 24 Jan 2023 | 11:30 PM IST

Without giving any detail, the Union minister said several big projects in the sector are also in the pipeline in the region

Updated On: 23 Jan 2023 | 11:49 PM IST

"I will hope if under-recoveries (or losses) end, prices should come down," he said at an event

Updated On: 22 Jan 2023 | 10:37 PM IST

Diesel price increased from Rs 86.67 per litre in December 2021 to Rs 89.62 a year later. Rate of petrol rose from Rs 95.41 per litre to Rs 96.72

Updated On: 22 Jan 2023 | 6:30 PM IST

Puri said India is a place where it's not just economies of scale but where "when we do something hundreds and thousands of people will follow"

Updated On: 13 Jan 2023 | 4:42 PM IST

"India has increased the ethanol blending in petrol from 1.53 per cent in 2013-14 to 10.17 per cent in July 2022," an official statement quoted Puri as saying

Updated On: 12 Jan 2023 | 9:59 PM IST

Says he will meet with petroleum minister in next 15 days to discuss this

Updated On: 12 Jan 2023 | 9:11 PM IST

Electrolysers use electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. When electricity for the electrolyser comes from renewable sources like wind and solar, the hydrogen produced is called green

Updated On: 12 Jan 2023 | 9:20 PM IST

India's Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri met Guyana's President Mohamed Irfaan Ali on Thursday

Updated On: 12 Jan 2023 | 4:15 PM IST

Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri released on Wednesday draft guidelines for a new ranking system of cities based on financial performance and beautification

Updated On: 28 Dec 2022 | 5:10 PM IST

India, whose per capita consumption is significantly lower than that of developed economies, will contribute 10% of the incremental growth of global petrochemical demand, Hardeep Singh Puri said

Updated On: 18 Dec 2022 | 11:26 PM IST

India is preparing to launch sales of 20% ethanol with gasoline and will look to gradually raise its share of the cleaner fuel in its energy mix, the country's oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri said

Updated On: 16 Dec 2022 | 8:03 PM IST