“India cannot put hand on hand in the issues of National Security. Now the time has come that India needs to emerge as major arms exporter.”
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Rajnath Singh
Rajnath Singh is an Indian politician and lecturer who is serving as the 29th Minister of Defence since 2019 and as the Deputy Leader of the House, Lok Sabha since 2014. He is a Member of Parliament from Lucknow since 2014. He previously served as the 25th Union Minister of Home Affairs in the first Modi ministry from 2014 to 2019, making him the first person born after Indian independence to hold…
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science · Defense Minister of India since 2019 · politician · physicist · also Rajnath Singh, Rajnath, Rajnath Dev Singh, Singh
Born 10 July 1951 · Q3506475
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2026· 27 entries
Published video “RM hoisted the National Flag at his residence in New Delhi. #harghartiranga”.
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Published video “RM interacts with Indian Army contingent from the Commonwealth Games held at Glasgow.”.
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Published video “Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on PM Narendra Modi and India’s foreign policy are highly condemnable: RM”.
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Published video “'Vande Mataram' is the voice of India’s national consciousness: Raksha Mantri”.
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Published video “Sport has become a field of success, excellence and honour: Raksha Mantri”.
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Published video “The entire nation is proud of our Nari Shakti, says the Raksha Mantri.”.
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Published video “Raksha Mantri's message for the soldiers on the eve of Independence Day.”.
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The Hindu: Defence production rises nearly four-fold to ₹1.78 lakh crore, says Rajnath Singh
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Published video “RM's interaction with the Indian Army contingent from the Commonwealth Games held at Glasgow.”.
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Published video “Don't just organise blood donation, make it a culture: Raksha Mantri”.
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Published video “Inaugurated 'Sindoor Maharaktdan Yatra' Blood Donation Camp at Base Hospital, Delhi.”.
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Public attention spiked: 3,384 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.4× the usual 994, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 3,568 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.6× the usual 994, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 3,127 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.1× the usual 994, with 0 article edits.
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NewsMobile rated the claim “A viral graphic claims that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh urged people to collect money from temples and mosques and deposit it into the PM CARES Fund.” False.
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The Quint rated the claim “After the NEET-UG paper leaked, Union Minister Rajnath Singh said that no minister would resign over it.” False.
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FACTLY rated the claim “The video shows Defence Minister Rajnath Singh reacting to demands for the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak issue.” FALSE.
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PTI rated the claim “Several viral posts on social media claimed to show real incidents, including CRPF personnel taking action in West Bengal ahead of the Assembly elections, people attacking an army vehicle in the state, Rajnath Singh extending support to Mamata Banerjee, a woman being thrown from a car after being…” Misleading.
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The Quint rated the claim “This video shows Rajnath Singh and the BJP expressing support for Mamata Banerjee in the 2026 West Bengal elections.” False.
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PTI rated the claim “Video shows Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announcing BJP’s support for Mamata Banerjee ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections.” Misleading.
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PTI rated the claim “A video shows Defence Minister Rajnath Singh expressing New Delhi's support for Israel's attack against Iran.” False.
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fact checker rated the claim “Rajnath Singh Supporting Israel-America Against Iran” False.
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The Quint rated the claim “The video shows Defence Minister Rajnath Singh supporting the recent Israel's strikes against Iran.” False.
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FACTLY rated the claim “A viral video shows Defence Minister Rajnath Singh saying that PM Narendra Modi visited Israel before the war began, conveyed India’s full support, and warned Tehran that peace would be destroyed.” FALSE.
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PTI rated the claim “Yogi, Rajnath Singh seen celebrating after SC orders stay on UGC guidelines” Misleading.
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News Mobile rated the claim “Video shows Rajnath Singh comparing RSS and the Taliban” Misleading.
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2024· 2 entries
Career landmark: Member of the Lok Sabha (2024).
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Published “Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3” in Nature — cited 15,571 times.
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2020· 3 entries
Published “Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019” in Journal of the American College of Cardiology — cited 10,312 times.
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,051 times.
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“Those wanting to threaten India”
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2019· 2 entries
Career landmark: Member of the 17th Lok Sabha (2019).
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Career landmark: Minister of Defence (2019).
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2018· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,011 times.
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2016· 3 entries
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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To increase the strength of the Indian Air Force
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Published “"Why Should I Trust You?"” in Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining — cited 13,192 times.
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2014· 3 entries
Career landmark: Member of the 16th Lok Sabha (2014–2019).
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Lok Sabha Election he took over the position from Sushilkumar Shinde as the Minister of Home Affairs (India) from the year 2014–2019
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Career landmark: Minister of Home Affairs (2014–2019).
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2013· 1 entry
Claiming that his party is "unambiguously" in favour of the law, also claiming that "We will state (at an all-party meeting if it is called) that we support Section 377 because we believe that homosexuality is an unnatur
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2012· 2 entries
Published “Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 10,807 times.
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Published “A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 9,267 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Published “Simple Combinations of Lineage-Determining Transcription Factors Prime cis-Regulatory Elements Required for Macrophage and B Cell Identities” in Molecular Cell — cited 13,410 times.
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2009· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the 15th Lok Sabha (2009–2014).
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2003· 2 entries
Career landmark: Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (2003–2004).
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Singh was appointed as the Minister of Agriculture and subsequently for Food Processing in the NDA Government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and was faced with the difficult task of maintaining one of the most volatile are
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2000· 2 entries
Became chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and was twice elected as MLA from Haidergarh in 2001 and 2002
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Career landmark: Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (2000–2002).
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1999· 2 entries
Became the Union Cabinet Minister for Surface Transport
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Career landmark: Minister of Road Transport and Highways (1999–2000).
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1998· 1 entry
Published “The Relational View: Cooperative Strategy and Sources of Interorganizational Competitive Advantage” in The Academy of Management Review — cited 25,239 times.
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1992· 1 entry
Published “Atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces: Applications of the generalized gradient approximation for exchange and correlation” in Physical Review B — cited 21,742 times.
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1991· 3 entries
“India is home to all the 72 ‘firkas’ (sects) of Muslims, which no other country has and it also has more Muslim population than Pakistan. India can be called more Islamic than Pakistan.”
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Singh led a partial rewrite of history textbooks used in government schools and introduced vedic mathematics into the curriculum
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When the Bharatiya Janata Party formed its first government in Uttar Pradesh under chief minister Kalyan Singh, he was appointed education minister of Uttar Pradesh
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1984· 1 entry
The National general secretary in 1986 and the National President in 1988
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1977· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (1977–1980).
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1975· 1 entry
Aged 24, Singh was appointed District President of the Jana Sangh
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1974· 1 entry
Was appointed secretary for the Mirzapur unit of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, predecessor of Bharatiya Janata Party
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1971· 1 entry
He married Savitri Singh on 5 June 1971, with whom he has two sons and a daughter.
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1951· 1 entry
Born 1951-07-10.
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