New Delhi: Signalling continuity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday retained Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jaishankar in charge of the four high-profile ministries – Home, Defence, Finance and External Affairs – respectively in his new government. The four ministers in charge of these portfolios make up the crucial Cabinet Committee on…
New Delhi: The swearing-in ceremony for the chief minister of Odisha will take place at Janata Maidan in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday, June 12, at 4:45 PM, amid suspense over the BJP candidate for the chief ministerial position. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in the recent state assembly elections, defeating the outgoing Chief…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached the South Block on Monday and took charge for his third term. After being sworn in, the Prime Miniter signed his first file authorising release of 17th instalment of PM Kisan Nidhi. This will benefit 9.3 crore farmers and distribute around Rs 20,000 crores. The first meeting of…
New Delhi: An NIA team has reached Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district and is coordinating with local police probing into the terror attack on a passenger bus that left nine people dead and several injured, officials said on Monday. Meanwhile, security forces have also launched a massive cordon and search operation to track down the…
Jammu: Nine people were killed and 33 injured as terrorists struck a bus carrying pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district on Sunday (June 9) evening, opening fire on the vehicle that fell into a gorge, a senior police officer said. The attack occurred on the bus en route from Shiv Khori…
Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new Council of Ministers in his historic third term has laid an unprecedented emphasis on the southern part of the country, reflecting the outcome of the recently concluded assembly election. The new cabinet includes 13 ministers from south. This despite the BJP tally remaining exactly where it was in 2019…
New Delhi: Known for his organisational skills, L Murugan, a Dalit BJP leader from Tamil Nadu who took oath as a minister on Sunday, has been a grassroots party worker for about 25 years, starting his political journey as a student activist. Associated with the RSS and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad before he joined the…
New Delhi: With a 72-member Council of Ministers taking oath on Sunday in the third term of the Modi government, it is only nine short of the maximum permissible strength of 81 and six less than the maximum of 78 ministers the Modi government had between 2019 and 2024. The Modi government had touched the…
New Delhi: After the hectic parleys over NDA’s third historic term, BJP leaders, including Smriti Irani and Anurag Thakur, were found notably absent from the finalised Cabinet lineup. Narendra Modi on Sunday took oath as the Prime Minister of India for the third consecutive term at a swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Irani, the sitting…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi scripted history on Sunday as he took the oath of office for a third straight term, becoming the first non-Congress leader and second after Jawaharlal Nehru to achieve the feat that few thought possible for a BJP leader until he shook up national politics in 2014. His third term,…
