NEW DELHI, JUN 11: Seventy out of 71 or 99 per cent of the ministers in the new council of ministers are crorepatis with average assets among them amounting to Rs 107.94 crores, according to poll rights body ADR. Among the ministers, six stand out for their particularly high asset declarations, each exceeding Rs 100 […]Continue Reading
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Modi cabinet 3.0: Jaishankar back as external affairs minister; Vaishnaw takes charge as IB Minister
NEW DELHI, JUN 11: Diplomat-turned-politician S Jaishankar on Tuesday assumed charge as external affairs minister for the second consecutive term. Jaishankar, 69, was among the senior BJP leaders, including Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari and Nirmala Sitharaman, who retained the ministries that they handled in the previous government. “Assumed charge as the Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 11 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address a ‘kisan sammelan’ (farmers’ conference) in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh on June 18, sources said. This could be the Prime Minister’s first visit to Varanasi after he took oath for a record third time on Sunday. Local BJP leaders […]Continue Reading
New Delhi,Jun 10: There was a time when ‘Minimum government, maximum governance’ was one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s favourite slogans. But in this third term, with the compulsions of coalition politics and also a need to strengthen representation from BJP’s core states taking over, that has been set aside. The swearing-in on Sunday inducted Continue Reading
IMPHAL, JUN 10: Suspected militants ambushed the advance security convoy of Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh in Kangpokpi district on Monday, leaving one personnel injured, police said. The convoy was on its way to violence-hit Jiribam district. Multiple gunshots were fired at the vehicles of the security forces, who retaliated, they said, adding, that […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,JUN 10: The Election Commission on Monday announced bypolls to 13 assembly constituencies across seven states, including four in West Bengal, on July 10.The bypolls are to be held against vacancies created either due to deaths or resignation of incumbent members. The assembly seats going for bypolls are Rupauli (Bihar), Raiganj, Ranaghat Dakshin, Bagda […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,JUN 10 : A day after Narendra Modi took oath as the prime minister along with his new Cabinet and council of ministers, he signed his first file authorising the release of around Rs 20,000 crores to about 9.3 crore farmers. After signing on to the release of funds, Modi said,“Ours is a Government […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,JUN 10 : Seven women, including two in Cabinet roles, have been inducted into the new council of ministers in the 18th Lok Sabha on Sunday. The previous council, which dissolved on June 5, had 10 women ministers. Those dropped from the council include former Union Minister Smriti Irani, Minister of State Bharti Pawar, […]Continue Reading
Manipur, JUN 9: The miscreants burned down a police outpost, a forest beat office and a forest range office in ethnic violence-hit Manipur’s Jiribam district in the wee hours of Saturday. About a dozen houses were also torched in four to five villages. Officials said the houses belonged to Meiteis. Trouble broke out in the […]Continue Reading
Narendra Modi pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi, Vajpayee before swearing-in today NEW DELHI, jun 9 : Narendra Modi will take oath for a record third term as the Prime Minister of India today, with several international heads of states in attendance, including Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Bangladesh Prime Minister […]Continue Reading
