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Bhopal: The number of ministers from Madhya Pradesh in the newly sworn-in Narendra Modi government remains unchanged at six, as in the previous term.Narendra Singh Tomar, Prahlad Patel, Faggan Singh Kulaste, Virendra Kumar, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Rajya Sabha member L Murugan were ministers...

New Delhi [India], Congress leader and Deputy Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Pramod Tiwari on Sunday said that he did not receive an invitation to the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi and took a dig at PM Modi, saying that he is compared to opposition leaders...

New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new council of ministers, who took oath on Sunday evening, has eleven members from Rajya Sabha.In Modi 3.0, there are 59 newly elected MPs of Lok Sabha in the Council of Ministers.Two of the new ministers of state – Ravneet Singh Bittu and George...

Bhubaneswar: Bureaucrat-turned-politician Ashwini Vaishnaw, known for his efforts to reform the railway sector and establish the public-private partnership model in infrastructure projects, was on Sunday re-inducted into the Union Cabinet.The 53-year-old Rajya Sabha member from Odisha was...

New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have got maximum representation in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new council of ministers, while assembly-poll-bound Maharashtra has also got a significant presence.Uttar Pradesh, which sends the highest number of 80 members to the Lok Sabha, has got nine...

New Delhi: One of the six members in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new Council of Ministers, who took oath on Sunday evening, is from Rajya Sabha.The Council of Ministers in Modi 3.0 has 12 members from the Upper House of Parliament, while 58 are newly elected MPs from the Lok Sabha.Two of...

New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has retained 34 ministers from his outgoing Council of Ministers, out of which 19 have been given a place in the cabinet.Outgoing cabinet ministers who took oath again on Sunday included Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman and S...

New Delhi: One of the five members in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new Council of Ministers who took oath on Sunday evening is from Rajya Sabha.The Council of Ministers in Modi 3.0 has 13 members from the Upper House of Parliament, while 57 are newly elected MPs from the Lok Sabha.Two of...

Ahmedabad: The number of Gujarat MPs inducted into the Narendra Modi government on Sunday dropped from seven to six in the second term.While Amit Shah, Mansukh Mandaviya and S Jaishankar took oath as cabinet ministers for the second consecutive term, new entrants in the list include state BJP...

New Delhi [India], BJP leader Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia took oath as Union Minister in the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Jyotiraditya Scindia, a scion of the former royal family of Gwalior, broke his ties with the Congress party in 2020 after 18 years and joined the...

Guwahati, Assam's Rajya Sabha MP Pabitra Margherita, first a magazine editor and then a filmmaker, was on Sunday inducted as a minister in the Narendra Modi government.A well-known name in the cultural sphere of Assam, Margherita joined politics in 2014 by becoming a member of the BJP. He was...

Lucknow, Rajya Sabha member BL Verma, who took oath as Union Minister of State for the second time, started his political innings as an ordinary BJP worker. On Sunday, he took oath as a minister in the new NDA government.Coming from the extremely backward Lodh community of Badaun district of...

He did more than 250 films in his career that started in the mid-1980s and earned him the tag of "Angry Young Man of Malayalam films", once winning the Best Actor award at both the state and national levels. Everyone.Gopi's debut in politics was with four-time veteran Congress Chief Minister...

BJP MP from Sambalpur Lok Sabha constituency Dharmendra Pradhan and six-time MP from Sundergarh Lok Sabha constituency Jual Oram took oath as cabinet ministers at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday.Pradhan (54), who holds a master's degree in anthropology from Utkal University, was first elected as...

Bhubaneswar: Bureaucrat-turned-politician Ashwini Vaishnav, known for his efforts to reform the railway sector and establish the public-private partnership model in infrastructure projects, was on Sunday re-inducted into the Union Cabinet.The 53-year-old Rajya Sabha member from Odisha was...

New Delhi [India], BJP leader Jagat Prakash Nadda took oath as Union Cabinet Minister in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday evening.With this, Nadda, who has been working as BJP President since 2019, has entered the BJP cabinet. Earlier he was...

Mumbai: Piyush Goyal, who held key ministries including commerce and industry in the second Modi government, won his first Lok Sabha election from the Mumbai North constituency by an impressive vote margin.Goyal, 59, who has been a Rajya Sabha member since 2010, clearly explained the...

New Delhi: The NCP on Sunday rejected the BJP's offer to induct Praful Patel as minister of state with independent charge in the new NDA government and said it was assured that "remedial steps" would be taken.Patel, the working president of BJP's ally NCP, argued that since he has already...

New Delhi, RJD leader Manoj Jha on Sunday said it is the NDA government that is taking oath this time and not the "Modi government" and expressed hope that the ruling government will work on issues like providing employment.Jha also said that the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) will not attend the...

New Delhi [India], Janata Dal-United leader Ramnath Thakur will on Sunday take oath as a Union minister in the Narendra Modi-led third NDA government.Ramnath Thakur is the son of two-time Rajya Sabha MP and former Chief Minister of Bihar and Bharat Ratna awardee Karpoori Thakur.He thanked...