A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi distributed portfolios to his ministers, a number of leaders including S Jaishankar and Ashwini Vaishnaw took charge of their duties on Tuesday.
Jaishankar and…
Karnataka could get five ministerial positions with the shining minister being Nirmala Sitharaman.
Karnataka
1. Nirmala Sitharaman
Rank: Cabinet
Portfolio:
Born on 18 August, 1959, Nirmala Sitharaman,…
Bihar has emerged as a powerhouse in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s choice for ministers as the state bagged eight seats in the Council of Ministers.
Bihar
1. Chirag Paswan
Rank:…
Uttar Pradesh secured 10 ministerial positions in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government but managed only two seats in the Union Cabinet.
Uttar Pradesh
1. Hardeep Singh Puri
Rank:…
Senior party officials Rajnath Singh and Bhupender Yadav were named by the BJP on Sunday as central observers to supervise the election of the MLA leader in the Odisha assembly, who will be sworn in…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inducted four cabinet berths and one minister of state from Gujarat in his new government on Sunday.
Gujarat
1. Amit Shah
Rank: Cabinet
Portfolio:
Born on October 22,…
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi has kept the bulk of berths in the Union Council of Ministers with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the partners in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) have also…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday told his newly inducted Cabinet ministers “to speak only when necessary… and not to make unnecessary statements.”
The Prime Minister listed out dos and don’ts…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath with 71 ministers yesterday to form the new coalition government. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath to the incoming ministers. Prime Minister, 30…
The allotment of the Cabinet ministers in the new NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been announced.
The announcement of portfolios allocated of the ministers were made soon after…
Hours after Suresh Gopi, BJP’s first-ever MP from Kerala, took oath as a Union Minister of State (MoS) in the third Narendra Modi-led government on June 9, reports of him wanting to step down from the…
In a grand ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan, witnessed by over 8,000 guests from all walks of life, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and 72 ministers took the oath of office, marking the beginning of Modi…
Maharashtra got five ministerial positions in the latest Council of Ministers in the Central government.
Maharashtra
1. Piyush Goyal
Rank: Cabinet
Portfolio:
Born on June 13, 1964, Piyush Vedprakash…
A 72-member Council of Ministers, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, took oath on Sunday in the third term of the Modi government. The third term of the BJP-led NDA government led by Prime…
Narendra Modi, the BJP leader, took the oath of office as India’s Prime Minister for the third time Today. This is significant since no Prime Minister, except Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime…
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) campaign to make inroads in Tamil Nadu has met a disappointing end as state unit chief K Annamalai has lost.
Annamalai lost the Lok Sabha elections from the…
A father grating coconut in the kitchen and cooking snacks for his daughter may sound a bit odd in a patriarchal society.
But what if the message appears in school textbooks?
That is what has happened…
The CBI has taken up the probe into the multi-crore illegal money transfer case involving Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation Ltd, Home Minister G Parameshwara said on…
From putting up a decent performance in the last Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh winning 10 seats and stitching an alliance with arch-rival Samajwadi Party, Mayawati-led BSP drew a blank in the…
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) seems poised for a third term, as per current election trends, albeit with fewer seats than anticipated by exit polls. Despite its…
The BJP was ahead in 17 seats, Congress in eight and JD(S) in three as per initial counting trends in 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka on Tuesday, according to Election Commission…
The voting for the 175 assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh were held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 on May 13. Results for both will be declared today.
The numbers : The Andhra Pradesh…
The assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Odisha took place simultaneously, in four phases, from May 13 to June 1 and results for both will be declared today.
1. The numbers: The Odisha assembly has 147…
On June 4, the Election Commission of India will tally hundreds of millions of votes in a matter of hours, declaring the results of the country’s 18th Lok Sabha election after six weeks and seven…
The Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) on Sunday returned to power in the Himalayan state for the second consecutive term by a landslide victory, winning 31 seats in the 32-member assembly.
The opposition…
With the conclusion of the seventh and the last phase of Lok Sabha elections, attention has now shifted to Exit polls.
Who will form the next government? Will the BJP be able to cross the 400-mark?…
The Odisha Lok Sabha exit poll results will be out on Saturday after 6 pm. There are 21 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
The main contenders this time in state are BJP, BJD, and Congress.
The data will…
Various media organisations will release the exit polls for West Bengal on Saturday. The Exit Polls will provide early indications of the Lok Sabha election outcomes in the state.
In 2019, Trinamool…
Cyclone Remal has claimed the lives of as many as 37 people in the North East with the state of Mizoram worst hit by heavy rains and thunderstorms.
Hundreds of people in the North Eastern states…
A high-ranking British delegation has abruptly cancelled its scheduled visit to New Delhi, throwing the ongoing talks on a planned free trade agreement (FTA) into uncertainty.
The delegation, set to…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday underlined the West Bengal government’s “modus operandi” by saying that they, for so many years, robbed the rights of OBCs in the state by giving minority…
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday which is May 22, 2024 struck down the OBC status of several classes in West Bengal, finding such reservations under an Act of 2012 to vacancies in services and…
The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Monday said it arrested four “terrorists” of the Islamic State from the Sardar Vallabhai Patel airport in Ahmedabad. The ATS, in a brief note, said the four…
Supreme Court affirms the procedure followed by the Gujarat High Court for promotion to the cadre of District Judge in the 65% quota from amongst the cadre of Senior Civil Judges on the basis of…
People often go to great lengths to compare and check for best interest rates before putting their hard-earned savings into a fixed deposit. To lure them, the State Bank of India, or SBI, has…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi possesses assets amounting to a little over Rs 3 crore, most of it in bank fixed deposits, according to his election affidavit. As required, Modi submitted the affidavit…
In a setback to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Haryana, three Independent MLAs declared on May 7 that they have revoked their support for the government led by Nayab Singh Saini in the…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the Calcutta High Court order invalidating the appointment of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff made by the state’s School Service Commission (SSC) in…
The son of former prime minister HD Deve Gowda, Karnataka MLA HD Revanna, has been placed under the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) custody for three days for allegedly kidnapping a woman.
Janata…
A nine-judge Supreme Court bench reserved its verdict on Wednesday on a vexed legal question that whether private properties can be considered “material resources of the community” under Article 39(b)…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has slammed the Congress party for turning Karnataka’s capital Bengaluru from a tech hub to a ’tanker hub’.
In an interview with Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul…
India on Friday described a US State Department report citing alleged incidents of human rights violations including in Manipur as “deeply biased” and said it reflects a poor understanding of India…
The Supreme Court has said it is “dangerous” to say that the private property of an individual cannot be taken over by authorities for the common good. The observation came on Wednesday (24 April) as…
In a recent hearing, the Supreme Court engaged in a significant discussion regarding the interpretation of wealth redistribution, particularly in the context of private property and its relation to…
The US State Department in its annual human rights assessment claimed that there were “significant abuses” in Manipur last year and “attacks” on minorities, journalists and dissenting voices in the…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Monday that the state government will challenge the High Court’s decision to declare the State Level Selection Test-2016 (SLST) selection…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that Christians in Kerala have become fed up with the “lies” of both the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the CPI (M)-led Left Democratic Front…
Of the 13.25 lakh voters in Nagaland, the six districts in Eastern Nagaland have over 4 lakh voters.Polling personnel in six eastern districts of Nagaland waited for nine hours in booths during Lok…
The present state of the environment requires us to introspect and think about what has gone wrong. I believe everyone is aware of this situation and the need to introspect but fails to understand the…
Ram Navami celebrations in West Bengal bring back harsh memories of violence that the state has witnessed in the past couple of years. In an attempt to avert the possibility of communal tension,…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the abolition of the electoral bonds scheme has pushed the country towards black money and everyone will come to regret it with time.
In February, the…
At least 12 people were killed and 14 injured — all employees of a private firm — as a bus they were on fell into a ‘murum’ soil mine pit in Chhattisgarh’s Durg district on Tuesday night, officials…
Lok Sabha elections 2024 in the Theni constituency will take place this year in the first phase. The dates for the voting and results of the Theni Lok Sabha election were released by EC on 16th March….
The controversy surrounding the Electoral Bonds, the conduct of SBI and the Election commission of India since past 2 months has been at its peak. Therefore, it is important to evaluate the various…
Any external imputation ‘completely unacceptable’: India after US remarks on Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s arrestMinistry of External Affairs called the remarks by US State Department on the arrest o…
India strongly objected on Wednesday to US remarks about its “internal affairs” after the arrest of Delhi’s chief minister, a government rival, and the freezing of opposition Congress party bank…
Chennai South Lok Sabha Election 2024: The Chennai South constituency will host Lok Sabha elections this year. Tamil Nadu will go to polls on April 19 in a single phase of polling. Chennai South is…
The Shiv Sena (UBT)’s first list of candidates in Maharashtra for the ensuing Lok Sabha elections will be formally declared on March 26, party leader Sanjay Raut said on Monday. The list of the Uddhav…
The Karnataka High Court has reversed a previous decision and allowed the state government to proceed with board exams for Classes 5, 8, and 9. They’ve instructed the government to resume exams from…
Strongly deploring China’s claims on the state of Arunachal Pradesh, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar stressed on Saturday that the north-eastern state is part of India. While referring to…