The BJP legislature party on Tuesday chose Basavaraj Bommai, the 61-year old leader and home minister in the outgoing cabinet, as the new chief minister. Outgoing chief minister BS Yediyurappa proposed Bommai’s name, and the BJP MLAs endorsed the choice by a round of applause. Bommai will take oath of office as chief minister at … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a Union Cabinet meet on Wednesday, its first physical meeting in over a year. The Union Cabinet will meet at 11 am on Wednesday. Sources said the last Cabinet meeting held physically was in the first week of April last year, when the coronavirus pandemic struck the country. The … Read more
Of the 78 ministers in the Cabinet, 42 per cent have declared criminal cases against them with four having cases related to attempt to murder, according to a report by poll rights group ADR. As many as 15 new cabinet ministers and 28 ministers of state were sworn in on Wednesday, taking the strength of … Read more
The govt has targeted accelerating health system preparedness and respond immediately to early prevention, detection, and management. (Picture courtesy: IE) The Union Cabinet has approved Rs 23,123 crore under Phase II of the government’s Covid-19 Emergency Response & Health System Preparedness Package amid the pandemic’s second wave. Of the total amount, states will bear Rs … Read more
Azad Samaj Party chief Chandrashekhar Azad here on Thursday said his outfit will contest on all 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls next year. Employment to the youth, checking crime, women empowerment, food security, health and right to education will be the issues that will be raised by his party, he said during a … Read more
Pashupati Kumar Paras of Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) took oath as Union Minister in the expansion and reshuffle of Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s Cabinet on Wednesday. Earlier this month, Paras, the younger brother of LJP founder Ram Vilas Paswan, was recognized as the leader of LJP in Lok Sabha in place of Chirag Paswan after … Read more
The long-anticipated reshuffle and expansion of the Union Cabinet is expected to take place on July 7. There are speculations of several senior leaders like former Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Jyotiraditya Scindia, RCP Singh to be accommodated in the Cabinet. Recently, Uttarakhand former CM Trivendra Singh Rawat met the PM as well. In 2019, … Read more
With less than a year for the assembly elections, the BJP has got the ground moving in UP with state BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh and state BJP general secretary (organisation) Sunil Bansal meeting party workers and taking stock of the situation, even as Covid cases are coming down. And, after a long time, the … Read more
DMK president M K Stalin’s Cabinet, including him, would be 34-member strong and he has retained senior leaders like Duraimurugan and over a dozen shall be ministers for the first time. Chief Minister-designate Stalin’s list of persons to be appointed as ministers along with their portfolios has been approved by Governor Banwarilal Purohit, a Raj … Read more
Mamata Banerjee’s new cabinet in West Bengal is likely to have several new faces including young MLAs, women and from the SC, ST and minority communities. The final decision on the new cabinet will be taken by Mamata Banerjee, after she takes oath on Wednesday as the chief minister for the third consecutive time. The … Read more