Jyotiraditya Scindia to Mansukh Mandaviya: Modi 3.0 ministers who had portfolios changed

Jyotiraditya Scindia to Mansukh Mandaviya: Modi 3.0 ministers who had portfolios changed

Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new Council of Ministers reflects continuity from the previous government, a few ministers’ portfolios have been changed. Jyotiraditya Scindia is a key figure among the Union Ministers whose portfolio has been reallocated. Scindia, the former Civil Aviation Minister, has been given the charge of the Ministry of Communications and the … Read more

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju to represent India at Maldives President’s oath-taking ceremony

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju to represent India at Maldives President’s oath-taking ceremony

Union Minister of Earth Sciences Kiren Rijiju. | Photo Credit: G N RAO Union Minister of Earth Sciences Kiren Rijiju will represent India at the oath-taking ceremony of Maldivian President-elect Mohamed Muizzu. Mr. Rijiju will be on a two-day official visit to the island nation from November 16 at the invitation of the President-elect of the Maldives, Dr. Mohamed … Read more

No bridge, no vote, threatens people of three ‘cut-off’ villages in Arunachal Pradesh

No bridge, no vote, threatens people of three ‘cut-off’ villages in Arunachal Pradesh

Tumke Bagra. File | Photo Credit: Twitter/@BagraTumke People of three villages in West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh have threatened to boycott the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections due next year, if the government fails to construct a permanent bridge over a river, a key demand of them since 2014. The villages — Rime Moko, … Read more

India to have its first polar research vessel in five years: Union minister Rijiju

India to have its first polar research vessel in five years: Union minister Rijiju

Union Minister of Earth Sciences Kiren Rijiju speaks in the Rajya Sabha during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi on Thursday. | Photo Credit: ANI India aims to have its first Polar Research Vessel (PRV) in the next five years in order to sustain its bases in Antarctica, Union Earth Sciences Minister Kiren … Read more

EC’s proposal on allowing e-postal ballot for overseas Indian voters under discussion: Law Minister tells Rajya Sabha 

EC’s proposal on allowing e-postal ballot for overseas Indian voters under discussion: Law Minister tells Rajya Sabha 

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju addresses a press conference at his residence in New Delhi on March 16, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI The Election Commission of India (EC) has proposed to change the rules pertaining to the conduct of elections to facilitate the electronically-transmitted postal ballot system for overseas Indian voters and the matter is … Read more

Aspersions should not be cast on appointment of Victoria Gowri as High Court judge: Government

Aspersions should not be cast on appointment of Victoria Gowri as High Court judge: Government

Union Minister for Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju speaks in the Rajya Sabha during Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, on February 9, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Differences of opinion are a part of democracy and there are ways to find solutions to that, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said on February 9 in … Read more

U.K. govt. defends BBC’s independence, ties with India

U.K. govt. defends BBC’s independence, ties with India

U.K. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly. File photo | Photo Credit: AP The U.K. government on Wednesday, February 1, 2023, defended the independence of the BBC, and the relationship the U.K. had with India, after supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Modi government in India and the U.K. raised strong objections to a BBC … Read more

As the debate NJAC is revived by the government in 2022, political fault lines have deepened

As the debate NJAC is revived by the government in 2022, political fault lines have deepened

While the top court pointed that the Collegium system is the ‘law of the land,’ Law Minister Kiren Rijiju informed the Parliament there was a need for a new system of appointments regarding NJAC. | Photo Credit: Reuters A record appointment of 165 judges to High Courts in a single calendar year is one the … Read more

Rijiju takes swipes at Rahul Gandhi’s ‘two India’s’ remark; says he thinks he’s ‘king of India’

Rijiju takes swipes at Rahul Gandhi’s ‘two India’s’ remark; says he thinks he’s ‘king of India’

Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday hit back at the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remark of “idea of the king has come back” in Lok Sabha and said that he thinks he is the “king of India“. The Congress leader on Wednesday had accused the Centre of having a “flawed vision” and … Read more

Congress leaders should recall Antony’s statement on border issue during UPA rule: Kiren Rijiju

Congress leaders should recall Antony’s statement on border issue during UPA rule: Kiren Rijiju

Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday hit out at Rahul Gandhi for his remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying before making any statement on the China border issue, Congress leaders should listen to what the then defence minister A K Antony had said on the subject during UPA rule. Responding to a tweet by … Read more