Friday, May 31st, 2019
Smriti Irani gets Women and Child Development and Textiles in Modi 2.0
Smriti Irani, who rose quickly in the Bharatiya Janata Party and served as Human Resource Development and Information and Broadcasting Minister in Narendra Modi’s first term, will now handle the Women and Child Development and Textiles portfolios in his second cabinet. The Amethi win After losing to Rahul Gandhi in 2014, Irani kept working in Amethi for five years, and it paid off when she defeated the Congress president on his home ground in 2019. Even in her 2014 defeat, the 43-year-old former television actor had cut Gandhi’s winning marginRead More
Modi cabinet portfolios: Shah gets Home, Rajnath Defence, Sitharaman Finance
Amit Shah has been given the Home Ministry, Rajnath Singh Defence and Nirmala Sitharaman Finance, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique issued on Friday, a day after a 57-member council of ministers took the oath along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Former foreign secretary S. Jaishankar takes over External Affairs from Sushma Swaraj, who was not included in the cabinet, while Piyush Goyal will run Commerce in addition to Railways. Prime Minister Narendra Modi keeps Atomic Energy, Space, and Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, along with all key policy mattersRead More
Modi 2.0 cabinet: old and new faces sworn in, portfolios to be announced
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new team has 58 members: Modi himself, 24 cabinet ministers, nine ministers of state with independent charge and 24 ministers of state. The first meeting of the new Union Cabinet was set for 5:30 pm on Friday, an official said, with portfolios still to be announced. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath at a ceremony attended by leaders and representatives of BIMSTEC countries, as well as the Prime Minister of Mauritius and the President of Kyrgyzstan. The cabinet ministers Rajnath Singh: Home Minister in Modi’sRead More