Giving a clear message that controversy is no substitute for good work, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday removed his one-time handpicked high-profile Smriti Irani from the crucial Human Resource Development Ministry and gave her the responsibility of the low-profile Textiles Ministry....
Induction of two Patel community leaders -- Parshottam Rupala and Mansukh Mandaviya from Gujarat's Saurashtra region -- into the Union Cabinet on Tuesday is seen as an effort to placate the affluent community ahead of the December 2017 state assembly polls....
Irani has been made Textiles Minister, replacing incumbent Santosh Gangwar who will be now be Minister of State for Finance. Former bureaucrat Arjun Meghwal, who was inducted in Tuesday's expansion, has also been made Minister of State in this crucial ministry, headed by Arun Jaitley....
In a major rejig of the Narendra Modi government following the expansion on Tuesday, Smriti Irani was replaced as Human Resource Minister by Prakash Javadekar, while Ravi Shankar Prasad was divested of Communications but given Law and Venkaiah Naidu additional charge of the I&B Ministry....
In a bid to boost its prospects ahead of the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the Congress is likely to appoint former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit as the state unit chief, a party source said on Tuesday....
In a major rejig of the Narendra Modi government following the expansion on Tuesday, Smriti Irani was replaced as Human Resource Minister by Prakash Javadekar, while Ravi Shankar Prasad was divested of Communications but given Law and Venkaiah Naidu additional charge of the I&B Ministry....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday virtually drew out the Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral plan for Uttar Pradesh by inducting three new faces from the state in his council of ministers while dropping one....
Of the five Union Ministers of State dropped by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his reshuffle on Tuesday, at least two -- Ram Shankar Katheria and Mohanbhai Kundaria -- seemed to have reconciled to their fate and reposed trust in the party leadership....
Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi, 64, who took oath as Union Minister of State in New Delhi on Tuesday, is a five-time BJP lawmaker from Bijapur Lok Sabha constituency in north Karnataka....
Born on March 1, 1948, he started his career as a teacher in a college and went on to become the chairman of the Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) before joining politics post-retirement....
