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National Democratic Alliance's second term in office on Thursday saw eastern Uttar Pradesh bagging the lion's share of the ministerial berths with Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself leading the pack.Modi won from Varanasi while Rajnath Singh, a senior minister who joined the prime minister's...
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Hours after it assumed office, the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday decided to cancel all projects sanctioned prior to April 1, 2019 by the previous N Chandrababu Naidu government but work on which was yet to take-off.Setting pro-poor with zero tolerance for...
22:02
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lost her cool on Thursday when a group of men shouted 'Jai Shri Ram' as her motorcade was passing through the troubled Bhatpara area of North 24 Parganas district.The Trinamool Congress supremo was on her way to Naihati to participate in a sit-in against...
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A total of 58 ministers are in the new cabinet. The Council comprises of 25 Cabinet Ministers, 9 Minister of State (Independent Charge) and 24 Minister of State(MoS). State wise allotment in the cabinet shows that there are 9 ministers from UP, 8 from Maharashtra, 5 from Bihar, 4 from...
21:03
Kailash Choudhary, who won from Barmer parliamentary constituency in Lok Sabha election 2019, takes the oath at the event. Debasree Chaudhuri takes oath as Union Minister after Kailash Choudhary. Debasree Chaudhuri is the West Bengal MP from Raiganj. With this, the swearing-in ceremony...
21:02
Pratap Chandra Sarangi takes oath as Union Minister. Called Odisha's Modi, Pratap Chandra Sarangi gets the loudest cheer.The newly elected Member of Parliament from Odishas Balasore seat has a humble background and lives a frugal lifestyle. Known as a firebrand speaker and a tremendous...
20:58
Reports are coming in that Maneka Gandhi will be the pro-tem or interim Speaker of the Lok Sabha instead of a minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new government. Maneka, 62, has been a minister in four governments. Maneka Gandhi will be pro-tem Speaker, which means she will...
20:56
First time minister Renuka Singh takes oath. Renuka Singh Saruta won the Sarguja seat of Chattisgarh in the Lok Sabha elections 2019.Former IAS officer Som Parkash takes oath as minister. Rameswar Teli takes oath. Teli won from Assam's Dibrugarh Lok Sabha constituency for the second...
20:50
V Muraleedharan takes oath. He will be the lone cabinet member from Kerala.
20:47
Suresh Angadi, Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre, Nityanand Rai and Rattan Lal Kataria takes oath
20:44
Anurag Thakur, three-time MP from Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh, gets his first cabinet portfolio in Narendra Modis second government. The 44-year-old son of former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, Thakur beat Congresss Ram Lal Thakur with a margin of over 3.8 lakh votes.While campaigning in...
20:40
Ramdas Bandu Athawale, former minister for social justice and empowerment in the previous Narendra Modi cabinet, is sworn into Modi's team. Athawale represents Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha and is the president of Republican Party of India. Athawale, a popular face of the Dalit community, had...
20:30
Krishan Pal Gurjar, Dadarao Patil, G Kishan Reddy and Parshottam Rupala are added to Modi Team 2.0. For those who want to know, another 15-odd MPs are yet to be sworn in.
20:26
A four-star general and former Union minister, VK Singh has joined the Modi cabinet and was sworn-in at a star-studded ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan. Singh was earlier the Minister of State for External Affairs and briefly served as the MoS (Independent Charge) for Development of the...
20:23
Faggan Singh Kulaste, Ashwini Choubey, Arjun Ram Meghwal are sworn in at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
20:21
Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor is at Rashtrapati Bhavan for the Modi swearing-in ceremony. The Congress leader seems to have taken up photography during the event. He posted this image and tweeted, The magnificent forecourt of @rashtrapatibhvn is a splendid...
20:16
The official website of BJP's Delhi unit was hacked while the party's new government was being sworn in at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The hackers posted pictures of beef on website of the party's Delhi unit.The navigation bar on homepage of the website was replaced with the word beef.We have...
20:14
Prahlad Singh Patel, RK Singh, Hardeep Singh Puri and Mansukh Mandaviya take the oath of office.
20:13
>> Arun Jaitley: He has requested not to be included in government on account of his health>> Sushma Swaraj >> Suresh Prabhu: He joined the BJP in 2014 and has clearly been dropped now under pressure from Shiv Sena >> Uma Bharti >> Maneka...
20:09
Former Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has taken oath in Narendra Modi's new cabinet. Rijiju, during the last five years, served as Union Minister of State for Home Affairs.Rijiju successfully retained Arunachal West seat in 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He defeated Congress candidate and two times...
20:06
Gurugram MP Rao Inderjit Singh took oath as minister in the new cabinet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A former shooter, Singh was Minister of State (Independent Charge) Planning, Statistics and Programme Implementation; Defence and and Chemicals and Fertilisers during the first term of Modi...
20:00
Giriraj Singh takes the oath of office. The controversial minister defeated former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar from the Begusarai constituency.Gajendra Singh Shekhawat takes oath of office. In a setback to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, his son Vaibhav Gehlot faced defeat in his maiden...
19:57
Birdseye view of the Rashtrapati Bhawan as its shimmers with light during the oath-taking ceremony of PM Narendra Modi and his Council of Ministers.
19:55
Shiv Sena's Arvind Sawant takes the oath of office. Sawant defeated Murli Deora from the Mumbai South constituency. He will replace Anant Geete, the lone Sena minister in the previous Narendra Modi-led government, who lost from the Raigad Lok Sabha seat in last month's election.Sawant, 68,...
19:48
Piyush Goyal is being sworn-in on as part of the brand new cabinet of the Narendra Modi government. Goyal has held several portfolios in the Narendra Modi government. He is the current minister of Railways and was also appointed the interim finance minister and presented the 2019...
19:40
Smriti Irani takes oath as a cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi government. Irani, in the last five years, was given the plum post of human resource development minister and later served as the minister for information and broadcasting. In the Lok Sabha elections, the 43-year-old...
19:39
Prakash Javadekar, Dr Harsh Vardhan take the oath of office. Both of them served in Modi's Cabinet earlier too.
19:33
Arjun Munda takes oath at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
19:33
Former Union Cabinet minister of Food Processing and Member of Parliament from Bathinda Harsimrat Kaur Badal has taken the oath to join the new cabinet. The two-time parliamentarian is part of a family that traces its lineage back to 18th-century royalty. During her campaign, she raised the 1984...
19:31
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, the former foreign secretary, takes oath as a Cabinet minister. He is the first technocrat to be sworn in today. Jaishankar -- the country's foreign secretary from January 2015 to January 2018 - had helped resolve the incursion in Ladakh's Depsang and the Doklam...
19:27
Ram Vilas Paswan takes the oath as Cabinet minister. The Lok Janshakti Party chief is the first ally of the BJP to be sworn in at the grand event being held at Rashtrapati Bhavan. For those who don't remember, Paswan did not contest the elections this year.
19:26
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother Heeraben in Ahmedabad cheers as she watches him take his oath for a second term to the highest office of India.
19:24
Ravi Shankar Prasad takes the oath as Cabinet minister. Prasad defeated Shatrughan Sinha from the Patna Sahib constituency in Bihar.
19:18
Nirmala Sitharaman takes the oath of office in English, the second one to do so. She is the first Rajya Sabha member to be sworn in today.
19:15
D V Sadananda Gowda is the first in Modi's team to take the oath of office in English, as of now. Before Gowda, Modi, Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah and Nitin Gadkari took the oath of office -- in Hindi.
19:13
Nitin Gadkari follows Amit Shah to take the oath of office.
19:13
Amit Shah, the BJP president, takes the oath of office after Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh. Amit Shah contested the Lok Sabha elections for the first time this election from Gandhinagar and won with a huge margin.Following his win, Amit Shah on Wednesday resigned from Rajya Sabha.
19:08
Rajnath Singh takes the oath of office after Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Singh contested the elections from Lucknow and defeated Samajwadi Party's Poonam Sinha.
19:07
Narendra Modi is the first to take the oath of office. Modi will be the 16th PM of India. Modi is taking the oath of office in Hindi.Cheers and a thunderous applause breaks out after Modi takes the oath of office.A record number of 8,000 guests are attending PM Modi's swearing-in...
19:02
It's almost here. Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at Rashtrapati Bhavan and will be sworn in with his team shortly. Ahead of taking oath at Rashtrapati Bhavan today, Narendra Modi changed his Twitter profile photo, and in the description added Prime Minister of India.Earlier in the...
18:55
Bollywood director and producer Karan Johar is also one of the invitees to the oath-taking ceremony of PM Narendra Modi.
18:50
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday urged the people of the country to raise their voice against the torture of BJP and accused the saffron party of trying to create a divide between Bengalis and non-Bengalis in the state. The BJP is trying to create a Bengali,...
18:45
Congress president Rahul Gandhi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi arrive at Rashtrapati Bhavan to attend PM Modi swearing-in ceremony.
18:37
PM Narendra Modi's new cabinet takes shape as elected MP's from the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha sit in front at the Rashtrapati Bhawan Forecourt for the oath-taking.
18:28
Giant slayer Smriti Irani, who defeated Rahul Gandhi in Amethi, arrives for oath-taking ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.She will be part of PM Modi's cabinet, say sources.
18:18
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has announced that the Janata Dal-United will not be a part of PM Narendra Modi's government. The JD-U chief says that his party will remain to be a part of the National Democratic Alliance and will be working together with the BJP. Nitish Kumar's party...
18:11
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his Andhra Pradesh counterpart Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, who took oath of office earlier in the day, will not attend Narendra Modi's swearing-in as prime minister on Thursday as permission was denied for landing their special aircraft in...
17:58
A visual from outside Rashtrapati Bhavan ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony.
17:35
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday met NCP leader Sharad Pawar at the latter's residence and is learnt to have discussed the current political situation with him. Gandhi, who has been insisting on resigning as Congress chief after the Lok Sabha polls debacle, drove to Pawar's...
17:26
Former Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar has received a call to join the new cabinet of Narendra Modi. Jaishankar is also the former Ambassador of India to the US and China. The BJP has refrained from making any official comment about the likely members of the government, with its leaders...
17:14
Ashok, a resident of Muzaffarpur, Bihar, is selling tea in Delhi to show his support for PM Modi.I sell tea in Muzaffarpur. I try to visit & sell tea wherever PM Modi holds a public meeting at. I will be selling tea until the ceremony, I will go back once it is over, Ashok told ANI.
16:59
Three newly elected MPs from Karnataka will be taking oath as members of Union Council of Ministers, along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday evening.They are D V Sadananda Gowda, who was a member of the Modi Cabinet earlier, Pralhad Joshi, a four-time MP from Dharwad and Suresh...
16:45
If Jitu Vaghani, the Gujarat BJP chief, is to be believed, then the party president Amit Shah will be part of the new Cabinet of PM Narendra Modi. Jitu Vaghani, president of BJP's Gujarat unit took to Twitter to congratulate Narendra Modi and Amit Shah for forming a new cabinet. Shah's...
16:33
Deboshree Choudhury, the surprise winner from Bengal's Raiganj, will have to take oath in Bengali, BJP chief Amit Shah has said. The 48-year-old secretary of the party's state unit got the call from the party this morning, informing her of the inclusion in the government of Prime Minister...
16:26
Mumbai Police crime branch will now probe the alleged suicide committed by doctor Payal Tadvi after some of her senior colleagues passed casteist slurs at her at a state-run hospital here, an official said Thursday.Considering the seriousness and importance of the case, the investigation has been...
16:17
BIMSTEC leaders, including SriLankan President Maithripala Sirisena and Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering arrived here on Thursday to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony. Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid arrived in the national capital last night to participate...
16:13
A United Kingdom court on Thursday extended till June 27 the remand of fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi, who is fighting his extradition to India in the nearly USD 2 billion Punjab National Bank fraud and money laundering case.The 48-year-old has been lodged at Wandsworth prison in south-west...
15:48
As the new Union Council of Ministers is set to be sworn in today evening, several BJP leaders have confirmed that they have received calls from BJP chief Amit Shah and Prime Minister's Office urging them to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his official residence, 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, and be...
14:57
The Uttarakhand BJP has kept a copy of the Quran at the party library in Dehradun to help its cadre learn about the holy book, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi underlined the need to reach out to the minorities. Bharatiya Janata Party state media head Devendra Bhasin claimed that...
14:23
BJP leaders Nitin Gadkari, DV Sadananda Gowda, Dharmendra Pradhan, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Giriraj Singh, Babul Supriyo and Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal will be sworn-in as ministers in the second government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi this evening. Gadkari held...
13:48
Funds under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi could not be transferred to 1.5 lakh farmers in Uttar Pradesh due to data mismatch and they will soon receive funds after the problem is rectified, UP agriculture minister Surya Pratap Shahi said on Thursday. Terming the scheme as a game...
13:09
Ministers selected for oath of office will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence at 4.30 on Thursday, shortly before the swearing-in ceremony, sources said.Earlier in the morning, the prime minister held a final round of consultations with BJP president Amit Shah to give shape to his...
13:00
Pakistan has further extended the closure of its airspace along its eastern border with India until June 15, according to the country's civil aviation authority. Pakistan fully closed its airspace in February after an Indian Air Force strike on a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror camp in...
12:55
Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress chief Yeduguri Sandinti Jaganmohan Reddy sworn-in as the second chief minister of Andhra Pradesh post its bifurcation. Reddy took the oath in Telugu at 12.23 pm amid thunderous cheers by scores of party leaders and workers in a brief ceremony at the IGMC...
12:53
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar will make his debut as an on-air expert in the ICC ODI World Cup, starting today in the United Kingdom. The Master Blaster will take his place in the commentary box ahead of the tournament opener between hosts England and South Africa. Tendulkar joins an...
12:48
Veteran Bollywood actor Tanuja has undergone operation for diverticulitis and is doing fine, says a source from the hospital. Tanuja, 75, was admitted to city-based Lilavati Hospital on Wednesday. An insider told PTI that she would remain hospitalised for at least a...
12:34
The Supreme Court on Thursday said that 10 per cent EWS quota cannot be applied to PG medical courses in Maharashtra for the academic year 2019-20 as admission process started long before the provision came into force. A vacation bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Aniruddha Bose...
11:52
Hours before the oath ceremony today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah are currently meeting at former's residence.Modi and Shah held marathon meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday during which they are learnt to have finalised the broad contours the new...
11:25
Robert Vadra, the brother-in-law of Congress President Rahul Gandhi, on Thursday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case linked to purchase of alleged illegal assets abroad, officials said. Vadra was dropped by his wife and Congress leader...
11:16
A multi-layered security arrangement is in place in New Delhi on Thursday, with deployment of around 10,000 security personnel from Delhi Police and paramilitary forces on account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony which will attended by foreign dignitaries and chief ministers...
11:04
A Delhi court on Thursday extended till August 1 the interim protection from arrest granted to former Union Minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti in the Aircel-Maxis cases by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate. Special Judge O P Saini extended the...
10:46
Mizoram chief minister Zoramthanga will not attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Thursday, an official at the chief minister's office said. Zoramthanga, who is also the president of the ruling Mizo National Front, will not be present at the oath-taking...
10:30
B-town celebrities Vivek Oberoi and Boman Irani arrived in the national capital to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday.Oberoi referred to Modi's oath-taking day as a big day for the whole country.Irani said, Congratulations to the BJP, we hope that they...
10:24
Arvind Sawant, Shiv Sena MP from Mumbai South, will be sworn in as Union minister Thursday, a senior party leader said.He will replace Anant Geete, the lone Sena minister in the previous Narendra Modi-led government, who lost from the Raigad Lok Sabha seat in last month's election, the leader...
09:35
The Congress has decided not to send spokespersons for television debates for a month. The move comes after the party's debacle in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls.The Congress has often accused the media of being biased towards the Modi dispensation.@INCIndia has decided to not...
08:41
PM Modi also paid his respects at the memorial of late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Sadaiv Atal Samadhi, the lotus-shaped monument dedicated to Vajpayee -- who led India between 1996 and 2004 -- was inaugurated last December, a few months after his death on August 16. Top BJP...
08:38
Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat in New Delhi.
08:27
Ahead of his swearing-in ceremony, Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi visited the National War Memorial in Delhi.Army Chief General Bipin Rawat, Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba and Vice Chief of Air Force Air Marshal RKS Bhadauria were also present at the memorial. Modi will take...
00:15
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the Maldivian Parliament during his likely visit to the key Indian Ocean country next month, according to a media report here on Wednesday.People's Majlis (the Maldive's Parliament) on Wednesday passed a unanimous resolution to allow Modi to address the...
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