Cabinet reshuffle will not divert attention from Centre’s bad policies, says Mayawati

The CPI(ML), meanwhile, said that changing bogies was of no use when the government’s engine had failed.

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· Jul 08, 2021 · 06:25 pm

What message is Modi sending by dropping 20% of ministers midway through his second term?

If all that changes are the faces, and not the principles or the priorities, does anyone realistically expect the reshuffle to alter governance or perceptions?

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Jul 08, 2021 · 11:35 am

Bihar: Chirag Paswan moves Delhi HC against decision to recognise Pashupati Paras as LJP leader

Paras was inducted into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet on Wednesday evening as the Union minister of food processing industries.

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· Jul 08, 2021 · 11:22 am

Cabinet reshuffle: Mansukh Mandaviya is new health minister. Here’s the full list of who got what

Jyotiraditya Scindia has been given civil aviation portfolio, while Ashwini Vaishnaw will now handle two ministries – railways and information and technology.

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· Jul 07, 2021 · 11:17 pm

Cabinet rejig: Union ministers Harsh Vardhan, RS Prasad, Prakash Javadekar among high-profile exits

Twelve ministers resigned on Wednesday ahead of the Cabinet reshuffle, a first in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second term.

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· Jul 07, 2021 · 08:16 pm

Cabinet reshuffle: Kiren Rijiju is new law minister, Jyotiraditya Scindia gets aviation ministry

This is the first such rearrangement in the Council of Ministers since Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed charge for a second term in May 2019.

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· Jul 07, 2021 · 03:14 pm

By getting his way in Cabinet revamp, Shivraj Chouhan shows he’s still in Modi and Shah’s good books

The Madhya Pradesh chief minister, unlike his counterparts in other states, managed to keep his rivals out and get his nominee in.

Anita Katyal

· Sep 06, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Ex-bureaucrats sworn in: Does this reveal BJP’s talent deficit and Modi-Shah distrust of colleagues?

Of the four former administrators picked in Sunday’s reshuffle, two are first-time MPs while two are not parliamentarians.

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· Sep 04, 2017 · 07:30 am

A JNU free thinker in the Defence Ministry: Looking back at Nirmala Sitharaman’s career

The former business consultant, who was the surprise pick on Sunday, is not exactly a typical member of Modi’s Cabinet.

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· Sep 03, 2017 · 09:00 pm

‘Big message on women’s status in India’: Nirmala Sitharaman on her appointment as defence minister

The 58-year-old Rajya Sabha MP is only the second woman to take charge of the Defence Ministry after Indira Gandhi.

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· Sep 03, 2017 · 06:56 pm

Cabinet reshuffle: The ministers who were dropped and those who got new portfolios

Nirmala Sitharaman, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Dharmendra Pradhan for promoted to Cabinet positions.

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· Sep 03, 2017 · 05:52 pm

Cabinet reshuffle: A look at the nine new ministers who were sworn in today

They include members of parliamentary standing committees as well as former IAS, IFS and IPS officers.

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· Sep 03, 2017 · 04:32 pm