Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks to the media after swearing-in ceremony. Photo by REUTERS Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in along with a 57-member Council of Ministers that included his trusted lieutenant and BJP president Amit Shah and a surprise entrant, former Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar, as Cabinet ministers. Amit Shah has been made […]
Narendra Modi’s number two man, Amit Shah, is India’s new Home Minister. Zero tolerance towards terrorism and checking illegal immigration will be the focus areas for Shah, who may also take some tough actions such as implementing the NRC across the country and annulling Article 35A in Jammu and Kashmir. The BJP in its manifesto […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks to the media after swearing-in ceremony. Photo by REUTERS Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in along with a 57-member Council of Ministers that included his trusted lieutenant and BJP president Amit Shah and a surprise entrant, former Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar, as Cabinet ministers. Amit Shah has been made […]
New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday emerged from the backstage, from where he directed the BJP’s ascent to its zenith, to take centre stage as a minister in Narendra Modi’s second government.
Shah, who has been Modi’s most trusted lieutenant since the 1980s when both started their political careers in Gujarat, made […]
Two big recusals, Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj, both for reasons of health, paved the way for major changes in portfolios in Narendra Modi’s Cabinet. The irony lies in the fact that both Jaitley and Sushma were seen as potential rivals and claimants to the top job in case the BJP fell short on numbers […]
In a major surprise, Sushma Swaraj, one of the senior-most leaders of the BJP, was among seven ministers of the previous Council of Ministers to be dropped as Prime Minister Narendra Modi formed his government for the second term. The 67-year-old Swaraj who has held key positions in the party and its governments since […]
The members of the Congress ought to be grateful to Rahul Gandhi for providing them with a historic opportunity to debate the party’s fundamentals, its ideology and its established procedures and protocols. A comprehensive and successive defeat in a national poll is good enough to induce Congressmen to remind themselves that a political party is […]
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who served as the Foreign Secretary from 2015 to 2018, has been inducted into the new Narendra Modi Cabinet. He is the longest-serving foreign secretary. He also served as Indian Ambassador to the United States, China and the Czech Republic, and as High Commissioner to […]
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who served as the Foreign Secretary from 2015 to 2018, has been inducted into the new Narendra Modi Cabinet. He is the longest-serving foreign secretary. He also served as Indian Ambassador to the United States, China and the Czech Republic, and as High Commissioner to […]