Modi cabinet: Shah may get Finance, Rajnath MHA, Jaishankar MEA

New Delhi (IANS) Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his 57-member council of ministers were sworn in by President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday, it is learnt that several of the top ministers have been given the following portfolios:

*PM…

Khunti MP Arjun Munda inducted in Modi Cabinet

Ranchi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath for the second time and Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda was also inducted as 13 th cabinet rank minister in the Union Cabinet as part of his new team.

Mr Munda had received the phone…

Modi takes oath as Prime Minister

New Delhi (IANS) Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi, who led the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to a spectacular victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, on Thursday took oath as the Prime Minister.

President Ram Nath…

Two LeT militants killed in Sopore

Srinagar (IANS) Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants were killed on Thursday in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district.

Police sources said the killings took place in Dangarpora village in Sopore area.

Woman CoBRA commando from Bastar sets example

New Delhi (IANS) Usha Kiran, the youngest female CRPF officer to become a part of Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) and currently serving in the volatile Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, straddles both worlds of rough and refined.

Broad contours of Modi cabinet's 'big four' emerging

New Delhi (IANS) On a day of fast-paced developments with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party President Amit Shah confabulating, the contours of the big four or members of the Cabinet Committee on Security are emerging. This comes with the caveat…

Developing nations need focus on water research: UN

New Delhi (IANS) Post-secondary education and research aimed at tackling the global water crisis is concentrated in wealthy countries rather than the poorer, developing places where it is most needed, the UN University said.

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Landmines, weapons recovered in Palamau

Ranchi (IANS) The Jharkhand Police, in a joint operation with the CRPF, recovered nine weapons and 13 landmines from Palamau district on Wednesday, an official said.

According to the police, a joint search operation of the state police…

J.P. Nadda to succeed Amit Shah as BJP President

New Delhi (IANS) With BJP organisational architect Amit Shah set to join the Cabinet, the decks are being cleared for the baton to be handed over to Health Minister J.P. Nadda as the new President.

Nadda is expected to work closely with Shah…

Don't include me in cabinet, Jaitley tells Modi

New Delhi (IANS) Former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to include him in the new cabinet, citing health issues.

"I am writing to you formally to request you that I should be allowed a…