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No room for Tamil Nadu & Andhra Pradesh in PM Modi’s council of 57 ministers

From Karnataka & Telangana, Modi opts for just 3 cabinet ministers and 2 ministers of state. Kerala doesn't give PM an option to choose from.

UP gets biggest slice of Modi ministries, followed by Maharashtra & Bihar

States going to assembly polls this year — Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand — got a total of 10 ministers in the Modi govt, including 4 cabinet posts.

Pratap Sarangi — the new entrant in Modi govt who stands out for his simplicity

BJP leader Pratap Sarangi continues to live in a mud and bamboo house & rides a bicycle to most places.

Modi sticks with Harsimrat Kaur Badal, picks her over husband Sukhbir

Harsimrat Kaur Badal, food processing minister in the previous Modi govt, is one of only two Akali MPs in Lok Sabha this time.

BJP leader JP Nadda likely to replace Amit Shah as BJP president

Nadda enjoys the confidence of the party's top brass and was left out of PM Modi's new council of ministers.

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is the lone Muslim face in Modi’s new govt

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi was the Minority Affairs Minister in the previous Modi government and is credited with major reforms in the Haj policy.

Many fresh faces in Modi govt as state BJP leaders get rewarded with ministerial berths

While only two state leaders — ex-Uttarakhand CM Ramesh Pokhriyal & Karnataka’s Pralhad Joshi — will be cabinet ministers, numerous others have been made MoS.

New Modi govt — Amit Shah, Jaishankar in, Sushma, Maneka & Rathore out

A total of 58 ministers, including PM Modi, took oath late Thursday evening in a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Sworn into new council of ministers, Sanjeev Balyan still under Muzaffarnagar riots shadow

The 46-year-old lawmaker has denied his involvement in the riots and has claimed that he has been booked in a false case.

Youngest cabinet minister in 2014, Smriti Irani gets a place again in second Modi govt

Smriti Irani was shifted out of the HRD Ministry to Textiles after a two-year tenure replete with controversies during PM Modi's first term.

On Camera

Support reducing for Kolkata doctors. Mamata is not the only one who has to course correct

West Bengal is ready to welcome its daughter home for Durga Puja, but the family is unable to keep the deep-rooted discord within from spilling out. At its head is Mamata Banerjee.

How Modi govt’s Atmanirbhar policy could have hobbled BSNL’s efforts to catch up in 4G race

Restrictions on use of equipment from global vendors have necessitated new indigenous technology being developed, tested & deployed—further delaying BSNL's 4G & 5G launch.

IAF chief AP Singh red-flags Tejas delay, says China ahead in technology & production capacity

Air force chief says HAL needs to churn out 24 aircraft per year. It is important for IAF to have indigenous weapons systems to deal with any security challenges, he says.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?