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Topic: Minister of State

Modi to skip Gaza peace summit hosted by Trump, Sisi. MoS Kirti Vardhan to represent India

Modi had received a last-minute invite to the event. The meet will see signing of the first phase of Israel-Hamas ceasefire, potentially ending the two-year war.

India’s Minister of State for External Affairs to Visit Zambia

New Delhi: Kirti Vardhan Singh, India’s Minister of State for External Affairs and Environment, Forest and Climate Change, will embark on an official visit...

Why 6-time MP Rao Inderjit Singh’s supporters aren’t celebrating his induction as MoS in Modi 3.0

Singh, 74, won from Gurgaon for the 4th consecutive time this election. He was elected as MLA from Jatusana in 1977, 1982, 1991 & 2000, and was a Haryana minister from 1991 to 1996.

Shinde-led Shiv Sena MP Shrirang Barne alleges ‘double standards’ after party gets just one MoS berth

He told media that Shiv Sena was expecting one cabinet berth & one MoS berth, but party leader in Lok Sabha Shrikant Shinde said it was unconditionally supporting BJP-led NDA govt.

Eye on upcoming Bengal assembly bypolls, why BJP retained Shantanu Thakur in Modi 3.0

Bongaon MP Thakur, an influential leader of the Matua community, is now one of only two representatives from Bengal in Modi’s new Council of Ministers, the other being Sukanta Majumdar.

‘Suspicious prosecution plot’: Court order acquitting Union MoS Baghel in Sec 144 violation case

Pointing to inconsistencies in witnesses’ statements, all the witnesses being police personnel & lack of video evidence, Agra court acquits SP Singh Baghel in 7-year-old case.

Yogi 2.0 cabinet is younger than its predecessor, average age has dipped from 55 to 53 years

In the 52-member cabinet, the youngest minister is 30-year-old Sandeep Singh. Among the eldest is Dr Arun Kumar Saxena, a 70-year-old doctor who won from Bareilly for the third time.

Centre urges people to follow rules as coronavirus spreads to families of foreign returnees

MoS for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy said out of 15.24 lakh screened at airports, 69,436 have been home quarantined and treated by medical, paramedical officers.

All you need to know about the new ‘minister babas’ of Madhya Pradesh

One of them is a tech-savvy seer and another a former model who travels in SUVs. But all of them have been vocal about saving Narmada.

Computer Baba, Bhaiyyu Maharaj among 5 religious leaders made Ministers of State in MP

The 'saints' were allegedly accorded the MoS status to make their work on environment and river conservation easy. 

On Camera

Russia’s super-missile test shows a new, expensive technological race—with dire outcomes

The test raises a question. Why have Russian nuclear strategists now invested in the Burevestnik, when the US abandoned nuclear ramjet propulsion in 1964?

Karnataka, Telangana, TN, Maharashtra power 40% of services output, pan-India growth uneven—NITI Aayog

Report on India's services sector examines state-level dynamics, maps disparities and suggests ways to tap into the sector’s potential.

India pulled out of Tajikistan’s strategically important Ayni air base in 2022. Here’s why

Tajikistan did not want to extend the lease because of apparent pressure from Russia & China over non-regional military personnel at the air base, it is learnt.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.