Tag: Cabinet Reshuffle

The meeting is expected to witness many notable issues and discussion related to key ministries like Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, now being handled by Mansukh Mandaviya, and education being taken care of by Dharmendra Pradhan.

Vaishnaw will also hold two other important portfolios of Communications and Electronics and Information Technology.

The total strength of the Council of Ministers now stands at 78, including the Prime Minister. The prime minister can have up to 81 members in his Union Council(15 per cent of the Lok Sabha strength).

Hardeep Singh Puri has got Ministries of Petroleum along with his existing portfolio of Urban Affairs while Jyotiraditya Scindia is the new Minister for Civil Aviation.

Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan got the Education, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Ministries in the new Modi cabinet. 

Following PM Modi's cabinet expansion, Rajya Sabha Member from Odisha Ashwini Vaishnaw has been named the Minister of Railways. He has also been given the charge of IT

In a major Cabinet reshuffle of the Narendra Modi government, as many as 43 leaders including two from Odisha were inducted as ministers in the PM's team on Wednesday (July 7).

Rajya Sabha MP Ashwini Vaishnav and Mayurbhanj Lok Sabha member Bishweswar Tudu are the two new faces from Odisha who have been made it to the Modi Cabinet 2.0.

New Delhi: Twitter recorded over 4,00,000 conversations during the Union Cabinet reshuffle-cum-expansion on Sunday, the micro-blogging platform announced on Monday. Top hashtags used to tweet congratulatory wishes, reactions and opinions included #cabinetreshuffle, #TeamModi, #Modi2019Cabinet and #Ministry4NewIndia, said Twitter India in a statement. “It is heartening to see citizens participating enthusiastically on the appointment of new […]

New Delhi: Union Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Kalraj Mishra has resigned ahead of Sunday’s cabinet reshuffle. Senior BJP leader Mishra, 77, said he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and gave his resignation. He claimed the Prime Minister told him that his performance in the ministry was good. “So the question of non-performance does […]

Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena today replaced his foreign minister who had averted possible international sanctions on the country over the alleged war crimes committed during the decades-long civil war with Tamil rebels. The move to switch the portfolios of foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera and finance minister Ravi Karunanayake was part of the first […]

Bhubaneswar: Political activities in the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) camp have fuelled speculations of a major Cabinet reshuffle in Odisha much ahead of the upcoming polls in the State. It is believed that the BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will effect the reorganisation in portfolio soon. The buzz in some quarters is that […]