Politics

Jaishankar was the bureaucrat who helped shape Modi's foreign policy, which has been one of the key areas of interests for the prime minister.

The committee has the last call when it comes to appointments in the national security spectrum, defence policy and expenditure.

Jaishankar was the foreign secretary from January 2015 to January 2018 and has previously held positions like the high commissioner to Singapore, and ambassador to China and the United States of America.

Harsimrat Kaur won the Lok Sabha elections by an impressive margin, defeating Amrinder Singh Raja Warring of the Congress by a margin of 21,772 votes.

Before becoming a member of the top policy-making body of BJP (National Executive) in 1995, he successfully handled many responsibilities in the student, youth wings and main party organisation.

Among the surprise picks in the cabinet were BJP president Amit Shah and former foreign secretary S Jaishankar. Apart from Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Irani, DV Sadananda Gowda, Nirmala Sitharaman and Ram Vilas Paswan were also sworn-in as...

RPI leader Ramdas Athawale had earlier said that he is hopeful of getting a phone call regarding a ministerial berth.

Smriti Irani, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Prakash Javadekar, Babul Supriyo and several other names were among more than 40 BJP leaders to receive a call-up for Narendra Modi’s second cabinet.

The BJP's strategy in assembly polls will be two-fold: One, weaken the TMC and its cadre and two, clamp down on the Trinamool's myriad corruption cases.

Ending days of speculation over his role in the new government owing to his ill health, Jaitley posted on Twitter the letter he wrote to Modi requesting recusal from being a part of the new government on health grounds.

Meanwhile, Congress' Kerala president Mullapally Ramachandran Tuesday said the party will seek an explanation from Abdullakutty on his Modi praise.

BJP general secretary and its in-charge for West Bengal affairs Kailash Vijaywargiya and Mukul Roy told reporters that more MLAs from the TMC will join the saffron party in the coming days.

Kamal Nath, whose five-month-old government is surviving on a wafer-thin majority, has asked each of his Cabinet colleague to look after at least five legislators to check any desertion to the opposition camp.

Rahul Gandhi allegedly criticised Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, former Union minister P Chidambaram and Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath for placing their sons before party interests, at the CWC meeting.

According to doctors, Lalu Prasad, currently serving a 14-year sentence in Jharkhand in a multi-million-rupee fodder scam, is given insulin doses three times a day.

Amar Patnaik and chief minister Naveen Patnaik's influential private secretary V Karthikeyan Pandian played a crucial role in planning and implementing the regional party’s campaign strategy.