Politics

The suspense now is over who will be the leader of the party in Parliament. As the leader of the CPP, Sonia has the authority to appoint leaders in both the houses.

With Jet Airways suspending its operations due to lack of funds, Hardeep Singh Puri would have to take care of higher airfares, which resulted due to 'low capacity-high demand' scenario.

While 16 ministers in the new cabinet have against them serious criminal cases, including charges of attempt to murder, causing communal disharmony and electoral violations, 11 ministers had such charges against them in the previous cabinet.

A Rajya Sabha MP. Muraleedharan has been a full-time member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and has also been active in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in his home town, Kozhikode.

The only BJP MP from Delhi to get a representation in the Narendra Modi-led second NDA government, Harsh Vardhan is also a key face for the party ahead of the Assembly election in the capital next year.

Pitted against the Samajwadi Party (SP)’s Sanjay Chauhan, Pandey won from the Chandauli Lok Sabha seat in eastern UP by a slender margin of about 14,000 votes.

Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank, who has replaced Prakash Javdekar as HRD minister, had a short stint as the chief minister of Uttarakhand.

The two leaders held deliberations on diversifying cooperation for the mutual benefit of citizens of both the nations, the Prime Minister's Office said.

Parshottam Rupala served in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly for three consecutive terms till 2002, when he was handling the state ministries of water resources and water supply followed by agriculture

His major engagement in Parliament has been on issues like empowering the police force against terrorism, promoting regional languages in court proceedings, banning post-retirement jobs for judges and rehabilitation of mentally retarded persons among othe...

RCP Singh was the lone JD(U) MP offered a place in the Narendra Modi cabinet.

Gandhi, who has been insisting on resigning as Congress chief after the Lok Sabha polls debacle, drove to Pawar's residence and spent nearly an hour with him where it is learnt that the NCP chief also told him to continue as party chief.

Along with Patnaik, 11 ministers of Cabinet rank and nine of state rank took oath of office and secrecy at the swearing-in ceremony held in the open for the first time in Odisha’s history.

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa had dissented on a series of clean chits given by the EC to Prime Minister Modi and BJP president Shah concerning their speeches during the election campaign.

Hitting out at the ruling alliance for creating an 'atmosphere of confusion, the former chief minister asked them to perform or resign and go home'.

Even as caste-based voting took a back-seat over nationalism in the Lok Sabha election, Maharashtra witnessed a reverse trend. The newly formed VBA got about 41 lakh votes, which is about 14% of the total votes polled in the state.