Amit Shah Portfolio

Amid a standoff over allocation of portfolios in Maharashtra, senior NCP leaders Ajit Pawar and Praful Patel arrived here on Wednesday evening for a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and top BJP leaders.

The two-day 'Chintan Shivir' of home ministers - chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah - will not see representation from the chief ministers of two opposition-ruled states who hold the Home portfolio, NDTV has learnt.

The Shiv Sena on Monday welcomed the Centre's decision to create the cooperation ministry saying Home Minister Amit Shah, who has been given the additional charge of the new portfolio, will do a "good job" as he had been part of the cooperative movem

Arvind Kejriwal, in his third stint as Delhi Chief Minister, has again refused to take charge of any ministry. He will stay the only minister in his cabinet without a portfolio, as he has been since 2015.

Having a tightrope to walk by pacifying disgruntled MLAs who missed out on cabinet berth, coupled with allocation of portfolios to new ministers, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Thursday decided to consult BJP central leadership to deal with the situation.

Work hours at North Block, the headquarters of the home ministry in Delhi, have stretched, not because of longer days in summer but because of a "workaholic" Home Minister.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has picked his closest aide Amit Shah as Home Minister in the new government. Rajnath Singh will be Defence Minister and Nitin Gadkari will be Minister of Road Transport and Highways. Nirmala Sitharaman will be Finance Minister and Minister of Corporate Affairs

Narendra Modi was sworn in as Prime Minister for the second time after his spectacular victory in the national election in a ceremony held at the Rashrapati Bhavan in the presence of 8,000 guests including world leaders, dignitaries, politicians, celebrities and industrialists.

Ailing Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar will continue to helm the state, but there will be a reshuffle of his ministers, BJP national president Amit Shah confirmed with a tweet today. The decision to rearrange the Goa cabinet was taken after the BJP allies refused to accept a Maharashtra Gomantak Party or MGP, an ally in the state, minister as M...

A day ahead of the trust vote today, Karnataka deputy chief minister G Parameshwara said the Congress-JD(S) coalition was yet to discuss modalities about HD Kumaraswamy continuing as Chief Minister for a full five year term.

A crisis was averted in the newly-formed Gujarat government today, with BJP chief Amit Shah stepping in to address the grievances of Nitin Patel, the deputy of Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. Mr Patel had been deeply unhappy with the portfolios he was given and Hardik Patel had been sending feelers to him.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has kept the important home and revenue departments after a reported tussle with his deputies Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma.

Yogi Adityanath, the new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, is in Delhi today for meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah. On the table are big decisions on ministries. The BJP leadership may have its first UP crisis in hand with a tussle between the Chief Minister and his deputy, Keshav Prasad Maurya, over the important ho...

While we can speculate - and perhaps correctly guess - the reasons for some ministers losing certain portfolios, the full story will never be known.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to meet BJP chief Amit Shah this evening before the allocation of portfolios in a rejig and expansion of his council ministers that saw 19 new ministers take oath today and one minister, Prakash Javadekar, being promoted to Cabinet rank.

Amid a standoff over allocation of portfolios in Maharashtra, senior NCP leaders Ajit Pawar and Praful Patel arrived here on Wednesday evening for a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and top BJP leaders.

The two-day 'Chintan Shivir' of home ministers - chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah - will not see representation from the chief ministers of two opposition-ruled states who hold the Home portfolio, NDTV has learnt.

The Shiv Sena on Monday welcomed the Centre's decision to create the cooperation ministry saying Home Minister Amit Shah, who has been given the additional charge of the new portfolio, will do a "good job" as he had been part of the cooperative movem

Arvind Kejriwal, in his third stint as Delhi Chief Minister, has again refused to take charge of any ministry. He will stay the only minister in his cabinet without a portfolio, as he has been since 2015.

Having a tightrope to walk by pacifying disgruntled MLAs who missed out on cabinet berth, coupled with allocation of portfolios to new ministers, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Thursday decided to consult BJP central leadership to deal with the situation.

Work hours at North Block, the headquarters of the home ministry in Delhi, have stretched, not because of longer days in summer but because of a "workaholic" Home Minister.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has picked his closest aide Amit Shah as Home Minister in the new government. Rajnath Singh will be Defence Minister and Nitin Gadkari will be Minister of Road Transport and Highways. Nirmala Sitharaman will be Finance Minister and Minister of Corporate Affairs

Narendra Modi was sworn in as Prime Minister for the second time after his spectacular victory in the national election in a ceremony held at the Rashrapati Bhavan in the presence of 8,000 guests including world leaders, dignitaries, politicians, celebrities and industrialists.

Ailing Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar will continue to helm the state, but there will be a reshuffle of his ministers, BJP national president Amit Shah confirmed with a tweet today. The decision to rearrange the Goa cabinet was taken after the BJP allies refused to accept a Maharashtra Gomantak Party or MGP, an ally in the state, minister as M...

A day ahead of the trust vote today, Karnataka deputy chief minister G Parameshwara said the Congress-JD(S) coalition was yet to discuss modalities about HD Kumaraswamy continuing as Chief Minister for a full five year term.

A crisis was averted in the newly-formed Gujarat government today, with BJP chief Amit Shah stepping in to address the grievances of Nitin Patel, the deputy of Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. Mr Patel had been deeply unhappy with the portfolios he was given and Hardik Patel had been sending feelers to him.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has kept the important home and revenue departments after a reported tussle with his deputies Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma.

Yogi Adityanath, the new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, is in Delhi today for meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah. On the table are big decisions on ministries. The BJP leadership may have its first UP crisis in hand with a tussle between the Chief Minister and his deputy, Keshav Prasad Maurya, over the important ho...

While we can speculate - and perhaps correctly guess - the reasons for some ministers losing certain portfolios, the full story will never be known.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to meet BJP chief Amit Shah this evening before the allocation of portfolios in a rejig and expansion of his council ministers that saw 19 new ministers take oath today and one minister, Prakash Javadekar, being promoted to Cabinet rank.