Modi Portfolio

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said some people from Maharashtra only did politics in the name of farmers, in comments aimed at NCP founder Sharad Pawar, who handled the agriculture portfolio during the UPA government.

Tejashwi Yadav, who holds the health portfolio in the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government, on Saturday alleged PM Modi was taking "false credit for opening AIIMS in Darbhanga".

All India Sufi Sajjadanashin Council chairman Naseeruddin Chisti today condemned Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto's remarks against PM Modi, saying the language he used downgraded not only his portfolio but also his entire nation.

The Dalal Street mogul grew his portfolio from 5,000 in 1985 to over 30,000 crore rupee - now the combined portfolio of himself and his wife.

Thirty-six new ministers joined the government in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mega cabinet reboot on Wednesday.

A number of key portfolios - including Health, Law, Information and Technology and Railways - have gone to new ministers and junior ministers who got a promotion in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Council of Ministers that underwent a reboot today.

Newly sworn-in Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today announced the various portfolios allotted among his council of ministers, keeping the home portfolio for himself. A 14-member council of ministers was sworn in by Governor Phagu Chauhan on Monday in Patna. This included two Deputy Chief Ministers, Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi, both from the ...

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.

The S&P BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 indexes plunged for a second straight session and were on track to post biggest single-day decline in over nine months after the government proposed to increase the minimum public shareholding in listed companies and to raise the tax incidence for foreign portfolio investors and high net-worth individuals in its ...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has pushed for India to further open its economy and also "diversify" its energy portfolio, saying countries that have provided American companies access to their markets have seen "real opportunity".

Partly by default, and partly by design, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has managed to assemble a newish-looking team for his second term. Hopefully, the freshness will carry over to ideas.

After she was appointed as India's first full time woman finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman was today congratulated for her accomplishment by another prominent woman leader - former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. On Twitter, Ms Mufti said Ms Sitharaman had shattered the "glass ceiling by all means" by securing a place in the top...

Piyush Goyal took charge of the railway ministry on Friday and said he was happy that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had reassigned the portfolio to him as it would mean "continuity" in the work of the ministry.

As the names of the new ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet were announced, Jammu and Kashmir politician Omar Abdullah urged them to update their Twitter handles.

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

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said some people from Maharashtra only did politics in the name of farmers, in comments aimed at NCP founder Sharad Pawar, who handled the agriculture portfolio during the UPA government.

Tejashwi Yadav, who holds the health portfolio in the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government, on Saturday alleged PM Modi was taking "false credit for opening AIIMS in Darbhanga".

All India Sufi Sajjadanashin Council chairman Naseeruddin Chisti today condemned Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto's remarks against PM Modi, saying the language he used downgraded not only his portfolio but also his entire nation.

The Dalal Street mogul grew his portfolio from 5,000 in 1985 to over 30,000 crore rupee - now the combined portfolio of himself and his wife.

Thirty-six new ministers joined the government in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mega cabinet reboot on Wednesday.

A number of key portfolios - including Health, Law, Information and Technology and Railways - have gone to new ministers and junior ministers who got a promotion in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Council of Ministers that underwent a reboot today.

Newly sworn-in Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today announced the various portfolios allotted among his council of ministers, keeping the home portfolio for himself. A 14-member council of ministers was sworn in by Governor Phagu Chauhan on Monday in Patna. This included two Deputy Chief Ministers, Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi, both from the ...

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.

The S&P BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty 50 indexes plunged for a second straight session and were on track to post biggest single-day decline in over nine months after the government proposed to increase the minimum public shareholding in listed companies and to raise the tax incidence for foreign portfolio investors and high net-worth individuals in its ...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has pushed for India to further open its economy and also "diversify" its energy portfolio, saying countries that have provided American companies access to their markets have seen "real opportunity".

Partly by default, and partly by design, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has managed to assemble a newish-looking team for his second term. Hopefully, the freshness will carry over to ideas.

After she was appointed as India's first full time woman finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman was today congratulated for her accomplishment by another prominent woman leader - former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. On Twitter, Ms Mufti said Ms Sitharaman had shattered the "glass ceiling by all means" by securing a place in the top...

Piyush Goyal took charge of the railway ministry on Friday and said he was happy that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had reassigned the portfolio to him as it would mean "continuity" in the work of the ministry.

As the names of the new ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet were announced, Jammu and Kashmir politician Omar Abdullah urged them to update their Twitter handles.

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