Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Kanhaiya Kumar on Wednesday welcomed the exit of Smriti Irani from the Human Resource Development Ministry but said this was no "punishment" for the suicide of Dalit student Rohith Vemula....
Of course, Manmohan Singh never had the freedom: His council of ministers was a mix of diktats he got from Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and coalition supremos like K. Karunanidhi, Sharad Pawar and the gang. Atal Behari Vajpayee too exercised this prerogative sparingly, like when he insisted and got Jaswant Singh as his finance minister despit...
Newly elevated cabinet miniser Prakash Javadekar, who will take charge of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) on Thursday, has said improving the quality of education was the "biggest challenge"....
Eminent journalist-turned-neta Mobasshar Javed "M.J." Akbar, once a Congress MP from Bihar's Kishanganj and a bitter critic of Narendra Modi post the 2002 riots in Gujarat, has been strong in his censure of the Congress party as a BJP spokesperson. ...
From holding forth on Climate Change at international fora to becoming incharge of the more humble Human Resource Development ministry - for Prakash Javadekar the change has been sudden, despite his happy elevation as cabinet minister....
Giving a clear message that controversy is no substitute for good work, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday removed his one-time handpicked high-profile Smriti Irani from the crucial Human Resource Development Ministry and gave her the responsibility of the low-profile Textiles Ministry....
Induction of two Patel community leaders -- Parshottam Rupala and Mansukh Mandaviya from Gujarat's Saurashtra region -- into the Union Cabinet on Tuesday is seen as an effort to placate the affluent community ahead of the December 2017 state assembly polls....
Irani has been made Textiles Minister, replacing incumbent Santosh Gangwar who will be now be Minister of State for Finance. Former bureaucrat Arjun Meghwal, who was inducted in Tuesday's expansion, has also been made Minister of State in this crucial ministry, headed by Arun Jaitley....
In a major rejig of the Narendra Modi government following the expansion on Tuesday, Smriti Irani was replaced as Human Resource Minister by Prakash Javadekar, while Ravi Shankar Prasad was divested of Communications but given Law and Venkaiah Naidu additional charge of the I&B Ministry....
In a bid to boost its prospects ahead of the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the Congress is likely to appoint former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit as the state unit chief, a party source said on Tuesday....
