PM Modi forms Cabinet committees to look into unemployment, economic slowdown ahead of Budget 2019
India | Jun 07, 2019, 03:03 PM ISTThe first Budget of the Modi government 2.0 will be presented on July 5, 2019.
The first Budget of the Modi government 2.0 will be presented on July 5, 2019.
In a bid to spur investment and create new employment opportunities, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday set up two Cabinet committees to deal with the two crucial issues.
BJP ally Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan took a jibe at the opposition on Tuesday after BSP supremo Mayawati announced that her party will not contest the Uttar Pradesh Assembly bypolls in a tie-up with the SP, saying its alliances in every state will crumble in the days ahead and "parties like the SP, the BSP and the RJD will have to shut their shops by 2020".
"Please help us @narendramodi my daughter is very distressed and she is only 11 years old," the mother tweeted, attaching her child's handwritten letter.
In the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls, the BJP made inroads into Mamata Banerjee's pocket-borough by winning 18 of 42 seats. Her surprise, by that measure, is no exception. Her reactions are.
A controversy erupted over alleged 'weapons training' being imparted to students at a Mira Road town school, owned by local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Narendra Mehta, here on Sunday.
Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, giving 101 suggestions on GST simplifications to alleviate the problems currently faced by businesses.
A replica of the Rafale fighter aircraft has been put up outside the official residence of Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa, which is attracting huge attention. The replica has come up right across from the Congress headquarters at 24, Akbar Road.
Considered the party's chief ministerial candidate at one time, Pradhan had steered one of the Modi government's most talked about schemes Pradhan Mantri Ujjawla Yojana, an initiative to provide free cooking gas connection to poor women.
According to a press release by the Rashtrapati Bhawan, incumbent BJP chief Amit Shah has been allocated the Ministry of Home Affairs and Nirmala Sithraman has been announced as the new finance minister of India. PM Modi has kept as many as four portfolios with himself:
This is a Nirmala Sitharaman appreciation post -- and she totally deserves it.
Besides 25 Cabinet ministers including Modi, Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Irani, Piyush Goyal and Jaishankar, nine were sworn in as Ministers of State with Independent charge and another 24 as Ministers of State.
PM Modi on Thursday described his new council of ministers as a blend of youthful energy and administrative experience. Soon after President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath to Modi and the council of ministers, the PM Modi in a tweet said the team is a "blend of youthful energy and administrative experience."
Despite the BJP bagging all seven parliamentary seats in Delhi, only Harsh Vardhan-- the winning MP from Chandni Chowk-- could find place in the Modi 2.0 cabinet. Also inducted into the cabinet were Nirmala Sitharaman, a Rajya Sabha MP from Karnataka.
When the Gujarat government was bracing for the ninth edition of its high-profile biennial Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit which sees a veritable Who's Who of the State and Centre attending it, there was one person missing.
For a second term, PM Narendra Modi is all set to take oath with a new council of ministers on Thursday. A multi-layered security arrangement is in place in the national capital Delhi.
BJP chief Amit Shah on Thursday reached the official residence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi hours ahead of the formation of the new government and swearing-in ceremony. This is the third round of meeting between the top two leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the last three days.
The PM may also be looking at certain technocrats to push his JAM policy where the tri-junction of Jan, Aadhar and Mobile meet. This has paid handsome dividends at the bottom of the pyramid and in more ways than one given a sense of liberation and purpose to rural women.
State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus told reporters during an off-camera news conference here on Tuesday that the US was confident in the fairness and integrity of the just-concluded general elections in India.
Pakistan PM Imran Khan recently telephoned his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to congratulate him on his victory in the parliamentary elections. Thanking Khan for the congratulatory message, Modi referred to his earlier message to Pakistan to fight poverty jointly.
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