With ministers like his, Akhilesh needs no enemies (Uttar Pradesh Newsletter)
August 18th, 2012 - 1:43 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Aug 18 (IANS) Who needs an opposition if you have such ministers? That really is the sorry story of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav with one cabinet ... Read more...
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Karnataka CM meets BJP leaders over portfolio tussle (Second Lead)
July 14th, 2012 - 11:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Bangalore, July 14 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, struggling to allot portfolios to his ministers even two days after taking office, Saturday met Bharatiya Janata Party central ... Read more...
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Karnataka CM meets BJP leaders over portfolio tussle (Lead)
July 14th, 2012 - 10:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi/Bangalore, July 14 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, struggling to allot portfolios to his ministers even two days after taking office, Saturday met his Bharatiya Janata Party ... Read more...
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Relatives find enough place in Badal cabinet
March 13th, 2012 - 10:48 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, March 13 (IANS) As he takes oath as chief minister of Punjab for a record fifth time Wednesday, Parkash Singh Badal will find himself quite at home in ... Read more...
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List of ministers to take oath Tuesday evening
July 12th, 2011 - 12:59 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday wrote to President Pratibha Patil recommending that the following be appointed as members of his council of ministers:
CABINET ... Read more...
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Mamata to be sworn in as West Bengal chief minister Friday (Roundup)
May 20th, 2011 - 1:23 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) Amid heightened security at the Raj Bhavan here, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will Friday be sworn-in as West Bengal's first woman chief minister, with ... Read more...
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12 new ministers to take oath in Nepal on Wednesday
April 12th, 2011 - 12:15 pm ICT by ANI
Kathmandu, Apr.12 (ANI): Nepal's Prime Minister, Jhala Nath Khanal, has expanded his eight-member cabinet by inducting five United Marxist Leninist (UML) leaders as cabinet ministers and seven others as state ministers. The ... Read more...
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Clinton ‘forced’ Qureshi to grant immunity to Davis
February 13th, 2011 - 6:11 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Feb 13 (IANS) Pakistan's former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had pressurised him to verify the diplomatic immunity to Raymond Davis arrested ... Read more...
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Qureshi dropped as Pakistan’s foreign minister (Lead)
February 11th, 2011 - 8:20 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad/New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) A day after India and Pakistan announced their decision to resume talks, Shah Mahmood Qureshi was dropped as Pakistan's foreign minister as President Asif Ali Zardari ... Read more...
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YSR’s brother set to join Andhra cabinet, Jagan keeps Congress guessing (Roundup)
November 30th, 2010 - 10:59 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, Nov 30 (IANS) Late Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's brother Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy Tuesday appeared all set to join the state cabinet, ignoring an appeal by his nephew ... Read more...
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Andhra turmoil: Jaganmohan quits, Congress unmoved (Intro Roundup)
November 29th, 2010 - 11:18 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad/New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS) The Congress suffered a blow Monday when Kadapa MP Jaganmohan Reddy and his legislator mother Vijaylaxmi quit the party with a view to weakening the Congress ... Read more...
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New Andhra cabinet to be sworn in on Wednesday
November 29th, 2010 - 8:10 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, Nov 29 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh's new cabinet will be sworn-in Wednesday despite the resignation of Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy from the Congress party and parliament.Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy met Governor ... Read more...
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Choosing ministers will not be easy for Munda
September 15th, 2010 - 3:05 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Sep 15 (IANS) Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda faces the tough challenge of cabinet expansion. He can accommodate a maximum of 12 ministers including himself, even as several parties are vying ... Read more...
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Team Modi has four new ministers
August 21st, 2010 - 2:21 pm ICT by ANI
Gandhinagar, Aug 21 (ANI): Eyeing civic polls scheduled in October 2010, Gujarat Chief Minister Narender Modi on Saturday administered oath of office to four new ministers.Vasuben Trivedi, Praful Patel, Pradeepsinh Jadeja and ... Read more...
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Congress finalises list of ministers for Meghalaya
April 23rd, 2010 - 1:27 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, April 23 (IANS) The Congress has finalised its list of ministers to be sworn in Saturday as ministers in the new Meghalaya government headed by Chief Minister Mukul M. Sangma. ... Read more...
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The hidden hand behind BJP flare-up? (Capital Buzz)
November 8th, 2009 - 3:12 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Nobody quite knows how the crisis in the Bharatiya Janata Party's first ever government in Karnataka flared up to such a point that Chief Minister B.S. ... Read more...
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Congress-NCP alliance forms government in Maharashtra for the second time
November 7th, 2009 - 9:36 pm ICT by ANI
Mumbai, Nov.7 (ANI): Congress leader Ashok Chavan and Nationalist Congress Party leader Chhagan Bhujbal took oath of office and secrecy as Maharashtra's Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister respectively on Saturday evening ... Read more...
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Wanted: Culture minister with arts background
June 7th, 2009 - 4:19 pm ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) As the new government looks for a culture minister, the cultural fraternity is keen that it should be a person who is well grounded ... Read more...
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PM, Sonia Gandhi finalise list of ministers ahead of cabinet expansion
May 27th, 2009 - 6:09 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, May 27 (ANI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi met here today to finalise the list of ministers ahead of the cabinet expansion.Fifty-nine ministers will ... Read more...
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Nepal gets new 3-member communist cabinet (Lead)
May 25th, 2009 - 3:15 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, May 25 (IANS) Veteran communist leader Madhav Kumar Nepal dispensed with god but kept the traditional Nepali attire Monday to take oath of office and secrecy at the ... Read more...
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19 ministers to be sworn in
May 22nd, 2009 - 4:06 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, May 22 (ANI): With barely four hours to go before Dr. Manmohan Singh is sworn in as Prime Minister for a second consecutive term, sources have revealed that along ... Read more...
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Cabinet formation deadlock leads to cancellation of President, PM meeting
May 21st, 2009 - 12:35 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, May 21 (ANI): A meeting that was scheduled for Thursday morning between President Pratibha Devisingh Patil and the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, has been cancelled owing to the ... Read more...
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Manmohan Singh to meet President Patil today
May 21st, 2009 - 11:29 am ICT by ANI
New Delhi, May 21 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will today meet President Pratibha Patil to discuss the details of swearing in ceremony.Dr. Singh is expected to submit the list ... Read more...
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Gehlot becomes Rajasthan chief minister, to form ministry next week (Lead)
December 13th, 2008 - 4:27 pm ICT by IANS
Jaipur, Dec 13 (IANS) Congress leader Ashok Gehlot, who was Saturday sworn in as the chief minister of Rajasthan, is likely to form his ministry next week, an aide said. Gehlot has ... Read more...
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Now it’s Hooda’s turn to grace World Economic Forum New Champs meet
July 25th, 2008 - 6:12 pm ICT by IANS
Ahmedabad, July 25 (IANS) The World Economic Forum (WEF) has invited Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to participate in the second Annual Meeting of The New Champions 2008 to be held ... Read more...
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Yeddyurappa to take oath on Friday, not today
May 28th, 2008 - 12:50 pm ICT by admin
Bangalore, May 28 (ANI): Karnatakas Chief Minister-designate B.S. Yeddyurappa and his first list of ministers will now take their oath of office on Friday, instead of Wednesday.
A decision to this effect ... Read more...
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IMF voting reform gets go-ahead of ministers
April 13th, 2008 - 4:50 am ICT by admin
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Washington, April 13 (DPA) A long-awaited reform of the International Monetary Fund's voting procedures that gives developing countries a modest increase in influence has received broad support from the IMF members, Italy's ... Read more...
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PPP to get IB, Defence, Foreign ministries, PML-N Finance in new cabinet
March 28th, 2008 - 2:11 pm ICT by admin
Islamabad, Mar 28 (ANI): The two major coalition partners in the new Pakistan government the PPP and the PML-N have reportedly finalised the list of ministers in the new cabinet, with ... Read more...
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