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New Delhi: Kiren Rijiju is appointed as the new Union Minister for Law and Justice after the Cabinet reshuffle. He replaced Ravi Shankar Prasad, who resigned from the Union government.Rijiju is a Law Graduate from Campus Law Centre, Faculty...

New Delhi: Former BCCI president Anurag Thakur was on Wednesday appointed as the new Union Sports Minister.The 46-year-old, who was also given charge of the Information and Broadcasting ministry along with sports, replaces Kiren Rijiju.After taking oath as the...

Srinagar: Four militants were killed in two separate encounters with security forces in the twin south Kashmir districts of Pulwama and Kulgam on Thursday.With this, five militants -- including a top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander -- have been killed by...

Shimla: Former chief minister Virbhadra Singh who was ailing for the last three months, passed away at Indira Gandhi Medical College Hospital Shimla on early Thursday morning.A press release issued by IGMC Shimla Sr Medical Superintendent Dr Janak Raj...

New Delhi: Jyotiraditya Scindia has been appointed Civil Aviation Ministry, and Hardeep Puri, who headed this ministry, will head Urban Development and Petroleum Ministry.Scindia joined the government Wednesday in a reboot of the Union cabinet in which 36 new...

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday resigned from the Modi cabinet. The development comes ahead of the massive Modi cabinet reshuffle scheduled for 6 pm Wednesday. Several ministerial probables including BJP's Narayan Rane, Sarbananda Sonowal,...

New Delhi: Two ministers, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Santosh Gangwar, have resigned from the Union Cabinet, NDTV reported quoting sources hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mega reshuffle.Nishank was Education Minister and Santosh Gangwar was Labour Minister. Both have...

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah expressed deep grief over the passing away of legendary actor Dilip Kumar.President Kovind said the versatile actor summarised in himself a history of...

New Delhi: India recorded 43,733 new cases of COVID-19 during the past 24 hours pushing the country's infection caseload to 3,06,64,218, while the death toll soared to 4,03,281with 553 more fatalities, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday.The active...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government Tuesday created a new 'Ministry of Cooperation', looking to provide more heft to the cooperative movement in the country. The move came a day before the Union cabinet was scheduled for a reshuffle,...