After taking charge, Rajnath Singh held a meeting with Army chief Gen Bipin Rawat, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa and newly appointed Navy chief Karambir Singh. The defence secretary and several other senior officials of the ministry were also present at the meeting.
"It is like ghar wapsi for me. Progress and environment protection are possible together and that will be the guiding force for our ministry. The Modi government in the last five years has shown that it is possible," he said after signing the official documents along with Minister of State for Environment Babul Supriyo.
"My first tweet. Thank you all for the best wishes! Honoured to be given this responsibility. Proud to follow on the footsteps of @SushmaSwaraj ji," newly appointed External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar's first tweet read. A surprise addition to PM Modi's latest Union Cabinet, the former Foreign Secretary succeeds Swaraj in helming MEA.
Karnataka has three Union ministerial berths in addition to Finance portfolio for Nirmala Sitharaman, while one minister each hail from Kerala and Telangana. Tamil Nadu, which boasted of nine ministers in the UPA-II government in 2009, did not get any representation in Modi 2.0 government. Hence the perception is that southern India that the region has been given a raw deal.
BJP President Amit Shah Saturday took charge as the Union Home Minister, two days after he was sworn-in following a landslide victory of the saffron party-led NDA. Shah was received at the North Block office of the home ministry by Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba and other senior officials.
The Congress on Saturday re-elected Sonia Gandhi as the chairperson of Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP). The meeting was attended by the 52 newly-elected Lok Sabha members of the Congress along with its Rajya Sabha members at the central hall of Parliament. This was the first official meeting that Congress prez Rahul Gandhi attended after party's CWC meet.Top opposition figures, including Congress's Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar and Le...
