New Cabinet Picks

Six of the 15 MLAs to be made ministers in Punjab's expanded cabinet today are totally new to the job, according to sources. At least one of them is returning to the ministerial position after three years, they said. Resentment is brewing among MLAs.

Senior BJP leader Bhupendra Patel will be sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Gujarat today after the shock exit of Vijay Rupani and his entire cabinet in a reboot a year before polls in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who was upset after his party was offered only a single berth in the Narendra Modi government, has hit back at the BJP's state unit. In the much-awaited Cabinet expansion on Sunday, he included eight of his party colleagues.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has picked his closest aide Amit Shah as Home Minister in the new government. Rajnath Singh will be Defence Minister and Nitin Gadkari will be Minister of Road Transport and Highways. Nirmala Sitharaman will be Finance Minister and Minister of Corporate Affairs

Narayan Rane, the Maharashtra heavyweight who exited the Congress last week, will float a new party on Sunday that is expected to support the BJP government in the state and pick up an invite to join Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's team. The arrangement is understood to have been finalised after Mr Rane's meeting with BJP president Amit Shah on ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has included four retired administrators with solid reputations in a list of nine new ministers expected to join his government tomorrow. Two of them, former diplomat Hardeep Singh Puri and ex-IAS officer KJ Alphons aren't even members of parliament. The other two, Satya Pal Singh and RK Singh are first-time MPs.

South Korea's parliament approved President Moon Jae-in's selection of Lee Nak-yon as prime minister on Wednesday, backing the former lawmaker and governor of South Jeolla Province to become the first confirmed cabinet nominee under the new leader.

The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's pick for US ambassador to the United Nations by a decisive margin on Tuesday as Republican-led committees paved the way for three more of his Cabinet nominees to be approved just days into the new administration.

Donald Trump plunged his quest for America's next top diplomat back into the spotlight Friday by confirming that one frontrunner, outspoken former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, will not join his cabinet.

President-elect Donald Trump's ultra-wealthy Cabinet nominees will be able to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes in the coming weeks when they sell some of their holdings to avoid conflicts of interest in their new positions.

US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday wrapped up a busy weekend of meetings with cabinet hopefuls at his golf club retreat outside New York, hinting new appointments should come soon.

The 19 leaders who took oath today as new ministers at the Centre, were picked after an exhaustive vetting and selection process to find the best talent, sources said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the expansion of his council of ministers will reflect "budget focus and priorities".

The ruling Congress in Karnataka has a new working president in Dinesh Gundu Rao. Mr Rao, the son of former chief minister, the late Gundu Rao, had been a minister in chief minister Siddaramaiah's cabinet holding the portfolio of food and civil supplies.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unveiled a new cabinet on Wednesday, appointing a defence chief whose desire for a stronger pre-emptive strike capability could rile neighbour China.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who won election on a vow of clean government, said on Wednesday he would have to find new people to fill some of his cabinet posts after the anti-graft agency rejected eight of the people he picked.

Six of the 15 MLAs to be made ministers in Punjab's expanded cabinet today are totally new to the job, according to sources. At least one of them is returning to the ministerial position after three years, they said. Resentment is brewing among MLAs.

Senior BJP leader Bhupendra Patel will be sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Gujarat today after the shock exit of Vijay Rupani and his entire cabinet in a reboot a year before polls in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who was upset after his party was offered only a single berth in the Narendra Modi government, has hit back at the BJP's state unit. In the much-awaited Cabinet expansion on Sunday, he included eight of his party colleagues.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has picked his closest aide Amit Shah as Home Minister in the new government. Rajnath Singh will be Defence Minister and Nitin Gadkari will be Minister of Road Transport and Highways. Nirmala Sitharaman will be Finance Minister and Minister of Corporate Affairs

Narayan Rane, the Maharashtra heavyweight who exited the Congress last week, will float a new party on Sunday that is expected to support the BJP government in the state and pick up an invite to join Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's team. The arrangement is understood to have been finalised after Mr Rane's meeting with BJP president Amit Shah on ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has included four retired administrators with solid reputations in a list of nine new ministers expected to join his government tomorrow. Two of them, former diplomat Hardeep Singh Puri and ex-IAS officer KJ Alphons aren't even members of parliament. The other two, Satya Pal Singh and RK Singh are first-time MPs.

South Korea's parliament approved President Moon Jae-in's selection of Lee Nak-yon as prime minister on Wednesday, backing the former lawmaker and governor of South Jeolla Province to become the first confirmed cabinet nominee under the new leader.

The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's pick for US ambassador to the United Nations by a decisive margin on Tuesday as Republican-led committees paved the way for three more of his Cabinet nominees to be approved just days into the new administration.

Donald Trump plunged his quest for America's next top diplomat back into the spotlight Friday by confirming that one frontrunner, outspoken former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, will not join his cabinet.

President-elect Donald Trump's ultra-wealthy Cabinet nominees will be able to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes in the coming weeks when they sell some of their holdings to avoid conflicts of interest in their new positions.

US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday wrapped up a busy weekend of meetings with cabinet hopefuls at his golf club retreat outside New York, hinting new appointments should come soon.

The 19 leaders who took oath today as new ministers at the Centre, were picked after an exhaustive vetting and selection process to find the best talent, sources said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the expansion of his council of ministers will reflect "budget focus and priorities".

The ruling Congress in Karnataka has a new working president in Dinesh Gundu Rao. Mr Rao, the son of former chief minister, the late Gundu Rao, had been a minister in chief minister Siddaramaiah's cabinet holding the portfolio of food and civil supplies.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unveiled a new cabinet on Wednesday, appointing a defence chief whose desire for a stronger pre-emptive strike capability could rile neighbour China.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who won election on a vow of clean government, said on Wednesday he would have to find new people to fill some of his cabinet posts after the anti-graft agency rejected eight of the people he picked.