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Narendra Singh Tomar: Minister for the grassroots, from the grassroots

By replacing Radha Mohan Singh as agriculture minister, Tomar has reached an exalted position that put him in front of the cameras for a Cabinet briefing on the very first day in office

Finance to foreign affairs: Modi's message in portfolios for new ministers

Ministers like Harsh Vardhan and Prakash Javadekar have returned to their initial portfolios of Modi government 1.0

Meet the members who come from a humblest background in Modi's team

The number of ministers facing criminal cases has increased from 31% in 2014 to 39% in 2019. The new Modi council of ministers, however, is fractionally poorer

Modi govt decides to give shopkeepers, retail traders Rs 3,000 as pension

The decision taken at the Union Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi here will benefit 3 crore retail traders and shopkeepers

Farmers, traders get the high table at PM Modi's first cabinet meeting

The government will also launch a Rs 10,000 crore pension scheme for 5 crore farmers, said agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar

Modi cabinet ministers full list: Amit Shah Home Minister, Sitharaman FM

Rajnath Singh has been appointed as the new Defence Minister and S Jaishankar new External Affairs Minister

Modi 2.0 Cabinet: S Jaishankar, diplomat, then corporate, now a minister

Jaishankar is said to have been instrumental in several high-profile diplomatic wins for India - locking the Indo-US Nuclear Agreement in 2006, the infamous Devyani Khobragade case, Tarapur nuclear

Modi 2.0 Cabinet: Ravi Shankar Prasad, the originator of Lalu's fodder woes

Ravi Shankar Prasad was the Minister of Electronics and Information Technology in the first Narendra Modi government

Amit Shah to be minister in Union Cabinet, Guj BJP chief confirms in tweet

Vaghani's tweet ended speculation over Shah joining the government. Modi and his new team of ministers will be sworn in at 7 p.m

Modi swearing-in: Raisina Hill gears up for its biggest-ever event

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a final round of consultations with BJP president Amit Shah and is learnt to have given shape to his council of ministers ahead of the swearing-in.

250 guests at Rashtrapati Bhawan will have a special gallery 'Kashi Sankul'

The list of invitees comprises Padma awardees Pt Chhannulal Misra, Prashanti Singh, Rajnikant and son of late folk singer Hiralal Yadav.

Modi 2.0 Cabinet: No place for Suresh Prabhu, Jayant Sinha, Manoj Sinha

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has dropped parliamentarians and key economic ministers in the previous NDA government

Modi 2.0 Cabinet: Dharmendra Pradhan, architect of BJP's Odisha success

Dharmendra Pradhan was the Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship in the first Modi government

Modi 2.0 Cabinet: Sadananda Gowda, from student leader to union minister

The lawyer-turned-politician registered his fourth entry to Parliament by defeating Congress heavyweight Krishna Byre Gowda, a member of the H D Kumaraswamy ministry

Modi 2.0 Cabinet: Rajnath Singh, BJP's old guard and man for all seasons

He was also the head of the BJP's manifesto drafting committee for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections

Modi 2.0 Cabinet: Maneka likely pro-tem speaker, not in ministers list

The main duty of the pro-tem Speaker is to administer the oath of office to new members of the Lok Sabha

Modi 2.0 Cabinet: Smriti Irani, 'giant killer' who persists until she wins

Meet the leader who defeated Congress President Rahul Gandhi in the Gandhi family pocket borough of Amethi

Modi 2.0 Cabinet: Nirmala Sitharaman, the trusted lieutenant of the PM

One of the ministers whom Modi seems to trust, Sitharaman is the only woman other than Indira Gandhi to have held the Defence portfolio

Modi 2.0 Cabinet: Here is the full list of ministers in the new government

From Narendra Modi to Rajnath Singh and Smriti Irani, more than 50 leaders took the oath of office and secrecy on May 30

Rajasthan's Kailash Choudhury makes silent entry to cabinet, made MoS

He defeated Manvendra Singh, son of Jaswant Singh, in Barmer constituency.