Hyderabad: In a virtual showdown with the Congress leadership as well as the Union Cabinet, Union ministers and Members of Parliament belonging to the Seemandhra region threatened to resign their pos

New Delhi: Eight new faces will be inducted in the Council of Ministers today, with Sisram Ola and Oscar Fernandes making a re-entry after a gap of four years.
Ola, along with Girija Vyas and K S Rao

Congress leaders were of the view that the changed caste equation wherein the Kapu community was being given preference by the leadership, also played a role in the elevation.

Chiranjeevi got the por

Sunday's Cabinet changes are only one part of the wider political exercise to prepare the Congress party for the next general elec tion. All new ministers or those affected by the reshuffling of the d

Andhra Pradesh, a crucial state electorally for the Congress, on Sunday got the maximum representation of six in the rejig of the council of ministers, with five new faces and one elevated to the cabi

Salman Khurshid is to be the new external affairs minister, while Ashwani Kumar is to be the new law minister, highly placed sources said on Sunday.

M.M. Pallam Raju is to be made the next HRD minist

Seven Cabinet ministers, including new faces K. Rehman Khan and Chandresh Kumari, and 15 Ministers of State were sworn-in today as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expanded his Council of Ministers.

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The much-talked about larger role for Congress general secretary Rahul Gadhi's youth brigade in the ministerial rejig effected by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday turned out to be a mixed bag,

Rahul Gandhi is set to assume a ’larger’ role in the Congress very soon with the reshuffle of the AICC secretariat on the cards this week.

With the much talked about rejig of the Union Council of Min

The Congress finally rewarded actor-turned-politician K. Chiranjeevi for merging his Praja Rajyam Party by inducting him in the union cabinet as minister of state with independent charge while M.M. Pa