Anand Sharma gets additional charge of I&B

Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma has been given the additional charge of Information and Broadcasting Ministry till Priyaranjan Dasmunsi is indisposed.

NEW DELHI: Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma has been given the additional charge of Information and Broadcasting Ministry till Priyaranjan Dasmunsi is indisposed.

President Pratibha Patil allocated the additional charge to Sharma on the advice of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement said late tonight.

Sixty two year-old Dasmunsi is undergoing treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences where he was admitted on Monday following a severe heart attack.
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