Union Cabinet expansion signals mobility and opportunity in BJPThe inclusion of two former senior Congress leaders, Narayan Rane and Jyotiraditya Scindia, in the cabinet is seen as a message to leaders ...
10 Jul, 2021, 11.15 PM IST
Cabinet expansion: 27 OBCs, 12 SCs, 8 STs in PM’s final line-upEven among the OBCs, special attention was paid on giving representation to castes which are lesser in numbers but together they all become...
08 Jul, 2021, 12.45 PM IST
4 state chiefs in government, BJP looks for changeParty will also have to find replacements for some ministers in BJP-ruled states as well as for MLAs.
03 Jun, 2019, 07.02 AM IST
Eight seats of West UP to set momentum in second phase of pollingBSP has been strong in these eight constituencies and it is contesting seven of the seats while RLD has put up a candidate in Mathura as a ...
18 Apr, 2019, 08.45 AM IST
Modi government to focus on Bengal, Kerala and Odisha in its 3rd anniversary functionThe party will organise over two dozen programmes in the three states where CMs and more than five Union ministers and central office-beare...
25 May, 2017, 11.36 AM IST
Under CM Yogi Adityanath, Govt offices wake up to new work cultureAttendance is up after the CM urged bureaucrats to be ready to work 18-20 hours a day, warning them not to take home official files.
30 Mar, 2017, 12.51 PM IST
Yogi Adityanath keeps Home, Mining ministries; Keshav Prasad Maurya gets PWD and FoodYogi has also kept the Information, Housing & Urban planning, Food & Civil Supplies, Mining, Personnel, Finance, Estate and several other d...
23 Mar, 2017, 12.25 AM IST
After oath-taking ceremony, the chief minister Yogi Adityanath holds his first cabinet meetingAdityanath said the composition of his council of ministers is an indication that his government is committed to “sabka saath, sabka vikas”.
20 Mar, 2017, 11.33 AM IST
Most backward communities Ministers have no Sangh trainingA look at the political background of the ministers in Adityanath government shows that almost half the OBC members aren’t groomed either b...
20 Mar, 2017, 06.49 AM IST
Yogi Adityanath's image as a mass leader may have been the clincher for his anointmentBJP sources suggest that Adityanath's “Yogi image” will make him acceptable to western UP and also take care of the various sections which ...
19 Mar, 2017, 03.24 PM IST
Yogi Adityanath picked to develop Uttar PradeshMaurya and Adityanath had met Shah before the latter left for Dehradun to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Trivendra Singh Rawat as Uttar...
19 Mar, 2017, 10.35 AM IST
Amit Shah’s new central team has a clear east UP tiltReplacing Tomar with another Thakur may have partially taken care of the caste balance, Baghel’s exit could be tricky.
20 Dec, 2016, 01.41 AM IST
Third Eye: Will Shinde Challenge Maya?As convenor of AICC panel for yearlong celebration of 125th birth anniversary of Ambedkar, Shinde has been making it a point to be on platf...
11 Apr, 2016, 04.00 AM IST
Amit Shah's choice of UP BJP chief to dampen Nitish Kumar's pitchNitish’s designs of making a robust foray into UP may have got its biggest social engineering jolt when Amit Shah appointed KP Maurya as th...
11 Apr, 2016, 04.00 AM IST
BJP banks on KP Maurya in UP to Check MayawatiEnding months of confusions, the BJP leadership on Friday picked up first time Lok Sabha member Keshav Prasad Maurya as the new chief of pa...
09 Apr, 2016, 04.00 AM IST
Bihar Polls: BJP brings Non-Yadav, Non-Kurmi ministers from UP for campaigningOn the previous day, Chouhan flew in chopper with Dharmendra Pradhan, BJP’s election co-incharge for Bihar, for campaigning in the third ph...
26 Oct, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
SP’s Akshay Yadav frontrunner in Firozabad, sitting Congress MP Raj Babbar keen on moving to another seatSamajwadi Party may be facing the heat in large swathes of Uttar Pradesh, but in the bangle district of Firozabad it does not seem unduly p...
06 Mar, 2014, 04.50 AM IST