Bengaluru : Union Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot was on Tuesday appointed as Karnataka Governor and Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel was named as the Governor of Madhya Pradesh, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communiqué. Gehlot (73), Union Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment, is a prominent Dalit leader. He served as the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment […]
New Delhi : Padmanabha Balakrishna (PB) Acharya was appointed as the Governor of Nagaland Monday. According to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communiqué, PB Acharya will also discharge the functions of the Governor of Tripura, in addition to his own duties, until regular arrangements for the office of the Governor of Tripura. It has also been learnt […]
New Delhi: Narendra Damodar Modi, 63, took oath as India’s Prime Minister on Monday evening. Almost 4000 people were present at the ceremony held in the forecourt of the magnificent Rashtrapati Bhavan. Lakhs more, including Mr Modi’s mother, watched on television. Minutes after he was sworn in a new website of the Prime Minister’s Office […]
New Delhi: Sachin Tendulkar notched up another prestigious first when he joined the list of the nation’s Bharat Ratnas today. The President awarded him and noted scientist Professor CNR Rao with India’s highest civilian honour at a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Sachin is the first sportsman to be given the honour; he beat hockey […]
New Delhi : President Pratibha Patil, it seems, has been the most merciful of all presidents during the last three decades as she has commuted death sentences of 23 petitioners to life imprisonment during her tenure, which is over 90 per cent of the total pardon granted since 1981. On February 9, she accepted the […]
New Delhi : In a surprise statement, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday’s resuffle of his Council of Ministers is the last before the Lok Sabha polls in 2014, but two slots have been kept vacant for the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam as part of “coalition dharma”. Talking to media persons after the swearing-in of the […]
