New Delhi: 2.52 pm: New External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid to immediately take charge, will meet officers at 3 pm. All joint secretaries, additional secretaries, the foreign secretary trooping into work. New Cabinet Ministers: K Rahman Khan: Minority Affairs Dinsha J Patel: Mines Ajay Maken: Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation MM Pallam Raju: Human Resource Development Ashwani Kumar: Law & Justice Harish Rawat: Water Resources Chandresh Kumari Katoch: Culture Ministers...
12:24 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh effected a major Cabinet reshuffle on Sunday, giving away the major share to Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal to counter the Telangana forces in the former and ex-ally Mamata Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress in the latter. Several ministers were elevated to the Cabinet rank, with many new faces being included at the MoS level, even as portfolios of several ministers were changed. The...
11:42 AM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: 12:10 pm: Minister of State: Lalchand Kataria from Rajasthan. 12:08 pm: Minister of State: Dr Smt Kruparani Killi from Andhra Pradesh. 12:04 am: Minister of State: Porika Balram Naik from Andhra Pradesh. 12:03 am: Minister of State: Deepa Dasmunsi from West Bengal. 12:01 pm: Minister of State: Ninong Ering from Arunachal Pradesh. 11:59 am: Minister of State: Sarve Satyanarayana from Andhra Pradesh. 11:57 am: Minister of State: Abu...
11:41 AM, Oct 28, 2012
Ahead of the fifth Cabinet Reshuffle, Ajay Maken on Sunday refused to comment on portfolio but said that he is thankful to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi for considering him for the opportunity. "I am very happy that Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister and Rahul Gandhi have given me another opportunity. Wherever I go, I will work with honesty," said Maken. ...
10:11 AM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: 12.30 pm: The Bharatiya Janata Party slams the reshuffle, saying that it will not make any change. BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, "Nothing new has come from the scrapyard." 12.23 pm: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says the new Cabinet is a mix of youth and experience. Upon being asked about Rahul Gandhi, the PM said that he had always wanted him in government but that the Congress...
09:51 AM, Oct 28, 2012
Greater Noida: Veteran cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, who waved the chequered flag at the inaugural Indian Grand Prix, will miss the second edition of the Formula One race to play a Ranji match for his Mumbai team. It has been learnt that Tendulkar, who is a motorsports enthusiast, decided to prefer practising with the team in Mumbai than coming here. Tendulkar, who is going through a lean patch, is scheduled to...
12:09 PM, Oct 26, 2012
New Delhi: Cracking the whip on the Paralympic Committee of India after receiving complaints from the participants in the London Games, sports minister Ajay Maken Friday issued a show cause notice to the body. "On the basis of petitions received from participating paralympic athletes and others, show cause notice being issued to the PCI," Maken wrote on his twitter page. Arjuna awardee powerlifter Farman Basha is among the parathletes who...
02:35 PM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: Keen to see India as host of the Under-17 World Cup in 2017, FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke has reportedly told Sports Minister Ajay Maken that organising the event will bring about a "big change in Indian football." "The sports minister was very positive and extended full support to FIFA and AIFF for hosting the U-17 WC, and Valcke has told him (Maken) that it will bring about...
07:07 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Sports Minister Ajay Maken steps in after CNN-IBN exposed the shabby treatment meted out to the Indian contingent in London. ...
10:37 AM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi University Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh on Friday said that Unmukt Chand, the captain of U-19 Indian cricket team which won the World Cup, will be allowed to move to the second year of graduation. Chand was denied permission by St Stephen's College to appear for his first year exams due to short attendance. Chand, however, will have to clear his first year exams during the third and...
07:25 PM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi University Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh on Friday wrote to Union Sports Minister Ajay Maken saying he would look into the matter of Unmukt Chand, the captain of U-19 Indian cricket team which won the World Cup, who has been denied permission by St Stephen's College to appear for his exams. "As regards Unmukt Chand's case, the matter came to my attention two days ago and we have...
06:09 PM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: Sports Minister Ajay Maken has now stepped in to help the Under-19 Indian cricket team captain, Unmukt Chand, solve his academic woes. He has sent a letter to the Vice Chancellor of the Delhi University requesting to not just let Unmukt take his exams, but also change rules for the sportspersons of the country. "There is a need to change the rules as well as the mindset. There...
08:32 AM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Youth Affairs and Sports Ajay Maken on Thursday unveiled an exposure draft on National Physical Fitness Programme for school children that would aim at making physical fitness "academically rewarding". The programme seeks to ensure better health among school going children and broad-basing sports culture in the country. The programme will put into place a system that would assess and ascertain a child's...
08:31 AM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: In a bid to ensure better health and promote sports culture among kids, Sports Minister Ajay Maken Wednesday came up with a proposal under which school children will get marks for their physical fitness. Currently marks and grades are linked to academic performance, but the new proposal seeks to give some weightage to physical fitness in schools all over the country. While unveiling the exposure draft on National...
04:26 PM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: Naval war room leak case accused and businessman Abhishek Verma and his Romanian wife were sent to CBI custody till August 21 in a forgery case by a special court in New Delhi on Thursday. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge Sanjeev Jain sent Verma and his wife Anca Neacsu to the probe agency's custody for questioning. The two were arrested on August 8 by the CBI...
10:31 AM, Aug 17, 2012
Union Sports Minister Ajay Maken has said that India will target for 25 medals at the 2020 Olympics. While speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Maken said that 25 medals at the 2020 Olympics is the target India has set for itself. Maken said given the efforts the government is putting in to train its athletes, this is a reasonable expectation in eight years' time. Here is the full...
07:21 PM, Aug 12, 2012
New Delhi: Union Sports Minister Ajay Maken has said that India will target for 25 medals at the 2020 Olympics as wrestlers Narsingh Yadav and Amit Kumar failed to proceed in the 2012 London Olympics. While speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Maken said that 25 medals at the 2020 Olympics is the target India has set for itself. Maken said given the efforts the government is putting in...
07:16 AM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI has filed a forgery case against arms dealer Abhishek Verma and others. Verma is accused of forging Sports Minister Ajay Maken's letterhead in order to get a visa for a Chinese telecom firm. At that time Maken was Home Affairs minister. Verma and his wife have been in jail for the past two months in relation to another case. They are seeking bail on Wednesday after...
12:12 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: Pushing for appropriate elevation for Olympic silver medalist Subedar Vijay Kumar, Sports Minister Ajay Maken has written a letter to Defence Minister AK Antony seeking changes in policy of armed forces for promotion of outstanding sports persons. The letter comes against the backdrop of the ace shooter threatening to quit the Army as he has not been given promotion despite several good performances in the last six years....
09:10 PM, Aug 07, 2012
London: India have lodged an official complaint after the 19-year-old Sumit Sangwan went down 14-15 under controversial circumstances to Brazilian Yamaguchi Falcao Florentino in the round of 32 of boxing 81kg category at the London Olympics here Monday. Union sports minister, Ajay Maken, tweeted after the match, "Our Cuban coach was protesting at the top of his voice. Everyone felt SUMIT should have been declared a winner. Asking COM Brig...
09:11 PM, Jul 30, 2012
