
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday kept the bulk of ministries, including the key Home and Finance, with him. Interestingly, controversial independent MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya, who was jailed by previous chief minister Mayawati and against whom there are pending criminal cases of attempt to murder, kidnapping and abduction, has been given Prison department. In portfolio allocation by Uttar Pradesh Governor BL Joshi in...

10:05 PM, Mar 18, 2012

Bangalore: Karnataka chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Monday allocated portfolios to new ministers while retaining with him the departments of Finance, Mines, Information and Tourism. In announcement of the portfolios on Monday night after the expansion of the five-day old ministry with the induction of 21 ministers, all the ministers, who were part of previous the BS Yeddyurappa Government, have retained the same departments held by them earlier. The...

02:04 AM, Aug 09, 2011

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday allocated portfolios to her newly sworn-in council of ministers, keeping to herself nine departments, including Home, Land and Land Reforms. Her other departments are Information and Cultural Affairs, Health and Family Welfare, Agriculture, Hill Affairs, Minority Affairs and Madrasa Education, Personnel and Administrative Reforms and Power. Besides Banerjee, 35 ministers from Trinamool Congress and two from the Congress took oath on...

07:28 AM, May 21, 2011

3 Cabinet ministers and 4 ministers of state may be inducted from the DMK. ...

10:24 AM, May 24, 2009

Chidambaram retained as Home Minister, Mamata gets Railways. ...

02:00 PM, May 23, 2009

The Chief Minister has chosen to keep under him 10 departments. ...

01:27 PM, Jun 08, 2008

Mayawati has retained as many as 40 key portfolios to herself as she announced the distribution of portfolios. ...

10:00 PM, May 17, 2007