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The two have become the longest-serving advisers to the prime minister
By the end of the 17th Lok Sabha, Members of Parliament (MPs) of the BJP headed 16 of the 24 department-related standing committees
BJP held 7 of these seats, Congress 2 and RLD 1
CCS members, including Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, retain portfolios; at least a dozen of key Cabinet ministers return to their old ministries
Listing his expectations from government servants, PM said he wanted to take the nation to new heights and exhorted his team to breach global benchmarks while surpassing work done in the last 10 years
Apart from 59-year-old Shah, Nityanand Rai, who was Minister of State (MoS) for Home in the previous regime, also returned to the government in the same capacity
Rajeev Ranjan 'Lalan' is the only minister from the Janata Dal (United) in the Union Cabinet
He defeated Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party's Kilari Venkata Rosaiah by 344,695 votes from Guntur
Prominent omissions were four Union cabinet ministers in the outgoing council who lost, namely Smriti Irani, RK Singh, Arjun Munda and Mahendra Pandey
I look forward to serving 1.4 bn Indians and working with the Council of Ministers to take India to new heights of progress, says PM Narendra Modi
Elected leader of alliance, gets President invite to take oath as PM on Sunday
According to sources, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena could each get one cabinet berth
Party likely to find it difficult sans support of allies, cooperation from Opposition
Congress's Praveen Chakravarty said that trading volume doubled on 31 May, as foreign institutional investors (FIIs) bought 58 per cent of the value, while they were net sellers on the other days
Leaders of some of India's neighboring countries, such as Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal, are set to attend the oath-taking ceremony
A resolution passed at the meeting said the NDA government will continue working to lift people's living standards for the country's all-round development while conserving its heritage
A look at key Lok Sabha constituencies that sprung a surprise in the 2024 polls
NDA has majority but BJP falls short of 272 as INDIA bloc runs it close; both alliances meet today
Political observers credited SP's choice of candidates, where it fielded non-Yadav OBC and Dalit, its alliance with the Congress and Rahul Gandhi's campaign over Constitution being in danger
After repeated defeats in Lok Sabha and Assembly since 2014, he spent months selecting candidates for parliamentary polls and struck an alliance with the Congress