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Buoyed by a landslide victory in 12 of the 15 Assembly by-elections held on December 5, an elated Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Monday declared that all the winning party candidates would be made ministers in the ensuing…

Names of several Bhopal-based journalists have emerged in the high-profile honey-trap and extortion racket of Madhya Pradesh. The journalists allegedly having a role in the case, include a resident editor of a Hindi newspaper, a cameraman…

For the second consecutive Sunday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, along with other cabinet ministers and IAS officers at the secretary rank are attending a day-long session on leadership development at Indian Institute of…

He, however, was forced to resign on July 31, 2011 after being indicted by the Lokayuktha, the state anti-corruption body, for his alleged role in the multi-crore mining scam that rocked the southern state for a decade between 2001-11.

As expected, former Congressman and Leader of Opposition in the state Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil joined as a Minister, and another long-time contender Mumbai BJP President Ashish Shelar was also inducted.

School and Mass Education Minister Badri Patra donated Rs 1,94,000 (two months’ salary) for relief and restoration work. Similarly, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Bikram Arukh donated Rs 3 lakh (three months’ salary).

The ministers who took oath are A. Indrakaran Reddy, Eatala Rajender, Koppula Eshwar, T. Srinivas Yadav, V. Prashanth Reddy, S. Niranjan Reddy, V. Srinivas Goud, E. Dayakar Rao, Malla Reddy and G. Jagadishwar Reddy.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath has distributed portfolios to his council of ministers, keeping a few departments like Public Relations and Employment among others with himself, an official said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday issued its first list of 177 candidates for the single-phase November 28 Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections and dropped three ministers, including Urban Development Minister Maya Singh, from the list.

In order to ensure proper implementation of schemes and programmes of the State Government, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has instructed his ministers to carry out field visit of districts.