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As Narendra Modi took oath as 15th Prime Minister of India along with his new Cabinet in the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan, as many as 20 members who took the oath are first-time ministers.Among the prominent ones to take the oath were Anurag Thakur, Shiv Sena's Arvind Sawant and S Jaishankar, who served as Foreign Secretary in the first Modi ministry.Here's a list of the full first-time ministers in the second term of the Modi government:Cabinet Ministers1. S Jaishankar2. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank3. Arjun Munda4. Pralhad Joshi5. Arvind SawantMinisters of State1. Prahalad Singh Patel2. G. Kishan Reddy3. Anurag Thakur4. Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre5. Debasree Chaudhuri6. Kailash Choudhary7. Pratap Chandra Sarangi8. Rameswar Teli9. Nityanand Rai10. Rattan Lal Kataria11. V. Muraleedharan12. Renuka Singh Saruta13. Som Parkash14. Angadi Suresh ChannabasappaMinisters of State (Independent Charge)1. Prahalad Singh PatelBJP leaders including Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Dharmendra Pradhan, Prakash Javadekar and Smriti Ir who were a part of the first Modi government, also took oath as Cabinet Ministers.President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy to Modi and ministers at the function which was attended by heads of government and representatives from BIMSTEC countries, besides Prime Minister of Mauritius and President of Kyrgyzstan.Several overseas friends of the party from 15 countries, including the US, Australia, Germany, and the UK, were also invited.Riding high on the planks of muscular nationalism and anti-Congressism, BJP, which had won 282 seats in 2014, improved its tally by notching up 303 seats.Along with its NDA allies, the number swelled to 353 in the 543-member Lower House of the Parliament.With this, Modi became the first Prime Minister outside of Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority since 1971.( With inputs from ANI )

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Union Minister Smriti Ir on Friday slammed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over the delay in commuting the death sentence to the four convicts of Nirbhaya gang-rape case after the review petition of the rapists was dismissed in July 2018. ...

Union Minister Smriti Ir on Friday informed the Lok Sabha that out of 13,77,595 operational Anganwadi Centres (AWCs) across the country, a total of 3,77,712 AWCs are running in rented premises. ...

Union Minister Smriti Ir on Friday said that she was 'saddened' with the alleged misbehaviour of two Congress MPs in the Lok Sabha after she spoke on an attack on a rape survivor in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao. ...

The Congress party on Friday cried foul, alleging that the Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day after taking into consideration the views of the ruling party only. ...

Union Minister Smriti Ir on Friday hit out at MPs of Opposition parties for politicising rape and said that they were quiet when rape was used as a political weapon. ...

Union Cabinet Minister Smriti Irani has expressed anguish over attempted bullying of her daughter. Condemning bullying, she wrote a post on Instagram of her daughter on Friday attaching a selfie of her daughter. Smriti strongly claimed on the post: " ...

As Narendra Modi took oath as 15th Prime Minister of India along with his new Cabinet in the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan, as many as 20 members who took the oath are first-time ministers. ...