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Ramdas Athwale urges Sharad Pawar, his daughter to join union cabinet

The development, Athawale said, is a "big setback and a lesson" for the Shiv Sena which was unwilling to form government with the BJP.

Cabinet okays setting up of National Institute for Sowa-Rigpa in Leh

The National Institute of Sowa Rigpa would identify the best Sowa-Rigpa treatment

Cabinet okays bill to grant ownership rights to unauthorised Delhi colonies

The proposal is applicable to 1,797 identified unauthorised colonies

BPCL privatisation: No Cabinet decision yet on govt's disinvestment plans

It is being speculated that the Union Cabinet may take up a proposal to privatise BPCL as early as next week.

A Rs 25,000 cr push: Here's how govt plans to revive the real estate sector

While the government will act as a sponsor with its Rs 10,000-crore initial contribution to the category-II AIF, SBI and LIC will provide an additional Rs 15,000 crore for the fund

Union Cabinet approves a new process of strategic disinvestment

This was done with a view to streamlining and speeding up the process, reducing the role of administrative ministries which often used to place hurdles in the path of major stake sales

Govt drops plan for easier retrenchment, moots fixed-term employment

The government had earlier proposed allowing factories with up to 300 workers to retrench, lay off, or shut shop without seeking its nod in the Industrial Relations Bill proposed in 2015

Cabinet likely to soon decide on 2 ambitious semi-high speed train projects

Russian Railways will come out with a report on the speed upgrade of the Nagpur-Secunderabad section by September. India and Russia had signed a memorandum of understand for this in December 2015

Cabinet approves MoU between India, Australia on mines safety management

The government Wednesday approved signing of a pact between India and Australia on mines safety. The approval was given by the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "The Union Cabinet...has given its approval for signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Directorate General of Mines Safety (DGMS), Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India and Department of Natural Resource Mines and Energy, Queensland Government, Australia through the Safety in Mines, Testing and Research Station (SIMTARS)," according to an official statement. SIMTARS is known to have exclusive expertise in mines safety management systems. The pact will help in establishing a partnership between DGMS and SIMTARS for the implementation of a risk-based safety management system, providing training, modernising R&D laboratory of DGMS, organising, conference, seminar and other technical meetings, setting up occupations safety and health academy and a national mines disaster ...

Govt okays Rs 3,600 cr for setting up 13 central universities in 11 states

While one university each is to be set up in 11 of these states, Jammu and Kashmir will get two new central varsities

What the Union cabinet approved on Thursday: All you need to know

From re-promulgation of ordinance to improve ease of doing business to $75-billion swap arrangement between India and Japan, the Union Cabinet took some major decisions

No separate guidelines for defence PSUs on JVs

This will meet the goal of indigenisation and self-reliance in this sector

Modi's Cabinet: Key numbers that define them

Analysis of criminal, financial and other background details of union council of ministers post cabinet expansion on 5 July

19 new faces in Modi Govt; Javedekar elevated to cabinet rank

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today carried out a major expansion of his Council of Ministers, inducting 19 new faces, including several dalit and OBC leaders as well as from poll-bound states like UP. Prakash Javadekar, who held the independent charge of environment, was the lone minister promoted to the cabinet rank while all new inductees took oath as ministers of state. Today's exercise underlines BJP's attempts at wooing dalits and OBCs, whose votes would be crucial to its fortunes in key states like UP and Gujarat. All barring Vijay Goel and Faggan Kulaste are new faces while a few have been ministers in BJP-ruled state governments. Ajay Tamta, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Krishna Raj, Ramdas Athawale, Ramesh C Jigaginagi were among the dalit MPs sworn in as ministers by President Pranab Mukherjee at a ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhawan. Others who were inducted in the Modi government included Anupriya Patel, S S Ahluwalia, P P Chadudhary, C R Chaudhary, M J Akbar, J Bhabhor, Purshota