Accepting Murli Deora's resignation as corporate affairs minister, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday inducted his son Milind as one of the new faces in his council of ministers.

The junior Deora,

Trinamool Congress MP Mukul Roy, party chief Mamata Banerjee's Man Friday who had defied Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was not only denied a cabinet rank on Tuesday but also shunted out as minister o

In a substantive yet incomplete exercise, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday dropped seven ministers, inducted V. Kishore Chandra Deo and seven other new faces, and elevated three others including Jairam Ramesh from whom environment and forests has been taken away.

Following is the list of new ministers in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Council of ministers:
Cabinet Ministers

Jayanthi Natarajan, the only woman face from Tamil Nadu in the Congress and a known loyalist of the Nehru-Gandhi family, makes a comeback to the Union Council of ministers after a gap of nearly 13 years.

BJP on Tuesday described the Cabinet reshuffle as a “damp squib” and insisted that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has failed to reassure the nation and dispel the “gloom shadowing the UPA government”.

Dinesh Trivedi, a trained pilot now in charge of the vast Indian railway network, has for long been Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's point man in New Delhi.

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Is the mantra of elevation lying in a lucky room in the home ministry?

Three ministers of state who have occupied it have been subsequently promoted in the last two years.

The Trinamool Congress, the second largest partner in the Congress led-United Progressive Alliance government, is happy with the Cabinet reshuffle as the party has managed to retain the railways ministry.

President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday accepted the resignation of seven ministers, including DMK’s Dayanidhi Maran and Murli Deora of Congress, from the Union council of ministers, on the recommendation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.