Tuesday, October 24, 2006  India Related articles 16 November 2021: Glasgow Climate Pact deal struck; nations to reduce coal usage 25 July 2021: Heavy monsoon rains kill over 100 in India, many thousands evacuated 24 July 2021: According to recent study, deaths in India number roughly 4 million during COVID-19 pandemic 18 April 2021: India records 14 millionth case of COVID-19 amid new surge in infections 26 February 2021: Ahmedabad's Sardar Patel Cricket inaugrated after being renamed as 'Narendra Modi Stadium' Location of India Collaborate! Pillars of Wikinews writing Writing an article Pranab Mukherjee was appointed the External Affairs Minister while veteran Congressman A K Antony took his place as Defence Minister in a minor expansion-cum-reshuffle of his 29-month-old government by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Kannada actor-turned-politician M H Ambareesh made his debut in the Union Ministry as Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting. Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav, an RJD leader and a protege of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, who had to resign last year following allegations of influencing the police in a case of electoral malpractices against his brother, returned to the government, again as Minister of State for Water Resources. Oscar Fernandes took over Ministry of Labour. Manmohan Singh : Prime Minister Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Ministry of Planning Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space Pranab Mukherjee : External Affairs A K Antony : Defence Arjun Singh : Human Resource Development Sharad Pawar : Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Lalu Prasad : Railways Shivraj Patil : Home Ram Vilas Paswan : Chemicals & Fertilizers and Steel S Jaipal Reddy : Urban Development P Chidambaram : Finance Mahavir Prasad : Small Scale Industries, Agro & Rural Industries P R Kyndiah : Tribal Affairs T R Baalu : Shipping; Road Transport & Highways Shankersinh Vaghela : Textiles Kamal Nath : Commerce & Industry H R Bhardwaj : Law & Justice Raghuvansh Prasad Singh: Rural Development Priyaranjan Dashmunsi : Information & Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs Mani Shankar Aiyar : Development of North Eastern Region, Panchayati Raj, Youth Affairs and Sports Meira Kumar : Social Justice & Empowerment A Raja : Environment & Forests Dayanidhi Maran : Communication & Information Technology Anbumani Ramdoss : Health & Family Welfare Sis Ram Ola : Mines Murli Deora : Petroleum and Natural Gas Sushil Kumar Shinde : Power A R Antulay : Minority Affairs Vayalar Ravi : Overseas Indian Affairs Ambika Soni : Tourism and Culture Saifuddin Soz : Water Resources Shibu Soren : Coal Santosh Mohan Dev : Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises P C Gupta : Company Affairs Kapil Sibal : Science & Technology and Ocean Development Ministers of State (Independent Charge) Renuka Choudhury : Women and Child Development Subodh Kant Sahay : Food Processing Industries Vilas Muttemwar : Non-Conventional Energy Sources Kumari Selja : Urban Employment & Poverty Alleviation. Praful Patel : Civil Aviation G K Vasan : Statistics and Programme Implementation Oscar Fernandes : Labour & Employment Ministers of State E Ahamed : External Affairs Suresh Pachauri : Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions and Parliamentary Affairs B K Handique : Chemical and Fertilisers; Parliamentary Affairs Panabaka Lakshmi : Health & Family Welfare Dasari Narayan Rao : Coal & Mines Shaqeel Ahmed : Communications & Information Technology Rao Inderjit Singh : Defence Naranbhai Rathwa : Railways K H Muniappa : Road Transport & Highways M V Rajashekharan : Planning Kantilal Bhuria : Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Manik Rao Gavit : Home Affairs Sri Prakash Jaiswal: Home Affairs Prithviraj Chavan : Prime Minister's Office Taslimuddin : Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. Suryakanta Patil : Rural Development & Parliamentary Affairs Md. Ali Ashraf Fatmi : Human Resource Development R Velu : Railways S S Palanimanikkam : Finance S Regupathy : Home Affairs K Venkatapathy : Law & Justice Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan : Social Justice & Empowerment E V K Elangovan : Textiles Kanti Singh : Heavy Industries Namo Narayan Meena : Environment & Forests Akhilesh Singh : Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Pawan Kumar Bansal : Finance Anand Sharma : External Affairs Ajay Maken : Urban Development M M Pallam Raju : Defence Akhilesh Das : Steel Chandrasekhar Sahu : Rural Development Ashwani Kumar : Industries D Purandareshwari : Human Resource Development Dinshaw Patel : Petroleum & Natural Gas T Subbirami Reddy : Mines Jairam Ramesh : Commerce Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav: Water Resources M H Ambareesh : Information and Broadcasting. "Mukherjee is new Foreign Minister, Antony gets Defence" — DD-News, October 24, 2006 V. Sudhershan, Shanker Chakravarty. "Pranab is External Affairs Minister" — The Hindu, October 24, 2006 Vinod Sharma and Aloke Tikku. "Pranab Mukherjee is EAM, Antony defence minister" — Hindustan Times, October 24, 2006
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