- Saturday, April 27, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
Prime minister Narendra Modi named a female legislator as India’s new defence minister on Sunday (3), the first time a woman has been appointed to the key portfolio overseeing border tensions with China and Pakistan. Nirmala Sitharaman’s appointment in a cabinet reshuffle will ease the burden on Arun Jaitley, who had been juggling finance and defence throughout a months-long impasse with China over a strategic Himalayan plateau. Modi also dropped Suresh Prabhu as railways minister, less than a week after he offered to resign following a train accident in August that killed 10. Nine junior ministers were sworn in and four…
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