All about Modi's newly appointed cabinet ministers and their portfolios

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inducted four cabinet ministers, three ministers of state (Independent Charge) and 14 ministers of state in his first cabinet expansion and the portfolios were decided later. Former Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar is the new defence minister while finance Minister Arun Jaitley who earlier held the Defence portfolio as an additional charge has now been given the Information and Broadcasting Ministry's additional charge. JP Nadda, who also took oath as a Cabinet minister, gets the portfolio of Health and Family Welfare, which was earlier held by Dr Harsh Vardhan. Harsh Vardhan has been shifted to the Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Ministry which has been stripped off from Jitendra Singh, who has got Independent charge of Development of North Eastern Region.