PM reshuffles Cabinet, Pranab Mukherjee is new Indian Foreign minister

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.

Cabinet Ministers

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.