OTHER MAJOR CHANGES

FINMIN REJIG: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley relieved of defence. Junior ministers Santosh Kumar Gangwar and Arjun Ram Meghwal replaced by Pon Radhakrishnan and Shiv Pratap Shukla

SWITCHING JOBS: Piyush Goyal replaces Suresh Prabhu at railway ministry. Prabhu goes to commerce and industry

GOING UP: Dharmendra Pradhan elevated to Cabinet, gets skill development and entrepreneurship

BONANZA FOR BUREAUCRATS: Former bureaucrats, Raj Kumar Singh, Hardeep Singh Puri, Alphons Kannanthanam, and Satyapal Singh inducted

GENDER BALANCE: In a first, two women — Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj — in the Cabinet Committee on Security