Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan elevated to Cabinet rank, takes oath of office.Commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman ,Power minister Piyush Goyal ,Parliamentary affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi elevated to Cabinet ranks, takes oath of office.
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(DNA) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Sunday undertake a reshuffle of his council of ministers and nine new ministers including former top bureaucrats will be inducted. PM Modi is going to make significant changes to his Council of Ministers with the power of 4P for Progress. 4Ps are: passion + proficiency + professional and political acumen. Nine new faces in Team Modi are- Shiv Pratap Shukla A Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh, he is a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development. Shukla was elected a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for 4 consecutive times…
(NDTV) In Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mega cabinet reshuffle today, four ministers will be promoted for acing their assessments. Dharmendra Pradhan, Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi will be elevated to cabinet rank.Nirmala Sithara These ministers are mainly seen to be up for a reward for how they translated PM Modi’s flagship schemes into reality. They also reportedly enjoy the confidence of BJP president Amit Shah. Piyush Goyal, the Minister of State for Finance, delivered on the government’s plan to electrify villages and on auctions in the scam-hit coal sector, and also brought about a turnaround in power production. He is seen…
(TOI) Former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan has said that he had cautioned the government about the short-term costs of demonetisation outweighing the long-term benefits, and suggested “alternatives” to achieve the goal of stamping out black money. In his new book, ‘I Do What I Do: On Reforms Rhetoric and Resolve’, due to be released next week, Rajan said that he first gave his opinion orally in February 2016 and, subsequently, RBI submitted a note to the government outlining the steps that would be needed, and the time required, if the Centre went ahead with the move. “The RBI flagged what would happen if preparation was…
(PTI) Four wagons of a goods train were derailed near Hardattpur railway station in Uttar Pradesh today, according to ANI. The incident took place at around 6:00 pm in the Allahabad-Manduadih route. No casualties have been reported so far. The news agency reported that the wagons were fully loaded. Nine trains have been affected due to the derailment. The train was bounded from Ballia to Ghazipur. Divisional Rail Manager (DRM) S.K. Jha and other railway officials took the stock of the situation, as per ANI. Earlier, on August 29, the engine and nine coaches of the Nagpur-Mumbai Duronto Express derailed between…
(TOI) The Modi ministry is set for a major recast — its third in as many years — on Sunday with a slew of elevations and nine inductions with GenNext leaders Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Nirmala Sitharaman tipped to get full Cabinet status and others such as Rajyavardhan Rathore and Jitendra Singh expected to get meatier assignments. The inductions will include former foreign service officer Hardeep Puri and former IAS officer K J Alphons, a former DDA commissioner. Both are not currently MPs. Others are Uttara Kannada MP Anantkumar Hegde, who has a strongman image, former home secretary…
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(NDTV) The Uttar Pradesh police today arrested Dr Kafeel Khan in connection with the deaths of over 60 children in BRD Medical College and Hospital in Gorakhpur last month. He was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) from Gorakhpur, reported news agency ANI. A court on Friday issued non-bailable warrant against Dr Khan and six others in connection with the case. All the seven persons – Kafeel Khan, Manish Bhandari, Uday Pratap Sharma, Sanjay Kumar Tripathi, Satish, Sudhir Kumar Pandey and Gajanand Jaiswal – have been accused by the state government of many irregularities and lackadaisical attitude, which finally…
(PTI) The much-awaited reshuffle in the Modi cabinet will take place on Sunday in which about half-a- dozen ministers are expected to make way for several new faces, including those from the BJP’s allies. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake the third and probably last major recasting of his council of ministers before the next Lok Sabha polls in 2019 and the exercise is being seen as a balancing act between his thrust on merit and demands of realpolitik.”A process has been set in motion for the swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan at around 10 am on Sunday,” a top…
ONGC has partnered with Ekalavya Centre for Organic Agriculture Research and Training (ECOART), Gingurthi village, Tandur Mandal, District Vikarabad, Telangana to support organic farming as a part of its CSR initiative. As a part of this novel initiative, ONGC would construct the Administrative Block and Student dormitories at the ECOART with a financial support of over Rs 4 crore. ONGC through this partnership with ECOART will ensure promotion of organic farming and help attain healthy soil and healthy food for the people at large. It will also promote education and livelihood generation for the youth. Handing over the cheque, Mr…