Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad takes charge as Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
NEW DELHI: Dr Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad took charge as Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance, here, today. Dr Karad is a first time member of the Rajya Sabha. Active in public service, he has served as Mayor of Aurangabad Municipal Corporation and also as Chairman of Marathwada Legal Development Corporation. Dr Karad is […]
Bhupender Yadav takes charge as Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
NEW DELHI: Bhupender Yadav, has today assumed his charge as Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Speaking with the media on the occasion, the Minister thanked the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving him an opportunity to work for the Government. Yadav said he would make all efforts to deliver on the responsibilities given […]
G.Kishan Reddy takes charge as Union Minister of Development of North Eastern Region;B.L.Verma takes charge as MoS
NEW DELHI: G.Kishan Reddy took charge as Union Minister of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) along with Union Minister of State (MoS) B.L.Verma this afternoon. Speaking to media after taking charge, Reddy said that kind of transformation that took place in the North-Eastern Region in the last seven years in all spheres of life […]
Ajay Bhatt takes over as Raksha Rajya Mantri
NEW DELHI: Ajay Bhatt took over as Raksha Rajya Mantri on July 08, 2021. After assuming charge, he called on Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh at his office in South Block. Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar and other senior officials of Ministry of Defence received Shri Ajay Bhatt and welcomed him into his office. In a […]
Kishan Reddy takes charge as Union Culture Minister; Meenakshi Lekhi,Arjun Ram Meghwal also take charge as MoS
NEW DELHI: Union Minister Shri G Kishan Reddy took charge as Union Culture Minister at Shastri Bhavan in New Delhi today. Simultaneously, Meenakshi Lekhi and Arjun Ram Meghwal also took the charge as Ministers of State in M/o Culture. Reddy has also been assigned the charge of Union Minister of Tourism as well as Development of […]
Ashwini Vaishnaw assumes office in Rail Bhavan, Electronics Niketan and Sanchar Bhavan
NEW DELHI: Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Railways, Communication, Electronics & Information Technology, assumed office in Rail Bhavan , Electronics Niketan & Sanchar Bhavan here today i.e. 08th July, 2021 Vaishnaw (born in 1970) is a Member of Rajya Sabha from Odisha. He served the people of Sundergarh, Balasore, Cuttack and Goa. He earned Master’s […]
Anupriya Patel takes charge as Minister of State of Ministry of Commerce and Industry
NEW DELHI: Anupriya Patel took over the charge as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry here today. Patel was elected to the Lok Sabha, from the constituency of Mirzapur in the 2014 and again in 2019. She was also the Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family […]
Danve Raosaheb Dadarao takes charge as Minister of State Coal and Minister of State Mines
NEW DELHI: Danve Raosaheb Dadarao took over as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Coal and Ministry of Mines here today. In addition to Coal and Mines, he has also been assigned the portfolio of Minister of State in the Ministry of Railways. Union Minister Pralhad Joshi extended his best wishes to Shri […]
Narendra Modi’s New Cabinet: Who get’s what – Full List
NEW DELHI: The Narendra-Modi led government allocated portfolios to its new ministers on Wednesday in a major reshuffle. About 15 Cabinet ministers, including some new faces, were sworn-in at the swearing in ceremony held in the Darbar Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhawan. This is the first reshuffle in the Council of Ministers by Prime Minister […]
Jindal Steel announces over Rs 1 trillion investment in Odisha in next 10 years
NEW DELHI: Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) will invest over Rs 1 lakh crore in Odisha to create employment opportunities in the state, its Chairman Naveen Jindal has said. The industrialist said this responding to a meeting chaired by Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday in which five major industrial projects worth Rs […]
Odisha approves 5 mega steel projects worth Rs 1.46 lakh crore investment
BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha government Tuesday accorded in-principle approval for five different projects having 27.5 MT steelmaking capacity at an investment of Rs 1.46 lakh crore, official sources said. The state, which started its steel making journey from just 2 million tonne per annum (mtpa) in 2000, has so far enhanced the capacity to generate 30 […]
SS Sandhu replaces Pushkar Singh Dhami as Uttarakhand chief secretary
NEW DELHI: A day after Pushkar Singh Dhami took over as Uttarakhand’s new chief minister, senior IAS officer SS Sandhu was appointed as the state’s new chief secretary on Monday, replacing Om Prakash. A 1988-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, Sandhu was on deputation at the Centre as the chairman of the National Highways Authority […]
Ministry of Tourism signs MOU with YATRA.COM
NEW DELHI: Ministry of Tourism, Government of India to strengthen the Hospitality & Tourism Industry signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Yatra on 02nd July 2021. The event was organized under the arrangement between Ministry of Tourism and Quality Council of India (QCI) for implementing measures for strengthening the Indian Hospitality & Tourism Industry. The […]
KIET Group of Institutions makes contribution to Chikankari industry
NEW DELHI: Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University along with ‘One District and One Product, Government of Uttar Pradesh jointly organized the ODOP Hackathon 2021, in which KIET group of Institution Mr. Sachin Rathore, Assistant Professor & Faculty advisor – won the first place for his remarkable work while their students, Deepanshu and Divyansh were […]
Omaxe sells commercial, housing properties worth Rs 2,051 crore last fiscal
NEW DELHI: Realty firm Omaxe has sold properties worth Rs 2,051 crore in 2020-21, up 18 per cent from the previous fiscal, mainly on the back of better demand for its commercial projects in the national capital and Chandigarh. Omaxe is developing a multi-level parking cum commercial project Omaxe Chowk at Chandni Chowk in the […]
Toll collection in June rises to Rs 2,576 crore as states ease curbs: NHAI
NEW DELHI: With the easing of lockdown in most states and rise in the traffic movement on the highways, toll collection in June 2021 increased to Rs 2,576.28 crore, 21 per cent higher than Rs 2,125.16 crore collected in May this year, NHAI said on Friday. The National Highway Authority of India in a statement […]