Uttara Kannada MP Ananth Kumar Hegde to take oath along with 9 new ministers

DHNS
September 3, 2017

New Delhi, Sept 3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will induct nine new faces, including BJP leader from Karnataka Anantkumar Hegde, in the council of ministers at Sunday's swearing-in ceremony to be held on Sunday morning.

Another leader from South to be inducted into the Union Cabinet is Alphons Kannanthanam, a retired IAS officer from Kerala famously known as Delhi's "demolition man". Modi has given preference to his state of Uttar Pradesh in the cabinet reshuffle as he has opted for former union home secretary Raj Kumar Singh, former Mumbai police commission Satpal Singh and Shiv Pratap Shukla to reinforces his team. Along with them, Ashwini Kumar Chaubey of Bihar, Virendra Kumar of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan's Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and diplomat Hardeep Puri too will fill up vacancies that arose after six ministers were asked to resign to take other responsibilities. Besides, three more slots were vacant post-Manohar Parrikar was shifted to Goa as CM, Anil Madhav Dave's death and M Venkaiah Naidu was elevated to become Vice President of India. Their portfolios were shared by other ministers.

Like finance minister Arun Jaitley was holding the additional charge of the defence ministry, science and technology minister Dr Harsh Vardhan was looking after environment ministry and rural development minister Narendra Singh Tomar was also taking care of urban development and textiles minister Smriti Irani stood up for information and broadcasting ministry.

Since late Thursday night, six ministers - Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Sanjeev Balyan, Faggan Singh Kulaste, Kalraj Mishra, Mahendra Nath Pandey and Bandaru Dattatreya - had put in their papers giving the directions of BJP president Amit Shah.

In identifying these fresh names, Modi, said government sources, attempts to accomplish the "power of 4Ps for P" which stood for "Passion + Proficiency + Professional & Political acumen – for Progress". The BJP leader who will be inducted into the government is going to be strategically placed in key ministries, especially focusing on last mile delivery directly to the people. They come from varied walks of life, bringing in their unique professional perspective and proficiency to the Council and any of them also bring rich administrative and governance experience, said government sources.

Of the nine leaders from the BJP, only Puri and Kannanthanam are not members of either of two Houses of parliament. The two will have to become an MP in six months time after they take the oath. Due to the exit of Naidu and Parrikar, there are two vacancies in Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan and UP respectively.

However, portfolios for new faces and of some existing ministers is expected to be announced after the oath taking exercise slated at 10.30 am at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday.

Union Cabinet's re-making exercise became a challenge for Modi as who will be the new defence minister remained unclear till Saturday evening after surface transport minister Nitin Gadkari's expressed his reluctance to move on in the cabinet.

Senior ministers Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and Nitin Gadkari went into huddle at Rajnath Singh's house late last night in this regard. Suspense stretched since the same lot of senior union ministers again met at Singh's residence on Saturday.

Though Suresh Prabhu had offered to quit for train mishap, there's also still no clear word on who will be the next railway minister

The BJP two important NDA allies -- Shiv Sena and JDU -- interestingly stated Saturday that they have no information about the Sunday's Cabinet rejig and are hearing about it only through the media. "We have no information, no talks about it. We got information only from media," Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar told reporters in Patna. Shiv Sena chief Udhav Thackeray echoed similar views in Mumbai. "I have got news about the Cabinet expansion only from media. I have not enquired about it (from the central BJP leadership). I have neither received any communication from anybody nor are we hungry for power," Thackeray stated in Mumbai.

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June 7,2020

The Himachal Pradesh police have confirmed the arrested a man for injuring a pregnant cow by feeding her wheat flour ball laced with firecrackers. 

The cow’s jaw was blown off-- reprising the tragic story of a pregnant elephant that lost its life after eating a pineapple stuffed with a firecracker in Kerala.

While the incident took place on May 26 in Jhandutta area of Himachal Pradesh’s Bilaspur district, it came to light only on Saturday, May 6, when the cow’s owner, Gurdayal Singh, uploaded a video of the injured animal on social media.

In the video, Gurdiyal Singh describes how the cow’s mouth had been injured after one Nandlal fed her explosives.

He confirmed that Nandlal works as a mechanic in Singh’s neighbourhood. Singh said that Nandlal has no remorse for his action. Nandlal has said that he is not scared of the repercussions and that he will continue to do whatever he deems fit. “Even the village sarpanch cannot harm me”, challenged Nandlal when confronted by Singh. 

The cow has given birth to a healthy calf since but Singh said the animal is still not able to eat because of an injured jaw and is being administered Glucose.

The video went viral with people demanding strict action against the person who fed firecrackers to the animal.

The practice of studding dough balls with firecrackers isn’t uncommon in Himachal, and farmers resort to this to keep wild animals, especially boards, off their fields. In the Kerala incident too, the explosive-filled-fruit was meant for wild boars. In many parts of the country, including Himachal, the method is also used to hunt for bush meat -- an illegal practice.

Bilaspur superintendent of oolice (SP) Devakar Sharma confirmed the incident and said the cow was fed a highly explosive firecracker popularly called “aalu bomb”. 

Aalu is Hindi for potato. He said a case under Section 286 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act has been registered and the role of the neighbours named by Singh is being investigated.

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Colleen Rock
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Tuesday, 9 Jun 2020

Someone needs to educate these disgusting Indian pigs. Religious? After what they do to women and animals? They are less than animals. A disgrace to their God and the human race. Sadly, officials are corrupt and those that aren't are powerless.

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April 22,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 22: With seven more people tested positive for COVID-19, the total number of cases now stands at 425 as of date in Karnataka, informed state health department on Wednesday.

Out of the total COVID-19 cases, 17 people have died and 129 have been discharged.
These seven new cases came to light in the last 24 hours.

With 1383 more cases and 50 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, India's total number of positive COVID-19 cases stands at 19,984, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday.

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July 16,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 16: Life is a journey that cannot be imagined without traveling but the prevailing COVID-19 situation has made the whole world come to a standstill.

This pandemic has not only limited the modes of transportation for people all across India but also forces them to look for safer, convenient, and comfortable travel options. Private charter services are thus seen as the best alternative.
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The group previously has an experience of over six years of running helicopter charter service operations successfully under Ghodawat Enterprises Pvt Ltd.

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This company had started its operations in January 2019 to connect the unconnected by providing world-class flight services at an affordable cost.

Since then it is continuing on its endeavour and gaining immense trust nationwide. It provides services to many Indian cities like Bengaluru, Belagavi, Indore, Kalaburagi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and Ajmer (Kishangarh).

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