is future of audio & video phone call here? Pekka Lundmark vijayawada l tuesday l june 11, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l late city EDITION Nokia billed the immersive audio, video call as the biggest leap in live voice calling since the introduction of monophonic telephony. Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark made the first call using the new 3GPP Immersive Voice and Audio Services (IVAS) codec that allows users to hear sound spatially in real time. Imagine getting a call from a relative abroad, and being able to hear everything in their environment as if you are near them CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI Khattar gets housing & power; HDK to handle steel & heavy industries; Chirag food processing Top ministers retain 2.0 charges, Shivraj gets agri, Vaishnaw I&B RAJESH KUMAR THAKUR @ New Delhi There were no surprises in the portfolios allocated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday to his 72-member ministry as all key charges continued to be with his colleagues from the outgoing cabinet. As this newspaper said on Sunday , it indicated continuity while being alive to the needs of coalition dynamics. Heavyweights like Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jaishankar retained their portfolios of defence, home, road transport and highways, finance and external affairs respectively This newspaper had . earlier reported that the BJP was unlikely to part with any of its core ministries — home, defence, finance, external affairs, railways, IT and law — to the NDA allies. Former chief ministers Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Manohar Lal Khattar got the important ministries of agriculture and housing and urban affairs, respectively. Their experience in governance is expected help them deal with the crucial portfolios. Khattar also has the charge of power. Ashwini Vaishnaw, who is credited with the rollout of the Vande Bharat trains and many other mega projects, retained PM Modi chairs the first meeting of his new Cabinet, attended by the newly-inducted ministers in New Delhi on Monday | PTI railways, electronics and information technology The impor. tant portfolio of information and broadcasting got added to his bouquet on Monday . Dharmendra Pradhan and Piyush Goyal retained their education and commerce and industry ministries respectively while Hardeep Singh Puri continues to be the petroleum and natural gas minister. J P Nadda returned to the health ministry he held before he became BJP president. Thanking Modi for letting him retain his portfolios, Shah said the home ministry will continue to accelerate and strengthen security initiatives and introduce new approaches to realise the PM’s vision of a secure Bharat. Also, the ministry of cooperation will remain committed to empowering farmers and villages, he said. As for the allies, former Bihar chief minister and HAM founder Jitan Ram Manjhi got the ministry of MSME. JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy got heavy industries and steel, and JD(U)’s Lalan Singh panchayati raj, fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying. RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary has been allocated the skill development and entrepreneurship ministry while Shiv Sena leader Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao will handle the Ayush ministry . ‘Safeguarding border top priority’ “Safeguarding India’s border will remain our topmost priority and we shall continue protecting India’s integrity & sovereignty,” Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said adding efforts will continue to take defence manufacturing and exports to greater heights now, sena unhappy with mos post A day after the Ajit Pawar-led NCP rejected a Minister of State (MoS) position in the Narendra Modi cabinet saying it wants a Cabinet post, the Eknath Shindeled Shiv Sena said it was not happy with the MoS berth given to it | P8 Know your ministers CABINET MINISTERS Rajnath Singh: Defence Amit Shah: Home; Cooperation Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways J P Nadda: Health; Chemicals and Fertilizers Shivraj Singh Chouhan: Agriculture; Rural Devel. Nirmala Sitharaman: Finance; Corporate Affairs S Jaishankar: External Affairs M anohar Lal Khattar: Housing & Urban Affairs; Power H D Kumaraswamy: Heavy Industries; Steel Piyush Goyal: Commerce and Industry Dharmendra Pradhan: Education Jitan Ram Manjhi: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises L alan Singh: Panchayati Raj; Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying S arbananda Sonowal: Ports; Shipping and Waterways D r Virendra Kumar: Social Justice & Empowerment Pralhad Joshi: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution; New and Renewable Energy Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs Giriraj Singh: Textiles A shwini Vaishnaw: Railways; I&B; Electronics & IT J yotiraditya Scindia: Communications; development of Northeast B hupender Yadav: Environment & Climate Change G ajendra Singh Shekhawat: Culture; Tourism A nnpurna Devi: Women and Child Development K iren Rijiju: Parliamentary Affairs; Minority Affairs H ardeep Singh Puri: Petroleum and Natural Gas M ansukh Mandaviya: Labour and Employment; Youth Affairs and Sports G Kishan Reddy: Coal, Mines Chirag Paswan: Food Processing C R Patil: Jal Shakti MINISTERS OF STATE INDEPENDENT CHARGE R ao Inderjit Singh: Statistics and Programme Implementation; Planning; Culture J itendra Singh: Science and Technology; Earth Sciences; PMO; Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Dept of Atomic Energy; Dept of Space A rjun Ram Meghwal: Law and Justice, MoS in Parliamentary Affairs Kinjarapu gets Aviation, MoS Steel for Varma E x p ress N e w s S er v i c e @ Vijayawada A day after three MPs from Andhra Pradesh were inducted into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet, as expected, three-time Srikakulam MP Kinjarapu Ram Mohan was allotted the Union Civil Aviation portfolio, while first-time Guntur MP Dr Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar was appointed as Minister of State (MoS) for Rural Development and Communication. Both the MPs represent the Telugu Desam Party, which won a total of 16 Lok Sabha seats. The decision to allocate the portfolios of MoS Heavy Industries and Steel to BJP Narasapuram MP Bhupathiraju Srinivasa Varma came as a surprise. This development is significant as it appears that the Central government would not be pushing to disinvest its stake in the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), the corporate entity of Visakhapatnam Steel P4 Plant (VSP). Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu Dr Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar Bhupathiraju Srinivasa Varma
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