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 ■ ■ HYDERABAD l tuesday l june 11, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 16 l LATE CITY EDITION HDK to handle steel and heavy industries; Chirag food processing; Rammohan civil aviation Top ministers retain 2.0 charges, Shivraj gets agri, Vaishnaw I&B Coal & Mines for Kishan, Bandi gets MoS Home 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 to 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 railways, electronics and infor- ma n d a ra v i n d er re d d y @ Hyderabad Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairs the first meeting of his new Cabinet, attended by the newly inducted ministers, at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg in New Delhi on Monday | PTI Safeguarding border top priority: Rajnath “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 mation technology The impor. tant portfolio of information and broadcasting got added to his bouquet on Monday . JP Nadda returned to the health ministry he held before becoming BJP chief. Thanking Modi for letting him retain his portfolios, Shah said the home ministry will continue to 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 CM and HAM founder Jitan Ram Manjhi got the MSME ministry JD(S) leader HD Ku. maraswamy got heavy industries and steel, and JD(U)’s Lalan Singh panchayati raj, fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying. TDP’s K Rammohan Naidu has be given civil aviation. LJP (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan was allocated food processing. RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary has been allocated the skill development ministry while Shiv Sena leader Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao will handle Ayush. Now, Sena says it’s not happy with MoS post | p8 state BJP president G Kishan Reddy, sworn in as minister in the new Narendra Modi Cabinet on Sunday, has been allocated Coal and Mines. An important portfolio, it is also significant due to the presence of Singareni Collieries in the state. BJP national general secretary Bandi Sanjay Kumar, the other leader from Telangana to get a berth in the Union Council of Ministers, received MoS Home. Bihar BJP leader Nityanand Rai is the other MoS in charge of the portfolio and they would both work under Amit Shah, the Cabinet Minister for Home Affairs. Kishan, who was in charge of Tourism, Culture and Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) in the outgoing Modi Cabinet, was expected to get a plum portfolio after the BJP doubled its tally in the state. The Singareni coal belt area is spread out across erstwhile A d i l a b a d , K a r i m n a g a r, Warangal and Khammam districts. While the BJP has become stronger in Adilabad and Karimnagar, its work is cut out in Khammam and Warangal. CONTINUED ON P4 Imagine getting a call from a pal abroad & being able to hear everything as if you are near them. Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark made 1st call using new tech that allows users to hear sound spatially Know your ministers CABINET MINISTERS Rajnath Singh: Defence Amit Shah: Home; Cooperation Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways J P Nadda: Health; Chemicals and Fertilisers Shivraj Singh Chouhan: Agri; Rural Development 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, Waterways Dr Virendra Kumar: Social Justice Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu: Civil Aviation P ralhad 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; DoNER B hupender Yadav: Environment, Forest & CC 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 C hirag Paswan: Food Processing C R Patil: Jal Shakti MINISTERS OF STATE INDEPENDENT CHARGE R ao Inderjit Singh: Statistics and Programme Implementation; Planning; Culture MoS J itendra Singh: Science and Technology; Earth Sciences; MoS in PMO; MoS in Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; MoS in the Dept of Atomic Energy; MoS on Dept of Space A rjun Ram Meghwal: Law and Justice, MoS in Parliamentary Affairs J adhav Prataprao Ganpatrao: Ayush; MoS in Health and Family Welfare J ayant Chaudhary: Skill Development and Entrepreneurship; MoS in Education E x p r ess Re a d `500 crore Dharani fraud: 10 held for taking over govt land Sharif greets Modi in first exchange after elections Hyderabad: Ten people, including three outsourced employees handling Dharani portal, have been arrested for alleged illegal possession of five-acre government land in Manikonda worth over `500 crore. Three employees at Rangareddy Collectorate office colluded with private individuals and submitted documents to the collector seeking approval, police said | P3 New Delhi: Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif on Monday congratulated Narendra Modi in the first communication between the estranged neighbours after the latter took oath as India’s PM. “My warm felicitations to Modi Ji on assuming office for third time. Let us replace hate with hope & seize the opportunity to shape the destiny of the 2 billion people of South Asia,” Sharif posted on X | P7 Arjun Erigaisi WORLD NO.4 IN LIVE chess RATINGs AHEAD OF GUKESH, PRAGG & Anand Warangal prodigy speaks to TNIE about Carlsen calling him a ‘mad man’, Kramnik ‘going nuts’ & support for chess in TG | P11
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