Full Charge of Control and Rolled Down at Least 300 Ft Off the Road in Longleng Town
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WWW.EASTERNMIRRORNAGALAND.COM EASTERN MIRROR Woman as Defence minister sends Gauri Khan collaborates Lewis Hamilton goes top global message: Jaitley | P8 with Ralph Lauren | P10 after Italian GP win | P12 NATION ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS VOL. XVI NO. 242 | PAGES 12 ` 4/- RNI NO. NAGENG/2002/07906 DIMAPUR, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2017 India gets woman defence Long-way down in Longleng town minister in cabinet reshuffle New Delhi, Sep. 3 (IANS): Nir- (India), it's a recognition by the par- BJP man from Kerala to get a place which was taken away from Vijay mala Sitharaman was on Sunday ty which overwhelms me," she said. in the union ministry after party Goel. promoted and appointed as India's In the third reshuffle of the veteran O. Rajagopal who served Goel became MoS without in- Defence Minister in a surprise ministry in three years, Nitin Gad- under Atal Bihari Vajpayee. dependent charge and has been giv- move by Prime Minister Narendra kari, who held Road Transport and Former Mumabi Police chief en portfolios of Parliamentary Af- Modi, who elevated three others to Highways and Shipping, also got Satya Pal Singh got Human Re- fairs and Statistics and Programme the cabinet and brought in nine new the Water Resources, River Devel- source Development, Water Re- Implementation. In addition to faces including four former bureau- opment and Ganga Rejuvenation sources, River Development and sports, he also held Water Resourc- crats in a reshuffle-cum-expansion Ministry that was taken away from Ganga Rejuvenation as Minister es, River Development and Ganga of his ministry based on perform- Uma Bharti, who moved to Drink- of State -- held by Balyan. Both are Rejuvenation. ance. ing Water and Sanitation. Earlier from western Uttar Pradesh. S.S. Ahluwalia has been shift- Power Minister Piyush Goyal, there was speculation that Uma The other five new Ministers of ed from Parliamentary Affairs to also promoted from Minister of Bharti could be dropped. State are Shiv Pratap Shukla (Fi- Drinking Water and Sanitation un- State with independent charge to In all, six ministers resigned nance), Ashwini Choubey (Health der Uma Bharti. the Cabinet, got the railways portfo- ahead of the reshuffle: Kalraj and Family Welfare), Virendra Ku- Giriraj Singh, who was MoS in lio, from which Suresh Prabhu was Mishra (Cabinet), Rajiv Pratap mar (Women and Child Develop- Micro, Small and Medium Entre- On Sunday, at around 10 am, a Bolero car bearing registration number NL O2 C- 0194 lost shifted to Commerce and Industry Rudy and Bandaru Dattatreya ment and Minority Affairs), Anant- prises Ministry, got full charge of control and rolled down at least 300 ft off the road in Longleng town. According to an update that was with Sitharaman. Prabhu (MoS independent charge), Faggan kumar Hegde (Skill Development the ministry after the resignation of received here, the travellers inside the vehicle escaped unhurt. Residents of the town (as could had offered to quit after a major rail Singh Kalaste, Sanjeev Balyan and and Entrepreneurship) and Gajen- Cabinet Minister Kalraj Mishra. be seen in the picture) helped in retrieving the mangled remains of the vehicle. accident in Uttar Pradesh claimed Mahendra Nath Pandey. dra Singh Shekhawat (Agriculture Another MoS who got elevated 23 lives last month. Of the other two ministers pro- and Farmers Welfare). as independent charge was Santosh The promoted ministers and moted were Petroleum and Natural Shukla, a Rajya Sabha member Gangwar, who was shifted from Fi- the new faces were administered Gas Minister Dharmendra Prad- from Uttar Pradesh, has served as nance to Labour and Employment Acharya wishes Onam harmony the oath of office and secrecy by han, who also got Skill Develop- cabinet minister in the state for eight after incumbent Bandaru Dat- Dimapur, Sep. 3 (EMN): Kerala. ing in Nagaland.’ President Ram Nath Kovind at a ment and Entrepreneurship from years and is known for his work in tatreya resigned. The other MoS in Governor PB Acharya has A Raj Bhavan press “May this festival usher 35-minute ceremony at the Rashtra- Rudy. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi also rural development, education and Finance, Arjun Ram Meghwal, is extended greetings on the rerelease on Sunday con- in the true spirit of unity, pati Bhavan, attended among others joins the Cabinet, retaining the Mi- prison reforms. now Minister for Parliamentary Af- occasion of Onam, cel- veyed wishes from the gov- harmony and prosperity in by new Vice President M. Venkaiah nority Affairs Ministry. Virendra Kumar is a six-time fairs and Water Resources. ebrated as harvest festival ernor ‘particularly to the the society”, it quoted the Naidu, Modi, BJP President Amit Among the four bureaucrats in- Lok Sabha member from Madhya Culture Minister Mahesh Shar- by people from the state of Malayalee community liv- governor as wishing. Shah, Leader of the Opposition ducted into the government, three Pradesh. Hegde, a Lok Sabha MP ma shed Tourism and got Environ- in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi have been made Ministers of State from Uttara Kannada, is seen as a ment, Forest and Climate Change Azad and family members of the with independent charge: former rabble-rouser, having won five elec- but as MoS under Harsh Vardhan. some new ministers. Home Secretary R.K. Singh, a Lok tions. Assembly elections are due P. Radhakrishnan, Minister of State Outlawed NSCN (K) still Sitharaman became the second Sabha member from Bihar, got in Karnataka early next year and in in Shipping, lost Road Transport woman to head the Defence Min- Power and New and Renewable Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan in and Highways and got Finance. istry after Indira Gandhi when she Energy portfolios held by Goyal the later part. Sunday's exercise did not in- hesitant of joining peace talks was Prime Minister. The Defence while former diplomat Hardeep Shekhawat, a first time MP from volve BJP allies Shiv Sena and Ja- Dimapur, Sep. 3 (EMN): faction (NSCN-K) is yet to While reporting that Ministry was with Finance Minister Puri secured Housing and Urban Jodhpur in Rajasthan, is a techno nata Dal-United or new friend AI- Despite numerous calls take a call on joining the the NSCN (K) had ‘unilat- Arun Jaitley. Affairs. savvy progressive farmer seen as a ADMK. from Naga civil groups to peace process.’ The report erally’ withdrawn from a Reacting to her appointment, "Demolition Man" K.J. Al- role model for the rural community. The strength of the Modi min- the banned (by the govern- was filed from Delhi. 14-year old ceasefire with Sithraman said she felt very hum- phons has been made MOS with Modi also utilized the oppor- istry now rose to 76 including the ment of India) NSCN (K) “A cross-section of the Indian government, the bled and she cannot describe her independent charge in Tourism and tunity to change some portfolios. Prime Minister. Twenty-eight are in to engage in peace talks Naga social activists that newspaper also declared recognition in words. Electronics and IT ministries. Puri Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore got the Cabinet, 11 are of the rank of with New Delhi, the armed this newspaper spoke to that ‘unofficial figures’ put "The party and the Prime Min- and Alphons are not MPs and will a promotion when he was given Ministers of State with independ- Naga group is yet to decide also viewed the NSCN the number of Indo-Naga ister have been very supportive. As have to get elected to Parliament in the portfolio of Youth Affairs and ent charge and 37 are Ministers of on ‘joining the peace proc- (K)’s involvement as well casualties at ‘about 50,000’ an ordinary worker from the south six months. Alphons is the second Sports with independence charge State. ess’, according to a report as that of the other fac- even as ‘government figures filed by The Asian Age on tions as very important for say about 3,000’. Sunday. a final solution to one of “While a separate con- A report carried by the the world’s longest run- stitution has been ruled Kohima taxi driver found Charges of misappropriated newspaper on Sunday quot- ning insurgencies. Many out and the last demand is ed “a top (and unidentified) Naga civic organisations understood to have been dead in suspected murder funds fabricated: Ibobi Singh Myanmar-based function- like the Naga Mothers’ As- put in the ‘backburner for Our Correspondent day and told her that he was going ary of the banned NSCN- sociation, Naga Hoho and now,’ the framework for the Kohima, Sep. 3 (EMN): A man to ferry some passengers to Wok- Imphal, Sep. 3 (IANS): Former Singh and others a "political ven- K” as saying so. ““We do the Eastern Nagaland Peo- agreement includes a con- identified as Swüdüve Nakro ha (from Kohima). Manipur Chief Minister Okram detta". receive calls from several ples’ Organisation (ENPO) cept of ‘shared sovereignty’ was found dead on Sunday near After failing to get in touch Ibobi Singh on Sunday termed the "It is very regrettable that the sections asking to return to have been trying to get the and special constitutional Dzüvüzie, between Chiechama with him through his mobile charges against him of misappropri- name of the former chief minister peace saying with our in- NSCN (K) involved in the privileges to safeguard the village and Nachama village junc- number, family members were ating funds as "fabricated". is thus tarnished. It smacks of a po- volvement in the process no talks process. traditional rights of Nagas tion under Kohima district. said to have filed a case at the The Congress leader, who is litical vendetta," party lawmaker N final settlement can be pos- “In August, Nagaland with due recognition of the Chiephobozou Police said South PS Kohima on Saturday in New Delhi, told IANS over the Loken said on Sunday, but added sible, we have however not chief minister TR Zeliang, uniqueness of their history.