brightpunjabexpress.com CHANDIGARH > THURSDAY, JULY 8, 2021 RNI.No. PUNENG/2018/76070 | VOLUME 3, ISSUE 307 | `3.00 MANPREET SEEKS RAJNATH’S NOD FOR 2 INDUSTRY BEARS THE BRUNT; LARGE HARDIK BOWLING IN INTRA-SQUAD GAME IS MORE SAINIK SCHOOLS IN PUNJAB P03 UNITS ORDERED 3-DAY SHUT DOWN P05 A GOOD SIGN: SURYAKUMAR YADAV P12 PM carries out major overhaul of Cabinet PORTFOLIO ALLOCATION OF CABINET RESHUFFLE SONOWAL, SCINDIA BROUGHT IN; 12 MINISTERS EXIT RAJNATH SINGH: Minister of Defence DHARMENDRA PRADHAN: Minister of AMIT SHAH: Minister of Home Affairs; and Education; and Minister of Skill Development Minister of Cooperation and Entrepreneurship NITIN JAIRAM GADKARI: Minister of Road PRALHAD JOSHI: Minister of Parliamentary Transport and Highways Affairs; Minister of Coal; and Minister of Mines NIRMALA SITHARAMAN: Minister of Finance; NARAYAN TATU RANE: Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Minister of Corporate Affairs SARBANANDA SONOWAL: Minister of Ports, NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR: Minister of Shipping and Waterways; and Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare AYUSH SUBRAHMANYAM JAISHANKAR: Minister of MUKHTAR ABBAS NAQVI: Minister of Minority External Affairs Affairs ANURAG SINGH THAKUR: Minister of VIRENDRA KUMAR: Minister of Social Justice Information and Broadcasting; and Minister of and Empowerment Youth Affairs and Sports NEW DELHI, JULY 7 out by Modi and the BJP GIRIRAJ SINGH: Minister of Rural Seven more women JYOTIRADITYA M. SCINDIA: Minister of Civil top brass through a series Prasad, Javadekar and Vardhan resign Development; and Minister of Panchayati Raj join Modi’s council of Aviation In a major overhaul, Prime of meetings with ministers RAJ KUMAR SINGH: Minister of Power; and RAMCHANDRA PRASAD SINGH: Minister of Minister Narendra Modi ahead of Wednesday's big ministers Minister of New and Renewable Energy Seven more women mem- Steel HARDEEP SINGH PURI: Minister of Petroleum on Wednesday brought exercise. These meetings ASHWINI VAISHNAW: Minister of Railways; in Sarbananda Sonowal, were also held in the wake bers, including Meenakashi and Natural Gas; and Minister of Housing and Minister of Communications; and Minister of Urban Affairs Narayan Rane and Jy- of widespread criticism of Lekhi, Shobha Karandlaje Electronics and Information Technology MANSUKH MANDAVIYA: Minister of Health otiraditya Scindia in the the Central government's and Anupriya Singh Patel, PASHU PATI KUMAR PARAS: Minister of Food and Family Welfare; and Minister of Chemicals Cabinet while dropping handling of the COVID Four senior Union ministers --Ravi Shankar Prasad, joined the council of minis- Processing Industries and Fertilizers as many as 12 ministers crisis. Prakash Javadekar, Harsh Vardhan, Ramesh Pokhriyal ters of Prime Minister Nar- GAJENDRA SINGH SHEKHAWAT: Minister of BHUPENDER YADAV: Minister of Environment, including Health Minister Rane, 69, a Rajya Sabha "Nishank"-- were among 12 ministers who resigned endra Modi on Wednesday, Jal Shakti Forest and Climate Change; and Minister of Harsh Vardhan, IT and MP and a former Maha- on Wednesday ahead of the cabinet reshuffle in the taking the overall female KIREN RIJIJU: Minister of Law and Justice Labour and Employment Law Minister Ravi Shan- rashtra chief minister, was evening. Besides these four, Chemicals and Fertilisers strength to 11 which is one ARJUN MUNDA: Minister of Tribal Affairs MAHENDRA NATH PANDEY: Minister of Heavy kar Prasad and I&B Min- the first to take oath. After Minister D V Sadananda Gowda, Labour Minister SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI: Minister of Women and of the highest. Industries ister Prakash Javadekar. Rane, Sonowal, former Santosh Gangwar, Minister of State for Education Child Development PARSHOTTAM RUPALA: Minister of Fisheries, Fifteen Cabinet ministers Assam chief minister, Sanjay Dhotre, Minister of State for Women and a general secretary, was PIYUSH GOYAL: Minister of Commerce and Animal Husbandry and Dairying and 28 Ministers of State, took oath in English. The Child Development Debasree Chaudhuri, Minister of also sworn-in as a Cabinet Industry; Minister of Consumer Affairs, G. KISHAN REDDY: Minister of Culture; Minister comprising new faces 58-year-old leader has State for Jal Shakti Rattan Lal Kataria and Minister minister. Food and Public Distribution; and Minister of Tourism; and Minister of Development of and those elevated, were earlier served as Union of State for Environment Babul Supriyo also resigned. As many as 28 Minis- of Textiles North Eastern Region sworn in at a ceremony Minister of State (Inde- ters of State took oath held in the Darbar Hall of pendent charge) for Skill Charge) for Power and Sabha MP from Bihar's including seven from Ut- jya Sabha MP from Uttar tarakhand), Chauhan De- jan Singh (Manipur); MPs the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Development and Entre- Union Minister of State Hajipur Pashupati Kumar tar Pradesh which goes to Pradesh, was also sworn- vusinh (Gujarat), were Bharati Pawar (Maharash- While most of the mem- preneurship; and Sports for Commerce & Com- Paras, were also sworn-in polls next year with the in as a Minister of State. also sworn in as MoS. tra), Bishweswar Tudu (Odi- bers took oath in Hindi, and Youth Affairs under munications in the earlier as Cabinet ministers. BJP seeking a second term Rajeev Chandrasekhar Others who took oath sha) and Shantanu Thakur a few of them took it in Prime Minister Modi UPA government. Kiren Rijiju, R K Singh, there. Pankaj Choudhary, and Shobha Karandlaje, as Ministers of State at the (West Bengal) Munjapara English. Congress-turned-BJP Lok Sabha MP from Hardeep Singh Puri, Man- Anupriya Patel, Bhanu MPs from Karnataka; ceremony were Bhagwanth Mahendrabhai (Gujarat), This is the first reshuffle leader Jyotiraditya Scin- Tikamgarh in Madhya sukh Mandaviya, Parshot- Pratap Singh Verma, Darshana Vikram Jar- Khuba (Karnataka); Kapil John Barla and Nisith Pra- in the Council of Ministers dia, a Rajya Sabha MP Pradesh Virendra Ku- tam Rupala, G Kishan Kaushal Kishore, S P S dosh from Gujarat; New Moreshwar Patil (Maha- manik (West Bengal); and by Prime Minister Modi from Madhya Pradesh, mar, Rajya Sabha MP Reddy and Anurag Thakur Baghel and Ajay Kumar-- Delhi Lok Sabha MP rashtra); Pratima Bhoumik BJP's Tamil Nadu state since he assumed charge also took oath as a Cabinet from Odisha Ashwini were elevated to the Cabi- all Lok Sabha MPs from Meenakashi Lekhi; An- (Tripura); Subhas Sarkar president L Murugan. At for a second term in May minister. The 50-year-old Vaishnaw, Rajya Sabha net level. Bhupendra Ya- Uttar Pradesh -- took oath npurna Devi (Jharkhand), (West Bengal); Bhagwat least 16 entrants to the 2019. An extensive and pro- leader was Union Minis- MP from Bihar and JD(U) dav, who has been serving as new Union Ministers of A Narayanaswamy (Kar- Kishanrao Karad (Maha- Council of Ministers are tracted review was carried ter of State (Independent leader R C P Singh, Lok in the BJP organisation as State. B L Verma, a Ra- nataka); Ajay Bhatt (Ut- rashtra); Rajkumar Ran- first time MPs. PTI Trouble for Hooda as SC orders CBI COVID-19 variants of Concern Judge recuses self from hearing Nandigram probe into Rohtak land case poll plea, imposes `5 lakh cost on Mamata found in 174 districts NEW DELHI, JULY 7 commercial sectors in Rohtak KOLKATA, JULY 7 to thwart at the outset at- by the Haryana Urban Devel- COVID CONTROL MEASURES TO BE STRENGTHENED IN NINE STATES tempts by trouble-mongers The Supreme Court on opment Authority (HUDA). Justice Kausik Chanda of to keep the controversy alive. Wednesday directed the However, in April 2005, the NEW DELHI, JULY 7 the Calcutta High Court on "A deliberate and conscious CBI to investigate the award was passed for Wednesday recused from attempt was made to influ- release of land in Hary- 422 acres. In March Variants of Concern of SARS- hearing West Bengal Chief ence my decision before ana's Rohtak to a real 2005, realtor Uddar CoV2 have been found in 174 Minister Mamata Baner- the recusal application estate developer under Gagan Properties Ltd districts in 35 states and union jee's petition challenging the was placed before me for the then Congress gov- entered into collabora- territories in the country with election of BJP's Suvendu judicial consideration on ernment of Chief Min- tion agreements with the highest numbers in Maha- Adhikari from Nandigram, sought. Releasing the elec- June 24," Justice Chanda ister Bhupinder Singh some farmers, whose rashtra, Delhi, Punjab, Telan- while imposing a cost of tion petition of Banerjee, observed pointing at social Hooda. In 2002, about 850 land was supposed to be ac- gana, West Bengal and Guja- Rs 5 lakh for the manner Justice Chanda said that media posts by some TMC acres was proposed for ac- quired for development of a rat, the Union health ministry in which the recusal was he was doing so in order leaders. PTI quisition for residential and colony. IANS said on Wednesday. The Variants of Concern (VOC) detected by the In- lineage, first observed in Ma- In addition to it, ramping up dian SARS-CoV-2 Genom- harashtra, was associated with testing and vaccination, health- Top Hizbul commander killed in encounter ics Consortium (INSACOG) the unusual rise observed in care infrastructure plan- in community samples are several districts of the state. It ning and effective clinical SRINAGAR, JULY 7 police said. Giving details of in Ganders area of Kupwara for questioning. During ques- Alpha, Beta, Gamma and is now found in many states management are among the incident, a police spokes- district on Tuesday evening. tioning, he identified himself Delta. B.1.617.2.1 (AY.1) or in India, the health ministry the measures to be focused A top commander of Hizbul man said Hizbul Mujahideen "During his personal search as Mehrajuddin Halwai @ commonly known as Delta said. INSACOG is a national upon in nine states reporting Mujahideen was killed in an group commander Mehrajud- one grenade was recovered Ubaid, an active terrorist com- Plus variant which signifies multi-agency consortium of a surge in COVID-19 cases, encounter with security forces din Halwai alias Ubaid was from his possession.