EasternChroniWINDOW TO THE EAST cle WEATHERWATCH HAITI PRESIDENT JOVENEL GST COLLECTIONS KEEP alive ITALY BOOK SPOT IN FINAL Max 30°c Moïse killed in attack at hope of 6.8% fiscal deficit in after trumping Spain in Min 25°c home P 6 FY22 P 9 penalties P 10 Humidity 80% VOL XII, ISSUE 414 PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM SILCHAR GUWAHATI KOLKATA PAGES: 10 epaper at: www.easternchronicle.net PRICE `9 THURSDAY, JULY 8, 2021 Modi reshuffles Cabinet; Sonowal, Major reforms in Assam forest department soon: CM Scindia brought in; 12 ministers exit AGENCIES AGENCIES Charge) for Power and Union minister. GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Min- Minister of State for Commerce Earlier, four senior Union ister Himanta Biswa Sarma NEW DELHI: Effecting a big & Communications in the earlier ministers — Prasad, Javadekar, on Wednesday said major reshuffle, Prime Minister UPA government. Vardhan, Pokhriyal — were reforms will soon be initiated Narendra Modi on Wednes- Lok Sabha MP from among 12 ministers who in the forest department so day brought in Sarbananda Tikamgarh in Madhya Pradesh resigned on Wednesday ahead that incidents like elephants Sonowal, Narayan Rane and Virendra Kumar, Rajya Sabha of the cabinet reshuffle. death in Bamuni Hills in Jyotiraditya Scindia as Cab- MP from Odisha Ashwini Besides these four, Chemicals Nagaon, where rampant de- inet ministers while drop- Vaishnaw, Rajya Sabha MP and Fertilisers Minister D V forestation had taken place, ping as many as 12 ministers from Bihar and JD(U) leader R Sadananda Gowda, Labour do not reoccur. including Health Minister C P Singh, Lok Sabha MP from Minister Santosh Gangwar, At an event to celebrate Harsh Vardhan, IT and Law Bihar’s Hajipur Pashupati Minister of State for Education the 72nd Van Mahotsav week Minister Ravi Shankar Pras- Kumar Paras, were also sworn- Sanjay Dhotre, Minister of organised by the environment ad and I&B Minister Prakash in as Cabinet ministers. State for Women and Child and forest department, Sarma Sarbananda Sonowal takes oath as Cabinet minister on Wednesday. Javadekar. Kiren Rijiju, R K Singh, Development Debasree said, accountability will be On the occasion of 72nd VanMahotsav week, Chief Minister Himanta As many as 15 Cabinet minis- minister, was the first to take Sports and Youth Affairs under Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Chaudhuri, Minister of State fixed and strict action will be Biswa Sarma took part in a mega plantation program organised by ters, including some new faces, oath. Prime Minister Modi. Mandaviya, Parshottam Rupala, for Jal Shakti Rattan Lal taken against erring officials if Environment & Forest Dept at the AIIMS construction site at Changsari in were sworn-in at the swearing After Rane, Sonowal, former Congress-turned-BJP lead- G Kishan Reddy and Anurag Kataria and Minister of State forests are put at risk. Kamrup on Wednesday. in ceremony held in the Darbar Assam chief minister, took oath er Jyotiraditya Scindia, a Thakur were elevated to the for Environment Babul Supriyo Eighteen elephants, includ- Division in May. programmes carried out under Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhawan. in English. The 58-year-old lead- Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya Cabinet level. also resigned. ing five calves, died due to The chief minister said Compensatory Afforestation While 13 members took oath in er has earlier served as Union Pradesh, also took oath as a Bhupendra Yadav, who has Prasad and Javadekar had electrocution by lightning at that drone surveys will be Fund Management and Hindi, two took in English. Minister of State (Independent Cabinet minister. The 50-year- been serving in the BJP organ- also been the face of Cabinet the Kondoli Proposed Reserve conducted for verifying the Planning Authority (CAMPA) Rane, 69, a Rajya Sabha MP charge) for Skill Development old leader has been Union isation as a general secretary, briefings, announcing key Forest under Nagaon Forest authenticity of tree plantation and other... Pg 5 and a former Maharashtra chief and Entrepreneurship; and Minister of State (Independent was also sworn-in as a Cabinet Cabinet decisions... Pg 5 COMPLETE LIST OF NEW Assam police Seven cadres of CABINET MINISTERS Former CM Sonowal’s roller-coaster Ranjan Singh sworn-in shoots 2 criminals newly formed 15 Cabinet ministers journey to 2nd time berth in Modi cabinet MNLF surrender have been inducted in escape bid as cabinet minister AGENCIES before police 1. Narayan Rane GUWAHATI: In yet another sim- AGENCIES 2. Sarbananda Sonowal GUWAHATI: Sarbananda Sonowal, who rose from lar incident, Hajo Police on GUWAHATI: At least seven cad- 3. Virendra Kumar the rough and tumble of student politics to as- Wednesday morning shot two IMPHAL: Manipur Lok Sabha res of the newly formed MNLF 4. Jyotiraditya Scindia sume the chief minister’s chair in Assam, is criminals and left them in- MP Dr RK Ranjan Singh was surrendered before the police 5. Ramchandra Prasad back for his second innings in the Modi Cabinet jured during an escape bid. inducted as a Minister of State on Wednesday following a Singh after a reshuffle on Wednesday. The two criminals have been (MoS) in the much-awaited joint operation carried out by 6. Ashwini Vaishnaw As a dynamic student leader who went on to join identified as Fazal Hoque and union cabinet expansion of police forces from Arunachal 7. Pashu Pati Kumar Paras the state’s most prominent regional party AGP, Zakir, and both are residents Prime Minister Narendra Pradesh and Assam. 8. Kiren Rijiju before switching to the saffron camp, Sonowal of Hajo. Modi-led central government. GP Singh, Special DGP, Assam 9. Raj Kumar Singh was Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s obvious The incident took place at President Ram Nath Kovind Police took to Twitter to say, “In 10. Hardeep Singh Puri choice for the job of Assam’s chief minister when sakamtoli area of Hajo when two administered the oath of office Manipur’s Dr RK Ranjan Singh pursuance to efforts made by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, "I am proud 11. Mansukh Mandaviya he scripted BJP’s historic first electoral victory in at Shri Sarbananda Sonowal getting a berth in the Union criminals attempted to escape and secrecy to members of coun- member of the Parliamentary Tinsukia Police, seven misguid- 12. Bhupendra Yadav any northeastern state, five years ago. Cabinet. I recall with pride my long personal association police custody, and to stop the cils at the Darbar Hall in New Standing Committee on ed youngsters who had formed 13. Parshottam Rupala Before being entrusted with running Assam, with Sri Sonowal and great opportunities that we had to attemp the police fired, ehile Delhi. Environment and Forest, is Moran National Liberation 14. G Kishan Reddy Sonowal who started out life as president of stu- work together, for prosperity of Assam. I shall continue to injurinh both during the process. Ranjan Singh, 69, a gov- among the 43 leaders joining Front have returned to Assam. 15. Anurag Singh Thakur dents’ body AASU, was inducted... Pg 5 learn, and draw strength from him." Meanwhile, Pg 5 ernment retired officer and a the cabinet berth. Pg 5 Few of them are minors.” Pg 5 28 ministers of states have been inducted Tripura MP Pratima Bhowmik Lambda variant of Covid not Meenakshi Lekhi: From 1. Pankay Chaudhary 2. Anupriya Singh Patel inducted in Union cabinet media face to Union Minister 3. Satya Pal Singh Bhagel reported in India so far: expert 4. Rajeev Chandrasekhar CHRONICLE NEWS SERVICE AGENCIES 5. Shobha Karandlaje AGENCIES in India, Dr Yadav said, "No, so 6. Bhanu Pratap Singh AGARTALA: Member of Par- far India has not reported any NEW DELHI: A popular face of Verma liament from West Tripura NEW DELHI: The lambda variant case of lambda variant." the BJP and a good orator, 7. Dardhana Vikram constituency Pratima Bhow- of COVID-19 has not been re- A new COVID-19 strain called Meenakshi Lekhi has for long Jardosh mik made space among the 43 ported in India so far, sources 'Lambda' is much more danger- articulated and advocated 8. Meenakshi Lekhi new MPs slated to be sworn said on Wednesday. ous than the Delta variant, said the party's policies and pro- 9. Annpurna Devi in as union ministers. Earlier, Speaking to a news agency, the UK Health Ministry adding grammes while taking on her 10. A Narayanaswamy Bhowmik and her colleague Dr Pragya Yadav, head of the that it has been detected in more political opponents before she 11. Kaushal Kishore MP Rebati Tripura from East National Institute of Virology's than 30 countries in the past four found a place in the Union 12. Ajay Bhatt Tripura seat left for Delhi to Maximum Containment weeks. On Monday, the UK Council of Ministers. 13. BL Verma participate in the crucial meet- hard for the party in the 2018 Facility, "Lambda variant has Health Ministry tweeted, "The Fifty-four-year-old Lekhi, who A law graduate of Delhi 14. Ajay Kumar ings pertaining to the central state assembly elections but been detected in 30 countries. to mRNA vaccine-elicited anti- Lambda strain was reported to took oath as a Union Minister University, she has taken up 15. Chauhan Devusinh cabinet expansion. However, failed to win from her home Lambda variant was first report- bodies and convalescent serum have originated from Peru, the of State on Wednesday on her various important issues such 16. Bhagwanth Khuba her name was approved and constituency Dhanpur against ed from Peru, in December 2020. was able to neutralize the lamb- country with the highest mor- second term as the MP from the as permanent commission for 17. Kapil Moreshwas Patil as per the issued list she is go- former Tripura Chief Minister The number of cases reported da variant." tality rate in the world." prestigious New Delhi constitu- women officers in the armed 18.
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