Besides big four, PM s core team of ministers have also retained their portfolios. Nitin Gadkari (road transport and highways), Piyush Goyal (commerce and industry), Dharmendra Pradhan (education), Sarbananda Sonowal (ports, shipping and waterways), Virendra Kumar (social justice and empowerment), Ashwini Vaishnaw (railways, electronics and information technology), Hardeep Puri (petroleum and natural gas) and Bhupender Yadav (environment, forest and climate change) will continue running the ministries they were handling in the last five years. Some of them have shed additional portfolios that were allocated when others left the council of ministers in the past.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi largely reposed faith in the team from his previous administration, retaining the same Big Four cabinet members who comprise the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) as portfolios were announced on Monday evening.
Gadvasu V-C Dr Inderjeet Singh completes his term after four years. The appointment of a new head is awaited as the process has not been initiated. Dr Singh highlights his achievements and contributions during his tenure at the university.
Two unidentified men posing as locksmiths steal Rs 2 lakh cash and 400 gm gold jewellery from a house in Ludhiana. The incident was reported by a dairy owner from Friends Colony.
A heartbreaking story of a father who bought new clothes for his son ahead of Eid, only to now await his son's body to be recovered from the river. The incident involved a group of youngsters who went for a bath in the Satluj river, resulting in four feared drowned. Police have recovered two bodies and are still searching for the remaining two.