Wednesday 29 April 2015

News Headlines

1-Chennai-born Raja Rajeswari is  New York City’s first Indian woman judge.


2-Earlier on Tuesday, Congress leader Ajay Maken said on Twitter: “AAP Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar's law degree found fake. Should be sacked immediately and vacate assembly
seat for fresh election."



3-The HRD Minister Smriti Irani addressed Dr. Sugata Bose directly with her finger pointed at him while replying to a debate in the Lok Sabha.


4-The Union government has cancelled licences of nearly 9,000 NGOs for violation of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA).


5-There was a case of bird hit with the SpiceJet airplane SG 160 at 11.10 a.m. on Tuesday. Thankfully, everyone is safe on the plane,” R.N. Shinde, Director of the
Srinagar airport, told . Mr. Shinde said 176 passengers were on board the Jammu-Srinagar flight.



6- No rate reduction by 70 banks despite two cuts by RBI.


7-The former BCCI Secretary Sanjay Patel suspended for financial fraud.He was removed from his primary membership by the Baroda Cricket Association on allegations of financial
irregularities.



8- Former Coca-Cola veteran, Idi Srinivas Murthy, joins the leadership team as Senior Vice President, Marketing at Snapdeal.


9-Indonesia keen to beef up trade ties with India. The bilateral trade between the two countries stood at about $16 b in 2014.


10- Prize money is increasing by 7 % at Wimbledon this year, with 1.88 million pounds ($2.85 million) going to the men’s and women’s singles champions.


11-Govt. selects 45 athletes for assistance under Target Olympic Podium (TOP) scheme .

Current Bank Policy Rates (Latest Important Policy Rates in Indian Banking - 2015)





Bank Rate

8.50%

Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)

4.00%

Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR)

21.50%

Repo Rate under LAF

7.50%

 

Reverse Repo Rate under LAF

6.50%

 

Marginal Standing Facility (MSF)
8.50% 

Tuesday 28 April 2015

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)




General V.K. Singh- Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), Overseas Indian Affairs, External Affairs
Santosh Kumar Gangwar- Textiles (Independent Charge)
Inderjit Rao- Planning (Independent Charge), Defence
Bandaru Dattatreya- Labour and Employment (Independent Charge).
Dr. Mahesh Sharma- Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge), Civil Aviation
Rajiv Pratap Rudy- Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs
Shripad Yesso Naik- AAYUSH (Independent Charge), Health & Family Welfare
Prakash Javadekar- Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge)
Piyush Goyal- Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)
Jitendra Singh- Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
Nirmala Sitharaman- Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)
Dharmendra Pradhan- Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
Sarbananda Sonowal- Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)

List of Cabinet Minister & Their Constituency



S.No

Minister Name

Ministery / Department

Constituency

1.

Rajnath Singh

Home Affairs

Lucknow

2.

Sushma Swaraj

External Affairs; Overseas Indian Affairs

Vidisha (MP)

3.

Suresh Prabhu

Railways

Rajya Sabha Haryana

4.

Manohar Parrikar

Defence

Panaji

5.

Arun Jaitely

Finance; Corporate Affairs; Information & Broadcasting

Rajya Sabha Gujrat

6.

M. Venkaiah Naidu

Urban Development; Housing & Urban PovertyAlleviation ; Parliamentary Affairs

R.S.* Karnataka

7.

Nitin Gadkari

Road Transport & Highways; Shipping

Nagpur Maharashtra

8.

D.V.Sadananda Gowda

Law & Justice

Udupi (Karnataka)

9.

Uma Bharti

Water Resources; River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation

Jhansi UP

10.

Dr. Najma Heptulla

Minority Affairs

R.S.* MP

11.

Dr. Harsh Vardhan

S&T; Earth Science

Chandni Chowk Delhi

12.

Ramvilas Paswan

Consumer Affairs; Food & Public Distribution

Hajipur Bihar

13.

Kalraj Mishra

Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises

Deoria UP

14.

Maneka S. Gandhi

Women & Child Development

Pilibhit UP

15.

Ananth Kumar

Chemicals & Fertilizers

Banglore South

16.

Ravi Shankar Prasad

Communication & Information Technology

   -

17.

Jagat Prakash Nadda

Health & Family Welfare

   -

18.

Chaudhary Birendra Singh

Rural Development; Panchayati Raj; Drinking Water & Sanitation

   -

19.

Ashok Gajpati Raju Pasupati

Civil Aviation

Vizianagaran Andhra Pradesh

20.

Anant Geete

Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises

Raigad Maharashtra

21.

Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Food Processing Industries

Bhatinda Punjab

22.

Narendra Singh Tomar

Mines; Steel

Gwalior MP

23.

Jual Oram

Tribal Affairs

Sundargad Odisha

24.

Radha Mohan Singh

Agriculture

Purvi Champran, Bihar

25.

Thaawar Chand Gehlot

Social Justice & Empowerment

R.S.* MP

26.

Smriti Z. Irani

Human Resource Department

R.S*. Gujrat

 


* R.S.- Rajya Sabha