ANANTH KUMAR SURESH PRABHU PIYUSH GOYAL
Lok Sabha Speaker election today: NDA’s Om Birla wins key Parliament post
Lok Sabha Speaker Elections: In a historic election on Wednesday, Om Birla was re-elected as Lok Sabha Speaker after a motion by Prime Minister Narendra Modi received overwhelming support. Despite the opposition INDIA bloc fielding Congress' K Suresh, Birla secured the majority vote. This marks the fifth instance of a Speaker serving beyond one Lok Sabha tenure. The election underscores the evolving political dynamics and the opposition's strategic attempts to assert influence in the new parliamentary session, setting the stage for future interactions.
Modi 3.0 is here! Familiar faces, fresh additions, and the big portfolio puzzle
In a grand ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan, Narendra Modi and his team of 71 took oath, marking the start of Modi 3.0. This new term retains key members from the previous government while introducing many fresh faces. The focus now shifts to the allocation of portfolios.
Old team, new beginnings: Big four intact, PM Modi sends big message
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.
BJP releases second list of 72 candidates for Lok Sabha elections; check out the full list here
Other major names on the list include Union Minister Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur, Union Minister Piyush Goyal from Mumbai North, BJP national media in-charge Anil Baluni from Garwhal, and Deve Gowda's son-in-law CN Manjunath from Bangalore Rural.
Congress, other Opposition parties walk out of RS over Jharkhand issue
Opposition parties in India, led by Congress, have walked out of the Rajya Sabha over the Jharkhand governor's failure to make interim arrangements for governance after JMM leader Hemant Soren resigned as chief minister. Congress president Mallikharjun Kharge compared the situation to the case of neighboring Bihar, where Nitish Kumar resigned as chief minister and was immediately accepted, asked to continue until a new government was formed, and sworn in again.
The Economic Times Startup Awards Special
Several hot-button issues were discussed on the sidelines of the ceremony, which featured a panel discussion and speeches by union ministers Piyush Goyal and Ashwini Vaishnaw, and Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai.
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72 Rajya Sabha members to retire by July, House pays farewell
The retiring members include, A K Antony, Ambika Soni, P Chidambaram, Anand Sharma, Jairam Ramesh, Suresh Prabhu, Praful Patel, Subramanian Swamy, Prasanna Acharya, Sanjay Raut, Naresh Gujral, Satish Chandra Mishra, M C Mary Kom, Swapan Dasgupta and Narendra Jadhav.
ET Startup Awards Special
Flipkart group CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy said the ET Startup Awards celebrated the spirit of entrepreneurship, renewed energy and enthusiasm. Shashank Kumar, cofounder of Razorpay, said the awards "provided a great opportunity to meet and connect with startup founders in person after a very long time".
ONDC to end e-commerce monopolistic practices, ensure data privacy: Piyush Goyal
"Goyal deliberated with the members of the advisory council & experts on how the initiative will democratise digital commerce and move it from platform-centric model to an open-network model," commerce and industry ministry said in a statement after Goyal chaired a meeting of the advisory council.
COVID-19 surge: Fresh supply of medical oxygen sent to some government, private hospitals in Delhi
Dr Suresh Kumar, medical director of the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital, said a truck carrying oxygen from a vendor reached the facility around 3 am.
Suresh Prabhu urges commerce ministry to address issues of service exporters
As per the Foreign Trade Policy (2015-20), only two months are left for claiming SEIS benefits for the year 2019-20, according to the letter dated January 21, 2021.
Amit Shah to head panel on Air India disinvestment
DIPAM has already prepared a fresh proposal for Air India sale.
Railway officials asked to travel in general class, take passengers feedback
His suggestion follows Chairman Railway Board Vinod Kumar Yadav's instructions to officials Monday to travel by trains on official trips.
Piyush Goyal to continue railway reforms, eyes more exports at commerce ministry
Back at the railway ministry, Goyal will try to keep zero-accident record intact, grow traffic.
Naresh Goyal puts in bid for Jet Airways
It couldn't be immediately ascertained whether Goyal has partnered with any entity or airline for the bid.
Initiatives taken during my stint in railways are now yielding results: Suresh Prabhu
Suresh Prabhu said in the three years, when he was the railways minister, all the backlog of track renewal was completed.
Suresh Prabhu confident of meeting $100-billion FDI target by 2020
Other major deals included Unilever buying out GSKs consumer business in the country for over Rs 31,700 crore, Schneider Electric, TPG Capital, KKR, Softbank, and Alibaba among others.
Global Business Summit begins: PM Narendra Modi star speaker, FM’s speech highlight of day 1
The first day of the two-day event, in its fifth edition this year, will host FM Arun Jaitley’s special address, which will be followed by an exclusive interaction with ET.
PM Narendra Modi, 4 key ministers to speak at ET GBS 2019
On February 22, FM Arun Jaitley, who shepherds the world’s fastest growing large economy, will deliver his special address.
Railways gets Rs 2,600 crore for revamp of 19 stations
The IRSDC will redevelop the identified railway stations on its own, said a railways official.
GoM may decide fate of RCEP trade negotiations today
The RCEP consists of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
Railways' recent move to decentralise authority is helping it move much faster
The latest change is not without its critics, however. Some argue that it has amounted to diluting checks and balances and might spawn corruption.
Union Ministers to highlight government's fight against black money
Prakash Javadekar will speak to media in Bengaluru and Piyush Goyal in Ahmedabad. Union minister Jayant Sinha has also been drafted for the exercise, sources said.
Railways may get renewable energy push under Piyush Goyal
Railways has an ambitious target to source 25% of its energy requirement from renewable energy sources by 2025 by setting up 5,000 mw of capacity.
Railway minister Piyush Goyal orders quick replacement of old tracks
Piyush Goyal directed the board officials to expedite procurement of new rails to complete laying of tracks in pending projects and eliminate unmanned level crossings within a year.
Piyush Goyal faces tough task of putting railways back on track
The new minister has the tough task of regaining people's confidence in the state-run transporter which has been hit by a spate of derailments and deaths.
Hard taskmaster Piyush Goyal on new track as Railway Minister
Goyal did the difficult job of implementing Udaan scheme in the Power sector but keeping the Rails in track could be a differtent cup of tea altogether.
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