Current Affairs 27^th May 2014 | Cabinet Ministers and their Portfolio

Narendra Modi took charge as 15^th Prime Minster of India

27.05.2014: Narendra Modi took charge as 15^th Prime Minster of India.

Cabinet Ministers and their Portfolio

27.05.2014:

Narendra Modi: Portfolios of Pensions, Public Grievances, Personnel, all important policy issues, Department of Space and Department of Atomic Energy.

Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs

Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs and Overseas Indian Affairs

Ramvilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs Food and Public Distribution

Gopinathrao Munde: Rural Development, Panchayat Raj, Drinking water and Sanitation

Dr.Najma A Heptulla: Minorities Affairs

Sushri Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation

D.V Sadananda Gowda: Railways

Nitin Jairam Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways Shipping

M.Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development, Housing and Urban poverty Alleviatin, Parliamentary Affairs

Arun Jaitley: Finance, Corporate Affairs Defence.

Dr.Harsh Vardhan: Health and Family Welfare

Smriti Zubin Irani: Human Resource Development

Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment

Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture

Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs

Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment

Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries

Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil Aviation

Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology Law and Justice

AnanthKumar: Chemicals and Fertilisers.

Maneka Sanjay Gandhi: Women and Child Development.

Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Ministers of Delhi State and their Portfolio

27.05.2014:

General VK Singh: Development of Northern Eastern Region (Independent Charge) External Affairs Overseas Indian Affairs

Shripad Yesso Naik: Culture (Independent Charge) Tourism (Independent Charge)

Inderjit Singh Rao: Planning (Independent Charge) Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge) Defence

Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)

Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Textiles (Independent Charge), River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Water Resources, Parliamentary Affairs

Prakash Javadekar: Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge), Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs

Sarbananda Sonowal: Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge), Entrepreneurship and Skill Development

Nihalchand: Chemicals and Fertilizers

GM Siddeswara: Civil Aviation

Piyush Goyal: New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), Power (Independent Charge)

Manoj Sinha: Railways

Nirmala Sitharaman: Corporate Affairs, Finance, Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge)

Dr.Jitendra Singh: Department of Space, Department of Atomic Energy, Public Grievances & Pensions, Personnel, Prime Minister office, Earth Science (Independent Charge), Science & Technology (Independent Charge)

Sudarshan Bhagat: Social Justice and Empowerment

Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment

Raosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

Manusukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal Affairs

Dr.Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture Food Processing Industries

Krishan Pal: Road Transport and Highways Shipping

Kiren Rijiju: Home Affairs

Radhakrishnan P: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Upendra Kushwaha: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking water and Sanitation

New CEO of Jet Airways is Cramer Ball

27.05.2014: New CEO of Jet Airways is Cramer Ball. New CFO of this company is Naresh Goyal.

Best PSU of the year Award achieved by HAL

27.05.2014: Best PSU of the year Award achieved by HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited). Award received at BMA’s 61^st Anniversary Awards function which is held in Bangalore. Award was received by AK Mishra HAL’s Director Finance from RV Deshpande Karnataka Minister of Higher Education and Tourism.

AMWAY India CEO arrested by Andhra Pradesh Police

27.05.2014: AMWAY India CEO William S Pinckney arrested by Andhra Pradesh Police. Police had taken him into custody in Gurgaon and brought to Kurnool town. At the end of 2013, a case filed against him stating that he is following unethical practices in product selling and money circulation. He was arrested under the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act 1978 PCMCS.

Good will ambassador of 35^th National Games is Sachin

27.05.2014: Good will ambassador of 35^th National Games is SachinTendulkar. These games will held in January- February 2015. 7 cities of the state will participate in these games.

European Drug Report 2014 Released

27.05.2014: European Drug Report 2014: Trends and Developments Released. Report released by EMCDDA (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction). Major highlights of the report are,

In 2012 in Europe, around 6100 overdose deaths were reported, number of deaths in 2009 was 7100 and number of deaths is 6500 in 2011.

17 million people were dying in the rest of Europe and nearly 39 Britons were dying from drug dose per million population.

IAF MIG 21 Aircraft Crashed

27.05.2014: on National Highway in Bijbehara of Anantnag district in South Kashmir IAF MIG 21 Aircraft Crashed. In this crash Pilot Squadron Leader Raghu Banshi died. Co-poilet was taken to Srinagar Hospital. It was crashed in the open field due to this there is no property loss and no person died.

First Act of New Cabinet is Setting up SIT to dig black Money

27.05.2014: with the intension to dig the black money, first set taken is setting up SIT (Special Investigation Team). This team was formed after holding bilateral talks with the SAARC Nations heads. In the first cabinet meeting Modi discussed about train accident in Uttar Pradesh and SIT.

Narendra Modi had a discussion with Nawaz Sharif

27.05.2014: Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India had a discussion with Nawaz Sharif when Sharif visited to India on the oath ceremony of Modi. They had discussed about Mumbai terror attack in 2008 and Mutual concern over the terrorism and Commitment of fight terrorism.

Package of Pollution cutting measures announced by Brazil to make more eco friendly

27.05.2014: Package of Pollution cutting measures announced by Brazil to make more eco friendly in FIFA World Cup 2014. Scheme is to green passport smart phone application. During FIFA World Cup 2014, carbon emission will rise to 1.4 million tonnes.

Military Coup announced in Thailand

27.05.2014: In the 4^th week of May 2014, Military Coup announced in Thailand by Commander in Chief General Prayuth Chan ocha. Marital law imposed in Thailand by the army before 20^th May 2014.These incidents were happening due to refuse of step down of care taken government which is headed by Prime Minister Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan. After step down of Yingluck Shinawatra Prime Minister Government due to abuse of power, Constitutional Court of Thailand ordered to take care of the government by appointing Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan as caretaker Prime Minister.