Ajanta Neog (PTI PHOTO)
GUWAHATI: Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday allocated the finance portfolio to the lone woman member of his cabinet Ajanta Neog, making her the first female finance minister of the state. In the last NDA government, Sarma had held this portfolio.
Sarma kept the departments of home, personnel and public works and any other departments not allotted to any minister with him. Neog will hold the additional responsibility of the social welfare department. Ally AGP’s Keshab Mahanta was given the crucial health department amid the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic after Sarma himself had successfully carried out the responsibilities of this department last year. Mahanta will also be in charge of science and technology and information technology departments.
House Democrats and White House Reach Deal Over Testimony by Ex-Trump Aide
A terse announcement signaled a possible end to a long-running constitutional lawsuit. But former President Donald J. Trump is not a party to the arrangement.
Donald F. McGahn II, a White House counsel under President Donald J. Trump, with Jared Kushner at the White House in 2017.Credit.Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
May 11, 2021
WASHINGTON The Biden administration and House Democrats have reached a tentative deal to allow President Donald J. Trump’s former White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, to testify before Congress about Mr. Trump’s efforts to obstruct the Russia inquiry, according to a court filing late Tuesday.
MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena on Wednesday said Maharashtra Congress leaders may say that they do not read Sena mouthpiece Saamana , but Congress chief Sonia Gandhi had taken note of its article which asked why her party could not defeat the incumbent governments in Assam and Kerala.
An editorial in the Marathi publication also sought to know who was responsible for the lack of grass-root leadership in the Congress, whose history dates back to the freedom struggle.
It also said the Congress will have to function as a strong opposition party in future .
The Congress suffered a drubbing at the hands of the ruling BJP in Assam and the LDF in Kerala during the recently held Assembly polls in the two states.
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