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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1630 GMT, July 7
08 Jul 2021, 03:18 GMT+10
KABUL Afghanistan s National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) are getting prepared for counter-offensives to regain control of the lost districts amid Taliban militants advances towards big cities with the latest attack launched on Qala-e-Naw city, the capital of the western Badghis province on Wednesday. Taliban militants who have reportedly captured more than 100 districts since the start of the U.S.-led forces withdrawal from Afghanistan on May 1 have been attempting to tighten the noose around big cities. (Afghanistan-Security-Taliban) - - - - TOKYO The Japanese government is slated to declare another state of emergency over COVID-19 in Tokyo as infections rebounded in the capital, where the Olympic Games are scheduled to open about two weeks later, local media reported Wednesday.
Ashwini Vaishnaw, Dharmendra Pradhan, Anurag Thakur among big gainers in cabinet rejig
As many as 43 ministers, including new and old, took oath on Wednesday evening and the portfolios were distributed soon after.
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Updated: Jul 8, 2021, 06:50 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has completely revamped the Union Council of Ministers by inducting new faces and restructuring the portfolios.
A new entrant to the cabinet, Ashwini Vaishnaw will be the new Railways, Communications and IT Minister. Earlier, Ravi Shankar Prasad was heading the Communications and IT Ministry, while the Railways portfolio was with Piyush Goyal.
Newly-promoted Cabinet minister Anurag Thakur has been made the new I&B Minister, besides holding the Sports portfolio. Thakur was earlier the Minister of State for Finance. The I&B portfolio was earlier with Prakash Javadekar, who is out of the Cabinet now. Sports ministry was held by Kiren Rijiju, who will now be the new Law Minister.
Ranchi: The induction of Koderma MP Annapurna Devi into the Union cabinet will not prove to be beneficial in any way for the people of Jharkhand as the BJP’s national leaderships treats its 16 MPs from Jharkhand (12 Lok Sabha and four Rajya Sabha) as bonded labours, the JMM claimed on Wednesday.
“Despite being a 16-member strong contingent, two of them Union ministers Arjun Munda and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi the BJP Parliamentarians from Jharkhand failed to secure additional grants for the state. They even failed to get Jharkhand its due share of GST and mining royalties. Now the induction of Annapurna-Ji will be of little help to the state as BJP treats its MPs from Jharkhand as bandhuwa mazdoors (bonded labourers),” JMM general secretary Supriyo Bhattacharya said.
Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, July 7
08 Jul 2021, 02:18 GMT+10
WASHINGTON The confirmed death toll in the partial collapse of a 12-story residential building in Surfside, in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida, has risen to 46 after the search and rescue team discovered 10 more victims in the rubble, local media reported on Wednesday. Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah told family members in a private briefing on Wednesday morning that 10 more bodies and additional human remains had been pulled from the site of the collapse. (US-Florida-Building Collapse) - - - - NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi carried out a major reshuffle of his cabinet of ministers on Wednesday, inducting some new faces and removing as many as 12, bringing about an all inclusive face of the government.