27 May 2014 Current Affairs
Film Winter Sleep Honoured with Palme d'Or Award At Cannes Film Festival
The richly ruminative Chekhovian drama " Film Winter Sleep " was honoured with Palme d'Or Award at the 67th Cannes Film Festival held in Cannes from 16 May to 25 May 2014. The film has been directed by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Winter Sleep is the second film by a Turkish director to win the highest honour of Cannes Film festival. Earlier in 1982, the film The Way directed by Turkish Directors Yilmaz Guney and Serif Goren won the Plame d'Or Award.
Portfolios of the Union Council of Ministers
23 cabinet ministers, 10 Ministers of State (MoS) with independent charge and 12 MoS took oath along with Narendra Modi. With this Narendra Modi’s council of ministers presently comprises of 45 ministers.
Narendra Modi : Prime Minister , Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions , Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space , All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister List of Cabinet Ministers with Portfolios :- 1) Rajnath Singh – Home Minster 2) Sushma Swaraj – External Affairs & Overseas Indian Affairs 3) Arun Jaitley – Finance Corporate Affairs & Defence 4) M. Venkaiah Naidu – Urban Development Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation & Parliamentary Affairs 5) Nitin Jairam Gadkari – Road Transport and Highways Shipping 6) D.V. Sadananda Gowda – Railways 7) Uma Bharati – Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation 8) Dr. Najma A. Heptullah – Minority Affairs 9) Gopinathrao Munde – Rural Development, Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water and Sanitation 10) Ramvilas Paswan – Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution 11) Kalraj Mishra – Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises 12) Maneka Gandhi – Women and Child Development 13) Ananthkumar – Chemicals and Fertilizers 14) Ravi Shankar Prasad – Communications and Information Technology & Law and Justice 15) Ashok Gajapathi Raju – Civil Aviation 16) Anant Geete – Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises 17) Harsimrat Kaur Badal – Food Processing Industries 18) Narendra Singh Tomar – Mines & Steel Labour and Employment 19) Jual Oram – Tribal Affairs 20) Radha Mohan Singh – Agriculture 21) Thaawar Chand Gehlot – Social Justice and Empowerment 22) Smriti Zubin Irani – Human Resource Development 23) Dr. Harsh Vardhan – Health and Family Welfare List of Minister of State :- Nihalchand - Chemicals and fertilizers GM Siddeshwara - Civil Aviation Manoj Sinha - Railways Upendra Kushwaha - Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation Radhakrishnan P - Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Kiren Rijiju - Home Affairs Sanjeev Kumar Balyan - Agriculture,Food Processing Industries Krishan Pal - Road Transport and Highways, Shipping Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava - Tribal Affairs Raosaheb Dadarao Danve - Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Vishnu Deo Sai - Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment Sudarshan Bhagat - Social Justice and Empowerment Minister of State with Independent Charge: - Dharmendra Pradhan - Petroleum and Natural Gas Prakash Javadekar - Information and Broadcasting Piyush Goyal-Power - Coal, New and Renewable Energy Inderjit Singh Rao - Planning, Statistics and Programme Implementation, Defence Nirmala Seetharaman - Commerce and Industry , Finance , Corporate Affairs Dr. Jitendra Singh - Science and Technology General VK Singh - Development of North Eastern Region, External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs Santosh Kumar Gangwar - Textiles, Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Shripad Yesso Naik - Culture, Tourism Sarbananda Sonowal - Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports