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