Who gets which portfolio? List of portfolios of coalition government announced
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Bengaluru, June 8: Portfolios of the ministers in the JD-S-Congress coalition government in Karnataka were allocated on Friday, two days after the ministry was expanded.
"Governor Vajubhai Vala has allocated the portfolios to all the 27 cabinet ministers, including the Deputy Chief Minister of the Congress, on the advice of Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy," said Raj Bhavan in a communique.
According to the notification, Kumaraswamy will hold 11 portfolios, including Finance, Energy, Textiles, Infrastructure Development, Public Enterprises, Information and Public Relations, and Personnel.
Deputy Chief Minister G. Parameshwara has been allocated three portfolios -- Home, Bengaluru City Development and Youth Empowerment and Sports.
H.D. Revenna (JD-S), the elder brother of Kumaraswamy and second son of party supremo H.D. Deve Gowda, got Public Works Department (PWD) excluding Ports and Inland Transport.
The portfolios allocated to the other ministers are:
R.V. Deshpande (Congress) - Revenue excluding Muzrai and Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood.
Bandeppa Khashempur (JD-S) - Co-Operation.
D.K. Shivakumar (Congress) - Major and Medium Irrigation and Medical Education.
G.T. Devegowda (JD-S) - Higher Education.
K.J. George (Congress) - Large & Medium Scale Industries and IT, BT & Science and Technology.
D.C. Thammanna (JD-S) - Transport.
Krishna Byregowda (Congress) - Rural Development & Panchayat Raj, Law, Justice and Human Rights and Parliamentary Affairs and Legislation.
M.C. Manguli (JD-S) - Horticulture.
N.H. Shivashankara Reddy (Congress) - Agriculture.
S.R. Srinivas (JD-S) - Small Scale Industries.
R.L. Jarakiholi (Congress) - Municipalities and Local Bodies.
Venkatrao Nadagouda (JD-S) - Animal Husbandry and Fisheries.
Priyank Kharge (Congress) - Social Welfare.
S. Puttaraju (JD-S) - Minor Irrigation.
U.T. Abdul Khader (Congress) - City Corporations, excluding BBMP and subjects pertaining to Bengaluru City and Urban Development Authorities and Housing.
Sa Ra Mahesh (JD-S) - Tourism and Sericulture.
Zameer Ahmed Khan (Congress) - Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs.
N. Mahesh (BSP) - Primary and Secondary Education.
Shivanand Patil (Congress) - Health and Family Welfare.
Venkataramanappa (Congress) - Labour.
Rajashekhar Basavaraj Patil (Congress) - Mines & Geology and Muzrai.
C. Panduranga Shetty (Congress) - Backward Classes Welfare.
R. Shankar (KPJP) - Forest, Ecology and Environment.
Jayamala (Congress) - Women & Child Development and Kannada & Culture.
The 27-member ministry has 15 ministers from the Congress, including Deputy Chief Minister and 10 from JD-S, including the Chief Minister, and one from its ally Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and one Independent.
As Karnataka can have a maximum 34-member ministry under the Constitutional provisions, there is still space for seven ministers. As per the coalition agreement, six of these posts are reserved for Congress and one for JD-S.
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Online fraud: Hotel chef from Udupi cheated of over Rs 1 lakh by WhatsApp contact
Udupi: Udupi City Police have registered a case of online fraud after a 62-year-old hotel chef was allegedly cheated of Rs 1.13 lakh by a woman who befriended him on WhatsApp, claiming to be based in London.
The victim, identified as Pandu Kariappa Poojary, a resident of Kuthpadi in Udupi, was working at a hotel in Mangaluru.
He reportedly came into contact with a woman identifying herself as Emilda William on WhatsApp. During their interactions, she told Poojary that she planned to start a cosmetics and hotel business in India and would meet him during a visit to Mangaluru.
On April 7, Emilda sent Poojary a flight ticket from London to Delhi via WhatsApp. The following day, Poojary received a phone call from a woman who informed him that Emilda had arrived at Delhi airport carrying a demand draft worth Rs 5 crore along with other items. The caller allegedly asked him to pay Rs 70,000.
Subsequently, Poojary also received a call from Emilda, who was reportedly crying and spoke about the situation. Believing the claims, he transferred a total of Rs 1,13,300 in phases using a scanner. He later realised that he had been cheated.
