<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Alex Brandon/APIvanka Trump</div></div></div><ul><li>Police in Hyderabad, India are reportedly rounding up the city's beggars and homeless in preparation for Ivanka Trump's coming visit for a women's empowerment summit.</li><li>While the city implemented a similar campaign before President Bill Clinton's visit in 2000, this crackdown is reportedly much larger in scale.</li></ul> Law enforcement in Hyderabad, India is racing to round up the city's beggars and homeless in preparation for White House adviser Ivanka Trump's visit for the eighth annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit just after Thanksgiving.The city's police commissioner issued the unprecedented order earlier this week to ban begging and detain the city's homeless population just days before 1,500 international business leaders and government officials, including Trump, arrive for the two-day event. But authorities deny that the push is in preparation for the international gathering. "It's a permanent drive," V.K. Singh, the director of Hyderabad's prisons, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/10/asia/india-beggars-ivanka-trump-visit/index.html">told CNN</a>. "The government, since 30 years, have been trying to figure out what to do about them." The city reportedly plans to renew the two month begging ban after it expires in January. The police commissioner <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/10/india-hyderabad-police-round-up-homeless-people-ivanka-trump-visit">said the begging</a>, pervasive in many Indian cities, is "causing annoyance and awkwardness."About <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/10/india-hyderabad-police-round-up-homeless-people-ivanka-trump-visit">6,000 people</a> are expected to be taken to "rehabilitation facilities" set up in the city's prisons and homeless shelters, <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/ahead-of-ivanka-trumps-visit-hyderabad-police-gets-rid-of-beggars-from-city-streets-4928272/">according to the Indian Express</a>. "We were surprised by those reports," a senior administration official told CNN. "We know that the Indian government is really firmly committed to raising individuals out of poverty to create economic opportunity for its large and diverse population, and we think they're making great progress, although obviously there are still strides that it needs to take."The city also cracked down on begging in the lead-up to former President Bill Clinton's visit in 2000, but this campaign is reportedly much larger in scale.Trump will give a keynote address at the summit, which will focus on women's empowerment - one of the first daughter's top White House priorities.Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promoted Trump's visit for months, and will host an elaborate dinner next Tuesday for the first daughter. "We look forward to welcoming you @IvankaTrump," Modi <a href="https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/930776963836293121">tweeted last week</a>. "Closer economic cooperation between India and USA helps our people, particularly our talented and innovative entrepreneurs."After attending the summit, Trump is expected to go shopping at an open-air mall, which the city is also rushing to finalize construction of, and do some sightseeing in the region. President Donald Trump claimed that the US's relationship with India "has never been better, has never been stronger" during <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/27/politics/modi-trump-india-us/index.html">a visit from Modi in June</a>. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/you-are-the-light-watch-philippines-president-rodrigo-duterte-sing-to-president-trump-ikaw-2017-11">'You are the light': Watch controversial Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte serenade Trump with a love song</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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Narendra Modi, who led the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to a spectacular victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, on Thursday took oath as the Prime Minister. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy in Hindi to Modi at a ceremony attended by thousands of people at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan Sushma Swaraj, Suresh Prabhu, V.K. Singh, Mahesh Sharma, Jayant Sinha and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore were among the Union Ministers missing from the dais for ministers to be inducted in the new Modi government. Here’s a list of all the ministers who will be joining the new government : <ul><li>Amit Shah</li><li>Ravi Shankar Prasad</li><li>Piyush Goyal</li></ul>In the first government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi formed in 2014, Goyal has handled important ministries -- first as a junior independent Minister in key economic drivers like Coal, Power and New and Renewable Energies and later as Cabinet Minister for Railways and briefly for Finance and Corporate Affairs. <ul><li>Smriti Irani</li></ul>Bharatiya Janata Party leader Smriti Irani, defeated Gandhi with margin of 55,120 in the bitterly contested high profile seat, which has fetched nation's attention. <ul><li>Nirmala Sitharaman</li><li>Kiren Rijiju</li></ul> Kiren Rijiju has been the face of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the northeastern states. He defeated former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki by a margin of 1,74,843 votes. While he got 63.02 per cent votes, Tuki could get only 14.22 per cent of votes. <ul><li>Rajnath Singh</li><li>Nitin Gadkari</li></ul>In the first term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Gadkari handled crucial and high-visibility infrastructure-related portfolios like Road Transport &amp; Highways, Shipping, etc and made his indelible mark there. <ul><li>Dharmendra Pradhan</li><li>Dr Harshavardhan</li><li>S Jaishankar</li></ul>Former Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar, who played a key role in shaping the foreign policy of Prime Minister Narendra Modis first term, induction in the Council of Ministers marks a recognition of the exceptional work of what he did in the Foreign Ministry. The 64-year-old Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer on Thursday took oath as a Cabinet Minister though he is not a member of either House of Parliament. <ul><li>Krishan Pal Gurjar</li><li>Shripad Naik</li><li>Narendra Singh Tomar</li><li>Rao Inderjit Singh</li><li>VK Singh</li><li>Arjun Ram Meghwal</li><li>Ram Vilas Paswan</li><li>Harsimrat Kaur</li></ul>Harsimrat Kaur Badal, who held the portfolio of Food Processing Industry in the previous Modi-led central government, got a Union cabinet berth for a second term on Thursday <ul><li>DV Sadananda Gowda</li></ul>DV Sadananda got elected for the second time from the prestigious Bangalore North seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. He became the Union Minister for the first time in May 2014 in the NDA-1 government. <ul><li>Babul Supriyo </li><li>Prakash Javadekar</li></ul>During the first term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Javadekar served first as a junior minister handling several portfolios - Parliamentary Affairs, and later Information and Broadcasting, and also Environment, Forest and Climate Change (both ministries as independent charge). In the 2016 cabinet reshuffle, he earned the trust of Modi and was allotted the critical Human Resource and Development Ministry and has contributed hugely to the development, improvement and streamlining of various educational systems in the country. <ul><li>Ramdas Athavale</li><li>Jitender Singh</li><li>Niranjan Jyoti</li><li>Parshottam Rupala</li><li>Thawar Chand Gehlot</li><li>Rattan Lal Kataria </li><li>Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank</li><li>RCP Singh </li><li>G Kishan Reddy </li></ul>G. Kishan Reddy, who was sworn in as Union minister on Thursday, is one of the prominent faces of the BJP in Telangana. A three-time MLA, Kishan Reddy is a first-term MP from Secunderabad, one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Telangana state capital Hyderabad. <ul><li>Suresh Angadi </li><li>A Ravindranath </li><li>Kailash Choudhary </li><li>Pralhad Joshi </li></ul>Pralhad Joshi won the Dharwad Lok Sabha constituency in northwest Karnataka for the fourth time in a row in the just-concluded general elections. <ul><li>Som Parkash</li></ul>Seventy-year-old former Indian Administrative Service officer of Punjab cadre Som Parkash is the Dalit face of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Punjab.He is one of the new faces in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government. The first-time Member of Parliament from Hoshiarpur (reserved) defeated his nearest Congress rival Raj Kumar Chabbewal by 93,898 votes <ul><li>Rameshwar Teli </li><li>Subrat Pathak </li><li>Deboshree Choudhury </li><li>Rita Bahuguna Joshi</li><li>Ram Vilas Paswan </li></ul> In active politics for over five decades now, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan is one of the more prominent Dalit faces in the BJP-led NDA. <ul><li>Arvind G Sawant</li></ul>Arvind G. Sawant, 68, is the Shiv Sena's third Union minister (after Manohar Joshi and Suresh Prabhu) hailing from Mumbai, the city where the party was born, the country's commercial and glamour capital, from where he is now elected for a second term from the prestigious Mumbai South Lok Sabha constituency. (With IANS)

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We are all aware of <keyword id="44734" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-Government">Indian government</keyword>’s ambitious <keyword id="17408" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="infrastructure">infrastructure</keyword> plans. While several steps were undertaken to ensure timely delivery of these projects, news reports suggest that 224 infra projects are facing cost overruns. According to an Econonoc Times report, as many as 224 central sector infrastructure projects in sectors like road, rail and power were showing cost overrun of over Rs 2 lakh crore till December-end. 
 The information was revealed in the Parliament today. The financial daily report quotes <keyword id="1587224" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Statistics-Minister">Statistics Minister</keyword> V K Singh’s written reply to Lok Sabha, wherein he has mentioned that “738 projects (worth Rs 150 crore each) were on monitor of this ministry as on December 31...original cost of these 738 projects was Rs 9,77,589.16 crore and their total anticipated completion cost is Rs 11,84,766.43 crore." 
 
The minister further added that of these 738 projects, 315 were showing time overrun, 224 projects were showing cost overrun and 76 projects were showing both time and cost overrun with respect to their original project implementation schedule. 
 
The estimated cost overrun of 224 projects, which reported higher completion is around Rs 2,07,177.27 crore.

India's infra projects have already overshot budgets by Rs 2 lakh cr

<ul><li>Singer Babul Supriyo, the BJP MP from Asansol in West Bengal swears into Modi’s cabinet. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti from Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh was also sworn in as a Minister of State.</li><li>Former Power and Railways Minister Dr Arvind Sawant from Mumbai South who defeated Milind Deora of Congress too has taken oath. </li><li>Among those who have taken oath include Thawar Chand Gehlot, S Jaishankar (former Foreign Secretary), Ramesh Pokhriyal, Arjun Munda, Dr Harsh Vardhan (former Science Ministry), Prakash Javadekar (former HRD minister), and Piyush Goel (former coal minister).</li><li>Narendra Modi has taken charge as the Prime Minister of the country for the second time in a swearing in ceremony that just concluded.</li></ul> Update at 09:05 pm Debut MP Debasree Chaudhuri of Raiganj in West Bengal takes oath as Minister of State in Modi’s cabinet. Sanjeev Balyan, Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao, Anurag Singh Thakur from Hamirpur, Suresh Angadi, Nityanand Rai, Rattan Lal Kataria, V Muraleedharan, Renuka Singh Saruta, Som Prakash, Rameshwar Teli, Pratap Sarangi, Kailash Chaudhari, Debasree Chaudhuri were also sworn in as Ministers of State. Update at 08:30 pm Ramdas Athawale from Maharashtra’s Sangli district was sworn in as Minister of State, along with Parshottam Rupala. Update at 08:25 pm Secunderabad BJP MP Kishan Reddy takes oath. Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Gen V K Singh, Krishan Pal Gurjar from Faridabad, and Raosaheb Danve too were sworn in. Update at 08:10 pm Prahlad Patel, Raj Kumar Singh from Arrah constituency, Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandavia, Faggan Singh Kulaste also take oath. Update at 08:02 pm Shripad Yesso Naik from North Goa is inducted into Modi’s cabinet. Dr Jitendra Singh, the current MP of Haridwar is also sworn in. Update at 08:00 pm Rao Inderjit Singh BJP’s MP from Gurugram, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Santosh Kumar Gangwar from Bareily in Uttar Pradesh were sworn in. Update at 07:55 pm Giriraj Singh from Bihar’s Begusarai who defeated Kanhaiya Kumar, the former student leader and a candidate of Communist Party of India (CPI) was also sworn in. Update at 07:50 pm Former Power and Railways Minister Dr Arvind Sawant, Shiv Sena MP from Mumbai South who defeated Milind Deora of Congress too has taken oath. Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey, former Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (former Minority Affairs Minister), Pralhad Joshi, too have taken oath. Update at 07:40 pm Piyush Goel and Prakash Javadekar take the oath. Update at 07:35 pm Smriti Irani who won at Amethi against Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi as its MP, also took oath to cheering public. She was the textiles minister in the earlier cabinet. Update at 07:25 pm Narendra Singh Tomar (formerly Rural Development Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad (former Telecom and Law Minister); Harsimrat Kaur Badal (former food processing minister) too have taken oath. Update at 07:19 pm Ram Vilas Paswan also takes the oath of office and secrecy. Update at 07:16 pm Incumbent Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also takes the oath. Update at 07:12 pm Shri Rajnath Singh follows Modi to take oath. He was home affairs minister in the last cabinet. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah has also taken oath. He did not hold a portfolio in the last cabinet Update at 07:07 pm Narendra Modi takes charge as India’s PM for the second time Update at 07:00 pm <keyword id="6354814" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="prime-minister-narendra-modi">Prime Minister Narendra Modi</keyword> has also arrived at the event. As many as 50 ministers of the cabinet will take oath after the PM today. The ceremony will start at 7 PM. Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor and Kangana Ranaut have already arrived at the event at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid along with his first lady too arrived at the event. Update at 06:30 pm Dignitaries and top industrialists like Ratan Tata, Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani; along with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah have already arrived at the venue, to view Narendra Modi take the oath as the Prime Minister for the second time. It’s a big day for India and Narendra Modi who will once again take oath as India’s Prime Minister for a second consecutive term. The master communicator, who has stormed back to power with yet another thumping majority, will once again use the moment and the stage as effectively as it can be. The oath taking ceremony will be held at 7 pm on Thursday (May 30), ensuring that all the attention of prime time television viewers are solely on him. He gave <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/full-text-of-modi-speech-lok-sabha-election-2019/articleshow/69467611.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">over an hour long victory speech</a>, again on prime time, after the election results were declared on May 23. Run up to the event Modi has kickstarted his oath-taking day, early this morning by saluting his heroes. He paid a tribute at the National War Memorial in the morning. The PM from Guajrat won a second consecutive term with a thumping majority, also paid tribute to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s prominent former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This charismatic former Prime Minister was instrumental in creating the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in 1998. Modi who hails from Gandhinagar which was also home to father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, also visited Rajghat today to pay homage. The newly elected PM’s oath taking ceremony promises to be interesting as <a data-type="tilCustomLink">8,000 guests</a> from within and outside the country are expected to pour in for the event. It is being touted as the biggest ever event that takes place at Rashtrapathi Bhavan. The event also promises to be star-studded as many Bollywood celebrities including Vivek Oberoi who played the role of Modi, in a now-released movie ‘Modi’, are expected to attend the event. Invites have also gone in for <a data-type="tilCustomLink">BIMSTEC leaders</a>—which includes Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal and Bhutan. However, it is now known that leaders from Kyrgyzstan and Mauritius will be attending the event. The swearing in ceremony is striving to make Modi’s guests from his constituency in Varanasi feel special. A special gallery called ‘Kashi Sankul’ is being set-up to accommodate 250 special guests from Uttar Pradesh. The event however is not without its controversies. The winning party BJP invited the families of those killed in the West Bengal political violence which erupted just before the last phase of polling. This move angered Mamata Banerjee the chief minister of the state and the head of Trinamool Congress, who declined an invitation to the attend the ceremony. BJP’s ally in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena slammed Banerjee for this move, in an editorial published in its mouthpiece Saamna. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/modis-swearing-in-ceremony-is-set-to-be-the-biggest-event-ever-with-8000-guests/articleshow/69571352.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">Modi's swearing in ceremony is set to be the biggest event ever, with 8,000 guests</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/full-text-of-modi-speech-lok-sabha-election-2019/articleshow/69467611.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">Full text of Modi’s first speech after historic election victory</a>

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Various district authorities have spent Rs. 10,883.10 crore under <keyword id="6420850" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="MPLAD">MPLAD</keyword> scheme on works recommended by the member of bothe the houses from time to time, from April 2012 till June 30 this year, Parliament was informed today. "In the current 12th Plan till now (April 1, 2012 to June 30, 2015), district authorities spent Rs 3,122.20 crore on works recommended by <keyword id="48510" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Rajya-Sabha">Rajya Sabha</keyword> members and Rs 7,740.90 crore on works recommended by <keyword id="6355187" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Lok-Sabha">Lok Sabha</keyword> members under the MPLAD scheme," <keyword id="1587224" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Statistics-Minister">Statistics Minister</keyword> V K Singh said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. 

	The minister informed the House that the district authorities had spent Rs 2,294.18 crore on the recommendations of Rajya Sabha members and Rs 5,304.32 crore on the proposal of Lok Sabha member during the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-12). 
 "Every <keyword id="5509" type="POSITION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Member-of-Parliament">Member of Parliament</keyword> is entitled to recommend works amounting to rupees five crore per financial year. The funds under the MPLADS are non-lapsable both at the end of the <keyword id="6362177" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="union-government">Union Government</keyword> and at the end of the <keyword id="2986069" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="District-Authority">District Authority</keyword>, i.e. the unspent balances of a particular year are utilised in the subsequent year(s)," he said. 

	On the steps taken to maximise use of MPLADS funds expeditiously and within a stipulated time frame, Singh said, "In view of the nature and dynamics of the scheme, the unutilized balances, which also include interest accrued, are bound to exist at any given point of time and utilisation of MPLADS funds in the same financial year is not feasible." 
 

	In 1993-94, when the MPLAD scheme was launched, an amount of Rs 5 lakh per MP was allotted. This rose to Rs 1 crore per MP per annum from 1994-95 and Rs 2 crore per MP per annum from 1998-99. In 2011-12, the amount was increased to Rs 5 crore per annum. 
 Under the MPLAD scheme, each MP has the choice to suggest to the <keyword id="6359011" type="POSITION" weightage="100" keywordseo="District-Collector">District Collector</keyword> for works to the tune of Rs 5 crore per annum to be taken up in his or her constituency. 

	Rajya Sabha MPs can recommend works in one or more districts in the state from where they have been elected. 
 

	The nominated MPs of both the Houses may select one or more districts from any state in the country for the implementation of their choice of work under MPLAD. 

	 
	 
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