DH Evening Brief: July 7, 2021

Apparently expecting a tough contest in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, which are barely nine months away, and given a sustained campaign by the opposition parties highlighting the state government's 'mismanagement' of the Covid-19 pandemic, the BJP has set about getting the caste equations right through Wednesday's cabinet reshuffle. Read more

. With thespian Dilip Kumar's death on Wednesday, the Hindi film industry’s golden troika seems to fade away – but their volume of work will continue to shine. Read more

. The Narendra Modi government on Wednesday engaged in its largest Cabinet reshuffle since May 2019, with Narayan Tatu Rane, Sarbananda Sonowal, and Dr Virendra Kumar taking oath as ministers at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Read more

. As the Modi government gets a makeover, here we take a look at the new faces inducted into Prime Minister Modi’s Cabinet. See Pics

. More than a year after playing a key role in installation of a BJP government in Madhya Pradesh, Jyotiraditya Scindia was rewarded with a berth in the Union Cabinet, a familiar terrain for the Rajya Sabha member who had served as a junior minister in the Congress-led UPA government. Read more

. Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Chemical & Fertilisers Minister Sadananda Gowda were among the twelve union ministers who resigned on Wednesday ahead of the reshuffle of the NDA government. See Pics

. Cracks are deepening in the Bengal BJP following its defeat in the Assembly elections as two party leaders attacked the Leader of its legislative party Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday. Read more

. Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for "making a mess of the country's economy" and urged him to hold 'petrol and vaccine ki baat' instead of 'Mann ki Baat'. Read more

. The world passed the "tragic milestone" of four million recorded Covid-19 fatalities on Wednesday, the World Health Organization said, adding that the pandemic's true toll was probably higher. Read more

. Veteran actor Dilip Kumar , who is known as the ‘Tragedy King’ of Indian cinema, was a fun-loving and humorous person in real life. Dilip Kumar is well-known for playing the lead in tragic love stories. Some such hit films include Nadiya Ke Paar (1948), Andaz (1949), Mela (1948), Arzoo (1950), etc. Read more

. As the price of petrol crossed an all-time high of Rs 100 per litre in Delhi and several other cities on Wednesday, netizens flooded microblogging site Twitter with varied reactions -- some coping with the unfortunate news with humour and others just expressing plain, simple shock. Read more

DH Evening Brief: July 7, 2021

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