First India-Delhi Edition-1st October 2022

TERRORISTS KILLED IN ENCOUNTER

Cong chief’s surprise move as Kharge files nomination

Mallikarjun Kharge’s entry was a lastminute twist after Gehlot dropped out. The message was delivered to him by Venugopal, a trusted leader of Gandhis

New Delhi: As Mall ikarjun Kharge formal ly joined the Congress president election by filing his nomination papers on Friday, he was flanked by 30 lead ers, including Raj CM Ashok Gehlot, previ ously the front-runner.

Kharge’s entry was a last-minute twist after Ashok Gehlot dropped out. The message was delivered to him by KC Venugopal, a trusted leader of the Gandhis.

Though the Gandhis said they would be neu tral, Mallikarjun Kharge’s nomination at

the Congress office made it clear that he has the blessings of the leader ship. His papers were signed by a galaxy of leaders. Digvijaya Singh, who was all set to file his nomination until Mr Kharge came into the picture, was also one of his proposers.

The others include AK Antony, Ambika Soni, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Deepender S Hooda, Sal man Khurshid, V Naray anasamy, Tariq Anwar and Rajiv Shukla. Kharge also received support from leaders of the “G-23” or group of 23 dissenters who wrote to Sonia Gandhi in 2020

calling for big reforms in the party, including elec tions for top posts. Mukul Wasnik, Anand Sharma,

Bhupinder Hooda and Manish Tewari, the most prominent of dissenters, who were discussing put

Gehlot to stay as CM!

Venugopal’s announcement of holding CLP meeting is postponed for time being Meanwhile, Gehlot takes up Bikaner, Sri Ganganagar, Hanumangarh tour as usual

The filing of nominations of Congress presidential poll was held from Sep tember 24 to September 30. As the nomination filing has come to an end, only three leaders are in the fray — Shashi Tharoor, Mallikarjun Kharge, and K N Tripathi. The leaders have claimed that the election is not a battle.

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ting up a candidate, have all come out in support of the Gandhis-backed candidate. More on P6

READ Crucial ‘CONNECTIVITY IS PROGRESS, PROSPERITY’

India will become developed nation in 25 years, says Modi

Kabul: A suicide bomb attack on an education center in Kabul has killed at least 25 people, most of whom are believed to be young women, in the latest sign of the deteriorating security situation in Afghan capital. The explosion took place on Friday morning.

NATURAL GAS RATE

HIKED BY 40%; CNG, PNG TO COST MORE

New Delhi: Prices of natural gas, which is used to generate electricity, make fertiliser and is converted into CNG to run automobiles, were on Friday hiked by a steep 40% to record levels, in step with global firming up of energy rates. This will be the third increase in rates of the natural gas since April 2019.

IMAM GRANTED BAIL IN SEDITION CASE, IN JAIL OVER DEL RIOTS

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Ahmedabad: PM Nar endra Modi on Friday said cities will shape the destiny of India and they will ensure that it becomes a developed nation in the next 25 years. He said that new cities are being built in country as per the glob al business demand.

Addressing gathering after inaugurating Gan dhinagar-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express train and inaugurating phase-1 of the Ahmedabad metro rail project, he also made a pitch for modernising cities as per the changing times and called for the creation of twin cities.

New Delhi: Delhi court Friday granted bail to ex-JNU student Sharjeel Imam in a sedition case in which he was accused of instigating Jamia riots, taking into account SC’s order effectively keeping in the abeyance colonial era sedition law.

AMMONIA LEAK:

NHRC NOTICE TO DGP, DM

New Delhi (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday issued notices to the UP Director General of Police (DGP) and the Aligarh District Magistrate (DM), over the reported negligence in the ammonia gas leak at a meat factory causing illness to about 100 workers, seeking a report within four weeks.

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PM Modi flagged off the updated version of the Vande Bharat Ex press train from Gandhi nagar-Mumbai and took a ride on the high-speed train to Kalupur station in Ahmedabad, he said that once people experi ence Vande Bharat trains they would prefer it over flights.

Further, he said, “to day is a big day for India in the 21st century, for urban connectivity and for India to become selfreliant.” Under FAME scheme, electric buses will be manufactured for poor, middle-class comrades in cities to get rid of smoky buses.

Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Bhopal, Indore, Jaipur — these cities will shape the destiny of India in the next 25 years. These investments are not limited to connectivity alone, but smart facilities are being put in place in dozens of cities; basic facilities are being improved and suburbs are being developed. —Narendra Modi, Prime Minister

ABOUT VANDE BHARAT TRAINS

PM Modi addresses public without mic after 10 pm in Manpur

PM Modi reached Manpur airstrip of Abu Road late on Friday where BJP workers and public gave warm welcome to PM. Modi reached stage at 10 pm, he addressed crowd without mic, as there is court prohi bition on sound amplifiers after 10 PM.

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Jaipur: There is a new twist in an ongo ing Rajasthan Con gress ‘drama’, where now, according to higly placed sources in the grand-old party, Ashok Gehlot will re main the Chief Minis ter for the time being.

On Friday, Gehlot held a long consulta tion with Mallikarjun Kharge and after this, Gehlot also had a long consultation with Anand Sharma and the leaders of G-23 and agreed to make Kharge the official candidate instead of Digvijaya. More on P6

In yet another twist in the tale of the Congress president polls, Digvijaya Singh on Friday said he was dropping out of the race for the top post and announced his support for Mallikarjun Kharge, who is likely to be in the fray. Singh had said on Thurs day that he would file his nominations on Friday.

RBI hikes repo rate by 50 bps to 5.90%; impact on car loans

New Delhi: Reserve Bank of India has in creased the repo rate or prime lending rate by 50 basis points to 5.90 per cent, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said while announcing the decisions of the Mone tary Policy Committee (MPC). The central bank had hiked repo rate four times since May to the recent 5.90 per cent. The recent re vision in repo rate has been made to keep infla tion level within target.

SC MIFFED WITH POPULATION CONTROL PIL

New Delhi: Society will always have some disputes needing reso lution but every prob lem cannot be resolved by approaching the apex court directly, the Supreme Court said on Friday while express ing disinclination to continue hearing a PIL on population control. The PIL, filed by advo cate Ashwini Upad hayay, sought direc tions to the Centre and states to enforce a twochild norm.

The world has witnessed two major shocks –Cóvid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine conflict. Now, we are in the midst of a third major shock arising from monetary tightening and aggressive communications from advanced countries’ central banks.

—Shaktikanta Das, RBI Governor

CARD TOKENISATION TO APPLY FROM TODAY APRIL-AUGUST FISCAL DEFICIT AT $66.56 BN

Preventive detention is ‘invasion’ of liberty: SC

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New Delhi: A bench of Chief Justice UU Lalit and Justices S Ravindra Bhat and JB Pardiwala on Friday called preven tive detention a serious invasion of personal lib erty, and directed forth with release of an ac cused so detained by the Tripura government under NDPS charges.

“The normal meth ods open to a person charged with commis sion of any offence to

disprove the charge or to prove his innocence at the trial are not avail able to the person pre ventively detained,” the bench said.

SC collegium suggests transfer

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PM Modi will officially launch 5G in India on Saturday, October 1 at the 6th edition of India Mobile Congress in New Delhi.

would be joined by top industry leaders like Reliance’s Mukesh Ambani, Airtel’s Sunil Mittal, and Vi’s India head Ravinder Takkar during 5G event.

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CJI Lalit presented President Droupadi Murmu with books on the history of the SC and HCs of India, on Thursday.

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Srinagar: Two local terrorists linked to proscribed JeM were killed in encounter which broke out in J&K’s

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About 35 crore cards have been tokenised and the system is ready for the new norms which set in from October 1, the Re serve Bank said on Friday.

The fiscal deficit for the five months through Au gust touched 5.42 trillion Indian rupees ($66.56 bn) or 32.6% of annual esti mates, govt data showed.

Jaipur: CJ of J&K and Ladakh HC Pankaj Mithal, a native of Allahabad, will be next Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court as the Supreme Court Collegium has

his transfer. The post of Chief Justice of Rajasthan HC is lying vacant after

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People will prefer Vande Bharat train over flights: PM Modi

Under FAME scheme, over 7,000 electric buses approved in India

(Top) PM Narendra Modi bows to the public at Abu Road on late Friday. PM Narendra Modi at the inauguration of the Ahmedabad Metro Rail project, flagging off Vande Bharat train, in Ahmedabad on Friday. Also seen here are (From Left) Ashwini Vaishnaw, Acharya Devvrat, Bhupendra Patel and Hardeep Singh Puri.

ASHA PAREKH RECEIVES DADA SAHEB PHALKE AWARD BY PREZ

New Delhi: A The 68th National Film Awards were presented by President Droupadi Murmu on Friday where Union Minister Anurag Singh Thakur was also present. Veteran actress Asha Parekh was conferred with the 52nd Dada Saheb Phalke Award in Delhi.

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Mallikarjun Kharge files his nomination papers for the post of party President, at the AICC HQ in Delhi on

Friday. Congress leaders Digvijaya Singh, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Ashok Gehlot & others are also seen.

Kharge made the right decision. Position is not important for me, rather I want to give my everything to strengthen the Congress. If it was under my control, I would not take any position. —Ashok Gehlot, Rajasthan CM

CONG PREZ POLLS: THAROOR, TRIPATHI FILE NOMINATION TOO

DIGVIJAYA DROPS OUT OF CONGRESS PRESIDENTIAL RACE

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ENCROACHMENTS RAZED IN GRAND OMAXE

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Noida: Grand Omaxe housing society here saw some intense ac tion by the Noida Au thority on Friday to re move encroachments on the campus.

Officials came in at 1 pm with a posse of po licemen and Rapic Ac tion personnel to bull doze encroachments in common spaces by sev eral apartment owners. Must be remembered that the housing society was in news for a spat between politician Shri kant Tyagi and another resident over the same issue, triggering a ma jor row last month.

Tyagi was arrested after being caught abus

ing and shoving a wom an who protested when palm trees were being planted in the open space in front of his ground-floor apart ment. The razing of en croachments, mostly temporary construc

Gangster, rival politician’s brother in STF custody

Gurugram (PTI): A local court on Friday remanded gangster Papla Gujjar and Joginder Khatana, younger brother of Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) leader Rohtash Khatana, in four-day custody of the Special Task Force (STF) here, which wants to ques tion them in the mur der case of local BJP leader Sukhbir Kha tana alias Sukhi.

According to a sen ior STF officer, Joginder Khatana has confessed that he had been nurturing a political rivalry against Sukhbir and he paid ` 25 lakh to key accused Chaman to kill him. Chaman has already been ar rested. It was based on his confession that the STF arrested Joginder Khatana, also a property deal er, on Wednesday night. The link be tween Joginder Kha tana and Gujjar is, however, yet to be established.

"Gangster Papla Gurjar is being inter

Gangster Papla Gurjar is being interro gated as his name came to the fore in the murder of the BJP leader.

—Satheesh Balan, STF Inspector General

rogated as his name came to the fore in the murder of the BJP leader. Soon, the other accused will be also arrested," STF Inspector General Satheesh Balan said. Sukhbir Khatana (46) was gunned down by armed as sailants at a show room located on the Gurudwara Road near Sadar Bazaar here on September 1.

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One word, 2-hour delay

Many society residents, whose houses had encroachments, initially resisted the movement of bulldozers and trucks in the society with some of them even sitting down in protest, urging them to spare their flats.

“After the initial resistance there was no law and order situa tion in the process. Adequate security personnel have been deployed,” ACP (Central Noida 1) Abdul Qadir said. The exer cise was carried out amid heavy police presence.

tions outside groundfloor apartments, came in the wake of a 48-hour notice by the authority after over a dozen palm trees were again trans planted outside Tyagi’s apartment on Tuesday despite police presence.

Excavators and dumper trucks were used to demolish the en croachment in the Sec tor 93B society, officials said. The officials reached Grande Omaxe with excavators and trucks around 10.30 pm

but were met with re sistance by a section of residents sitting at the front gate of the society.

The officials accom panied by police and rapid action force per sonnel then entered the society around 1 pm on

Friday from an alter nate gate. Bulldozers razed two dozen illegal structures on the ground floor. They also uprooted 11 of the 15 palm trees transplanted outside Tyagi’s apart ment on Tuesday.

Sharjeel Imam granted bail in sedition case, will stay in jail over Delhi riots

New Delhi (PTI): A Delhi court Friday granted bail to former JNU student Sharjeel Imam in a sedition case in which he was ac cused of instigating the Jamia riots here in 2019, taking into account the Supreme Court's order effectively keeping in abeyance the colonial era sedition law.

Granting bail to the student activist after nearly two-years-and-a-

half of incarceration, the court also referred to its own observations of October 22, 2021 that there was no evidence

on record to suggest the rioters acted after hear ing Imam's speech.

"In view thereof and without commenting upon the merit of the present case, applicant or accused Sharjeel Imam is admitted to bail on furnishing personal bond in the sum of Rs 30,000 with one surety of like amount," Addi tional Sessions Judge Anuj Agrawal said.

The judge said the

Child porn on Twitter: DCW for CBI chief’s intervention

New Delhi (PTI): Delhi Commission For Wom en chairperson Swati Maliwal has written to the CBI seeking its in tervention on the issue of the availability of child porn on Twitter.

The commission said it has identified 14 more tweets, apart from the ones it has already flagged, involving chil dren in sexual activities.

In a letter to CBI Di rector Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, Maliwal has sought his urgent inter vention by registering an FIR and the immedi ate arrests of those in volved in the crime.

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New Delhi: A Malay sia-bound flight was delayed on Friday for more than two hours over a false bomb alarm after a brawl between two passen gers at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.

DCW chairperson had summoned Twitter In dia policy head and the Delhi Police Cyber Cell over tweets depicting pornography and rape money for providing

Enforcement agen cies were alerted about the ‘bomb’ threat from the Ma laysia Airlines’s MH173 around 1 pm after which the Cen tral Industrial Secu rity Force thorough ly checked the flight, the officials said.

The flight finally de

pornographic and rape videos of children, she had said. In response, Twitter removed more than 20 tweets flagged by DCW from its plat form.

parted for Kuala Lumpur after a delay of two hours and 40 minutes, they said.

“A fight broke out be tween two passengers over keeping their bags in the overhead cabin. When one pas senger asked the oth er what was in his bag, the other replied ‘bomb’. The flight was then grounded as the pilot was in formed about it and

A fight broke out between two pas sengers over keeping their bags in the overhead cabin. When one pas senger asked the other what was in his bag, the other replied: ‘Bomb’.

—ATC official

bail was subject to the condition that Imam shall always remain available on a working mobile number and in timate any change of address to the Investi gating Officer (IO) con cerned.

However, Imam, who is in judicial custody since January 2020, will continue to remain in jail as he is yet to secure bail in the Delhi riots conspiracy case.

Shazia moves SC seeking uniform code for alimony

New Delhi: BJP leader Shazia Ilmi Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Centre to formu late a standardised uni form UCC for grant of alimony and mainte nance to obviate hin drances caused by di verse set of personal laws prescribed by dif ferent religions.

The court tagged the petition with a pending plea seeking a "gender and religion-neutral" mechanism for grant of maintenance and alimo ny to all citizens in keep ing with the spirit of the Constitution and inter national conventions.

the pilot intimated the ATC (air traffic controller) about the incident,” an official said.

“A bomb threat as sessment committee immediately probed the matter and the flight was put through checks after which the bomb call was declared a hoax,” the source said.

A total of four pas sengers — all Indians — were handed over to the police, they added. The passenger who made the bomb claim wad identified as Varindar Sidhu, according to sources at the IGI airport.

I am saying people’s houses should not be demolished. Initially, also we said neither we are wrong nor others, but earlier I was alone so no one listened to us. I am sad that today parts of several people’s houses are being demolished. I only said that same norms should be applied to all.

17-year-old shot dead in Jamia Ngr

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New Delhi: A Class 12 boy was shot dead by unidentified people in Jamia Nagar here on Friday, the police said.

The deceased has been identified as Moham mad Abdullah, aged 17 years. According to cops, the incident took place around 4.10 pm in Azeem Dairy area in front of the house of the deceased.

Abdullah’s elder broth er Asif told the police that he was inside the house when he heard a gun report. Rushing out of the house he found his brother lying in a pool of blood. Abdullah was declared dead at the Holy Family Hospital, police said quoting Asif.

Locals are being ques tioned and CCTV foot age is being checked, police said.

Meanwhile, on Thurs

day evening, a Jamia Millia Islamia student was shot at allegedly by another student of the same varsity inside the Holy Family Hospital.

JAMIA STUDENT SHOT AT

A Jamia Millia Islamia University student was shot at by another stu dent of the varsity at Holy Family Hospital.

A quarrel had broken out at Jamia library. It was found that there was a fight between two groups of students.

Noman Chaudhary (26), sustained an injury on his head and had gone to Holy Family Hospital with friend Nauman Ali for treat ment when a student from the second group, Zalal, reached the hospi tal with his friends and fired at Ali outside the emergency ward, the police said.

A bulldozer being used during the anti-encroachment drive at Grand Omaxe housing colony on Friday. —PHOTOS BY ANI

RESIDENTS PROTEST

YOUTHFUL SPIRIT

Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth (SPIC MACAY) Founder Kiran Seth during his bicycle expedition from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, in Meerut on Friday. —PHOTO BY PTI

—Anu Tyagi, wife of Shrikant Tyagi

DCW Chairperson Swati Maliwal addresses a press conference regarding the Twitter Child Pornography case, at DCW office in New Delhi on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI

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DELHI POLLUTION CHECK

Kejriwal unveils winter action plan

Environmentalists slam govt’s ‘seasonal’ steps

New Delhi (PTI): Chief Minister Arvind Kejri wal on Friday an nounced a 15-point Win ter Action Plan while calling for a coordinated effort with neighbour ing states and the Cen tre to curb air pollution in the national capital.

Kejriwal announced that teams would be set up to check garbage burning, dust and ve hicular emission to curb air pollution.

He said the govern ment received signifi cant help from the Cen tre, which built periph eral express highways to ensure a large num ber of trucks no longer needed to enter Delhi.

Stressing a coordinat ed effort between states, he said the city govern ment would work with the Centre, Commission for Air Quality Manage ment and other states to check pollution.

"I request all neigh bouring states to ensure that all vehicles which enter Delhi are either CNG or electric vehi cles. They can also stop industrial units from us ing fuel, which causes pollution, and direct them to use PNG (piped natural gas)," he said.

Kejriwal said the states could order brick factories to im plement zig-zag tech niques in manufactur ing, prohibit diesel generators and added that "at least the NCR should have 24 hour supply of electricity".

I request all the neighbouring states to ensure that all vehicles which enter Del hi are either CNG or electric vehicles. They can also stop industrial units from using fuel, which causes pollution, and direct them to use PNG.

—Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi Chief Minister

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New Delhi (PTI): Air pollution “shouldn’t be viewed as seasonal crisis” and “more solutions to tackle stubble burning” are re quired in the national capital, environmen talists said after the Delhi government an nounced the winter action plan to curb air pollution in the city.

Environmentalist Bhavreen Kandhari said there are enough plans to tackle pollution but the “action on the ground is missing”.

“How will the air pollution levels reduce when there is no efficient public transport sys tem, three trees are cut in an hour with due permissions and there is a failed tree trans plantation process?” Kandhari asked.

Greenpeace India’s Avinash Chanchal said, “Every year the government announces such action plans, but it becomes more of a rheto ric than an actual action plan at the ground level. Although every winter Delhi witnesses a huge spike in air pollution ... we need to stop viewing the crisis as a ‘seasonal’ or just a win ter crisis,” Chanchal said.

Kejriwal foresees MP Raghav Chadha’s arrest

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New Delhi: In an ex plosive statement, CM Arvind Kejriwal ex pressed his premoni tion that party MP Ra ghav Chadha might be arrested soon.

“Preparations are un derway to arrest Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Raghav Chadha since he was appointed the party's co-incharge of political affairs in Gujarat,” the CM said.

Chadha, a Rajya Sab ha MP from Punjab, said he was neither

Blue Line services to be curtailed due to maintenance work

New Delhi: Delhi Met ro operations on the Blue Line will be cur tailed during the first half on October 2 due to planned maintenance work on a section of the corridor, officials said on Friday.

The busy line con nects Dwarka Sector 21 in Delhi with Noida Electronic City, and also branches off to Vaishali from Yamuna Bank station. There will not be any direct train service from Noi da Electronic City sta

tion to Dwarka or Dwar ka Sec-21 stations from the start of revenue services till 2 PM, offi cials said. Passengers heading from one end to another end of this line will be required to change trains at Yamu na Bank during this pe riod, it said.

afraid of going to jail or even facing death sen tence.

DyCM Manish Siso dia alleged that the BJP wanted to prevent its defeat in Gujarat by getting AAP leaders ar rested, claiming that people of the state wanted to give their mandate to Kejriwal this time. Chadha, who is credited with playing a significant role in the AAP's victory in the as sembly elections in Punjab, was recently appointed as co-in charge of the party's

HC comes down heavily on DTC

New Delhi (PTI): Re fusing to interfere with compensation of over Rs 19 lakh to the family of a 26-year-old who died in an accident involving a DTC bus in 2011, Delhi High Court said a public transport undertaking is not expected to un leash untrained, incom petent, and unlicensed drivers upon the unsus pecting innocent public.

Justice Gaurang Kanth said the bus driv er had a "fake" licence and was driving negli gently and DTC failed to exercise reasonable care while employing him.

political affairs in Gu jarat where elections are due this year.

"We are hearing that these people will arrest Ragav Chadha now since he has been ap pointed co-incharge of Gujarat and he has

started participating in poll campaigns in Guja rat," Kejriwal said in a tweet in Hindi.

"In which case they will (arrest) and what will be the allegations, these people are work ing on these points at

present," he added.

The CBI arrested the party's media commu nications in-charge Vi jay Nair in connection with the alleged Delhi excise policy "scam" on Tuesday.

"The BJP wasted 27 years of the people of Gujarat. Neither opened good schools nor hospitals (in the state). Be it youth wan dering in search of jobs or farmers, cow keep ers or rickshaw pullers, everyone now wants to give a chance to Kejri wal," Sisodia said .

3 PFI leaders sent to 14-day judicial custody

New Delhi (ANI): Af ter seven days of custo dial interrogation of the office bearer of the Pop ular Front of India (PFI), the Enforcement Direc torate on Friday in formed the court that the “investigation qua the accused persons has re vealed that they have played an active role in bogus cash donations on behalf of PFI and in claiming and projecting PFI’s unaccounted cash

raised through unknown and suspicious sources as untainted and legiti mate.”

After taking note of the submissions of ED, the Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Shailender Malik on Friday decid ed to send all three ac cused, Pervez Ahmed, Md. Iliyas and Abdul Muqeet to Judicial Cus tody for 14 days after ED didn’t seek further cus todial remand of them.

Bawana’s father held for possessing illegal weapons

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New Delhi: The father of gangster Neeraj Bawana was arrested for being in possession of illegal weapons, the po lice said Friday.

Outer-North district police had arrested a member of the Bawana gang named Sonu, on September 16 and recov ered a bulletproof Scor pio and SUV along with a huge quantity of arms and cartridges. The po lice found the car regis tered in the name of Neeraj Bawana's rela tive and started their

probe. Following this, they arrested Neeraj's father and indicted him for possessing illegal weapons. Neeraj is in Tihar jail. He and two others were sent to 5-day remand by an NIA Court on September 23.

Fresh school applications for EWS to begin Oct 3

New Delhi (PTI): Fresh online applications for admissions under eco nomically weaker sec tions/disadvantaged (EWS/DG) and children with special needs (CWSN) categories into entry-level classes for the 2022-23 session will be available from Octo ber 3, the government said. Applications will be available on the de partment website till October 10.

—PHOTO BY PTI

AIIMS bars security staff from having refreshments on duty

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Any security staff found taking refreshments or eating food during duty hours will also be removed from rolls of AIIMS

New Delhi: The newlyappointed director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, Dr M Srinivas issued an of fice memorandum stat ing that if any security staff is found taking refreshments or eating food during duty hours, s/he will be removed from rolls of AIIMS.

The memorandum said during the visit of the AIIMS Director to

the CNC on Thursday, it was observed that one of the security staff was carrying tea in a tray on directions of hospital staff posted in her area of responsibil

ity. After seeing the se curity guard carrying tea in a tray, Dr M Srini vas issued an office memorandum.

“It is hereby directed that the security staff

deployed for security and assistance of pa tients will not be used for any purpose other than for which they are engaged. The in-charge of concerned office to

which the security staff is posted as well as the respective cafe teria/canteen incharge will be held re sponsible if any secu rity staff is found car rying refreshments/ tea /coffee etc during their duty hours,” read the memorandum.

As per the memoran dum, “any security staff found taking re freshments or eating food during duty hours will also be removed from rolls of AIIMS.”

It further stated that it will also be en sured by the respective faculty in charge and officers in charge of security that the se curity staff perform the duties as specified in the tender agree ment for watch and ward services.

“Such incidents not only compromise the se curity for which the staff has been deployed but also portray an adverse image of security ser vices,” it added.

“Opening of online module for filing of on line application by the candidate under EWS/ DG category for 5,881 va cant seats and CWSN 4,448 vacancies will be available from October 3. Tentative date and time of online comput erised draw of lots to be announced on October 14,” the circular said.

The list of schools with vacancies will be updated on the website at 11 am on October 3.

Helpline numbers to register complaints be tween 10 am and 5 pm on weekdays are 8800355192 and 9818154069.

Despite inviting on line applications from September 3, approxi mately 10,329 seats are still vacant at entry-lev el classes in private un aided schools.

CM says teams will be set up to check garbage burning, vehicular emission

Thanks Centre for building peripheral expressways to bar trucks from entering Delhi

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal addresses a press conference in New Delhi on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI

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Artisans decorate a Durga Puja pandal for the Durga Puja festival celebrations, in Gurugram on Friday.

One of the accused Parvez Ahmed in ED custody. —FILE PHOTO

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They drove various areas like Alps of France, the whole of Italy, Autobahn of German in those cars. Then on arriv ing back, he designed a car that was perfect for the Euro

A PROGRESSIVE VERDICT BY SC

pean market. So innovative thinking means considering the end-users needs. Innova tive thinking has always had risks. We feel unsatisfied if our child won’t study in high paying fields like engineering and medicine, and also if he is not superior to his cousins and neighbors. But if we al low our child to follow his/ her then there are high pos sibilities of the child turning out to be an Innovator. How ever, all of it is about taking a risk. As Steve jobs once said in a very apt manner, we don’t allow our children to do experiments; we don’t allow them to fail in his subject of interest. In India, there is no respect of a person who failed once, well in case of Silicon Valley such person assumed more valued.

If we take the ex ample of Harish Hande, Har ish Hande experienced the importance of innovative thinking while he was pursu ing doctorate at Boston Uni versity in the USA. He got a chance to visit the Domini can Republic once. It was there when he understood the relationship between poverty and darkness for the first time. After that, his heart belonged there and he decided to contribute his en

Every unique way of thinking starts with keeping in mind the inclusion of all factors. Only when we start observing things from everyone’s perspective; new and innovative imagination start forming in our minds. Inclusion here means taking into consideration the feelings of people whom we hate or ignore sometimes

tire life in producing afford able energy sources for poor and needy people.

After that he started spend ing sometime in the villages of Sri Lanka to understand the needs and struggles of such people. There was no body who knew English over there. He invented the solar devices, not keeping in mind how it would benefit the city but from the perspective of the village area. People of the village of Sri Lanka told Mr

Harish that scarcity of heat or solar light is not our prob lem. But the problem was of the cluster of elephants that comes in the night and they destroy crops and harts and also kill people many times.

Harish made solar operat ed fencing to protect the lives and wealth of people. Then he came to India to establish SELCO. The main aim of tak ing this risk of Four Million Dollars was only to identify new uses of energy and im prove the lives of villages as well as cities by that continu ous innovation.

Harish had the ability to take a high paying job any where in the world. But he took social responsibility for people who were at the bot tom of the economic pyra mid by ignoring the strug gles. Be it Steve jobs or Har ish Hande, either if it’s a company or an 0rganization one thing was common in such personalities; they cre ated their own path. A known path is easy to tread upon but there are very few people who make their own path. Risk-takers have such inten tions and so should you to adopt a new way of thinking for making your own path.

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL

The difference be tween a developed and a developing nation lies in how much freedom women are allowed over their bodies. In a widely criticised and regressive judgment the US Supreme Court overturned an over 40-year-old judgment to ban abortion in the country.

The 1973 Roe vs Wade order which made abortion a consti tutional right cast aside that verdict on June 24 with a sixthree majority to turn the clock back on women. The In dian Supreme Court in a his toric judgment did the exact opposite of the US court’s rul ing and allowed abortion un der the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act.

The ruling, which should

The progressive judgment has been cheered by women across the country. In contrast the US Supreme Court’s verdict was condemned not only by women but also by President Joe Biden as a near-total ban came into effect across half of America

serve as template for the US Supreme Court, allows a woman who is in a live-in re lationship and also a married woman to terminate a preg nancy from 20-24 weeks. To ensure autonomy to a wom an, the court said that no third party interference will be required. The other first

in the judgment is that it rec ognises marital rape, which has been much debated.

The progressive judgment has been cheered by women across the country. In con trast the US Supreme Court’s verdict was condemned not only by women but also by President Joe Biden as a near-total ban came into ef fect across half of America.

The so-called developed Europe still has an abortion ban in The Vatican and Po land, besides a couple of other countries. Once Geor gia Meloni takes over as prime minister the whole of Italy could see a ban on med ical termination of pregnan cies due to her Catholic be liefs to take control of a woman’s body.

After last week’s inter est rate hike, the third in a row, by the US Federal Reserve by 75 basis points the Bank of England also raised its key in terest rate from 1.75 percent to 2.25 percent to combat inflation, it was a matter of time for the Re serve Bank of India to follow suit. On Friday the Monetary Policy Committee raised the interest rate by 50 bps points since May to fight inflationary pressures. This is the fourth rate hike by the RBI as the inflation continues to be beyond its comfort level. The “ag gressive” monetary policies be ing pursued by central banks of developed countries facing the threat of recession in view of Russia-Ukraine conflict.

The Russian invasion has led to prices of food, especially cere als, to go beyond the common man’s reach. With August infla tion at 7 percent, economists predicted that a rate hike was inevitable. More such hikes can not be ruled out if inflation re mains beyond control.

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Participated in a plantation and cleanliness drive at Swami Vivekananda College organised by BJP Mahila Morcha in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar. Great to see our women karyakartas so filled with energy and enthusiasm to work in the service of the Nation.

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Please join. I will kick start the “Fit India Freedom Run” at Dhyan Chand Stadium, New Delhi on 2nd Oct. The event is organised by Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports as part of the #AzadiKaAmritMahotsav & continue till 31st October 2022 to make India, Nation of Fit Citizens.

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PM Modi lays foundation stone of multiple projects in Ambaji

Banaskantha (ANI):

Prime Minister Naren dra Modi on Friday laid the foundation stone and dedicated various projects worth over Rs 7,200 crore in Ambaji.

Thousands of people cheered as PM Modi dig itally pressed the launch. The programmes in Am baji include laying the foundation stone of over 45,000 houses built under the PM Awas Yojana.

Prime Minister Modi also laid the foundation stone of Taranga Hill — Ambaji — Abu Road New Broad Gauge Line and development of pil grimage facilities at Am baji temple under the PRASAD scheme.

The new rail line is

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expected to benefit lakhs of devotees visit ing Ambaji, one of the 51 Shakti Peethas and will enrich the worship experience of the devo tees at all these pilgrim age places. Other pro jects whose foundation stone will be laid in clude the construction of the runway and as sociated infrastructure at Air Force Station, Deesa; Ambaji Bypass Road among others.

Earlier, zeal and fer vour echoed in the streets of Ambaji in Gu jarat when Prime Minis ter Narendra Modi held a roadshow on Friday.

Thousands of people thronged the area as they raised slogans.

JUDGMENT OR DECREE OBTAINED BY FRAUD IS TO BE TREATED AS A NULLITY, SAYS SC

New Delhi: The Supreme Court observed that a decree obtained by fraud is to be treated as a nullity. Non-disclosure of the relevant and material documents with a view to obtain an undue advantage would amount to fraud, it said. In this case, the Allahabad High Court had set aside the order passed by the Deputy Collector, Rasoolabad cancelling the fair price shop licence of petitioner. It was found that the cancellation was done without following the inquiry process.

MATHURA: HINDU SIDE’S COUNSEL

FAILS TO TURN UP

Mathura: A court here dismissed one of the several suits filed over the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi

Masjid Idgah dispute as the Hindu petitioners’ counsel did not turn up for hearing on Friday. The court had earlier imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on the Hindu petitioners for seeking an adjournment, and given them one more opportunity.

SUPREME COURT DISMISSES PLEA OVER EVMS

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea which claimed EVMs were “controlled” by some companies and not the Election Commission, saying the court is not a place where everybody walks in just to get “some publicity”. It said the election process under is monitored by the Election Commission and EVMs are being used in polls for decades now.

Chennai: The Madras High Court on Friday directed the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to hold its ‘route marches’ and public meetings in 51 places in Tamil Nadu on November 6, instead of the originally proposed October 2. Justice GK Ilanthiraiyan, who gave the direction to this effect, while entertaining a contempt application from the RSS, also directed the state government and the police to give the permission and inform the court on the same by October 31. If no decision is taken or permission is not given, the court will take up the contempt application and proceed to pass orders, the judge warned.

STUDENTS SHOULD KNOW HOW METRO IS CONSTRUCTED: NARENDRA MODI

Gandhinagar: PM Modi said the students should know about the cost of the metro. “I want students of classes 9-12 and engineering to ask how metro work has been done, the cost incurred, ... it will make them accountable; they will not participate in any protest to destroy public property. They will feel pain as if their own property is being damaged,” said Modi while flagging off the Vande Bharat Express train here.

PM RIDES TRAIN THAT OFFERS FLIGHT-LIKE EXPERIENCE

AUTO DRIVER WHO HOSTED KEJRI SAYS HE IS MODI FAN

Ahmedabad: He may have invited Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to his house in Ahmedabad for a much-publicised dinner 2 weeks ago, but auto driver Vikram Dan tani says he is a big fan of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a staunch supporter of his party BJP. On Friday, Dantani was spotted at a public rally of Modi, who is on a two-day Gujarat visit, in the Thaltej area of the city, donning saffron scarf and cap, the BJP trademark attire.

Many PFI members went to ISIS to join jihad: Govt

New Delhi (PTI): The PFI members, who joined the dreaded ter ror organisation ISIS, always took a long cir cuitous route to avoid the security dragnet be fore arriving in conflict theatres like Syria to take part in jihad, gov ernment officials said.

The PFI was banned on Tuesday for five years for allegedly hav ing “links” with global terror organisations like the ISIS and trying to spread communal ha tred in the country.

According to docu ments prepared by NIA, there were a few cases of youths getting killed or arrested at foreign soil and later being de ported back to India.

In 2017, Kerala Police received information that some Muslims had migrated to Syria and some were planning to join hands with ISIS in its jihad and most of the accused in the case were PFI members.

JP Nadda kickstarts Odisha

visit with prayers in Puri

Puri (ANI): BJP na

tional president JP Na dda kickstarted his twoday visit to Odisha’s Puri by offering prayers at Shree Jagannatha Temple on Friday morning.

He was accompanied by Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

Nadda arrived in Puri late Thursday evening where he was welcomed by the party workers.

This is Nadda’s first visit to the state after taking over the party’s topmost post in 2019.

The BJP chief had programmes lined up in the day.

He paid homage to late party leader Bish nu Sethi at Tihidi Kali padia.

Sethi passed away at 61 on September 19 this year due to kidney fail ure at AIIMS hospital in Bhubaneswar.

Later, Nadda will par ticipate in an event at

Swami Vivekanand Na tional Institute of Reha bilitation Training and Research (SVNIRTAR) in Cuttack.

Nadda is visiting vari ous states of the country and holding meetings with the party’s state units and reviewing the poll preparedness of the BJP for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Before his visit to the state, BJP in-charge Sunil Bansal took stock of the preparedness in

Bhubaneswar. He had held meetings with the party workers and as signed tasks. He had also taken part in the training camp on Sep tember 13 and 15.

According to the sources, Nadda will ad dress nearly 30,000 workers during his visit to the state. The party believes that an address by the national presi dent would fill them with new energy for the upcoming polls.

Kochi (PTI): A special court here on Friday sent 11 Popular Front of India (PFI) activists, who were arrested by the Na tional Investigation Agency (NIA) recently, to judicial custody till October 20. The accused were produced before the court as their NIA custody period ended on Friday. The court has asked the NIA to produce the accused on October 20.

Kozhikode (ANI): The National Investigation Agency on Friday sealed the state headquarters of the Popular Front of India (PFI) in Kozhikode in Kerala, days after the government banned the radical outfit for having “terror links”. The NIA sealed the office in Meenchanda area and pasted a notice on its wall in presence of local police officials.

Some allergic to India’s growth story: Dhankhar

New Delhi (PTI): Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday said there are “some” people who are “allergic” to sharing India’s achieve ments, and asserted there was a need to re buff and challenge them.

“India’s pursuit for self-reliance is different from other countries’. It is not about being selfcentred but seeing the whole world as one vil lage,” the vice president said at an event of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry here.

The Vice President said India today is a na tion not bound by what others say. “This situa tion was never witnessed ever before since 1947.”

VICE PREZ LAUDS INDIA’S VIBRANT MSME SECTOR New Delhi: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday called upon trade and industry bodies to fully leverage the ‘entre preneurial culture that is taking roots in hinterlands of the country through the vibrant MSME sector’. He called for ‘hand-holding these new entrepreneurs and allowing them to blossom’. At the 117th Annual Session of the PHDCCI here, the Vice President lauded the thriv ing Indian startup sector and said that with over 75,000 in number, “Indian business landscape now has a number of game changer startups”.

DIDI’S

Sharat K Verma

New Delhi: In West Bengal, the sword of Enforcement Directo rate (ED) hangs over more than two dozen MLAs and ministers of Mamata Banerjee gov ernment. Apart from this, Leader of Opposi tion in the Assembly Shubhendu Adhikari has said that he is going to give a list of 99 such MLAs to the ED, who have assets dispropor tionate to their known sources of income. These 25 people are also included in those 99 people. The sword hangs on the current list of 25 legislators be cause of the Kolkata High Court where a PIL to probe the alleged un accounted assets of these leaders is pending since 2017. This petition

has been filed by Biplab Dev Choudhary. Recent ly, state government minister Partha Chat terjee’s establishments were raided, cash was found and he was ar rested, then Biplab Chaudhary again reached the High Court.

While hearing this

MLAs IN A

case, the High Court has also made the ED a party in it. Against this decision of the High Court, three min isters of the state gov ernment — Firhad Hakim, Jyotipriya Ma lik and Arup Roy — have reached the court. They have contested

that the ED should not be involved in this case as the Election Com mission and Income Tax Department have not got any unaccount ed property from them. However, from the stand of the court, it seems that the ED will be a party in this and the court will give its investigation to the ED. Those whose as sets are to be investi gated include Firhad Hakim, Jyotipriya Ma lik, Malay Ghatak, Bratyavrata Basu etc and the name of BJP MP Arjun Singh is also included in this. He has recently returned to the Trinamool Con gress. The names of big leaders like Gau tam Deb, Amit Mitra, Abdur Razak Mollah, Madan Mitra are also included in this.

New Delhi (ANI): All India Imam Organisa tion chief Umer Ahmed Ilyasi received repeated threats after he termed RSS chief Mohan Bhag wat a ‘rashtra pita’ (fa ther of the nation).

Earlier on Thursday, All India Imam Organi sation chief Umer Ahmed Ilyasi, on Thurs day termed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat a ‘rashtra pita’ and added that Bhagwat had visited Madarsa Ta jweedul Quran in north Delhi at his invitation.

A complaint has been filed at Tilak Marg po lice station.

HOLD ROUTE MARCH ON NOVEMBER 6: MADRAS HIGH COURT DIRECTS RSS

Afer praise of RSS chief, head of Imams’ body gets threats

PM Narendra Modi waves to crowd as he reaches Banaskantha where he laid the foundation stone of various projects worth over Rs 7200 crore, in Ambaji on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI

PM MODI’S CONVOY STOPS TO ALLOW AN AMBULANCE TO PASS

ARRESTED PFI LEADERS IN KERALA SENT TO JUDICIAL CUSTODY TILL OCTOBER 20

NIA SEALS PFI HQ IN KOZHIKODE

Gandhinagar: After flagging off the semi-high speed Vande Bharat 2.0 from Gandhinagar on Friday, PM Narendra Modi also took a half an hour ride on the train between Gandhinagar and Kalupur railway station in Ahmedabad. Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw shared the video of the PM taking a ride on the train.

Ahmedabad: PM Modi’s convoy stopped for a brief time to give way to an ambulance while travelling to Gandhinagar on Friday. A video shared by the Gujarat BJP’s media cell shows two SUVs, which were part of the PM’s convoy, slowly moving to give way to the ambulance.

Meanwhile, the NIA has sought seven day custody of the third accused, Abdul Sathar (in pic), who was recently arrested.

Security personnel patrol during Friday prayers, days after the ban on the Popular Front of India (PFI), in Kanpur, on Friday. —PHOTO BY PTI

V-P Jagdeep Dhankhar addresses the 117th Annual Session of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in New Delhi on Friday. His wife Sudesh Dhankhar and other dignitaries also present.

Thousands throng the event and cheer as the PM dedicates projects worth over `7,200 cr in Gujarat town

JP Nadda being felicitated by party supporters at the ‘Sanyukt Morcha Sammelan’ in Bhubaneswar, on Friday. —PHOTO BY PTI

RaGa’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ enters poll-bound K’taka

YATRA ONLY WAY OF EXPRESSION, SAYS RAHUL

Congress leaders hoped that the Karna taka leg of the yatra which commenced here in Chamarajanagar dis trict would enthuse the party cadres in pollbound state. The yatra, which entered from Gu dalur in Tamil Nadu, will traverse across seven districts covering a distance of about 500 km in Karnataka, where Assembly polls are just six months away.

It will pass through Chamarajanagar, Mysu ru, Mandya, Tumakuru, Chitradurga, Ballari and Raichur districts. The yatra will cover seven Lok Sabha segments and 22 Assembly constituen cies in Karnataka.

According to sources in the Congress, there will be three major pub lic meetings in Gundlu pet, Mysuru and Ballari in Karnataka.

KHARGE TO BE 2nd PREZ FROM K’TAKA Bengaluru (PTI): Popu larly known as “Solillada Saradara” in his home-State of Karnataka Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge, who on Friday filed nomination for the Congress’ presidential polls, is a hardcore loyalist of the Gandhi family. If elected, he will be the second AICC president from Karnataka after S Nijalingappa, and also a Dalit leader to hold the post.

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BIHAR GOVERNMENT CONDEMNS IAS OFFICER HARJOT KAUR’s BEHAVIOUR

Patna: The Bihar government on Friday issued a statement condemning the indiscretion of senior IAS of ficer Harjot Kaur Bamhrah during an interaction with girl students here earlier this week which has led to an outcry. The Information and Public Relations Department said in the state ment that “cognizance has been taken and high-level review done” of the utterances of Bamhrah who has also been slapped with a notice by the National Commission for Women. The statement asserted that the conduct of Bamhrah, who heads the state’s Women and Child Devel opment Corporation, was “not appropriate in the view of the state government”.

—PTI

CONG ATTACK ON MINISTER FAUJA SINGH

SARARI ROCKS PUNJAB ASSEMBLY AGAIN

Chandigarh: The Punjab Assembly witnessed noisy scenes for a second straight day Friday as Congress MLAs again sought the dismissal and arrest of Cabinet minister Fauja Singh Sarari over an audio clip in which he was purportedly discussing ways to “trap” some contractors to “extort” money from them. They also sought a reply from CM, but VS Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan pulled the Congress legislators up as they entered the Well of the House and raised slogans against the AAP government. Amid the uproar, three bills the Punjab State Vigilance Commission Bill, the Punjab Village Common Lands Amendment Bill, and the Punjab Goods and Services Tax Bill, were passed in the House.

—PTI

CONGRESS SHOULD STAND FOR CHANGE, NOT SURPRISED BACKING KHARGE, SAYS THAROOR

New Delhi (PTI): Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that he has a vision to strengthen the party which should be a vehicle for “change” as he filed his nomination for the party president poll. The former Union minister called his rival Mallikarjun Kharge, who is also contesting and is being seen as the favourite to win, ‘Bhishma Pitamah’ of the Congress.

Gundlupet (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday claimed that the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ was the only option left with the party to reach out to the masses as all other fora for expression are shut. His ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ entered Karnataka here in Chamarajanagar district from Gudalur in Tamil Nadu. “There are various institutions in democracy. There’s media and Parliament too but all these have been shut for the oppo sition and media doesn’t listen to us. There’s total government control. Our mics are muted in Parliament, Assemblies are not allowed to func tion and opposition is harassed. In this situa tion, the only option left with us is ‘Bharat Jodo Yata,” Gandhi said at a public meeting here. Gandhi said no force in the country can stop this yatra because this is ‘India’s March’.

BJP takes potshots at Kharge’s candidature

New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Friday took a swipe at the Congress after senior leader Mall ikarjun Kharge emerged as the favourite to win the poll for party presi dent, suggesting that he will be a “proxy” and “remote-controlled”.

“Mallikarjun Kharge at 80 is an inspiring choice for the Congress. He is young, energetic and just what the Con gress needed to ensure its revival. He should just pick Dr Manmohan Singh’s manual on ‘Liv ing by the Remote Control’ and it is all sorted,” BJP IT depart ment head Amit Malvi ya said in a tweet.

Shashi Tharoor contin ues to hang in, he add ed, referring to the Con gress MP, who has also

filed his nomination for the Congress presi dent post.

Most senior Congress leaders, however, rally around Kharge, who is seen to have the back ing of the Gandhis even though they have con veyed that they will re main neutral in the election.

JAIRAM RAMESH HIGHLIGHTS PARTY CONSENSUS

Chamarajanagar (ANI): With the Congress president polls just weeks away, senior party leader Jairam Ramesh on Friday highlighted the party’s “consensus” and said that his party was the only one to have a system for the party supremo’s post. “Congress is the only party which has a system for electing a president. Congress’ greatest contribution to Indian politics has been consensus.

Cong’s Siddaramaiah warns ruling BJP Gundlupet (Agencies): A senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah has warned the BJP not to obstruct the ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra led by party MP Rahul Gandhi as it entered Karna taka on Friday. The former Karnataka chief minister also warned the state police officials saying those colluding with the ruling party would be taught a befitting lesson.

Primary aim should be to serve nation: Prez

CONGRESS’ YURI ALEMAO NEW LOP IN GOA ASSEMBLY

Panaji: Yuri Alemao became the new leader of opposition in the Goa As sembly on Friday after Congress MLAs elected him as head of the legislative party and Speaker Ramesh Tawad kar recognised the move.

Michael Lobo, who was the previous LoP, had switched over along with seven other Congress MLAs to the rul ing Bharatiya Janata Party recently. “The Speaker has recognized Yuri Alemao as the Leader of Opposi tion in the Goa Legislative Assembly with effect from September 30,” State Leg islature Secretary Namrata Ulman said in an order issued during the day.

Alemao represents Cun colim Assembly seat and is one of the three Congress MLAs in the House. —PTI

ENFORCEMENT DIRECTORATE FREEZES

CRYPTO CURRENCY WORTH `47.64 LAKH

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has freezed crypto currencies and Tether, an Ethereum token that is pegged to the value of a US dollar, equivalent to Rs 47.64 lakh under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). This has come following an investigation conducted by the ED against a person named Aamir Khan and others relating to the Mobile gam ing application, E-nuggets, According to an Enforcement Directorate (ED) statement.

—PTI

New Delhi (PTI) : Pres ident Droupadi Murmu on Friday said that pri mary aim of public servants should be to serve the nation and its people with utmost sin cerity. She was speaking to the officers/officer trainees of Indian De fence Estates Service, Indian Skill Develop ment Service, Indian Trade Service and Indi an Telecom Service, who had called on the president at Rashtrapa ti Bhavan in Delhi.

Addressing the offic ers, Murmu said that after becoming part of the respective services, their primary aim

‘Probe illegal diversion of Central funds by WB govt’

Kolkata (ANI): West Bengal Leader of Oppo sition and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Friday requested Fi nance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to probe the alleged irregularities and illegal diversion of central government funds from the Wage and Means head of the consolidated funds and PFMS to the SERF ac count by the West Ben gal government.

“I am writing this let ter to you in order to ap

prise you about the mal practices the West Ben gal Government has been engaged in, and the unethical and illegal di version of funds provid ed by the Central Gov ernment,” said Adhika ri in the letter.

should be to serve the nation and its people with utmost sincerity.

In their journey as pub lic servants, they will

get opportunities to bring about changes which can transform the lives of people, the president said. She was confident that if young offices pursue the path of serving the people, they will earn a great deal of job satisfaction.

The president was happy to note that the Directorate General of Defence Estates has adopted technologies like satellite imagery, geo-spatial techniques and artificial intelli

gence for management of defence estates. She urged Indian De fence Estates Service Officers to utilise tech nology to the maximum possible extent for effec tive administration of the cantonments. The president said that tech nology has even more central role to play in the career of Indian Tel ecom Service officers. India has undergone a telecom revolution dur ing the last two decades, she said.

Huge cache of ammunition seized in J&K’s Gurez Sector

Srinagar (Agencies): In a major blow to the intentions of terrorist groups perating from across Line of Control, Indian Army and JKP foiled their design to de liver huge cache of weapons, ammunition, grenades and other war like stores to cause ter ror activities and unrest in the Valley.

On September 27, based on intelligence from police and human sources of the Indian

Will the decision regarding giving symbol to Shiv Sena be different from ECI’s decision on LJP?

Mahesh Sharma

New Delhi: It is a mil lion dollar question whether the Election Commission will take the same decision on Shiv Sena as it has done in the case of Lok Jan shakti Party or will its decision on Shiv Sena be entirely different? This question has been aris ing ever since the Su preme Court ordered that the Election Com mission should decide about Shiv Sena. At the same time, it is also be ing said that the deci sion of the Supreme

Court is a major victory for the Eknath Shinde faction and a huge blow to the Uddhav Thacker ay faction. It is also sur prising as to why is there a perception that the decision of the Elec tion Commission in the Shiv Sena case will go against the Uddhav Thackeray faction?

The model of Lok Janshakti Party is in front of the Election Commission. After the death of Ram Vilas Pas wan, there was a split in the Lok Janshakti Party and five out of the six MPs of the party came

together and claimed themselves to be the rep resentatives of ‘real’ LJP. The Speaker also gave them recognition in the Lok Sabha. The leader of that faction,

Pashupati Paras, is a minister in the central government. Later, when the real party’s claim reached the Elec tion Commission, the commission gave a bal

ancing decision. The commission confiscated the Lok Janshakti Party name and election sym bol. So, the name of the party of Pashupati Pa ras faction is Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party and the name of the party of Chirag Paswan faction is Lok Janshakti Party Ramvilas. So, the commission has a previous prece dent to take a similar decision in the case of Shiv Sena. Shiv Sena’s name and its ‘arrowbow’ election symbol should be confiscated and separate names and

symbols should be allot ted to both the groups. But if it has to happen then how will it be a ma jor victory for the Shin de faction? A big victory for the Shinde faction will happen when it gets the name and election symbol of Shiv Sena. Only then will it have any advantage in the municipal elections to be held in the next few days. Like LJP, in Shiv Sena too, most of the MPs and MLAs are with the Eknath Shinde fac tion but the party organ ization is still with Ud dhav Thackeray.

A huge amount of weapons, ammunition and grenades recovered by Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday.

Army under aegis of 109 Infantry Brigade launched a search oper ation along Naushera Nard till the Line of Control in Gurez Sector

of Bandipura District. After three days of search, a hideout was found along the Nala on September 29, very close to the Line of Control.

Dhami meets victim’s parents, assures action

Pauri (Uttarakhand) (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami met An kita Bhandari’s parents on Friday. The state chief also assured her parents of strict action against the culprits.

“Today, after reach ing Dobh Srikot village of Pauri district, ex

pressed condolences while meeting the fam ily members of daugh ter Ankita. I assured them that by taking the strictest action against the cul prits of this heinous crime, we will get the matter heard in the fasttrack court,” tweeted CM Dhami.

KEEPING FINGERS CROSSED

Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) Chief Chirah Paswan addresses a press conference, in Patna. —FILE PHOTO

❍ ANKITA BHANDARI MURDER CASE

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami meeting parents of Ankita Bhandari on Friday. —PHOTO BY PTI

The Yatra entered from Gudalur, will traverse across seven districts covering a distance of about 500 km in K’taka, where Assembly polls are just six months away Gundlupet (PTI): Ra hul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ entered Karnataka on Friday.

GANDHI’S EXPIRED DRUGS, SAYS SARMA New Delhi (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has taken a swipe at Congress over its dwindling fortunes in the electoral polls under the leadership of Gandhis over the last eight years and said “Gandhi family are expired drugs”.

CONGRESS PREZ POLL

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with AICC General Secretary & Karnataka in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala, KPCC President DK Shivakumar, Opposition leader in Assembly Siddaramaiah and other leaders during the party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, at Gunlupet in Chamarajanagar district on Friday.

—PHOTO

BY PTI

President Murmu greets Officers/Officer Trainees at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday.

—PHOTO BY ANI

New Delhi: Gold price in the national capital rose by `406 to `50,722 per 10 grams on Friday amid a rally in the international yellow metal prices, ac cording to HDFC Securi ties. In the previous trade, the precious metal had closed at `50,316 per 10 grams. Silver prices also jumped by `905 to `57,436 per kilogram from `56,531 per kg in the previous trade. In in ternational market, gold was quoting higher at $1,671.33 per ounce, while silver was up at $19.15 per ounce.

—PTI

INDIA’S ELECTRONICS

EXPORTS TO REACH $120 BN BY 2025-26

RBI hike repo rates for 4th straight time

Mumbai (PTI): Home, auto and other loan EMIs are set to rise further after the RBI on Friday raised the key interest rate by 50 basis points, the fourth straight increase since May, with more hikes ex pected to rein in inflation.

The monetary policy committee (MPC), com prising three members from the RBI and three ex ternal experts, raised the key lending rate or the repo rate to 5.90% - the highest since April 2019 - with five out of the six members vot ing in favour of the hike.

Since the first unsched uled mid-meeting hike in

May, the cumulative in crease in interest rate now stands at 190 basis points and mirrors similar ag gressive monetary tighten ing in major economies around the globe to contain runaway inflation by dampening demand.

The MPC also decided by a majority of 5 out of 6 members to remain fo cused on the withdrawal of the accommodative pol icy stance to ensure that inflation remains within the target going forward, while supporting growth, said RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das.

“The inflation trajectory

FY23 inflation forecast retained at 6.7% by RBI

Mumbai (PTI): The RBI on Friday retained its infla tion projection for FY23 at 6.7% amid geopolitical con cerns triggered by RussiaUkraine war, and expected inflation to be under con trol from January.

Chennai: India’s electron ics exports would reach $120 billion by 2025-26 and that would happen with state governments partnering with the Gov ernment of India, Union Minister Rajeev Chan drasekhar said on Friday.

The country’s electronics manufacturing was val ued at $70-75 billion and PM Narendra Modi has set a target to reach $300 billion by 2025-26, the Minister of State for En trepreneurship, Skill De velopment, Electronics & Technology said.

—PTI

CORE SEC GROWTH SLOWS TO 3.3% IN AUGUST THIS YEAR

The central bank is man dated to keep retail infla tion in a band of 2-6%. In flation has remained above RBI’s upper tolerance level of 6% since January 2022. It ruled over 7% in April, May and June. July saw a breather with inflation sliding to 6.7%. Last month, inflation touched 7%.

At the beginning of this fiscal year, pressures due to imported inflation were acute which have now eased, but it remains at el evated levels across food and energy items, RBI Gov ernor Shaktikanta Das said.

ABOVE UPPER TOLERANCE LEVEL

z Inflation has remained above RBI’s upper tolerance level of 6% since January 2022. It ruled over 7% in April, May and June.

July saw a breather with inflation sliding to 6.7%. In August, it touched 7%

Edible oil prices are like ly to remain contained due to improved supplies from producing nations as well as steps taken by the gov ernment on price front.

remains clouded with un certainties arising from continuing geopolitical tensions and nervous glob

Working on law to promote ease of doing biz: Goyal

New Delhi (PTI): Com merce and Industry Minis ter Piyush Goyal on Friday said the ministry is work ing on a law to decriminal ise certain provisions to promote ease of doing business.

A bill in this regard is expected to be introduced in the forthcoming winter session of Parliament, he added.

“We have focused on ease of doing business...We con tinue to reduce the compli ance burden for our busi nesses...Give us, feedback quickly because, in the winter session, we are pro posing to come out with a very holistic amendment to the laws related to busi nesses to ease the burden, and reduce compliances,” Goyal said while address ing PHDCCI’s Annual Ses sion 2022.

al financial market senti ments,” he said. “If high inflation is allowed to lin ger, it invariably triggers

second-order effects.”

The rise in repo rates would translate into higher borrowing costs for corpo rates and individuals.

Pledging to “remain alert and nimble” and data-de pendent, he said “calibrat ed action” will be taken to shield the economy amid fears of a global recession.

“In this backdrop, MPC was of the view that persis tence of high inflation, ne cessitates further calibrat ed withdrawal of monetary accommodation to restrain broadening of price pres sures, anchor inflation ex pectations and contain the second-round effects.

‘CURRENCY MOVEMENTS NOT GUIDING FACTORS FOR MONETARY POLICY’

Mumbai (PTI): Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday said that currency movements are not the guiding factors for monetary policy decisions. He said currency management is the domain of RBI and that it will deploy all the appropriate measures on the same. The Monetary Policy Committee takes into account domestic factors on inflation and growth while formulating its rates strategy, Das told reporters. He said the primacy is given to inflation while the aspect of growth is also looked into.

RBI cuts growth forecast to 7% for current fiscal on global headwinds

Mumbai (PTI): The Re serve Bank of India on Fri day cut the economic growth projection for the current financial year to 7% from 7.2% estimated earlier on account of ex tended geopolitical ten sions and aggressive mon etary policy tightening globally.

The headwinds from ex tended geopolitical ten sions, tightening global fi nancial conditions and pos sible decline in the exter nal component of aggre gate demand can pose downside risks to growth, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said.

The central bank in April had cut GDP growth estimate to 7.2% from its earlier forecast of 7.8%.

“Taking all these factors into consideration, real GDP growth for 2022-23 is

Sensex snaps 7-day losing run, up 1,017 pts

New Delhi: The output of eight core infrastructure sectors grew 3.3% in Au gust -- the lowest in nine months -- as against 12.2% in the year-ago pe riod, according to official data released on Friday. The previous low was in November 2021 at 3.2%.

The production growth of eight infrastructure sec tors -- coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery prod ucts, fertiliser, steel, ce ment and electricity -was 9.8% during AprilAugust this fiscal, com pared to 19.4% a year ago. Crude oil and natural gas production contract ed by 3.3% & 0.9%.

—PTI

INFLATION HITS 10% IN 19 EU COUNTRIES THAT USE THE EURO

Mumbai (PTI): Bench mark indices bounced back on Friday after fall ing for the previous seven trading sessions, with the Sensex climbing 1,017 points following the Re serve Bank of India’s in terest rate decision.

Bouncing back after seven straight sessions of decline, the 30-share Bom bay Stock Exchange (BSE) benchmark jumped 1,016.96 points or 1.80% to settle at 57,426.92.

Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty climbed 276.25 points or 1.64% to end at

17,094.35.

Among the 30-share Sensex pack, Bharti Air tel, IndusInd Bank, Bajaj Finance, Titan, Kotak Ma hindra Bank, HDFC Bank,

MUCH-AWAITED EVENT

and Tata Steel were among the major gainers.

However, Dr Reddy’s, Asian Paints, ITC and Hindustan Unilever were the laggards.

` RISES 37 PAISE TO CLOSE AT 81.36 AGAINST US DOLLAR Mumbai (PTI): The rupee extended its initial gains and settled 37 paise higher at 81.36 against US dollar on Friday, after the RBI raised the benchmark lending rate by 50 bps. At the interbank forex market, the local unit opened at 81.60 against the greenback. It witnessed an intra-day high of 81.17 and a low of 81.69 during the ses sion. It finally ended at 81.36, up 37 paise from its previous close. On Thursday, the rupee recovered from record lows to settle 20 paise higher at 81.73 against the dollar.

PM Modi to launch 5G services in India today

Frankfurt: Inflation in the European countries using the euro currency has broken into double digits as prices for electricity and natural gas soar, sig nalling a looming winter recession for one of the globe’s major economies as higher prices under mine consumers’ spend ing power. Consumer prices in the 19-country eurozone hit a record 10% in September, up from 9.1% in August, EU statistics agency Eurostat reported on Friday.

—PTI

New Delhi (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the much-await ed 5G services in India on October 1, 2022, an official release said on Friday.

5G to be launched by the PM in select cities, will pro gressively cover the entire country over the next cou ple of years. The cumula tive economic impact of 5G on India is estimated to reach $450 billion by 2035.

Capable of supporting ultra-high-speed internet services, the fifth genera tion or 5G is expected to unleash new economic op portunities and societal

benefits, serving as a trans formational force for Indi an society. “Prime Minis ter, Narendra Modi will

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE

z According to the release, 5G to be launched by the Prime Minister in select cities, will progressively cover the entire country over the next couple of years

z The cumulative economic impact of 5G on India is estimated to reach $450 billion by 2035

projected at 7.0% with Q2 at 6.3%; Q3 at 4.6%; and Q4:2022-23 at 4.6%, with risks broadly balanced. The growth for Q1:2023-24 is projected at 7.2%,” he said.

AFTER NOTING ALL FACTORS...

z

Real GDP growth for 202223 is projected at 7.0% with Q2 at 6.3%; Q3 at 4.6%; and Q4:2022-23 at 4.6%, with risks broadly balanced

Real GDP grew 13.5% in the first quarter of FY’23, surpassing the pre-pan demic level by 3.8%. This was led by robust growth in private consumption and investment demand.

RBI expects CAD to come under 3% in FY23

Mumbai (PTI): The Reserve Bank expects the current account deficit to be under 3% of GDP in FY23, Deputy Governor Michael Patra said on Friday. The CAD will “modestly widen” in the first half of the fiscal year and narrow in the second half, Patra told reporters. “Overall, we expect the current account deficit to be under 3% of GDP (in FY23),” Patra said. The comments come a day after official data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) showed that the CAD widened in the first quarter of the fiscal to 2.8% of GDP. In FY22, the CAD had stood at 1.2% of the GDP.

OTHER STORIES

AI TO INTRODUCE 20 MORE WEEKLY FLIGHTS TO BIRMINGHAM, LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO

New Delhi: Air India will introduce 20 additional weekly flights to Birmingham, London and San Francisco in next three months as the Tatas-owned airline seeks to strengthen its international pres ence. With 5 additional flights a week to Birmingham, 9 additional flights to London and 6 additional flights a week to San Francisco, more than 5,000 additional seats will be offered every week to customers, the carrier said in a release on Friday. The airline’s current schedule of 34 flights every week to the UK will now go up to 48 flights.

PADDY ACREAGE FALLS

4.76% IN KHARIF

SEASON THIS YEAR

New Delhi: Area under cover age for paddy declined by 4.76% in the Kharif season to 402.88 lakh hectares as due to er ratic monsoon rains in some states like Jharkhand, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. The paddy acreage stood at 423.04 lakh hectares (LH) in last year’s Kharif season. The agriculture ministry on Friday released the final area under coverage for Kharif season of 2022. The total area under coverage for all Kharif crops declined to 1102.79 LH from 1112.16 LH last year. Pulses acreage too declined to 133.68 LH from 139.21 LH. —PTI

IBBI ALLOWS IPEs TO ACT AS INSOLVENCY

PROFESSIONALS

New Delhi: Regulator IBBI has allowed Insolvency Profes sional Entities (IPEs) to act as insolvency professionals, a move that is likely to help in speedier reso lution process. Till now, only individuals were permitted to register as insolvency profes sionals under the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code. “Consider ing the limitations on the part of an Insolvency Professional (IP), being an individual, in dealing with processes under the Code requiring concurrent efforts, and multi-disciplinary expertise, the board decided to institutionalise the profession of IP,” the regulator said.

launch 5G services in India on October 1, 2022 and also inaugurate the 6th Edition of India Mobile Congress

2022 to be held from Octo ber 1-4, 2022, at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi,” the release added.

GAS PRICES HIKED 40%; CNG, PNG TO COST MORE New Delhi: The prices of natural gas, which is used to generate electricity, make fertiliser and is converted into CNG to run auto mobiles, were on Friday hiked by a steep 40% to record levels, in step with global firming up of energy rates. The rate paid for gas produced from old fields, which make up for about two-thirds of all gas produced in the country, was hiked to $8.57 per million British thermal units from the current $6.1, according to an order from the oil ministry’s Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC).

GOLD PRICES UP BY `406; SILVER ALSO SEES RISE OF `905

MiG-21 SQUADRON THAT TOOK DOWN PAK’S F16 RETIRES

IAF pilot Abhinandan Varthaman was part of Srinagar-based squadron

New Delhi (Agen cies): The Indian Air Force’s (IAF) 51 Squad ron, which operates the MiG-21 Bison fighter fleet, bowed out of ser vice Friday. The Srina gar-based unit shot into limelight in 2019 after the deadly air duel with Pakistan Air Force’s F-16s, a day af ter the Balakot strike.

Known as the ‘Sword Arms’, number-plating of the 51 Squadron was done Friday. It is a pro cess by which the IAF keeps a unit on paper, while re-posting all per sonnel attached to it to another squadron. The unit exists notionally till it is resurrected again with a different set of assets, role, man power, and possibly a new location.

The decommissioned 51 Squadron has made way for the MiG 29s, the new “guardians of the Valley”. Even though the ‘Sword Arms’ was raised on 1 February, 1985, un der the command of Wing Commander VK Chawla, and has multi ple distinctions, it be came popular among the

It has made way for MiG-29s to be the new ‘Guardians of the Valley’

The crest of the squad ron portrays muscular arms firmly grasp ing a sword, depicting the motto ‘Vijyaye Parakramah’ which means valour for victory.

public because of Wing Commander Abhinan dan Varthaman.

Varthaman was post ed to the 51 Squadron on 30 September 2019 when he, along with his fellow

FRONT

Prayagraj (ANI): Sa majwadi Party leader Azam Khan on Friday withdrew his plea in the Supreme Court against state government action on taking over Muham mad Ali Jauhar Univer sity in Uttar Pradesh.

A bench of justices MR Shah and Krishna Murari, however, grant ed the liberty to the pe titioner to approach the Allahabad High Court with his grievances.

The Supreme Court re fused to entertain Azam Khan’s plea against state action on taking over Muhammad Ali Jauhar University in Uttar Pradesh.

As the top court was not convinced to hear the matter, Azam Khan’s lawyer sought to withdraw the petition.

The last time, Azam Khan’s lawyer told the High Court that he was facing 87 cases, has got bail with great dif ficulty and later three more cas es were lodged against him on the alle gations of corruption.

Azam Khan’s law yer had said that they have tak

en over the university, closed down the mess and have broken the walls. The lawyer also mentioned that the teachers were not al lowed to go to classes.

Earlier on July 22, the Supreme Court set aside the condi

INDIA

S NEW CDS

NATION’S COMMAND

Ban on PFI meant to appease RSS: Mayawati

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www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epapers/delhi I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia Be free, free to do your duty, handle your responsibilities and free to be happy! —Dr Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO & Editor-in-Chief, First India Khan has apprehended that conditions imposed by the Allahabad High Court may lead to demolishing of buildings of the university.

Lucknow: Bahujan Sa maj Party chief Mayawati on Friday said that the ban on the (PFI) Popular Front of India ahead of Assem bly elections in some states was an act of “po litical selfishness” aimed at appeasing the Rashtriya Swayamse vak Sangh (RSS). She said this decision was taken to shut down de mands to ban the RSS.

“After targeting PFI in various ways across the country, the Centre has finally banned it along with eight of its affiliates before assem bly elections and con sidering it a policy of political selfishness and appeasement of the Sangh, there is less of satisfaction and more of restlessness, ” she said in a tweet in Hindi.

Rajnath reviews functioning of corporatised ordnance DPSUs

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New Delhi: Marking one year since the erst while Ordnance Facto ry Board (OFB) was cor poratised into 7 Defence Public Sector Undertak ings (DPSUs), Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday asked the companies to have an aggressive and progres sive attitude to make their presence felt in the current time of competitive bidding.

The companies had commenced operations in October last year be fore they were dedicat ed to the nation by PM Narendra Modi on the occasion of ‘Vijaya dashami’ on October 15, 2021.

And now a year later, Defence Minister re viewed the working of the seven state-run de fence companies which were carved out of the

erstwhile Ordnance Factory Board (OFB).

With an aim to achieve Rs 35, 000 de fence export target, the government urged the DPSUs to develop and adopt the latest tech nologies to help make India a defence manu facturing hub.

“The erstwhile OFB, with its infrastructure and skilled manpower, was a strategic asset of the country, which made valuable contri butions to national se

curity,” he said. How ever, Singh said there were concerns in the armed forces regard ing high costs, incon sistent quality and de lay in supply of prod ucts by the OFB in the last few decades.

“Being a government department, the OFB had little accountabili ty to show profits. There were age-old pro cedures, practices, pa per works and rules & regulations, which had lost relevance,” he said.

HC dismisses petition against Adityanath

First India Bureau

Prayagraj: The Alla habad High Court dis missed a petition seek ing a direction to file a complaint against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for making an “objectiona ble” speech during an election campaign in Rajasthan’s Alwar dis trict in 2018, on Friday.

Azam Khan withdraws plea on Jauhar Univ

tion imposed by the Al lahabad High Court, while granting interim bail to Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan, relating to the sealing of Mohammad Ali Jau har University and di rected the concerned authority to deseal

’ The top court also said that prima facie conditions imposed for the grant of bail are disproportionate and have no reasonable link to the means to secure the presence of the accused.

these buildings.

Allahabad HC had imposed the conditions to seal the property while granting interim bail to Azam Khan.

The Supreme Court had earlier stayed the condition imposed by the Allahabad HC direc tions to the District Magistrate to hold a measurement of Mo hammad Ali Jauhar University as part of the condition of bail granted to Azam Khan.

Khan has moved a plea against the impend ing threat of demolition of Mohammad Ali Jau har University as part of the condition of his bail.

Sharma of the Mau dis trict, stating that this

court lacked jurisdic tion to hear the case. The petitioner was also fined Rs 5,000 by the court.

Sharma has alleged that Adityanath’s speech during the elec tion campaign in Alwar district of Rajasthan on November 23, 2018 had hurt his religious senti ments. Earlier, he had filed the plea before the Mau district court which had rejected it.

SC notice on plea by AIMIM chief against acquittal of Hapur attackers

New Delhi: The Su preme Court on Friday issued notice on a peti tion filed by All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen President Asaduddin Owaisi, challeng ing the Al lahabad HC’s deci sion to grant bail to 2 ac cused -- Sachin Shar ma, and Shubham Gur jar, who are accused of firing at his vehicle in February this year.

A bench of Justices M R Shah and Krishna Murari issued notices to the State of Uttar Pradesh on the aspect as to why the High Court should not be asked to consider the bail plea afresh. The Apex Court will hear the matter fur ther on November 11.

One of the accused was held within 24 hours of the incident, while the other one sur rendered later.

The convoy of the Lok Sabha MP from Hy derabad had come un der attack in Hapur in UP, while he was re turning after attending events related to Rajya Sabha elections. The accused said they were triggered by the provoc ative statements made by Owaisi.

SC changes police custody to judicial in bail order of Navlakha

New Delhi: The Su preme Court on Friday changed the term ‘po lice custody’ in the or der directing shifting of activist Gautam Nav lakha to the hospital to ‘judicial custody’.

NEW DELHI | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2022 082ND ‘DEMOLISHING OF UNIVERSITY’

The apex court changed the order as Navlakha, while at the hospital, will be under ‘judicial custody with police escort’.

The change was made after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submit ted that the use of the word “police custody” in the order can lead to

technical problems. Ad vocate Shadan Farasat, along with Advocate Warisha Farasat, ap pearing for Navlakha, consented to the change of the wordings of the order. The order direct ing Navlakha to be shifted to the hospital was passed by a Bench

of Justice K.M. Joseph and Justice Hrishikesh Roy on Thursday.

The Supreme Court had directed the Taloja Jail Superintendent on Thursday to immedi ately shift activist Gau tam Navlakha, who was arrested under the stringent Unlawful Ac tivities (Prevention) Act, to Mumbai’s Jaslok Hospital for treatment.

The Bench had also permitted 70-year-old Navlakha’s partner Sahba Hussain and his sister to meet him in the hospital.

General Anil Chauhan assumes charge as the second Chief of Defence Staff after the late Gen Bipin Rawat. (From L) General Chauhan seen inspecting a guard of honour; inside his office; and with Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari, Chief of Army Staff General Manoj Pande, and Vice Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral SN Ghormade, in New Delhi on Friday. —PHOTOS BY PTI

pilots, challenged a group of US-made F16s, equipped with elec tronic warfare capabil ity and latest air-to-air missiles, with their So viet-era MiG-21 Bisons.

Raised in Chandigarh, the 51 Squadron moved to Srinagar on 1 May 1986. It was initially equipped with MiG-21 Type 76 and then with the Bisons in January 2004, which were an upgraded aircraft.

During its 38 years of existence, the 51 Squadron has partici pated in multiple operations, including Operation Brasstacks in 1987, Operation Safed Sagar in 1999 during the Kargil war, and Operation Parakram.

The Squadron had flown 194 sorties, contributing to air de fence for the strike fleet that consisted of the Mirages.

38 YEARS IN KASHMIR

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh with Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan, Chief of Army Staff General Manoj Pande and others during a meeting to review working of the seven defence companies, in New Delhi on Friday. —PHOTO BY PTI

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Justice Samit Gopal dismissed the petition filed by Naval Kishore

SHOULDERS TAKE THE WEIGHT OFF YOUR

Off shoulders are chic and make you look super elegant effortlessly. City First brings to you the significance of off-shoulder fashion and how you can style them to complete your look.

SHUBHANSHI PATHAK cityfirst@firstindia.co.in

There is a reason why off-theshoulder cloth ing is fashionable today. They’ve been popular for a very long time and are going out of style anytime soon. People are still rocking them with formal attire, casual at tire, and even at parties.

Off shoulders can be worn in a variety of ways depending on your com fort level and what looks best on you. They provide an incredibly elegant and feminine appearance with complete comfort, which explains why they are very in style.

Off-shoulders actually help you increase your style quotient. The best thing about them is their adaptability. Even in cas ual office attire, they are deserving enough to set standards at formal even ing meetings or parties. This fashion makes you look incredibly astonish ing and conventional at the same time. It’s a per fect costume for any for mal occasion, and it has a touch of sophistication and elegance.

It can be accessorised with some classy picks such as pointed heels and a basic watch to complete the look. An off-shoulder is definitely appropriate for a casual outing. An offshoulder is always com fortable and simple to wear for the ideal summer appearance, whether it’s for a luncheon or a day of shopping. It’s incredible how this straightforward design can be dressed up to seem utterly edgy. The nicest aspect is that they are so versatile because they are made of so many different materials and patterns. Without experi mentation, one cannot improve their style, but if that has failed, blacks ap pear to be the best option.

Keep in mind that you can wear practically any col our if you are confident. Remember to always ex periment to see what matches your personality the best.

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How do we Increase Weight in Kids?

Weight gain in kids can be difficult because they do not eat everything that is put on their plate.

With a little planning and the addition of ener gy-dense healthy foods to their diet, weight gain is achievable. Parents need to first find out the child’s weight status category:

Less than the 5th per centile: underweight 5th percentile to less than 85th percentile: normal or healthy weight 85th to less than 95th percentile: overweight

Above 95th percen tile: obese

With the help of this “Height and Weight Cal culator for Children”, parents can easily calcu late the ideal height and weight of the children according to their gender and age.

What Is the Need for Introducing Healthy Foods in Kids’ Diet?

The best time to estab lish healthy eating pat terns is early childhood because these habits and patterns will impact how kids eat as adults. A nu tritionally-balanced and wholesome diet is re quired for optimal growth and development.

Being underweight or malnourished increases the risk of acquiring in fectious diseases. There fore, it is important to introduce healthy foods one at a time and speak to your little one about their amazing benefits for the body.

TOP 10 HEALTHY WEIGHT GAIN FOODS FOR KIDS

BREAST MILK

The unique composition of breast milk makes it a perfect source of nutrition for the infant. Six months of exclusive breastfeed ing in the first year of life is recommended. Breast milk contains long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids that help in the normal growth and development of the baby. These fatty acids also help the immature brain to develop. Breast milk increases the concen tration of growth factors in the body, which cause weight gain in underweight infants.

EGGS

Eggs are power-packed with high-quality proteins and healthy fats. One egg contains approximately 6 grams of protein. Daily consumption of eggs enhances muscle gain and weight gain in underweight children. Whole eggs also contain vitamin A and vitamin B12, which are required for the growth and development of a child. It further promotes the healthy development of the brain and the central nervous system.

BANANAS

Bananas are a great source of energy and one banana has around 100 calories. Bananas con tain less moisture content and more carbohydrate content that help in healthy weight gain. You can give this energy-dense nutri tious fruit to your child in different forms, like:

Mashed banana

Banana milkshake or smoothies

Banana topped with peanut butter Or plain banana

DAIRY PRODUCTS

Dairy products like milk, curd and cheese are packed with the goodness of proteins and calcium and other vital nutrients as well. Calcium supports the healthy growth and development of bones in children. Make sure you give your little one two glasses of milk per day. If your kid does not like plain milk, give milk in the form of milkshakes.

CHICKEN

Chicken is an amazing source of protein, iron, zinc, vitamin B6, B12, copper, phosphorus and selenium. This power-packed lean meat helps in building muscles, which is the best way to make your child put on weight. Muscle gain does not make your little one

look flabby.Chicken is easy to cook and a versatile ingredient. It can be used to prepare curries, pulao, sandwiches, soups or chicken can be simply grilled or baked.

NUTS AND DRY FRUITS

Dry fruits are a dense source of calories and nutrients. They are a healthy snack option, which can give your little one a much-needed energy boost. They are rich in dietary fibre and other nutrients, which strengthen the immune system and keep infections at bay. Besides this, nuts contain healthy fat that promotes weight gain as well as the healthy development of the brain and the central nervous system.

OATS

People think oatmeal is diet food, but when combined with whole milk and topped with healthy nuts and dry fruits, oatmeal porridge can be a perfect recipe to boost weight gain. This nutritious food ingredient is loaded with dietary fibre that aids healthy bowel movements and prevents constipation. If the bowel movements are healthy, your child will feel hungry and eat properly from time to time. A proper eating timetable can help your little one gain a healthy weight.

AVOCADOS

Avocado is a fruit with high amounts of healthy fat. Unlike other whole fruits, its sugar content is low, whereas its fat content is on the higher side. Loaded with vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, avocado has a creamy and rich texture. Such a composition of avo cado makes it calorie dense and promotes weight gain. You can make the avocado dip, milkshake or simply bake avocado slices for your toddler.

PURE GHEE WHEN

Added to the diet of underweight kids, helps in weight gain and boosts immunity too. It strengthens the bones and improves hair and the skin. Though it is one of the foods known to help gain weight, initially start with a half teaspoon and never give more than a teaspoon because it can render the digestive system sluggish. Replace other cooking oils with pure ghee once in a while to boost weight gain.

POTATOES

M ashed potatoes or baked ones can be a good snack option for kids who are underweight. Potatoes are a rich source of carbohydrates, which can help in putting on weight. Children who are underweight tend to get tired soon. Starchy foods like potatoes increase the muscle glycogen stores, which is the main source of energy for most activities. How to Get Your Kids to Eat Healthy? Make your child eat small, frequent and nutrient-dense meals. Eating just deep-fried foods and sugar-laden foods can cause unhealthy weight gain. Give your little one food contain ing protein and healthy fats to promote healthy weight gain. Introduce new foods slowly and one at a time. If kids are not eating plain vegetables or fruits, pair them with hummus, avocado dip or nut butter. Often kids do not enjoy plain milk. Add some fruits or dark chocolate to the milk to enhance its taste. Parents can replace water and add milk to soups or use milk to knead the dough.

10 SUPER HEALTHY WEIGHT GAIN FOODS FOR KIDS

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Kiara Advani is one of the most loved ac tresses in Bol lywood. A few days ago the actress had begun shooting for her next with Kartik Aaryan, SatyaPrem Ki Katha and now

she leans on the table kept in front of her. Her hair is neatly done and with subtle makeup and a coffee mug kept in front of her. Sharing this pic ture, she wrote, “Goooood Morning!!! Let's roll.”

Charismatic look

riyanka Chopra is one of the most stylish actresses.

PeeCee is currently in Washington DC for work and she shared a small clip of her looking stunning as she steps out of her room. In the clip which she shared, Priyanka Chopra looked gorgeous in a lime

green slit dress. She left her tress es open and stunned in subtle makeup. Priyanka completed her look with stilettoes and lime col oured small purse. The clip which she shared begins with a closeup selfie of her with a text written ‘where to next?’ Then comes a mir ror selfie of her giving us a glimpse of her entire look, followed by yet another selfie in the dark.

Gun Training

ollywood actress Parineeti Chopra is gearing up for the release of her upcom ing film Code Name: Ti ranga, in which she will star alongside Harrdy Sandhu. The actress has now given fans a glimpse of her training. In her caption, she wrote, “When you’re gun training but wanna use your skills on the action director himself, because he doesn't let you REST!”

EFFORTLESSLY ELEGANT

ajal Aggarwal is slowly getting back in the groove post her delivery. The mother re cently dropped a few glimpses from her latest photoshoot in a floral brown ethnic attire. Her look was tied up with statement jhumkas, and brown-toned makeup. Her latest post was captioned, "C O N T E (N T) M P L A T I O N." Actress Raashii Khanna reacted to the post with, "Stunning!" After enjoy ing her maternity break, Kajal Aggarwal is all set to get back on the silver screen once again with Kamal Haasan starrer Indian 2. The diva is also learning new skills like martial arts and

WEDDING FESTIVITIES

Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal are very hap py as they are finally getting mar ried. On Friday the couple’s pre-wed ding ceremonies started. Richa has been sharing up dates from the func tions. She shared two pictures of her and Ali Fazal look ing dreamy in tradi tional wear.

Richa is seen wearing a pastel col our lehenga by Ra hul Mishra that has shimmery embroi dery and looks mes merising. While Ali opted for a chi kankari kurta paired with a churidar by Abu Jani and Sand eep Kho sla. Sharing the pic tures,

Richa wrote, “Mo habbat Mubarak’. Yesterday, she shared a glimpse of her me hendi. It was looking very beautiful.

ipasha Basu is expecting her first child with hubby Karan Singh Grover. Just a while ago, the Bachna Ae Haseeno actress and Karan were seen at a hospital together in the city for reportedly a regular check up. Taking to her Instagram han dle, Bipasha shared a picture of Karan and said that he is on 'Dad duty.' She captioned the picture: "Hospital. Dad duty. Always has to carry my bag too. My cutie." In it, Karan is seen donning a black round-neck T-shirt and teamed it up with grey pair of denim jeans. He is also seen carrying Bipasha's orange colour tote bag around his neck as he posed for the picture.

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The 66th edition of ‘SHRI RAM’

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The 66th edi tion of the 'Shri Ram' Dance-Dra ma organised by Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra com menced on Monday and will wow its audi ence till October 22 at Kendra Lawns, Coper nicus Marg, New Del hi. Meenakashi Lekhi

Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture inaugurated the event by lighting the lamp.

Established and conceptualized by Padamshri Shobha Deepak Singh, the in tent of 'Shri Ram' is not merely to carry on a legacy that Shobha’s mother created but to ease the percolation of a heritage that is unique to India and extensively rich in moral values that are pertinent even today.

Ecstatic about this year's presentation Shobha Deepak Singh (Director and Vice Chairperson, Shriram

Bharaitya Kala Kend ra) affirms, “Shri Ram is special to each one of us at The Kendra and our sole intention to do justice to our be loved allowed us to reach out to our audi ences even last year, of course abiding by the covid norms. It won’t be a mistake to say that Shri Ram as an absolute in-house pro duction encompasses our lives in its totality making Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kend ra perhaps the only institution where we ourselves cater for our require ments. For years we have involved our students in the pre-production works of our shows, whom we consider our best asset, this time around we will have them ac tively participate in the show. It is com mendable that our cos tumes and jewellery are also taken care of internally by our inhouse Costumes and Ornaments Incharge Laxmi Kohli and So han Lal."

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Valley of Words announced the winners of all eight categories of its PFC-VoW Book Awards, celebrating the best of English Litera ture and Hindi Sahitya on Friday. The Book Awards is currently in its sixth edition as the most comprehensive independent liter ary award pro gramme in India.

Over 400 nomina tions were received in 2022 from 37 publishing houses across the coun try. The critically-ac claimed longlist of ten books per category was brought down to a final five in the shortlist and

THE PFC-VoW BOOK AWARDS 2022

then the selection of the final winners as part of an ongoing pro cess which began early this year, with an es teemed Jury for each of the eight categories.

Commenting on the Book Awards, Festival Director Dr Sanjeev Chopra said, “The selection of the books involves a three-stage process, and is indeed a tough call as the quality of submis sions becomes more competitive each year. I take this opportunity to thank the distinguished Members of our Jury,

Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed (Eng lish Non-Fiction), Prof. Surekha Dangwal (Eng lish Fiction), Menaka Raman (Writings for Young Adults), Rajeev Sharma (Hindi NonFiction), Alka Saraogi (Hindi Fiction), Paro Anand (Writings for Children), Padmaja Ghorpade (Transla tions to Hindi) and Ran jita Biswas (Transla tions into English) for their painstaking ef forts in reading all the books and giving their recommendations.”

MOVIE PROMOTION! MEET & GREET!

3-DAY CARDIAC CAMP

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The Paediatric Cardiac Science Department of Paras Hospitals, Gurugram in associa tion with Dream for Change Foundation and in collaboration with LAHDC (Ladakh Au tonomous Hill Develop ment Council, Kargil) organised a 3-day Car diac Camp recently at the 300 bedded District Hospital Kurbathang, Kargil. Among the 300 patients which were evaluated by Dr Ma hesh Wadhwani, ChiefCardiac Surgery & HOD - Pediatric and Adult Cardiac Surgery, Paras Hospitals, Gurugram and Dr Deepak Thakur, Consultant-Pediatric Cardiology, Paras Hos pitals, Guru gram around 50 chil dren with suspected congenital heart dis eases were evaluated out of which 20 children

had Congenital heart diseases and 7 required early open heart sur gery and cardiac inter ventions to salvage lit tle life’s and make their survival healthy. Com

KARWA CHAUTH SPECIAL

of their husbands. On the Karwa Chauth oc casion, fasting women choose to wear Karwa Chauth special dresses like a traditional saree or lehenga to look their best.

On the Karwa Chauth occasion, fasting women choose to wear Karwa Chauth special dresses like a traditional saree or le henga to look their best. Some men also ob serve fast on this day along with their wives. They also present a nice gift to their wife on this auspicious day.

“The cardiac camp ini tiative in Kargil by Pa ras Hospitals, Guru gram has helped a lot of patients there who oth erwise would have suf fered miserably from one city to another in search of proper diag nosis. There were cases of having a hole in the heart among children and this led to a shocking loss in their weight. We came across one-yearold babies weighing 5-6 kgs and 15-16 years old with a weight of around 25-30 kgs. From having a hole in the heart (Pat ent Ductus arteriosis) to complex cyanotic heart diseases, their conditions were miser able and we are proud to say that all these ba bies underwent suc cessful open-heart sur gery and interventions. The patients were dis charged within a week and are back to their normal life.”

The movie promotion of Aa Bhi Ja O piya was held at PVR plaza, New Delhi. Actor Dev Sharma and actress Smriti Kashyap graced the occasion with their presence. While talking to the media, Dev said, “When a movie has good content then all the factors like extended weekend, festive season and many other reasons add to the success of the movie.” Smriti shared, “The movie ticket cost should be reasonable for everyone, I believe that can help to bring more audiences to the theatres.”

Veenu Gupta, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary was greeted by Ajay Data, Chairperson of ASSOCHAM RSDC, Co-Chairperson Tusshar Sohani and Chairperson for Women and child development Nitisha Sharma during a courtesy visit recently. The meeting was organised to discuss the ASSOCHAM activities and future opportunities with Riicolimited.

menting on the camp’s initiatives by Dr Ma hesh Wadhwani, ChiefCardiac Surgery & HOD - Pediatric and Adult Cardiac, Paras Hospi tals, Gurugram said,

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Label Asha Gau tam and GG by Asha Gautam launched its Kar wa Chauth collection recently. The Karwa Chauth labels have come up with the magnificent, in novative and unique collection.

Karwa Chauth is ob served yearly to cele brate the bond of hus band and wife. Married Hindu women celebrate this festival by observ ing a fast and by pray ing for the well-being

Shobha Deepak Singh and Meenakashi Lekhi with others during the lamp lighting ceremony

Meenakshi Lekhi and Shobha Deepak Singh

During the camp

Asha Gupta and Gautam Gupta

Glimpses from the dance drama

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—PHOTOS BY SHAZID CHAUHAN

—PHOTOS BY SHAZID CHAUHAN