Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari allows withdrawal of 12 MLC nominees list
Mumbai: Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Monday al lowed withdrawal of the list comprising 12 names for nomination to the Maharashtra Legislative Council. The candidates had been proposed by the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) govern ment led by former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in 2020. The governor’s move comes following Chief Minister Eknath Shin de’s letter seeking the withdrawal of MLCs. Earlier, there was a bit ter exchange of words between the MVA gov ernment and the then opposition Turn to P6
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CYRUS MISTRY TO BE CREMATED IN MUMBAI TODAY Mumbai (PTI): Business tycoon and former chairman of Tata Sons Cyrus Pallonji Mistry, 54, who died in a road accident near Mumbai, will be cremated at Worli crematorium on Tuesday morning, said a family member on Monday. The well-known businessman and his friend Jahangir Pandole died when their speeding car hit a divider. TRUSS WINS UK’S TRUST
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New Delhi: Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina arrived here on Monday on a 4-day visit to hold talks with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. She will also call on President Droupadi Murmu and VP Jagdeep Dhankhar. External Affairs Min S Jaishankar met her on Monday.
Rahul promises free power to farmers, loan waiver and LPG cylinder at `500
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New Delhi: The Rajpath and Central Vista lawns in the heart of national capital Delhi have been renamed Kartavya Path in line with PM Modi’s push to shed names and symbols reminiscent of the British era and colonial mindset.
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CANADA STABBINGS: 10 DIE; 2 IDENTIFIEDSUSPECTS
Ottawa [Canada] (ANI): At least 10 persons were killed and 15 injured in stabbing attacks in 13 locations on Sunday across in the James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon, Saskatchewan Province. Royal Canadian Mountain Police (RCMP) identified 2 suspects as Damien Sanderson and Myles Sanderson.
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New Delhi (ANI): Prime Minister Naren dra Modi on Monday announced that Prad han Mantri Schools For Rising India (PM-SHRI) Yojana will develop and upgrade 14,500 schools across the country. On Teacher’s Day, Modi wished the teachers and stated that the PMSHRI schools will be come model schools, embodying the full spir it of the NEP.
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Liz Truss @trussliz I am honoured to be elected Leader of the Conservative Party. Thank you for putting your trust in me to lead and deliver for our great country. I will take bold action to get all of us through these tough times, grow our economy, and unleash the Unitedpotential.Kingdom’s U Narendra Modi @narendramodi Congratulations Liz Truss for being chosen to be the next PM of the UK. Confident that under your leadership, the India-UK Comprehensive Strategic Partnership will be further strengthened. Wish you the very best for your new role and responsibilities.
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Mumbai: Chief Minis ter Eknath Shinde, dur ing his virtual dialogue with teachers on Mon day, assured that there will be no shortage of funds for the educa tion sector and also to provide infrastructure in Speakingschools. on the occasion of Teacher’s Day, the CM also stated that soon he will issue an or der to the school educa tionthatdepartmentthesalariesoftheteacherswillbepaidontime.Hesaidthatthestategovernmentiscom mitted to provide quali ty education to all chil dren, and it has taken a number of strategic de cisions for the develop ment of schools, espe cially for the empower ment of government schools.“Efforts have been made to make pre-pri mary education of in ternational standard. As per the new educa tion policy, Turn to P6 No shortage of funds for the education sector: Maha CM Shinde 59245.98
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2 DIPLOMATS DIE IN ATTACK ON RUSSIA EMBASSY IN KABUL Kabul: A suicide bombing outside the Russian Embassy in Kabul on Monday killed two members of the embassy staff and one Afghan civilian. The blast went off at the entrance to the embassy’s consular section. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, the latest in a series of bombings.
FINAL WORD Maha Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari with Eknath Shinde after the latter’s appointment as CM earlier this year.
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Mumbai (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who held a meet ing here with party leaders, is learnt to have set a target of 150 seats for the alliance be tween the BJP and Shiv Sena group led by CM Eknath Shinde for the upcoming BMC polls and expressed confi dence of their victory. Sources said Shah de scribed the group led by Shinde as “real Shiv Sena” and termed the group led by former CM Uddhav Thackeray as “Uddhav party”. Shah held a meeting with BJP MPs, MLAs, MLCs and corporators about BMC elections expected in assemblyShivpromisedthelearntThackery,AttackingNovember.UddhavShahistohavesaidthatBJPhadneverCM’sposttoSenaaheadof2019polls.
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Belagavi: MadivaleshwaraGuru Mutt Pontiff Basava Siddalinga Swamiji was found hanging in his room after his name was dragged into an audio linked to sex scandal of Chitradurga Murugha mutt seer. The devotees staged a protest demanding legal action and arrest of 2 women who spoke about deceased swamiji in a demeaning manner.
The pleasure of sur passing those who ruled India for 250 years su persedes the mere sta tistic that India has moved ahead of the UK to become world’s 5th largest economy, PM Modi said while inter acting with teachers.
Ahmedabad (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday promised loan waiver of up to Rs 3 lakh to farmers of Gujarat, LPG cylinder at Rs 500 instead of Rs 1,000, free electricity to farmers and up to 300 units of free power to general consumers if his party comes to power in the state. Addressing the Congress’s booth-level workers at the ‘Parivar tan Sankalp Rally’ at the Sabarmati river front in Ahmedabad, He made a host of promis es as Assembly polls are due later this year. He promised creation of 10 lakh new jobs, and building 3,000 English mediumGandhischools.targeted the BJP, claiming that while it built the world’s tallest statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Gujarat, it worked against those for whom Patel lived and died for.
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“The PM-SHRI schools will have a mod ern, transformational and holistic method of imparting education with focus on modern infra,” Modi tweeted.
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Defeats Indian-origin former chancellor Rishi Sunak with margin of 20,927 votes K foreign secre tary Liz Truss, 47, defeated Indi an-origin for mer chancellor Rishi Sunak, 42, as the win ner of the Conservative Party leadership con test on Monday and will now formally take over as British PM as Boris Johnson’s successor. Truss will be 3rd female PM of UK. She got 81,326 votes while Su nak got 60,399. Tory leadership race was triggered after Boris was forced to step down on July 7 following res ignations of cabinet members. Truss has promised to act quickly to tackle Britain’s cost of living crisis.
PM Narendra Modi interacting with the teachers and educationists in New Delhi on Monday.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressing at the inauguration of the AM Naik School in Mumbai on Monday. PHOTO Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis welcomes Shah to his residence in Mumbai. PHOTO
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Special NIA court refuses to grant bail to Gautam Navlakha
Cyrus Mistry’s mortal remains being taken to JJ Hospital for autopsy, in Mumbai, early on Monday. —PTI PHOTO Injured woman to undergo surgery, husband in ICU Mumbai: day.calficialMumbai,vateUnitthehaswhiledergoMistry,ChairmanformeringwhichwashitagynaecologistEminentAnaPandole,whodrivingthecarcrashedleadtothedeathofTataSonsCyrusneedstounasurgeryherhusbandbeenadmittedtoIntensiveCare(ICU)ofaprihospitalinsaidanoffromthemedifacilityonMon Mistry (54) and his friend Jahangir Pan dole were killed in the car accident in neigh bouring Palghar dis trict of Maharashtra onAnahitaSunday. Pandole (55) and her husband Darius Pandole (60) were seriously injured and were then taken to a hospital in Vapi town of Gujarat. The couple was shifted to Sir HN Reli ance Foundation Hos pital and Research Centre in Mumbai by road on AnahitaMonday.and her husband Darius have been admitted to our hospital. We need to perform a surgery on Anahita, while Darius has been shifted to the ICU, said the hospi tal’s medical officer. Mistry and Jahang ir Pandole, who were in the back seats, were killed in the accident. Neither of them was wearing seat official.theby“errorOver-speedingbelts.andofjudgement”thedrivercausedaccident,saidan
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First India Bureau Mumbai: A special National Investiga tion Agency (NIA) court in Mumbai on Monday rejected the bail plea of activist Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the linksParishad-MaoistElgarcase.
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It’s back to square one for anganwadi workers
First India Bureau Mumbai: The change in the state govern ment has left the an ganwadi workers de serted in Maharash tra. After months of protest, the Maha Vi kas Aghadi (MVA) government had as sured that it would discuss their de mands, such as an in crease in honorarium and pension facilities, in the state Assembly. However, the newly formed Eknath Shindeled government, seem ingly unaware of the development, didn’t raise the topic in the As sembly, bringing the anganwadi workers back to square one. According to Sunita Shelar—an anganwadi worker from Palghar— the honorarium is so low that after support ing our families, we are unable to save money for our future. As a re sult, we asked the previ ous government to pro vide half of the lastdrawn salary as a pen sion after retirement.
For the past year, an ganwadi workers have been at loggerheads with the Women and Child Development (WCD) ministry over long-pend ing demands. They staged several protests across the state, includ ing one at Mumbai’s Azad Maidan ground. “After days of pro tests, the former minis ter of WCD, Yashomati Thakur, held a meeting with us and promised to raise our honorarium from Rs8,000 to Rs12,000. She assured to raise the issue in the monsoon session in the state’s As sembly. But now…it wasn’t discussed in the assembly, leaving us feeling dejected,” said Kamal Parulekar, secre tary, Anganwadi Sevika UnionTheygeneral.(aganwadi work ers) also complained that when an anganwadi worker retires, instead of filling her position, the responsibilities are passed on to another. This further overbur dens the already skeletal manpower ministrySeptemberwillmandsdoesIfginningdistrict-levelhaveanganwadisentingAssociationscapacity.repreovertwolakhworkersdecidedtoholdralliesbeSeptember12.thestategovernmentnotmeettheirdebythen,theystageaproteston20neartheinMumbai.
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Anganwadi workers stage a protest at Azad Maidan in South Mumbai.
First India Bureau Mumbai: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday exhorted teachers to teach sto ries from the Pancha tantra , the book of ancient Indian collec tion of interrelated animal fables, to school students. “Doing so will help the children become more decisive and dis tinguish between right and wrong,” he said af ter inaugurating AM Naik School in Powai area of the city. Shah said the Nation al Educational Policy (NEP) 2020 does not look at education mere ly as a means to land a job, but the policy is rooted in Indian ethos which looks at creating better citizens. He said the education policy is exactly similar to the thoughts of for mer President Sarvapal li Radhakrishnan, whose birthday is celebrated as Teachers’ Day. Shah termed “unfor tunate” the time taken for Radhakrishnan’s deep thinking about teaching and education to get formalized into a policy like NEP. Calling S Rad hakrishnan an ‘adarsh guru’ (ideal teacher), the union minister urged the teaching community to read more about him to understand their own profession better. Stating that he likes visiting schools, Shah said it is the responsi bility of present-day teachers to create the future citizens of India. Speaking at the event, where Deputy CM Dev endra Fadnavis was also present, Shah said Fadnavis attempted to get the lost glory of Ma harashtra during the latter’s term as chief minister in 2014-19.
For over a year, anganwadi workers have been at loggerheads with the Women and Child Devt Ministry over improved wages and pension TO FIGHT
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GANPATI BAPPA MORYA! Union Home Minister Amit Shah (centre), flanked by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde (on his left) and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis (on his right) offered prayers at the renowned ‘Lalbaug Cha Raja’ idol of Lord Ganesh in Mumbai on Monday.
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First India Bureau Mumbai: Business ty coon Cyrus Pallonji Mistry, who died in a road accident near Mumbai, will be cre mated in Mumbai on Tuesday morning, confirmed a family member on Monday. The last rites of Mis try (54), who was killed in a car crash on Sun day, will be performed at Worli crematorium. Some family mem bers are arriving in Mumbai by tonight (Monday night). His body will be taken to Worli crematorium to morrow (Tuesday) and will be cremated at 11 am, said the family member.Thewell-known busi nessman and his friend Jahangir Pandole died when their speeding car hit a divider atop a bridge on the Surya river on the MumbaiAhmedabad National Highway in adjoining Palghar district. Their bodies have been kept at the mortu ary of the state-run J J Hospital in Mumbai. Another friend of Mistry’s who had been travelling with him at the time of the accident, Darius Pandole (60), and his wife Anahita Pan dole (55) were injured in the car crash. They are currently undergoing treatment at Mumbaibased Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital.
Navlakha was arrest ed on August 28, 2018 for his alleged involvement in the case. He was initially kept under house arrest, but was later sent to judi cial custody and lodged at the Taloja prison in neighbouring Navi Mumbai.Special Judge Rajesh J Katariya on Monday rejected Navlakha’s bail plea. The order de tails have not been made available yet. The case relates to al leged inflammatory speeches delivered at the Elgar Parishad conclave, held at Shaniwarwada in Pune on December 31, 2017, which police claimed triggered vio lence the next day near the Koregaon-Bhima war memorial located on the city’s outskirts. The Pune police had also claimed that the conclave was backed by Maoists.
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“The new govern ment isn’t even aware of all the development,” Shelar said.
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HC division bench of Justices Prasanna Varale & Sharmila Deshmukh said it was “pained by the sorry state of affairs”
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Thane: A woman aged 27 and a 22-year-old man was injured on Monday morning, when the plaster of the ceiling of a beenpowermentHospitaltohavesleeping.whilebuilding30-year-oldfellonthemtheywereTheinjuredbeenadmittedtheKalwaCivicfortreatandapartment’ssupplyhasdisconnected.
First India Bureau Pune: For months now, people living near the city’s AundhBaner boundary have been dealing with piled-up garbage on the road HeritageterMedipointconnectingandJupihospitalsnearSaiSociety.
“Peoplearound.are seen def ecating in the open. Re peated complaints to the PMC on its portal have yielded no action from the civic adminis tration,” he said. Chacko further al leged that the civic body has allowed the spot to turn into a “kachra de pot” as their vans come and dump garbage for bigger trucks to carry later.“While Aundh is a role model for the Smart City project, signage like the ones that say ‘I love Aundh-Baner’ are a par adox with the garbage piles lying barely 50 me tres away,” he said. Another resident pointed out that Aundh and Baner are upmarket areas of the city. “Unfor tunately, the PMC is not able to resolve key issues such as piled-up garbage even in posh localities,” he“Assaid.per our informa tion, there is some dis pute between the builder and the society residents regarding the open plot. If the garbage is getting accumulated at the open plot regularly, we will be forced to serve notice to the builder as well as the residential societies con cerned. If they do not act, we will be imposing a fine,” he added.
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Mumbai: Two persons have been arrested for allegedly stealing gold orna ments worth Rs1.24 crore from a jewel lery store in central Mumbai. The Mumbai police’s crime branch on Saturday caught the accused for the theft that took place at a prominent jewel lery store in Dadar area on August 24, an official said.
what about duties of the“Lookgovernment.attherealities of life. Is this the ap proach that the state government should adopt? This is a very sorry state of affairs. This pains us,” Justice Varale said. The bench directed the petitioners and the state government to pe ruse the report and posted the matter for further hearing after four weeks.
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Mumbai: Taking the state government to task over the poor condition of toilets in schools across Maha rashtra, the Bombay High Court on Mon day asked if it was powerless or waiting for some auspicious day to frame a policy on the issue. A division bench of Justices Prasanna Va rale and Sharmila Deshmukh said it was “pained by the sorry state of affairs”. The court was hear ing a petition filed by two law students Nikita Gore and Vaishnavi Gholave, raising con cerns over the central and state governments not implementing effec tive menstrual hygiene management resulting in women, and particu larly adolescent girls, facing problems. The petition also pointed out the issue of unclean and unhygien ic washrooms and toi lets for girls in govern ment aided
Latur: A police sub-inspector was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs5,000 at a bus stand in Renapur in the Latur district, said Pandit Reitwad, a deputy superintendent serving the Anti-Corruption department. Renuka Balaji Yadav (31) allegedly asked for a bribe of Rs7,000 from a complainant to submit a charge sheet favouring him in court. The policewoman, after negotiations, settled for Rs5,000 and was apprehended while accepting the money.
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At least 12,030 house hold idols, 16 Hartalika and 377 public mandal idols were immersed in the artificial ponds built at different places in the city. The other idols were immersed in the sea at various beaches here, he said. Tight police security was deployed at the im mersion points and beaches at Juhu and Girgaon, he said. The Mumbai police have also beefed up the security outside the Lalbaughcha Raja and other pandals, which were visited by Union Home Minister Amit Shah along with Maha rashtra CM Eknath Shinde on Monday.
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As per data shared by Awaaz Founda tion, the combination of drums and banjo used in processions created the highest noise at 115.6dB at Babulnath corner of Marine Drive in south Mumbai and 112.1dB in TheBandra.second highest noise of 109.4dB was recorded when a met al cylinder was beat en with a metal ham mer at Linking Road in Bandra and by drums when sound was reflected off met al barriers of the Met ro construction along SV Road and Khira Nagar in Santacruz, it was stated.
First India Bureau Mumbai: Milind Ranade, general sec retary of the Kacha ra Vahtuk Sharmila Sangh, which has been fighting for the rights of contract workers in the Bri hanmumbai Munici pal tractjudgmentpremeyetthatpartment,management(BMC’s)Corporation’ssolidwastedehassaidthecivicbodyistohonourSuCourt’s2017onconworkers.
The celebrations have come after a twoyear lull due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, the highest noise level recorded was 111.5dB and, like this year, it was cre ated by the banjo, the foundation said.
Mumbai (PTI): A to tal of 31,365 Ganesh idols were immersed in the sea and artifi cial ponds in Mum bai on the fifth day of the Ganpati festi val, a civic official said on Monday. There was so far no report of any unto ward incident follow ing the fifth day cele bration of the festival on Sunday, the official said.Till 6 am on Monday, 30,446 household idols, 27 Hartalika and 892 sarvajanik (public) idols were immersed, the official from the Brihanmumbai Mu nicipal Corporation (BMC) said.
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Residents of Pune raise a stink over piling up of trash near Aundh-Baner
Pune: Cyber criminals allegedly posing as senior Army officers duped a father-son duo to the tune of Rs 2lakh in Pune district. They added that an FIR has been reg istered with the Nigdi police station in Pimpri-Chinchwad Saturday. The complainant, 20, has alleged that the fraudsters duped him and his father by initially showing interest in renting their property. A probe has been launched based on phone numbers and bank accounts used by the suspects.
Given these strategic per ils, why was she elected?
A YouGov opinion poll found a plurality of Conservative members did not want to see Johnson ousted from Num ber 10, despite his record in government. A gulf has emerged between grassroots Conservatives and the wider electorate. If Truss emulates Johnson too closely – as the party seems to want – it is the party that will pay the price.
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TOP TWEETS EVEN WHEN CHIPS ARE DOWN, RAHUL IS NOT HOLDING HIS PUNCHES beleaguered Rahul Gandhi went ahead with a rally at the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi where he stuck to his guns while attacking the BJP-led Central government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He did not waver from his theme of unemployment and price rise, the politics of hate and fear and targeted the Enforcement Direc torate, which is investigating him and Sonia Gandhi in the National Herald case, and the government benefiting two in dustrialists. These are recurrent themes in the present-day politi cal discourse but the Aam Aad mi Party government has given it a new direction by showcasing its achievements in governmentrun school education. It is mak ing government schools a cam paign issue in Gujarat. To join the battle the Gujarat govern ment released ads in some news papers about transformation of schools in the state. Rahul Gandhi could be fight ing a losing battle but his re marks on the atmosphere of fear in the country were also echoed by former Supreme Court judge, Justice BN Srikrishna.
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WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR AUSTRALIA? Truss will find a series of pressing yet complex issues in her in-tray. The foremost of these will be the cost-ofliving crisis. This will inten sify as winter approaches and energy price caps are lifted, leaving many strug gling to heat their homes and buy food. The industrial ac tion witnessed during the summer, will intensify.
The OBCs which the two governments wanted in the SC category were Kevat, Mallah, Nishad, Kahar, Prajapati, Kumhar, Batham, Rajbhar among others. Their inclusion in the list of Scheduled Castes would have fetched important political points for the two par ties. The Allahabad High Court put paid to their game of one-upmanship by quash ing the three orders. The court ruled that Parliament alone has the power to include a caste in the list of SCs. But the issue can still resurface.
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Given these strategic perils, why was she elected?
Newly-minted Conservative MPs in such seats fear that, faced with this disdain, their new supporters may switch back to Labour. Additionally, as someone who symbolises continuity with the Johnson government, Truss may struggle in the 20 so-called “Blue Wall” seats in southern England
he United Kingdom now has its third ever female prime minister. Liz Truss was elect ed as leader by grassroots members of the Conserva tives to lead the party – and hence the nation – on a plat form that positioned her as the continuity candidate from Boris Johnson. This result will be cele brated on all sides of British politics.Members of the Conserva tive party – the approximate ly 180,000 people who elected the new leader – will be de lighted that the continuity candidate got over the line. Similarly, strategists for the opposition parties – Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party – will also be delighted that the continuity candidate got over the line. In electing Truss as leader, Conservative members have increased their party’s chances of los ing the next general election. This is because Truss es sentially offers more of the same. She steps into 10 Down ing Street at a moment when the views of the Conservative party and the experience of the wider electorate are di verging. As Britons find themselves in the throes of a cost-of-living crisis, the lead ership debates between Truss and her main opponent, Rishi Sunak, were focused on the extent of tax cuts, weakening the public purse when it is needed most. This was music to the ears of the older and wealthier Conservative mem bers, but a case of “same world, different planet” for the wider electorate. To add insult to injury, Truss disparaged the idea of support for struggling Brit ons as “handouts”. Further more, her views on British workers as “lazy” resurfaced during the leadership con test. This is unlikely to en dear her to those one-time Labour voters in the 45 socalled “Red Wall” seats in northern England that switched to the Johnson-led Conservatives at the 2019 election.Newly-minted Conserva tive MPs in such seats fear that, faced with this disdain, their new supporters may switch back to switchedFormerseatsthement,withwhoAdditionally,Labour.assomeonesymbolisescontinuitytheJohnsongovernTrussmaystrugglein20so-called“BlueWall”insouthernEngland.ConservativevoterstotheLiberalDem ocrats in three recent by-elec tions in such seats, heaping pressure on Johnson to re sign earlier this year. Conservative MPs in this part of England fear that vot ers who were switched off by Johnson’s political tone and governing style, may not warm to Truss’s embrace of the same tactics: hostility to the EU, goading the French, and waging a “war on woke”. North of the border, Truss’s embrace of all things British, from her famous support for British cheese to the self-conscious adoption of Thatcherite imagery, will consolidate support for Scot tish independence. There are only six Conservative MPs in Scotland, but having Truss as leader won’t make the job of retaining seats at the next election any easier.
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The next issue is the war in Ukraine. Part of the Russian global strategy is to hope that western states, not least the UK, tire in their support for Ukraine. This will not happen under Truss. She is a firm supporter of Ukraine and can be expected to retain the UK’s current posture of support.
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A olitics without the mention of caste is inconceiv able in Uttar Pradesh. Balanc ing Thakurs and Brahmins is not as big an issue as Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Scheduled Castes. There are parties representing eve ry OBC like Patels, Yadavs, Lodhis, Kurmis, and many more, with each having a fief dom of their own. The OBCs being bigger in numbers at tract greater attention from political parties. To further decide which of the OBCs is bigger, a demand was raised for census of mainly OBCs. The Central government has rejected the demand but Bi har Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is pressing for it. Simultaneously, an attempt was made to declare some sub-castes among OBCs as Scheduled Castes with the ap parent intention of weaken ing the OBC vote bank and changing the contours of politics in states like UP and Bihar. The UP government tried to alter the state’s caste profile through two orders is sued between 2016 and 2019. Through these orders the gov ernment notified 18 OBCs as SC. These notifications were issued by the Akhilesh Yadav government and the BJP in a tussle for non-Yadav votes.
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New Delhi: Amid specula tions over the mysterious death of Sonali Phogat, the latest update stated that ex pensive furniture and costly cars parked at the BJP leader’s house are missing. The information came after the Goa Police said that the murder accused and Phogat’s aide Sudhir Sang wan had eyed her property and wealth. Goa Police implied that Sangwan was not only keen on acquiring her property but also grab her farmhouse.
INDIAN ARMY CHIEF CONFERRED HONORARY RANK OF NEPAL ARMY GENERAL New Delhi (ANI): The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has sought responses from the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir administration and the state pollution control committee on a plea alleging violation of environmental norms during Amarnath Pilgrims. The bench of Tribunal Chief Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel comprising Justice Sudhir Aggarwal and Prof. A. Senthil Vel, Expert Member in the order passed on September 2, 2022, issues notice to Chief Secretary, J-K and J-K PCC for their response about the plan of action.
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Kathmandu (Nepal) (ANI): Indian Army chief General Manoj Pande was conferred the title of Honorary General of the Nepali Army by Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari in Kathmandu on Monday. General Pande was honoured at a special ceremony at the President’s official residence ‘Shital Niwas’ in the capital city of Nepal during his ongoing visit to the Himalayan nation. “The Chief of Army Staff of Indian Army General Manoj Pande was conferred the title of Honorary General of the Nepali Army by Rt Hon. Smt. Bidya Devi Bhandari, President of Nepal, on 5 September 2022.
Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren soars high with trust vote Ranchi (ANI): Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren on Monday won the trust vote in the State Assembly and slammed BJP for creat ing an atmosphere of civil war and riots with an aim to win polls. As many as 48 MLAs voted in favour of the confi dence motion in the 81-member Assembly even as the opposition BJP-led NDA walked out of the StatingHouse.that obstacles are being presented be fore the state govt, Soren said that the conspiracy of the BJP will not suc ceed. “They want to cre ate an atmosphere where two States are pit ted against each other. They want to create an atmosphere of civil war and want to fan riots to win polls. As long as there is UPA Govt here, such plots will not sur vive. You will get a befit ting political reply,” Soren said.
The National Awards to Teachers are meant to celebrate the unique initiatives and contri butions of some of the finest teachers choosen from across the country. These teachers through their commit ment have not only im proved the quality of school education but have also enriched the lives of their students.
SISODIA: CBI OFFICER DIES BY SUICIDE UNDER PRESSURE; CBI DENIES CHARGE New Delhi (ANI): Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia on Monday alleged that a Deputy Legal advisor of anti-corruption branch of Central Bureau of Inves tigation committed suicide two days ago because he was under pressure to frame me in false case. “A CBI officer committed suicide two days earlier. It has come to know that the officer - Jitendra Kumar - was the Deputy Legal Adviser in the AntiCorruption Branch of the CBI,” Sisodia said.
Many arterial roads were inundated while the basements of apartments were flooded
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SWING CRASHES DOWN FROM 50ft IN MOHALI FAIR Mohali (ANI): A swing broke mid-air in Punjab’s Mohali during a fair on Sunday and crashed down from a height of 50 feet with nearly 50 people on board. The injured persons which included children and women were shifted to the hospital soon after the incident. According to an official, the organisers of the fair had permission to organise the event till Sep tember 4, however, a board notifying the extension of the deadline of the fair.
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No shortage the government is tak ing student-centric deci sions and it is focusing on spending 6% of gross state domestic product on education, reducing the dropout rate and im plementing a proper evaluation process of teachers in the state,” Shinde said.
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PDP president Mehbooba Mufti chairing a meeting in Srinagar on Monday.
Residents of a locality being shifted by firefighters after the area partially sub-merged following incessant rain, in Bengaluru on Monday.
New Delhi (Agencies): The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the central government on a petition seeking direction to the Centre to frame rules, regulations, and guide lines to effectively mitigate the problem of overpop ulation.
Hamirpur (ANI): Amid the ongoing fa ceoff between Aam Aad mi Party (AAP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the alleged liquor scam, Union Min ister Anurag Thakur on Monday called AAP a “bewdi sarkar” and al leged that Delhi Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister were in volved with the mafia in the liquor Speakingscam.to media persons in Hamirpur, the Union Minister said they are encouraging the liquor mafia.“The Health Minister of Del hi government is in jail, while the Health Minis ter of AAP-led Punjab government was also in jail. Imagine the condi tion of the government whose ministers are in jail for corruption. They are encouraging the liq uor mafia. AAP doesn’t have an answer to it. It is a corrupt government,” said Thakur.
MUTT SEER SENT TO JUDICIAL CUSTODY Bengaluru (Agencies): The Chitradurga sessions court on Monday sent the chief pontiff of Sri Murugha Mutt, Shivamur thy Murugha Sharanaru, accused of sexually as saulting minors, to judicial custody till September 14. Sharanaru was taken to jail in Chitradurga district.
New Delhi (ANI): President Droupadi Murmu honoured 45 se lected teachers from across the country with National Awards at Vi gyan Bhawan New Del hi. Following this, Prime Minister Naren dra Modi interacted with the winners at his office at 4:30 pm. Today India is cele brating Teachers’ Day which marks the birth anniversary of Dr Sarvapalli Rad hakrishnan, the na tion’s first vice presi dent (1952–1962) and lat er the second president of India (1962–1967).
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President Droupadi Murmu presents the National Awards to Teachers, on the occasion of Teachers’ Day, in New Delhi on Monday. Also seen is Dharmendra Pradhan.
Governor Bhagat... Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the former had alleged that Koshyari was holding back names nominated at the behest of the latter. The names proposed by the MVA were held by Koshyari for over two years and were not nominated for the Legislative Council under the governor’s quota. Now, the present Maharashtra govern ment led by CM Eknath Shinde in a letter to Gov ernor Koshyari sought withdrawal of the list of 12 names for MLC nomi nation sent by the previ ous MVA government in 2020. While withdrawing the list, the government also informed Raj Bhavan that it will send a fresh list for MLC nom ination.Themove comes two months after Shinde along with other Sena MLAs, rebelled against Thackeray to topple the MVA government and come into power in alli ance with the BJP. When Governor Ko shyari did not accept to reject the nominations, a public interest litigation (PIL) was filed before the Bombay High Court in this regard but the court refused to give any direc tion to the MLCs.eratelythedraPrimetheleadersIncidentally,governor.MVAhadalsobroughtissuetothenoticeofMinisterNarenModiallegingthatgovernorwasdelibnotappointing
—PHOTO BY PTI TWO KILLED IN FLASH FLOODS IN KERALA, IMD ISSUES RED ALERT (PTI):Thiruvananthapuram Two persons, including an eight-yearold child, died after being swept away in a flash flood at Mankay am waterfalls in Palode near here, police said. Both were part of a group that was caught in the flash flood that occurred on Sunday evening. “A group of 10 people had reached the area to attend a wedding. They tried to visit Brimur forest area but it was closed for public. So they visited the place where the incident took place. While eight persons of the group held on to a rock the other two were washed away,” a police officer said.
An aerial view of flooded Rainbow Drive Layout after heavy monsoon rains at Sarjapur, in Bengaluru on Monday.
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New Delhi (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a petition seeking to stop the use of EVM and the use of ballot paper in elections. A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Hima Kohli rejected the plea filed by advocate CR Jaya Sukin.Petitioner CR Jaya Sukin has moved the Supreme Court challenging a Delhi HC judge ment dated August 3, 2021, which dismissed his plea.
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Patna (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who came to Delhi with a longish “todo” list for his ‘Mission Opposition’, checked off the first item this even ing, meeting Congress’s Rahul Gandhi at his Tu ghlaq Road residence. Kumar again told re porters that he has no ambitions for the top post.“There is a concerted effort to weaken region al parties. My effort is to unite the Opposition ahead of the General Elections,” Kumar said. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar visited Delhi on Monday afternoon to work for Opposition unity for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. He is likely to meet Opposition leaders in the national capital in his bid to unite them to fight against BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. This is his first visit of Kumar after he broke his alliance with the BJP and joined hands with Tejashwi Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Congress and other parties to form a ‘Maha gathbandhan’ govern ment in Before,Bihar.embarking on a Delhi visit, the Janata Dal (United) held its two-day national execu tive and national coun cil meeting.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Rahul Gandhi at the latter’s residence in New Delhi on Monday. —PHOTO BY ANI
PDP calls for united fight to ‘restore constitutional rights’ of Jammu & Kashmir Srinagar (PTI): The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday promised unconditional support to political or ganisations who are ready to join the fight for the “restoration of rights and dignity” of the people of J&K. In a resolution passed at the meeting of its po litical affairs committee chaired by party presi dent Mehbooba Mufti , the PDP batted for a PDP united fight to restore the dignity and constitu tional rights of the state that are enshrined in the Constitution of In dia. The statement comes amid indications that the elections in the Un ion Territory may be held early next year. A section in the National Conference, which along with the PDP is among the important constituents of the Gup kar alliance, had recent ly alleged that the party was being treated un fairly and it should pre pare to contest on all seats on its own.
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The event was being organised by the De partment of School Education and Litera cy, Ministry of Educa tion. It is not impera tive to have a day to celebrate one’s great ness or honour their efforts, however, today as we observe Teach ers’ Day, we recognise and commemorate the collective endeavour that our teachers take to nurture the coun try’s future. A teacher can be any one, who helps to pre pare the new genera tion and teach them to face worldly challenges to sustain and find the real meaning of life given to us. In Indian culture, teachers are compared to the qualities of a god: GururBrahma Gurur Vishnu GururDevo Ma heshwaraha Guru Saakshaat ParaBrah ma Tasmai Sri Gurave Namaha, which means that Guru is the abso lute lord.
Bengaluru, (ANI): Sev eral areas in Bengaluru are under water and roads are inundated af ter heavy rainfall over night, and traffic jams are reported at key in tersections in the city. This is the second time in a week that the state capital of Karnataka has witnessed such se vere
Manyflooding.arterial roads were flooded while apartment basements were flooded after last night’s rain. A traffic ad visory urged residents not to go out except for emergencies, and not to send children to school. Outer Ring Road at Ecospace, Bellandur, KR Market, Silk Board junc tion and Varthur are among the affected are as. The ICT corridor is also under water, while several homes are under water in HBR Layout. Footage showed buses stuck in the middle of a flooded Old Airport Road. The road was also flooded after last week’s rainfall and Prime Min ister Basavaraj Bommai had visited two days ago. Heavy flooding is reported in Sarjapur Road with the parking lots of nearby buildings seen under water. An inflated boat de ployed on a flooded Bal agere-Panathur road in Varthur, Bengaluru Road Balagere-Pana thur in Varthur The Balagere-Panathur road in Varthur has been turned into a river due to overflowing stormwa ter drains with blown up boats deployed by res cue personnel. More than 30 apartment com plexes and their base ments are under water in Mahadevapura.
New Delhi (PTI): Reliance Industries’ fourth invest ment cycle of an estimated $50 billion spending over the next three years could help the firm double its earnings, a report said. The firm’s “fourth in vestment cycle this century has significant differences to past cycles, underappre ciated energy tailwinds and the potential to double profits by 2027,” Morgan Stanley said. The spending is planned on chemicals, 5G, retail and new energy over the next three years. Reliance’s first invest ment cycle was focused on petrochemical project com missioning in the late 1990s and early 2000. The second investment four years later was target ing oil refining and oil and gas field development while the third was focused on telecom. “Past invest ment cycles have led to $6070 bn in shareholder value creation as it has taken ag gressive steps to reshape its earnings profile for the next decade,” it said.
PMI BUSINESS ACTIVITY INDEX UP z The seasonally adjusted S&P Global India Services Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) Business Activity Index rose from July’s four-month low of 55.5 to 57.2 in August, amid a quicker upturn in business activity and the sharpest rise in employment for over 14 years.
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` rises 8 paise to close at 79.79 against US dollar Mumbai (PTI): Finance minister Nirmala Sithara man on Monday said wind fall tax on petroleum prod ucts, crude is not ad hoc, but being charged in regu lar consultation with the industry.Theminister said it is unfair to call windfall tax as ad hoc, because the tax rate and its resetting are done in complete consulta tions with the industry. “The very idea was im plemented after taking the industry into full confi dence,” she said. “When we suggested the idea we had told the indus try that the tax rate will be reviewed every 15 days and we have been doing that,” Sitharaman said. On bond inclusion in global index, the minister said many things have changed since the pandem ic, especially in terms of inflows.Mostly, fund inflows have not been as expected, which of course is mostly due to the pandemic, she said, adding “however, I expect a logical conclusion to this sooner.”Onwhether the govern ment is planning to in crease the tax-GDP ratio which is only about 10 now, she said, widening tax base is an issue that needs a lot of consultations and analysis, though the in creasing number of in come tax filings gives me some clue on the possibil ity of widening it. “But we want to ensure that as and when it is done it looks reasonable and tech-driven,” she said. On the next 25 years of reforms and growth, she said by the time India cel ebrates the first centenary of independence, “we will have to reset lots of things so that we become a devel oped nation by then. And the biggest tools for such a reset are digitisation, edu cation and building more and more infrastructure so that our hinterland doesn’t remain unconnected to the cities.”Shealso underlined the need for more caution and concerted efforts at sus taining growth as the world is facing lots of newer chal lenges even as it comes out of the pandemic.
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‘Merchants need to modernise, digitise their biz models’ Sensex surges 443 points to settle at 59,245.98, Nifty advanced to 17,666
IEX TOTAL TRADE VOLUME DIPS 18% IN AUGUST 2022 REC SEEKS NOD TO RAISE UP TO `75,000 CRORE VIA BONDS New Delhi (PTI): Reliance Power and its subsidiary have inked a pact with Varde Partners for avail ing debt of up to `1,200 crore. In a regulatory fil ing, Reliance Power said the company and its sub sidiary have entered into a indicative MoU with Varde Partners for availing debt of up to `1,200 crore ($150 million) “for settle ment and discharge and/ or acquisition and restruc turing of certain financial debt availed by Reliance Power.”
business BRIEFS New Delhi (PTI): REC Ltd will seek shareholders’ approval to raise up to `75,000 crore through is suance of bonds next week. The funds are pro posed to be raised through issuance of de bentures on private place ment basis during a peri od of one year from the date of passing of the res olution, in one or more tranches, as per the AGM notice. The limit of `75,000 crore shall be within the overall revised borrowing limit. The an nual general meeting (AGM) of shareholders is scheduled for September 16, 2022. New Delhi (PTI): The total trade volume of Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) registered an 18% annual decline in August to 7,805 MU (million units). How ever, on a month-onmonth basis, IEX regis tered a 9% growth in Au gust. In July 2021, the to tal power trade volume was 7,151 MU. The total trade volume of 7,805 MU in August, 2022, com prised 6,517 MU in the conventional power mar ket, 437 MU in the Green Power Market, and 851 MU (8.51 lakh Certifi cates) in the REC Market, acc to the statement.
New Delhi (PTI): There is a need for the traders and merchants to modernise and digitise their business models, Union Minister Smriti Irani said on Mon day. “In the constantly changing business scenar io, the merchants of our country need to transform, digitise and modernise their business models,” Irani, who is also Minister of Minority Affairs, said.
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Mumbai (PTI): Tata Mo tors on Monday said it is expecting the Commercial vehicles industry to per form well this fiscal after two years of downturn, with an upturn in demand across all Moreover,segments.consumption is also witnessing continu ous growth leading to good demand conditions, Tata Motors executive director, Girish Wagh said at the launch of a range of trucks here. After two years of downturn in the commer cial vehicle industry, the previous fiscal logged 22% volume growth over FY21, said“TheWagh.CV industry seems to be on an upside now. Various indicators such as fleet utilisation or freight rates or even the transport ers confidence index that we track every quarter, seem to be doing pretty well,” he said. He noted that the govern ment’s push for infrastruc ture is creating good de mand for tipper trucks. The bus segment, which saw a low (in terms of vol umes) FY20 and FY21, saw good demand coming in from the school segment towards the end of the sec ond quarter of the previ ous fiscal and also a good beginning in the employee transport segment.
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INDIA TO STICK TO FY23 BORROWING PLAN IN SEPT REVIEW New Delhi (Agencies): India will stick to its annual market borrowing plan when byfiscalOctober-Marchannouncesgovernmenttheitscalendartheend of this month. By the end of September, the government will borrow 8.45 trillion In dian rupees, out of the record planned borrowing of 14.31 trillion Indian rupees ($179.20 billion) for the 2022/23 year starting on April 1.
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RPOWER TO RAISE DEBT OF UP TO `1,200 CRORE New Delhi (PTI): Gold price rose by ` 113 to ` 50,985 per 10 gram in the national capital on Monday, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the yel low metal had closed at ` 50,872 per 10 gram. Silver also jumped by ` 428 to ` 53,980 per kg. In the international mar ket, both gold and silver were trading flat at $1,711 per ounce and $18.15 per ounce, re spectively.
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z Finance Minister of India Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said it is unfair to call windfall tax as ad hoc, because the tax rate and its resetting are done in complete consultations with the industry.
DISH TV FACED CHALLENGES ON CORPORATE AND BUSINESS FRONT IN FY22, SAYS CEO ANIL DUA New Delhi: FY22 was “not the smoothest year” for the company and it faced “challenges, both on the corporate and business front”, said Dish TV Group CEO Anil Ku mar Dua in the latest annual report of the company. “Notwithstanding difficulties, the company continued to keep up with the times and remains optimistic about its capabilities to stay as one of the most relevant players in the content delivery space in India,” said Dua. Its largest shareholder YBL and the promoter family led by its chairman were locked in a legal battle over board representation.
z On bond inclusion in global index, the minister said many things have changed since the pandemic, especially in terms of inflows z Mostly, fund inflows have not been as expected, which of course is mostly due to the pandemic, she said Mumbai (PTI): The rupee appreciated 8 paise to close at 79.79 (provisional) against the US dollar on Monday, in line with a firm trend in domestic equities. At the interbank forex mar ket, the local unit opened at 79.84 against the greenback. It witnessed an intra-day high of 79.79 and a low of 79.90 against the American currency during the ses sion. It finally ended at 79.79 against the US dollar, up 8 paise from its previous close of 79.87.
`1,000 crore. Loan sanction letters were distributed to the benefi ciaries by Financial Services Secretary Sanjay Malhotra, who urged the bank to devise various banking products and services keeping the needs of customers at the centre.
Mumbai (PTI): Equity benchmark Sensex rallied nearly 1 per cent to re-visit the 59,000-mark on Monday, tracking heavy buying in index heavyweights Reli ance Industries and ICICI Bank.The BSE benchmark rose 442.65 points or 0.75% to settle at 59,245.98. During the day, it jumped 504.92 points or 0.85% to 59,308.25.
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New Delhi (PTI): Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has or ganised a credit outreach pro gramme under which it aboutloanssanctionedhasworth
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MAGICBRICKS STARTS NEW SERVICE FOR CUSTOMERS BENEFIT New Delhi (PTI): Realty portal Magicbricks on Monday said it has started a new service to facilitate withertybetweeninteractionsdirectpropownerspotential customers looking to buy or rent properties. The new ser vice provides exclusive access and tools for property seekers to find their dream prop erty within a quick timeline, enables direct contact with property owners, it added.
TEA EXPORTS DURING CURRENT FIRST HALF RISES TO 96.89 MN KG Kolkata (PTI): Exports of tea during the first six months January to June 2022 increasedhas to 96.89 million kg as com pared to 86.46 million kg in the similar previous period. The largest importer tradition ally has been the CIS block where exports had slightly fallen to 20.58 million kg during the current six months against 21.04 million kg in the previous period of 2021. BANK OF OUTREACHORGANISESMAHARASHTRACREDITPROGRAMME
Commodity Change % Chg 50,985.00 113.00 0.22 (Per 10g) 53,980.00 428.00 0.79 (Per 1kg) Price Change % Chg USDINR 79.79 0.08 0.10 91.92 0.41 0.45
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New Delhi (PTI): India’s services sector activity wit nessed a sharp upturn in August on the back of stronger gains in new busi ness, ongoing improve ments in demand condi tions and job creation, a monthly survey said. The seasonally adjusted S&P Global India Services PMI Business Activity In dex rose from July’s fourmonth low of 55.5 to 57.2 in August, amid a quicker up turn in business activity and the sharpest rise in employment for over 14 years. For the thirteenth straight month, the servic es sector witnessed an ex pansion in output. “The pick-up in growth stemmed from a rebound in new business gains as firms continued to benefit from the lifting of COVID-19 re strictions and ongoing marketing efforts,” said Pollyanna De Lima, Eco nomics Associate Director at S&P Global Market.
The NSE Nifty advanced 126.35 points or 0.72% to 17,665.80.Fromthe Sensex pack, Sun Pharma, ITC, NTPC, Reliance Industries, Lars en & Toubro, Tata Steel, HCL Technologies and ICI CI Bank were among the major gainers. In contrast, Nestle, UltraTech Cement, Wipro, PowerGrid, Asian Paints and Hindustan Uni lever were the laggards.
—Amit Shah, Union Home Minister WHAT TRANSPIRED
Former Mumbai Mayor Kishori Ped nekar said that BJP’s game plan of finishing smaller regional par ties in various states is now known to all po litical parties and even citizens.“What’s important is who meets Mumbai kars to solve their daily issues. It is our shakha pramukh (branch chief) who ad dresses Mumbai’s ja nata first. We have our feet on the ground, and we will show the BJP their place,” said datenotingtalkingSena’spartyBJPabad,leaderKhaire,Pednekar.ChandrakantShivSenafromAurangcalledouttheforgrowingasabyholdingShivhand,andnowaboutfinishtheSena.“In1988,therewasasingleBJPcandielectedtothe body of esWethedoesn’toutfightchallengedManishathis,”plemoneyofpursuingfinger.comeSenaancethentionMunicipalAurangabadCorpora(AMC).TheBJPforgedanalliwiththeShivandtheyhaveupholdingourNow,theyarethepoliticsdefectionsbyusingaspower.Peoareangryabouthesaid.ShivSenaleaderKayandeBJPtoBMCpollswithanyalliance.“WhytheBJPfightpollsonitsown?willseewhoteachalessontowhom.”
Gunjan Sharma New Delhi: Maths ran goli to teach shapes, al gebraic tiling on floors, elements of periodic ta ble as role numbers, in troducing “bag less days” and “no punish ment to students” are among innovative teach ing-learning practices adopted by 46 teachers who have bagged Na tional Teachers Award thisKavitayear.
One of them also took off his T-shirt while get ting into an argument with the man. The trio was alleged ly intoxicated when the incident took place. When confronted by a constable on the spot, one of them mentioned his mother’s political background and man aged to flee. While one other person too ran away, the cops were suc cessful in nabbing an other person, who got off bail the next day.
The Shiv Sena fell out with its traditional saffron ally after the 2019 state As sembly elections claiming that the BJP leadership had reneged on its promise to share the post of chief minister on rotation. The BJP had denied that it had made any such promise. Relations between the saffron allies became bitter especially after Thackeray sided with NCP and Congress to become the CM of the Maha Vikas Aghadi government. In June this year, Eknath Shinde and 39 MLAs of Shiv Sena rebelled against Thackeray, and the former was sworn in as CM.
Raut’s judicial custody extended by 14 days
Shiv Sena asserts it will not allow the ruling party to win BMC elections Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut outside Arthur Road jail after a special court hearing on Monday. —PTI PHOTO Video grab of the prime accused Sunny Carvalho getting into an argument with the complainant.
Man manhandled for objecting to pee publiclyNationalist Cong Party hits out at govt for pulling MVA’s MLC list
First India Bureau Mumbai: A man was manhandled and his family was subjected to foul language when they objected to a trio of men allegedly uri nating and holding their private parts at the skating ground situated diagonally opposite the Addi tional Commissioner of Police (West Re gion) office at around 9 pm on August 31, on Carter Road.
—PTI school teachers receive National Awards for innovations
President Droupadi Murmu presenting National Awards to educators on Teachers’ Day in New Delhi on Monday. —PHOTO BY ANI lll Maths punishmentbag-lessrangoli,daysandnotopthechartofcreativeideasimplementedbyeducatorsacrossthecountry
The Shiv Sena and the BJP had fought the BMC elections in 2017 separately despite be ing alliance partners in the then shortin82antgovernment.Fadnavis-ledTheBJPhadmadegistridesbywinningofthetotal227seatstheBMC,justtwoofSena’s84.
First India Bureau Mumbai: A special court in Mumbai on Monday extended Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut’s judicial custody by an other 14 days in a mon ey laundering case linked to alleged ir regularities in the re development of a Mumbai ‘chawl’. Raut, 60, was arrested by the Enforcement Di rectorate (ED) on August 01 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in connec tion with alleged finan cial irregularities in the redevelopment of the Patra Chawl in subur banHeGoregaon.wasproduced be fore special PMLA judge MG Deshpande at the end of his judicial re mand on Monday. The court extended his judi cial custody by another 14 days.
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First India Bureau Mumbai: Sounding the bugle for Mumbai civic body polls, Un ion Home Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah on Monday asked party leaders and workers to inflict a “deeper wound” on SenaThackeray-ledUddhavShivonitshometurf.
The Shinde cabinet seems to be driven by the sole agenda of overriding the earlier decisions taken by the MVA government out of sheer vengeance.
Former Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar. —FILE PHOTO have(Sena)Youspent your entire life op posing the NCP, but to become a chief minister, you compromised on everything. One can tolerate injus tice in politics but not treachery.
Two years ago, the MVA government, led by Uddhav Thackeray, had recommended 12 names for nomination as gress—butafterjoinedMatondkarthatMLCs—includingofactorUrmilawhohadtheShivSenaquittingtheConthelistwas never approved by Governor Bhagat Sin ghTheKoshyari.Shinde govern ment wrote to the gov ernor asking him to treat the recommenda tion as withdrawn, an official said. The gov ernment also told the governor that a fresh list of nominations will be conveyed soon. Koshyari reportedly accepted the new gov ernment’s decision. NCP’s chief spokes person Mahesh Ta pase on Monday said the decision to cancel the MVA govern ment’s previously rec ommended names was a “carrot” to lure more leaders into the BJPShinde camp. “The Shinde cabinet seems to be driven by the sole agenda of over riding the earlier deci sions taken by the MVA govt out of sheer venge ance,” he alleged.
Vijay Karanjkar, Nitin Bangude-Patil and Chandrakant Raghuvanshi from the Shiv Sena, farmer leader Raju Shetti, former minister Eknath Khadse, Yashpal Bhinge and folk singer Anand Shinde from the NCP, and Rajni Patil, Sachin Sawant, Anniruddha Vankar and Muzaffar Hussain from the Con gress were also on the MVA list of MLC nominees.
The ED’s probe per tains to alleged financial irregularities in the re development of the Patra Chawl and related financial transactions involving Raut’s wife Varsha and other associ ates.Raut, a close aide of Shiv Sena President and former Maharashtra CM, Uddhav Thackeray, has denied any wrongdo ing and termed the ED case against him “false”.
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Ahead of the BMC his‘showMumbaikarsShahMinisterUnionelections,HomeAmitcallsontoUddhavplace’
First India Bureau Mumbai: Shiv Sena leaders on Monday strongly hit back at Union Home Minis ter and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah’s address to party workers, asking them to teach a les son to Sena in the forthcoming Bri hanmumbai Munici pal Corporation (BMC) elections.
Among teachers who were conferred awards, three each are from Himachal Pradesh, Punjab,andMaharashtraTelangana
Shah slammed Thack eray saying he compro mised on everything to become the chief minis ter with the support of Sharad Pawar-led Na tionalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress. “(This was done) de spite seeking votes in the 2019 polls in the name of Prime Minis ter Narendra Modi and BJP’s Devendra Fad navis,” he said. The Shiv Sena has been ruling the Mum bai civic body for al most 30 years. Current ly, the electionsbodyyearministrator(BMC)MunicipalBrihanmumbaiCorporationisrunbyanadasthefive-termofthecivichasendedandareawaited.Ifyouhitapersonat any place, it does hurt. When you hit a person on his home ground, the pain is deeper. Now it is the time to inflict a deeper wound to Sena, Shah told a meeting of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and select functionaries in Mum bai on ShahMonday.isona two-day visit to the capital of Maharashtra during the ongoing Ganesh Chaturthi festival. The BJP has launched an aggressive campaign to wrest the BMC, the richest civic body with an annual budget of Rs45,000 crore, from the Uddhav Thackeray-led party.Shah also stressed ousting the Shiv Sena with the help of Chief Minister Eknath Shin de-led camp which re belled against Thack eray in June this year. “I am asking all of you. Unless BJP gains the control of Mumbai, you cannot win Maha rashtra. The real Shiv Sena has come with us and now is the time to show Uddhav (Thack eray) his place,” he said.
First India Bureau Mumbai: The Na tionalist Congress Party (NCP) on Mon day alleged that the Eknath toShivploynor’sunderMLCitsrecommendationsiongovernment’sShinde-leddecitowithdrawtheofpredecessorfornominationsthegoverquotawasatoluremoreSenamembersShinde’sfaction.
Sena hits back at BJP’s civic body poll challenge
‘Inflict deeper wound on Sena on home turf’
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Sanghvi, prin cipal of Chatrabhuj Narsee Memorial School in Mumbai, in troduced life skills in the school curriculum where children are taught soap and shoe making.“Bagless day initia tive that she had imple mented helped the stu dents to try and experi ment with different fields including arts and culture,” read her cita tion.President Droupadi Murmu presented the National Awards to Teachers, 2022, on Mon day to 46 select awardees to honour their unique contribution to school education.TheMinistry of Edu cation (MoE) has been organizing a function at Vigyan Bhawan on Teachers’ Day (Septem ber 05) every year to con fer the awards to best teachers of the country, selected through a rigor ous transparent and on line three-stage selec tionAmongprocess.the awarded teachers, three each are from Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra and rashtra);KavitanathhajiraoShashikantdanaKumarHarpreet(HimachalKumarYudhveer,Telangana.VirenderandAmitKumarPradesh);Singh,ArunGargandVanShahi(Punjab);SambKulthe,SomWamanWalkeandSanghvi(MahaKandalaRa maiah, TN Sridhar and Sunitha Rao (Telanga na), are the awardees from these four states. Pradeep Negi and Kaustubh Chandra Joshi (Uttarakhand), Sunita and Durga Ram Muwal (Rajasthan), Neeraj Saxena and Om Prakash Patidar (Mad hya Pradesh), Saurabh Suman and Nishi Ku mari (Bihar), G Pon sankari and Umesh TP (Karnataka), Mala Jig dal Dorjee and Sidharth Yonzone (Sikkim) are among the selected teachers.
—Mahesh Tapase, Chief Spokesperson, NCP ALSO ON THE LIST
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he divas dazzled the judges with their glitz and confidence as they evaluated both the personality of the contestants along with their skills. Some thing similar was the view of the Udaipur audi tion of Elite Miss Ra jasthan 2022 Season 9 held at Rami Royal Re sort, Udaipur on Sunday. from Udaipur defeated all the competitors with their charisma to reach the top 30 finalists. In this free beauty pageant held at Rami Royal Resort on Sun day, girls from Udaipur as well as from nearby parts participated. During this, girls tried to make their place in the competition by showcasing their style, at titude and communication skills.During the program, about 125 girls from Udaipur participated in the auditions and so far more than 1400 girls have en rolled themselves from all over the state. Astha Khan delwal, the winner of Elite Miss Rajasthan 2021, ac tress and supermodel Akanksha Bhalla, and su permodel Mona Gautam served as judges and judged the girls in the show. While addressing the au dience, Director Gaurav Gaur informed that Elite Miss Rajasthan has become a huge platform to present the talent of Rajasthan. It is noteworthy to mention that, the first runner-up of Elite Miss Rajasthan 2018 has been crowned the first runner-up of Femina Miss India 2022 in one of the major achievements recently. All the select ed girls in the show will get a chance to di rectly participate in the final round. Before Udaipur, the first auditions of this season have been held in Jaipur and Jodhpur. After Udaipur, auditions will be held in Kota and Jaipur. The finale of the show will be held on October 16 in Jaipur.
THE MOMENTOUS UDAIPUR AUDITIONS OF ELITE MISS RAJASTHAN 2022 SEASON 9 TOOK PLACE AT RAMI ROYAL RESORT, UDAIPUR ON SUNDAY. SWEET FRUITION HARD WORK! T SHARMASUNILBY—PHOTOS Gaurav Gaur with the particiapnts of Udaipur Auditions of Elite Miss Rajasthan 2022 OF www.firstindia.co.in I https://firstindia.co.in/epapers/mumbai I twitter.com/ thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia 09 MUMBAI, SEPTEMBERTUESDAY6,2022 UTTKARSHA SHEKHAR uttkarsha.shekhar@firstindia.co.in Megha Shyam Soni, Gaurav Gaur, Akanksha Bhalla, Divisha, Astha Khandelwal, Vasudha Tiwari, Rutwi Tiwari, Suhani Nenwa, Jiral Dhaka and Kritika Swarnkar
10-11ETCMUMBAI TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2022www.firstindia.co.in https://firstindia.co.in/epapers/mumbai twitter.com/thefirstindia facebook.com/thefirstindia instagram.com/thefirstindia IT WAS A NIGHT OF GLITZ AND GLAMOUR, LIVEWIRE PERFORMANCES AND NERVE-WRACKING DECISIONS, AS THE WINNERS OF FIRST INDIA PRESENTS GLAMANAND SUPERMODEL 2022 WERE ANNOUNCED IN A STAR-STUDDED CEREMONY AT ZEE STUDIO, JAIPUR ON SUNDAY. WITH 29 FINALISTS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY BATTLING IT OUT FOR THE COVETED TITLE, THE JUDGES HAD A TOUGH TIME CHOOSING THE WINNERS. AFTER MANY ROUNDS AND Q&A SESSIONS, KASHISH METHWANI WAS CROWNED MISS INTERNATIONAL INDIA 2023, PRAACHI NAGPAL AS MISS GRAND INDIA 2022, WITH JIGYASA SHARMA AS THE FIRST RUNNER-UP AND ARSHINA SUMBUL AS THE SECOND RUNNER-UP OF GLAMANANAD SUPERMODEL INDIA 2022! CITY FIRST BRINGS TO YOU SOME MORE GLIMPSES FROM THE MESMERIZING NIGHT! SHARMASANTOSHBY—PHOTOS FIRST INDIA PRESENTS GLAMANAND SUPERMODEL 2022 DREAMS COME TRUE Jagdeesh Chandra with Nikhil Anand (L) and Yogesh Mishra (R) Nikhil Anand crowning Jigyasa Sharma as First Runners Up Simran Sharma crowning Praachi Nagpal as Miss Grand India 2022 Zoya Afroz crowning Kashish Methwani as Miss International India 2022 The jury members: (L-R) Rajiv Shrivastava, Asmita Chakraborty, Ngo Ngoc Gia Han, Nguyen Nhu Quynh, Nguyen Thc Thuy Tien, Mrs Teresa, Tanya Sinha, Amit Kharkani and Varun KatyalNishant AnandSimran Ahuja Soni Kumari Aayushi DholakiaNimisha Mishra and Yogesh Mishra Models showcasing the beachwear as part of one of the talent rounds on the occasion The stunning finalists of First India presents Glamanand Supermodel 2022 during one of the talent rounds at the Grand Finale Dr Sushma and BK Sood CLOCKWISE: Arshina Sumbul, Nguyen Thúc Thùy Tiên, Devika Vaid and Jigyasa Sharma Nikhil Anand crowning Arshina Sumbul as Second Runners Up
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