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First India Bureau New Delhi: Bangla desh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi held bi lateral talks to review and further strengthen the relationship be tween both countries at Hyderabad House on Tuesday.PMNarendra Modi said the Maitree Power Plant will give citizens of Bangladesh access to affordable electricity. Modi said that both countries will cooper ate further to mitigate the impact of floods and data will be shared in real-time for an extend ed“Todayperiod. we also stressed on cooperation against terrorism and fundamentalism. To keep the spirit of 1971 alive, it is also very nec essary that we face such forces together, who want to attack our mu tual trust,” PM Modi said during the talks.
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London: Conservative Party leader Liz Truss was on Tuesday formally appointed as Britain’s new PM by Queen Elizabeth II, becoming 3rd female premier of the country. Johnson formally resigned as head of the UK govt in an audience with Queen.
Kota: In a relief for students preparing for competitive exams, there will be no merger of NEET, JEE and CUET in next 2 to 3 years and students can focus on preps.
New Delhi: ED on Tuesday conducted searches at multiple locations spread across Delhi and five states as part of PMLA probe into alleged irregularities in Delhi Excise Policy, officials said. Over 30 premises in Delhi, Telangana, Maha, Haryana, UP and K’taka are searched and individuals named in are being raided, the ED said.
BHARAT JODO YATRA BY CONGRESS TO BEGIN FROM TODAY New Delhi: Accompanied by 118 Congress leaders, Rahul Gandhi will embark on 3,500km ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ on Tuesday. He will walk from Kanyakumari to Kashmir over the course of 150 days. This is one of the party’s massive community outreach programs in recent decades. The timing seems to be right as Cong leadership is facing questions with loyalists.
Amit Shah on Tuesday announced constitution of a national level committee for drafting of the national cooperation policy document. New policy is being formulated to realize vision of ‘Sahakar Se Samriddhi’ under leadership of Modi. Committee led by ex-Union Minister SP Prabhu consists of 47 members.
Jammu (ANI): The Pa kistani Rangers violat ed ceasefire Tuesday morning as it targeted BSF troops in unpro voked firing along the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir, an official said. The BSF gave a “befitting reply” to the firing in Arnia sector of Jammu district, he said. “This morning, the alert BSF Jammu troops gave a befitting reply to the unprovoked firing by the Pakistan Rangers on a BSF pa trolling party,” BSF Deputy Inspector Gen eral S P S Sandhu said. The BSF Jammu public relations officer also said there was no casu alty on the Indian side. Security personnel being deployed at Poshkreeri village, in Anantnag on Tuesday.
Mumbai: A court here on Tuesday granted bail to actor Kamaal R Khan, popularly known as KRK, in a 2021 molestation case registered against him by the suburban Versova police. However, will remain in jail, as his bail plea is pending before the Borivali magistrate court in the 2020 case of controversial tweets about actor & filmmaker.
First India Bureau New Delhi: The Su preme Court on Tues day took note of the Eknath Shinde faction’s claim about the Uddhav Thackeray camp stall ing proceedings before the poll panel. The for mer’s application stak ing claim over the Shiv Sena and its bow and arrow symbol is pend ing. The top court said that it will consider list ing its plea before a con stitution bench.
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The court had granted an extension of time to the other side (Uddhav group). Now, the other side is stalling the proceedings before the Election Commis sion. Some elections are coming up in the month of October in the state,” senior advocate NK Kaul, appearing for the Shinde faction, told a bench headed by Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit. Turn to P5
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New Delhi: The BJP has started drawing up a roadmap for the 2024 general elections amid hectic activity in the op position camp. A mega meeting of the top lead ers were held at the BJP headquarters in Delhi on Tuesday — the target was the 144 seats the party missed in 2019 by narrow margins. Sourc es said the party is hopeful that a proper groundwork on these seats will help boost its numbers in next polls. Sources said JP Na dda and its chief strate gist Shah, who led meet ing, had tasked each of the attending ministers with focussing on three to four seats. The minis ters, sources said, have been asked to file their feedback into a portal called “Saral”, where one has to fill in details. (T) Amit Shah and JP Nadda during a party meeting, at BJP HQ in New Delhi on Tuesday. Gajendra Shekhawat, Anurag Thakur, Smriti Irani, Ashwini Vaishnaw and others during the party meeting.
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Renni Abraham Mumbai: As Chief Minister Eknath Shin de and Deputy CM Dev endra Fadnavis gear up for the forthcoming civic elections in Mum bai, Thane and 21 other municipalities, their first electoral battle will likely be the by-election for the Andheri East state legislative assem blyTheconstituency.bypollwas man dated within six months of the demise of Shiv Sena MLA Ramesh Latke in May 2022, while holidaying with his family in Dubai. Latke, who enjoyed a clean and popular repu tation, had been a coun cillor several times and was a two-time MLA from Andheri (E). His widow Rutuja Latke is expected to contest the bypolls.Joint Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Maha rashtra DS Parkar said, “We have not received any order from the Elec tion Commission of In dia (ECI) yet. Elections may be held any time now.”He added that nor mally the ECI holds by polls along with general or state assemblies in India. Elections to the Gujarat, Telangana, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh assemblies are due.“It is normal ECI practice to hold by-elec tions of MPs and MLAs along with state assem blies or general elec tions. With Gujarat elections likely in No vember or December, the Maharashtra byepoll to Andheri (E) could be held along side,” the Joint CEO added.The Andheri (E) as sembly elections will be the first political litmus test to gauge Turn to P5
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government on a plea filed by Ashish Mishra challenging the Allahabad HC order which denied bail to him in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case. A bench headed by Justice Indira Banerjee issued notice and listed matter for Sept 26.
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First India Bureau Palghar: The car in which former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry was travelling when he and his friend Jahangir Pandole were killed in a crash was being driven at a speed of 180-190 kmph, police say. Palghar police have ob tained CCTV footage, which shows the Mer cedes car passing through the Dapchari check post in Palghar dis trict at 2.21 pm on Sun day, officials said, adding that the vehicle had cov ered a distance of 20km in just nine minutes, meaning it was being driven at a speed of 180190Thekmph.carwas being driv en by Mumbai-based gy naecologist Anahita Pan dole (55), a family friend of Mistry, police have said. She and her husband Dar ius Pandole (60) were seri ously injured in the acci dent and are undergoing treatment in a Mumbai hospital.Theprobe team will submit a detailed report which will be forwarded to Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who has or dered an investigation into the road accident, the official said.
He also said the Shiv Sena led by Chief Min ister Eknath Shinde and the BJP will jointly contest the upcoming elections to the Mum bai civic undertra,matiharashtra.diamulated)“Theport,ersSpeakingbody.toreportatNagpurairFadnavissaid,BJPhas(forMissionInandMissionMaAsBaraisinMaharashitobviouslycomesMissionMaha rashtra,” he said. Fadnavis was reply ing to a query on Maha rashtra BJP BaramatiBawankule’sChandrashekarpresidentvisittothecon Bawankule has said the BJP and Shinde-led Shiv Sena combine will win the Baramati con stituency, currently represented by NCP’s Supriya Sule, in the tions along with 45 of the total 48 constituen cies in the Fadnavisstate.saidthere is no need to compulsorily display the photos of so cial reformers Mahat ma Jyotiba Phule and Savitribai Phule in the state secretariat in Mumbai as they live in the hearts of the people.
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Mistry’s remains, deco rated with white flowers, were brought from the state-run JJ Hospital to a specially erected pandal at the crematorium, start ed by a few progressive people in the Parsi com munity in 2015 as an alter native to the old practice of leaving the body in the Tower of FriendsSilence.and family members started trick ling in from early morn ing to offer their prayers. Mistry’s body was taken inside the electric cremato rium just before noon, and a family priest performed the ritualistic prayers as per Parsi tradition before the cremation, those who attended the funeral said. released advertisements in the morning papers an nouncing his demise and the time of the cremation, with a request not to offer condolence visits. ing from a visit to Udvada in south Gujarat--the holi est place for those of the Zoroastrian faith when he died in a crash.
Mumbai (PTI): Doctors at a hospital in Mumbai are trying to stabilize the vital parameters of Ana hita Pandole and her husband Darius Pandole, injured two days back in a car accident that killed Cyrus Mistry and Jahan gir Pandole. It is a common procedure before operating on any pa tient, said a medical officer from Sir HN Reliance Foun dation Hospital where the couple is currently admitted.“Both of them are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) since being brought here in an ambu lance by road (on Monday). Once their vitals stabilize, a team of doctors will take a decision to operate,” he said.Businessman Darius Pandole (60), who was sit ting in the car’s front seat, and his gynaecologist wife Anahita Pandole suffered hip fracture while Darius Pandole had jaw fractures causing airways obstruc tion, a doctor earlier said.
Cyrus Mistry cremated in Mumbai; Ratan Tata’s stepmother attends funeral Mistry suffered multiple injuries, blunt thorax trauma, says official
Businessman Anil Ambani at the funeral.
Mumbai: A team from the Ger man luxury carmaker MercedesBenz, whose car industrialist Cyrus Mistry was killed on Sunday, has collected encrypted data from the accident-hit car, an official said on Tuesday. The data will be analysed, decrypted and will be shared with police for further investigation, Inspec tor General of Police, Konkan range, Sanjay Mohite said. There will also be an investiga tion into other details like why the airbags did not deploy, the car’s tyre pressure and brake fluid level to ascertain the cause of the accident, he added. Low brake fluid causes air to fill the gaps in the brake line, leading to soft brakes. Spongy brake ped als can also be dangerous.
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Simone Tata, industrialist Ratan Tata’s stepmother arrives in a wheelchair for Cyrus Mistry’s funeral at Worli crematorium in Mumbai, on Tuesday. BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE
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Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal took to his Twitter handle to congratulate new British Prime Minister Elizabeth Truss on her win. He also shared a picture of their meeting at BMC in 2021. “Congratulations to @Elizabeth Truss.MP as she gets elected in the conservatives race to be the next Prime Minister of UK. She visited my office in BMC Headquarters last year as Secretary of State for International Trade. She discussed trade, environment, tourism and cultural ties between Maharashtra and the United Kingdom and showed resolve to work together, unlock the potential between the two cultural hotspots of Mumbai and London. It was indeed a great honour & privilege for me to meet her. Best wishes for her,” he tweeted.
Friends and family of Cyrus Mistry show up to bid adieu to the business tycoon.
First India Bureau Nagpur: The faction of the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday announced the appointment of office-bearers for the east Vidarbha region. Shiv Sena MP from Ramtek, Krupal Tu mane told reporters that CM Shinde was keeping a good watch over Vidarbha and is working to strengthen the fold in the region. ”As per the CM’s di rection, we are giving ap pointment letters to the newly elected officebearers in Nagpur, Chan drapur, Gadchiroli, Bhandara, Gondia and Wardha,” Tumane said. The Sena leader fur ther claimed that most of the workers and of fice-bearers of the par ty were with Shinde. CM Shinde will hold rallies in Vidarbha dur ing the upcoming Nav aratri festival, he said.
First India Bureau Mumbai: Cyrus Mistry, the former Tata Sons chairman who was killed in a road acci dent earlier this week, was cremated at central Mumbai’s Worli crema torium on Tuesday, in a funeral attended by members of the closeknit Parsi community, some business leaders and politicians.
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First India Bureau Mumbai: Former Tata Sons chair man Cyrus Mistry and his friend Ja hangir Pandole had received multi ple injuries and “blunt thorax trau ma” and were killed almost in stantly in the fatal car crash on Sunday,medicalaofficerfromtheJJ Hospital here said on Tuesday. The bodies of Mis try and Pandole were later brought to the state-run JJ Hospital in Mumbai where doctors conducted the“Theautopsy.impact on the bodies of both Mistry and Pandole was sud den and forceful be cause of the speed of the car. It led to multi ple injuries and blunt thorax trauma, the medical officer said. The multiple inju ries also included rupturing of veins causing internal bleeding. However, the primary autopsy report could only in dicate some vague symptoms. A de tailed analysis will explain everything and the exact cause of the death, he said. As a standard pro cedure, the viscera sample will be sent to a forensic science lab oratory in Kalina area here for a detailed analysis, he added.
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NEWS MUMBAI | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2022 02 www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epapers/mumbai I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia Nagpur (PTI): Deputy Chief Minister Dev endra Fadnavis on Tuesday said the Bar amati constituency, the pocket borough of Nationalist Con gress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pa war, falls under the Bharatiya Janata Party’s ‘Mission Ma harashtra’.
Wheelchair-bound Simone Tata, 92, stepmother to industry doyen Ratan Tata, arrived at the crematorium in a special van. While former TCS head S Ramadorai and Madhu Kannan, one of the key executives handpicked by Mistry during his chair manship of Tata Sons, at tended the funeral, no other senior official from the Tata Group with whom Mistry fought a bitter legal battle till the end were seen there. Cyrus Mistry’s elder brother Shapoor Mistry, father-inlaw and senior lawyer Iqbal Chagla, industrialists Anil Ambani, Ajit Gulabchand, Deepak Parekh and Vishal Kampani, entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala, architect Hafeez Contractor, NCP lead ers Supriya Sule and Ganesh Naik and former Congress MP Milind Deora were pre sent at the crematorium.
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First India Bureau Nagpur: Three mar ginal farmers com mitted suicide in separate incidents due to crop failure and indebtedness in a span of two days in Nagpur district. The incidents were reported from Jala lkheda, Aroli, and Kel wadOnareas.Sunday, Vitthal rao Umarkar (62) was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his house in Ambada village un der the Jalalkheda po lice station, around 50km from cropfacie,acresownedtheManojstationJalalkhedaNagpur.policein-chargeChoudharysaiddeceasedUmarkartwoandahalfofland.“PrimahehadavailedaloanofRs3lakh. He was depressed for the last few days after his crop failed due to heavy rains,” he said. In another incident, a farmer, identified as Krishna Sayam (36), was found hanging from a tree on Sunday evening in Tanda vil lage in Mauda tehsil, about 65km from the city. An Aroli police station official said Sayam had borrowed from his relatives who were forcing him to repay. “On Sunday evening, he hanged himself from a tree,” heInsaid.another incident, Ashok Sarwe (35), a resident of Umri vil lage in Saoner tehsil, consumed poison at his farm in Umri vil lage under the Kelwad police station area due to crop failure, a police official said. “Sarwe had taken a loan from an insur ance company. After rains damaged his crop, he became de pressed. He commit ted suicide by con suming poison at his farm on Saturday at 10 am,” the official added.Police have regis tered cases of acci dental death and be gun investigating.
Devotees pray to Lord Ganesh for good luck and prosperity at a communal worship ritual held in Mumbai city on Monday night. Elsewhere, members of a family say goodbye to the elephant-headed god and his mother Goddess Gauri (or Parvati as she is commonly known) by immersing their idols into the Arabian Sea, on Tuesday.
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Pune: A cop and a patient were injured in an attack on one Tushar Hambir at Pune’s GeneralSassoonHospital on Tuesday. Hambir, an accused in a case un der the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), escaped unhurt. “Five people barged into the ward where Ham bir was admitted and tried to attack him with a sharp weapon. A police guard and another patient were injured,” said a police official.
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Thane: A 29-year-old man was electrocuted af ter coming in contact with an open generator box of a power supply line near a school in Camp number 4 of Ulhasnagar township in Thane district, an official said. Passersby rushed him to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him ‘brought dead’. The body was sent to a government hospital for postmortem. The Vittalwadi police regis tered a case of accidental death, the official said.
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Aurangabad: Maha rashtra has 3.16 crore bank accounts opened under the Jan Dhan scheme, but 12% of them have zero bal ance and are currently not operational, Vijay Kamble, General Man ager, Bank of Maha rashtra, has said. He further added that Jan Dhan ac counts in Maharashtra have Rs10,938 crore in deposits, and that banks need to reach out to account holders and make them finan cially literate so that they are able to under take regular transac tions and keep the ac countsKambleactive.was speak ing on the sidelines of the State Level Bank ers Committee (SLBC) meeting on Monday. Union Minister of State for Finance Dr Bhagwat Karad, who chaired the meeting, asked officials to reach out to youngsters over the the age of 18 and per suade them to open bank accounts under the“Toscheme.increase the number of Jan Dhan accounts in the state, banks can refer to the voters list. Newly en rolled voters can be en couraged to open bank accounts,” Karad said. Talking about new bank branches in Mar athwada, Karad said, “On an average there are 14 branches for every lakh of people (at the national level). This average is 15 in Maharashtra. But in Marathwada there is a need for 70 more branches and this tar get will be completed by December 2022.” There are 33 villages in Maharashtra which still do not have without banking services but they will be provided these facilities in the near future, he said.
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First India Bureau Latur: Angry resi dents of a village in Latur district locked the sarpanch inside the panchayat office on Tuesday for not holding a gram sabha for 2.5 years. Government rules mandate regular gram sabhas to discuss vari ous karamdevelopmentfacethehasThursday.toleasedchayatforgaonwad,schemes.developmentalDattaGaiksarpanchofKatvillage,waslockedanhourinthepanofficeandreafterhepromisedholdagramsabhaonAnenquirybenlaunchedandguiltypartieswillstrictaction,blockofficerTuBhalkesaid.
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First India Bureau New Delhi: The Su preme Court on Mon day dismissed an ap peal of Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company against a Bombay High Court order asking it to com pensate over 3.5 lakh farmers of Osmanabad district for the loss of soybean crop. Agri cultural workers suf fered heavy losses due to excessive rainfall in 2020 and applied for compensation under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY). Observing that this was an insurance of a different kind, where the crop, family and eve rything of farmers are at stake, a bench com prising Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and Justice S Ravindra Bhat ordered release of Rs200 crore deposited by the insurance firm with the apex court’s registry along with the interest accrued on it to the gov ernment treasury in Os manabad.Thetop court ordered completion of the pro cess of payment of in surance compensation in three weeks, strictly under the law, and su pervision of the district collector.“Having considered the entirety of the mat ter, in our view, the con clusions drawn by the high court called for no interference under our jurisdiction under Arti cle 136 of the Constitu tion and the instant SLP (special leave petition) is therefore dismissed,” said the SC, in its order. Senior advocate Vivek Tankha, appear ing for the insurance firm, assailed the high court verdict, saying it did not interpret the law properly and fastened the liability for paying the compensation to those farmers also who did not inform about the crop loss within the stipulated time. Earlier, the top court had on June 16 stayed a Bombay High Court or der which asked the in surance firm to com pensate over 3.5 lakh farmers under the PMF BY for the loss of soy bean crop due to heavy rainfall in 2020. The vacation bench had asked the insurance company to deposit Rs 200 crore with its regis try within a period of six weeks from June 16. While issuing notice on the appeal of the in surance firm, the SC bench had said, In the meantime, there will be a stay of operation of the impugned judgment subject to the petitioner depositing an amount of Rs200 crore with the Registry of this Court within a period of six weeks, as requested.”
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Upholds Bombay HC order and directs it compensateto 3.5 lakh farmers of Osmanabad dist HC ORDER Having considered the entirety of the mat ter, in our view, the conclusions drawn by the high court called for no interference un der our jurisdiction under Article 136 of the Consti tution and the instant SLP (special leave petition) is therefore dismissed. —Supreme Court of India
Latur: A man has been booked for allegedly beat ing and stabbing his wife over biryani in Kushtadam in Nanded road area, Inspector Sudhakar Bawkar said on Tuesday. Vinayak Dede alleg edly came home drunk on August 31 and started arguing with his wife for not making biryani for dinner. Even as family members tried to intervene, he beat her up, and later stabbed her with a knife, injuring her gravely. The victim was rushed to a government hospital for treatment, the official said.
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Five of the six JD(U) MLAs in Manipur joined the ruling BJP on Friday. The lone JDU MLA left in the state is Mo hammad Nasir from Lilong seat. As per grapevine, he is also reportedly set to join the BJP. This is being corrobo rated by several political analysts.Thepolitical upheaval in Manipur is not the first of its kind. In 2020, six of the seven MLAs of the JD(U) legisla tors joined the BJP in Arunachal Pradesh. Last month, the seventh JD(U) MLA also joined the BJP. It may be recalled that while in August, Nitish Ku mar had moved out of the NDA to join the Grand Alli ance. His mega plan is to unite the Opposition parties across the country for the crucial 2024 Lok Sabha elec tions to pose a challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. How successful Nit ish Kumar will be in his en deavour is a major point to be seen.
BJP MOCKS NITISH Taking a dig at Nitish Kumar, BJP’s Amit Malviya called the former a ‘lame duck chief minister’ and mocked him by saying that he still “dreams of being Prime Minister.” He wrote, “Mamata Baner jee’s attempts to gain accept ability beyond West Bengal, backfired miserably. Nitish Kumar, a lame duck Chief Minister, is seeing his party’s footprint shrink, not just in Bihar, where it is the third largest, but also outside.” Meanwhile, amid specula tions over his projection as the Prime Ministerial candi date in 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar slammed BJP leader Sushil Modi, saying “no one takes him seriously.” Kumar was referring to Sushil Ku mar Modi’s recent remarks that the meeting of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his Telangana counter part K Chandrashekar Rao was the “latest comedy show of Opposition unity”. In Lok Sabha, JD(U) has only 16 seats out of the total 543 while it has only 5 MPs in the 245-member Rajya Sabha. JD(U) is currently in power only in Bihar among the 31 states and Union Territories. In the state, Kumar formed the government with the help of Lalu Yadav’s party RJD. It may be noted that RJD has 79 MLAs while JD(U) has only 45 Thelegislatures.numbers, however, do not seem to be in favour in Parliament and Bihar As sembly for Nitish Kumar’s ambition!
Nitish is also supposed to meet HD Kumaraswamy — the chief of the Janata Dal Secular, who ended the alli ance with the Congress after their government in Karna taka fell through. It may be recalled that the formation of the CongressJDS alliance in 2018 to keep the BJP out of power in Kar nataka had marked the ef forts to form the opposition front.Nitish, according to politi cal grapevine, is also likely to meet Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, who was the prime mover in the efforts to unite the Oppo sition in 2019; Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, another leader seen as upset with the Congress; and the leaders of the Left which is providing outside support to his government in Bihar.
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Nitish is also scheduled to visit Maharashtra, Haryana and Karnataka soon on his ‘Mission Opposition’. This had kicked off last week with the visit of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao to Patna. Rao, once a proponent of a non-Congressnon-BJP front, indicated that he was ready to think afresh. Asked to comment on the willtheKumarMahagathbandhan,said,“WhyThirdFront,weareworkingonmainFront”.OnlytimetellifNitishiscapableofgettingalltheOppositionstalwartsunderoneumbrella.Earlier,itwasevidenthowtheOpposition’s“unity”wasondisplayduringthepresidentialandvice-presidentialelections
n a major jolt to Nitish Ku mar, five of the six JD(U) MLAs in Manipur merged with the BJP on Friday. On Saturday, Bihar Chief Minis ter and JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar who recently snapped ties with the saffron party said notwithstanding this hiccup, the scenario will be politically different in 2024 if the Opposition parties unite and put up a joint effort against the saffron might. After the JD(U) state exec utive meet, Nitish mentioned a series of events and said, “All the six Manipur JD(U) MLAs were scheduled to come for the meet and were ready till a couple of days ago, but suddenly the merger with the BJP any“ThisproachthewatchingmonthshadtheonishLambastinghappened.”theBJP,NitKumarraisedquestionstheconductofBJP,“IsitConstitutionalway?TheyallcometoBiharafewago.PeoplearethebehaviourofBJP.Whatkindofanapisthis?”heasked.meanstheydon’twantOpposition.”
irst it was Mo hammed Shami and now Arsh deep Singh. Abus ing players and casting aspersions on them because of their religion is a new phenomenon in the country. After Indian pacer Mohammed Shami’s poor bowling performance against Pakistan in last year’s T-20 World Cup, the star bowler was brutally trolled for being a “Pakistani”. Hundreds of messages calling Shami, the only Muslim player in the playing XI for that match, a “traitor” filled his social me dia handles, even after Virat Kohli admitted that his team had been thoroughly out played. That victory was Pa kistan’s first against India in any World Cup. The social media attack on Shami was so vicious that former crick eters like Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh had to step in his sup port. Sehwag tweeted that “anyone who wears the India cap has India in their hearts for more than any online mob. With you Shami…” This time the trolls picked on the young Arshdeep Singh playing in the Asia Cup match against Pakistan for dropping a crucial catch at a key moment in the game. Some social media users even edited his Wikipedia page to insert references to the Khal istan movement. Again, Virat Kohli stepped up to defend the youngster saying that no player willingly drops a catch or misfields. This time the Central government’s IT Ministry also intervened. Wikimedia Foundation’s ex ecutives were asked to ex plain how the inflammatory content was inserted. It is important to push back the trolls out to end In dia’s cultural and religious diversity in sports. India does not believe in having “Hindus only” teams.
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LONG TO-DO LIST IN DELHI Nitish Kumar, who came to Delhi with a longish “to-do” list for his ‘Mission Opposi tion’, checked off the first item Monday evening, meet ing Congress’ Rahul Gandhi at his Tughlaq Road resi dence. Nitish, however, told reporters that he had no am bition for the top post. “There is a concerted ef fort to weaken regional par ties. My effort is to unite the Opposition ahead of the gen eral elections. I have no in tention of pitching myself as a prime ministerial candi date,” Kumar told reporters. While Kumar had said that he hoped to meet Opposition leaders for the Mahagath bandhan alliance in Delhi, he has also declared that the visit is meant to bring all the opposition leaders under one umbrella – which is undoubt edly a highly challenging task.On his “wish-list”, Nitish is supposed to meet the Aam Aadmi Party chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejri wal. Efforts to rope him into the Opposition front were botched in 2019, with AAP’s role in ending the UPA gov ernment at the Centre weigh ing heavily on the Congress.
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BIHAR CM IS ON POLITICAL TOURISM IN DELHI, SAYS HIS EX-DEPUTY SUSHIL MODI IN MEET WITH DELHI CM KEJRIWAL, NITISH DISCUSSES SEVERAL ISSUES UP CONG VETERANS IGNORED IN ‘YATRA’
The apex court was hearing a petition filed by the NGO Peoples Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) which highlighted the issue of Section 66A of the IT Act being invoked despite the judgment of the top court. Under section 66A of the IT Act, which was scrapped by the top court in 2015, a person posting offensive messages could be imprisoned for up to three years and also fined.
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Sharat K Verma New Delhi: Congress leaders are making all kinds of speculations as to who prepared the draft of the letter that Ghulam Nabi Azad wrote to Sonia Gandhi when he left the Con gress? Party veteran and general secretary Digvijay Singh said that he has known Azad for decades, whatever is written in the letter is not Azad’s language. However, he did not an swer as to whose lan guage it was or from whom Azad got the let ter written and sent to the Congress President. He does not even have an answer that the letter may have been written by someone else, but whatever Azad is saying in interviews in the me dia, whether it is his lan guage or his thinking, what will be said about it? His language on tele vision is also similar to the language of letters. However, Congress leaders had chosen two names earlier. A senior Congress leader said in an informal conversa tion that either Kapil Sibal or Anand Sharma has drafted the letter. But there is a group of Con gress leaders who be lieve that this letter has been drafted from BJP. The things that are most publicized in social me dia by the BJP’s IT cell or the things that are said for Congress and Rahul Gandhi, all the things have been written in Azad’s letter. It was the BJP that started the practice of describing Rahul as immature, childish or a leader who was forced into politics. Those same things are said about him in Azad’s letter as well. On one hand Congress leaders are speculating as to who wrote the letter, while on the other hand Azad is proving that whatever is written in the letter is actually his point.
Lucknow: Veteran Congress leaders in UP have neither been informed nor invited to join Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, from Kanyaku mari to Kashmir, that begins on Wednesday. The UP contingent mainly includes Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s per sonal secy Sandip Singh, Am ethi Seva Dal prez Ram Baran Kashyap, UPCC minority dept chairman Shahnawaz Alam, UPCC Fishermen Congress chairman Devendra Nishad and UPCC secy (Unnao incharge) Pratibha Atal Pal.
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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar with CPI(M)) leader Sitaram Yechury addresses the media after their meeting, at party office, in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The top court had said the petitions raised important constitution al issues relating to the 10th schedule of the Constitution pertaining to cialandpowersdisqualification,ofthespeakergovernor,andjudireview.
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to have a discussion with the chief secretaries of the states where FIRs under Section 66A of the Information Technology (IT) Act were being registered despite the provision being scrapped by it in 2015. The court asked chief secretar ies of all states to take remedial measures to tackle the continued use of section 66A of the IT Act.
SC to... I will look into that and I cannot say anything off the cuff, but certain ly, there will be some thing by tomorrow, the CJI said. A bench headed by the then CJI N V Rama na (since retired) had on August 23 referred to a five-judge bench the petitions filed by both the factions of Shiv Sena.The Uddhav group had raised several con stitutional questions related to defection, merger and disqualifi cation and the power of Speaker in such situa tions as witnessed in Maharashtra during Shinde’s rebellion.
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New Delhi (ANI): Bangladesh Prime Min ister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday met President Droupadi Murmu and Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar in New Delhi. While welcoming Hasina to Rashtrapati Bhavan, the President said that “our shared history, language and culture connect us with each other”, according to a statement released by Rashtrapati Bhavan. President noted that under the leadership of Prime Minister Naren dra Modi and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasi na, bilateral ties be tween India and Bang ladesh have grown im mensely. She further said that the way the two countries have cel ebrated the 50th year of Bangladesh’s independ ence and the golden ju bilee of India-Bangla desh bilateral relations is truly special. The visits of both the President and the Prime Minister of India to par ticipate in these histor ic celebrations show India’s great impor tance to its relationship withTheBangladesh.President was happy to note that Bangladesh has achieved great success in the ple.prosperitysocio-economicofitspeoSheassuredthat India will continue to be a reliable partner in the developmental journey of Bangladesh. She also expressed confidence that with this visit, the relations between the two coun tries will further ma ture and develop. After meeting Presi dent, Hasina called on VP Dhankhar and both sides reiterated the shared commitment to take the relationship forward for the benefit of the people of both countries.“Recalling the cele brations last year for the golden jubilee of Bang ladesh’s independence, 50 years of diplomatic relations and Mujib Bor sho, the Vice President appreciated the warmth and trust between the two countries,” Vice President tweeted.
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar meets Sheikh Hasina, in New Delhi on Tuesday. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi met Sheikh Hasina, the AICC said. Sheikh Hasina meets Prez Droupadi Murmu, at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi.
CJI UU Lalit, Supreme Court Judges, Justice DY Chandrachud, and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul during the inauguration of NALSA.
New Delhi (ANI): Former Bihar Deputy CM and Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Modi on Tuesday alleged that the state’s CM Nitish Kumar is on a political tour in the national capital while the people of Bihar have been facing a flood. In a conversation with ANI, Sushil Modi said that Bihar is drowning in floods and the Chief Minister has arrived National Capital on political Tourism. He counted the previous arrivals of the CMs of other states to Delhi by mentioning that before this, Telangana CM K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) travelled to six states while West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee also camped in Delhi many times. “Now Nitish ji has come, the Lok Sabha election is approaching so Nitish Kumar has come to Delhi on political tourism,” he said.
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Delhi (ANI): Priyanka Gandhi Vadhra, the Con gress general secretary, on Tuesday said that through ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ people will be united on issues like in flation, unemployment among other matters of public importance. “We are starting a positive politics. We want to hear from you, we want to solve your problems. We want to unite our beloved coun try. Let’s unite India to gether,” Priyanka said in a Facebook video. Politics today has turned a blind eye to wards people and their issues, she
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The court had asked the ECI to hold its hand till the time being on the Shinde faction’s plea claiming itself to be the real Shiv Sena.
New Delhi (ANI): The National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) Cen tre for Citizen Services, was inaugurated by Chief Justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit on Tuesday.Thespace at Jaisalmer House which was pro vided to NALSA would be utilised for the estab lishment of Legal Assis tance Centre for Citizens, Legal Assistance Centre for NRIs, Training Cen tre, and Digital Com mand Centre for provid ing futuristic legal ser vices across the country. The NALSA office which was earlier placed at Jamnagar House was shifted to the Additional Building Complex of the Supreme Court of India on 9th November 2021. NALSA also witnessed presence of Justice DY Chandrachud, Judge, Supreme Court & Execu tive Chairman, NALSA, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Judge, Supreme Court of India & Chair man SCLSC and His Companion Judges of the Supreme Court.
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New Delhi (ANI): In continuation to an ongo ing probe in the railway job racket case busted last month, another breakthrough came with Delhi Police nab bing two masterminds, one of whom had con tested Delhi Assembly elections in 2020 on the ticket of Jan Sambhaav na Party and lost. Sukhdev Singh and Sandeep Sidana, the main masterminds, were arrested during raids conducted at several places across Delhi and the National Capital Re gion (NCR), said DCP (Railways) Harender Ku mar Singh. The master minds were held after the disclosure of two ear lier arrested persons— Mohd Rizwan and Amandeep Singh, said the officer, adding “they had disclosed the names of Sukhdev and Sandeep as main saidtionsDelhiDelhi,SeelampurcarworkSukhdev,masterminds.”whousedtoasasmall-timedealerintheNewareainEasthadcontestedAssemblyelecin2020,butlost,theDCP.
“If different parties come together it will be a huge thing,” says Bihar CM indicating at the Opposition unity for 2024 Lok Sabha polls New Delhi (ANI): Bi har Chief Minister Nit ish Kumar on Tuesday met CPM leader Sitar am Yechury at his office. Nitish Kumar denied speculation on his Prime Ministerial can didature, saying that “I am not even a claimant, I don’t even desire it.” “We are together, that is why I am coming here”, said Nitish on meeting CPM leader Yechury. “If different parties come together it will be a hugeWhilething.”addressing the media today, Nitish Ku mar said, “We have dis cussed that if the Left parties, regional par ties in different states, and Congress come to gether then it will be a huge thing.” On Monday, Nitish met Congress leader Ra hul Gandhi in the na tional capital and dis cussed the strategy for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha polls and the pos sibility of bringing like minded parties together. Congress sources said Nitish, who met Gandhi for the first time since his reunifi cation with the Maha gathbandhan, of which Congress is a part in Bihar, expressed grati tude to the Wayanad MP for his party’s support to his Thegovernment.sourcessaid that both parties will con tinue their “concrete discussions” in the runup to Lok Sabha polls. The Bihar Chief Min ister also met former Karnataka CM and JDS leader HD Kumaraswa my during his visit to Delhi. The meeting comes amid the buzz that Ku mar is attempting to project himself as the prime ministerial can didate in 2024. However, he cleared the air on the matter.Kumar, once again in Delhi, called for opposi tion unity and ruled out harbouring prime min isterial aspirations.
New Delhi (PTI): Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Tuesday met his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal on the second day of his visit to the national capital with an aim to unify the Opposition in run up to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia and JD(U) leader Sanjay Jha were also present in the meeting. Taking to a microblogging site, Arvind Kejriwal added, “Many thanks to Nitish Ji for visiting my house. Many serious topics related to the country were discussed...”
Priyanka urges people to join Cong’s Bharat Jodo Yatra
New Delhi: Bang ladesh PM Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday morning paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi. Hasina paid homage by placing a wreath at Rajghat (memorial of Mahatma Gandhi). She stood in solemn silence for some time as a mark of profound respect to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi.
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde had walked out with 40 rebel MLAs from Shiv Sena, against Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray forming the MVA alliance with po litical adversaries, the NCP and Congress in Maharashtra.TheBJPexploited a similar political betray al (when natural ally Shiv Sena joined hands with the NCP and Con gress to form the MVA government) in 2021 to wrest the Pandharpur assemblyPandharpurseat. had been a Congress strong hold from 1948 till 1999, when six-month-old NCP, led by Sharad Pa war, wrested the MP seat by fielding current Union Minister of the Republican Party of In dia (Athawale faction) Ramdas Athawale from there. In 1999, Pawar lured all the six MLAs from the constituency into the NCP fold and seven-time Congress MP Sandipan Thorat had to bite the dust. Similarly, then LOP (leader of the opposi tion) in Maharashtra, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, had wrangled the Pand harpur MLA seat in a bye-election after the demise of the sitting NCP MLA in 2021. Then too, it was the first political battle be tween the BJP and the MVA government in Maharashtra that BJP won, despite then Depu ty CM Ajit Pawar of the NCP camping in the constituency for four days. Will history re peat itself?
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Lucknow: A major question is doing the rounds within UP bu reaucracy wherein the babus are speculating on the appointment of next DG of UP Police, in a permanent role. So far, the charge of the acting DGP of Uttar Pradesh is being han dled by IPS Dr. Deven dra Singh Chauhan. Since the removal of IPS Mukul Goyal from the post of DGP, UP govt has not been able to ap point a permanent DGP, so govt handed over the command of police chief to Dr. DS Chau han as the acting DGP. The selection of DGP in UP is to be done by the central govern ment, in such a situa tion, after the removal of IPS Mukul Goyal, the UP govt did not immedi ately send the panel of names of IPS officers to Centre. The main rea son for this was that some senior officers would retire and some would have less than 6 months’ time left in re tirement, so this means that they do not come in the race to become DGP. The UP govt has now sent its file to finalize name of the permanent new DGP of UPSC in September and a sum mary report of 36 IPS officers from DG level to ADG level is present in this structionsDGPthatthecausetakenFinaltosopermanentSinghwantscracysourcesKnowledgeablefile.inthebureausaythatUPgovtIPSDrDevendraChauhantobeDGPinUP,hisfilehasbeensentDelhiinSeptember.decisionhastobebyCentrebesomeofficersatCentreareangryMukulwasmadebeforepollsoninofCentre.
Azad meets supporters at his home in Jammu
Jammu (PTI): Several delegations on Monday visited former chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at his resi dence, a day after he returned from Delhi to a warm welcome by his supporters after quit ting Congress last month to launch his ownTheparty.
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by doctors. Akhila’s family has blamed Ben galuru’s local civic and administrative body Bruhat Bengaluru Ma hanagara Palike (BBMP) and the city’s electricity managing board Bangalore Elec tricity Supply Company Limited (BESCOM) for negligence and ‘im proper handling of the electricity and other systems’, ANI said. The incident hap pened within the White field police station lim its but it is not yet clear if a case has been regis tered in this regard. Further investiga tion is underway and more details are await ed. Bengaluru saw four cases of electrocution in just over a month in April - May. Summer showers claimed 21-year-old Vasant’s life, who was electrocuted when he came in close contact with a cut wire hanging from an elec tric pole, while a 22-year-old man called Kishore was electrocut ed as he was walking on a footpath in Bengalu ru’s Sanjaynagar. Two other men, aged 30 and 40, were also killed due to electrocution in that period.Waterlogging and flooding in Bengaluru has put a stop to many daily life activities, causing damage to property and much more.
Mahesh Sharma Mumbai: What Maha rashtra Governor Bha gat Singh Koshyari did has no precedent in his tory. He withheld the recommendation sent by Uddhav bertheirnamesthosestatedeernmenttheandcilofgovernmentThackeray’sfor12seatstheLegislativeCounformorethanoneahalfyearsandinmeantimethegovfell.NowtheEknathShingovernmentoftheiswithdrawing12namesandnewwillbesentinplace.InNovem2020,theUddhav
: The Karnataka Congress mocked BJP leader and state minister R Ashoka by sharing pics where he was caught napping during a meeting to re view the flood situation in the state. In the im age shared by Karnataka Congress, Ashok can be seen with his eyes shut during a meeting chaired by CM Basava raja Bommai. “There are many types of drowning. People of the state are drowned in rain. The minister is drowning in his sleep,” tweeted Karnataka Congress. ‘EXAMS CAUSE OF ANXIETY AMONG STUDENTS’ New Delhi: While studies, examination and results are major causes of anxiety among school students, over 33% comply with peer pressure most of the times, a survey on mental health and well-being of students by NCERT said. The survey reported that at least 73% students are satisfied with their school life, while over 45% students are not satisfied with their body image.
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Prayagraj (Agencies): At least four persons were killed and six oth ers sustained injuries when the terrace cum balcony of an old build ing all of a sudden col lapsed near Hatia area under the limits of Mut thiganj police station on Tuesday afternoon. Two of the injured persons succumbed to their injuries during treatment at the hospi tal taking the toll up to four. CFO, however, said that the terrace of the old building had proba bly collapsed due to rains. The identity of the deceased was yet to beLocalsascertained.toldpolice that there was a hue and cry when the terrace of the old building all a sudden collapsed.
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Lucknow (ANI): Hotel Levana in Lucknow, where a massive fire broke out on Monday that claimed the lives of four people, has been ordered to be sealed and demolished by the city Lucknow(LDA),”DevelopmenthotelofsealhasDivisionalto“Lucknow’sadministration.LevanaHotelisbedemolished.LucknowCommissionergiveninstructionstoanddemolish.NocopytheapprovedmapofthewasgiventoLucknowAuthoritysaidRoshanJacob,Commissioner.
Jammu (Agencies): Former Chief Minister and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday claimed that non-local labour ers and security forces personnel were being enlisted as voters in north Kashmir’s Baramulla.
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New Delhi (ANI): The central government on Tuesday released Rs 7,183.42 crore as reve nue deficit grant to 14 states including Andhra Pradesh, Kera la, Assam, Rajasthan and West Bengal. The Department of Expenditure released the 6th monthly instal ment of the Post Devo lution Revenue Deficit (PDRD) Grant of Rs 7,183.42 crore to 14 States. The grant has been released as per the recommendations of the Fifteenth Fi nance Commission, the Union Ministry of Fi nance said in a state ment.The Fifteenth Fi nance Commission has recommended a total Post Devolution Reve nue Deficit Grant of Rs 86,201 crore to 14 states for the financial year 2022-23. The recom mended grant is re leased by the Depart ment of Expenditure to the recommended States in 12 equated monthly instalments. With the release of the 6th instalment for the month of September 2022, the total amount of Revenue Deficit Grants released to the States in 2022-23 has gone up to Rs 43,100.50 crore, the ministry said. The Post Devolu tion Revenue Deficit Grants are provided to the States under Arti cle 275 of the Constitu tion. The grants are released to the States as per the recommenda tions of the successive Finance Commissions to meet the gap in Rev enue Accounts of the States post-devolution.
CENTRAL VISTA AVENUE SET TO OPEN THIS WEEK New Delhi (Agencies): Comparative before-after pictures of the revamped Central Vista avenue Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious pet project reveal significant im provements in upgrades.andwider,theNarendraratedavenueatreewatermicro-irrigationwalkways,andstormservices,benches,avenuesandmore.InseriesofpicturesofthesettobeinaugubyPrimeMinisterModithisweekrenovatedareaappearscleaner,greener,withlotsofuseful
Bengaluru (ANI): As Bengaluru continues to witness severe water logging due to heavy downpour, a team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has been de ployed to rescue people from an dant,Kumar,people,”tractorsBBPMoutserviceteams.deployedinresidentialinundatedsocietythecity.“WehavetwoNDRFSDRF,aFireisalsocarryingrescueoperations.isalsousingtoevacuatesaidJSenthilAsstCommanBengaluru.
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New Delhi (ANI): Bharat Biotech’s Covid-19 nasal vaccine was cleared for use in adults on Tuesday. The BBV154 intranasal vaccine received emergency use authorisation from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) after it was proven to be safe, welltolerated, and immunogenic in subjects in controlled clinical trials. Lauding the achievement, health minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya called it a ‘big boost to India’s fight against Covid-19’. BBV154 is a re combinant, replication-deficient adenovirus vectored vaccine with a pre-fusion stabilised spike protein. It has been formulated to allow intranasal delivery.
Centre releases `7,183 cr as revenue deficit grant to 14 states
government sent a list of four names each from the three constituents of the Maha Vikas Aghadi - Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress - to the governor.Theleaders of Agha di also met the Gover nor several times and the High Court also made sharp remarks in this matter but the Gov ernor did not approve. It seems that the BJP knew that sooner or lat er the government was to fall, so why should the 12 seats of the Legisla tive Council be allowed to go to the camp of the opposition parties. Per haps that is why the Governor sat with the list for more than one and a half years. Now it is being told that in the new list that will be sent, there may be eight names of BJP MLAs and four of Shinde fac tion. Think, where BJP was not getting even a single seat and now it will get eight seats.
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7th PAY COMMISSION FOR STATE GOVT STAFF WILL BE SET UP New Delhi (Agencies): The wait for the Central government employees is likely to get over as they are expected to receive their Dearness Allowance under the 7th Pay Com mission. Reports say that an announcement is likely to be made soon and CG employees will get their DA by the end of this month. If the employees get their DA by the end of this month it would be a perfect Navratri gift. Many anticipate that the announcement would be made y September 28.
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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has sought a response to a plea challeng ing the bail granted to Amit Kumar Raut alias Amish Raval in a money laundering case connected with alleged illegal organ transplant. Enforce ment Directorate (ED) has challenged the bail granted by Tees Hazari Court, Delhi. Justice Asha Menon directed the counsel for Amit Kumar Raut to file a response on the plea moved in two weeks.
Uttar Pradesh: 4 killed, 6 hurt in terrace collapse incident
Kakinada (ANI): Sev enteen students from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Kakinada, were admit ted to a hospital follow ing HospitalGovernmentdentscomplaints.breathing-relatedThestuwereadmittedtoGeneralofKakinada.“Wehavegivenoxygensupporttostudentsandtheirhealthconditionisstablenowandwehavetakenblood samples for testing to detect the reason, “ said Kakinada collec tor, Kritika tionmonitoringforschoolsamplesinleakage“ness,bleRegardingShukla.thepossicauseofbreathlessMsShukla,said,Nochemicalorgaswasdetectedtheschool.Waterfromthewerealsotakentesting.Wearethesituaclosely.
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Bengaluru (Agen cies): Electrocution has claimed yet another life in Bengaluru, this time that of a 23-year-old woman who became a victim of waterlogging due to heavy and inces sant rainfall in the city. The victim has been identified as Akhila, who used to work in the administrative depart ment of a school, ac cording to news agency ANI.Akhila was on her way back home from work at around 9:30 pm on Monday, when the tragic incident hap pened. She was trying to cross a waterlogged road in sherushedstantly.wasningwithSheportbydedscooty,WhitefieldBengaluru’sareaonherwhensheskidandgrabbedanearelectricpoleforsuptoavoidfalling.cameincontactlivecurrentrunalongthepoleandelectrocutedinEventhoughshewastoahospital,wasdeclareddead
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1 DACOIT KILLED, 2 HELD IN ENCOUNTERDHANBAD Jharkhand (Agencies): The police in an encounter gunned down a dacoit on Dhanbad's Bank More road and arrested two others. The dacoit with four of his acoomplices had planned to loot the Muthoot Fin corp office on the street. The incident happened on Tuesday, September 6 morning. According to the reports the dacoits allegedly came disguised as the employees of a corporate firm and entered the premises around 10 am.
‘INDIA’S CLIMATE ACTIONS EXCEED ITS MORAL AND LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY’ New Delhi (PTI): India has adopted a leadership role in the fight against climate change with its climate actions exceeding its moral or legal responsibility, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said on Tuesday. Addressing a policy dialogue organised by independent non-profit Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe) here, the minister said on the path to achieving net zero by 2070, most of the growth in the energy demand in India will have to be met with low-carbon energy sources. Last month, India communicated an ambitious update to its NDC, which displays the country’s commitment to achieving net-zero by 2070.
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CM Shinde to get a smaller piece of the MLC nomination?
53RD IFFI IN GOA: MIB INVITES ENTRIES FOR '75 CREATIVE MINDS OF TOMORROW' New Delhi (Agencies): The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting accepted entries for ’75 Creative Minds of Tomorrow’ on Monday, with the goal of identifying, encouraging, and nurturing young creative talents from diverse fields of filmmaking. The project, which is in its second year, is an annual forum at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), which is held in Goa. It was released in 2021 as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav to commemorate India’s 75th year of independence. According to an official statement from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
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A view of the flooded streets, due to Halanayakanahalli Lake breach after heavy rains, on Sarjapur road, in Bengaluru on Tuesday.
AGGRESIVE PUSH INTO RENEWABLE ENERGY KNOW ABOUT SENSEHAWK z Reliance Industries will acquire a majority stake in SenseHawk for $32 million z SenseHawk develops tools for the solar industry to help companies streamline processes & use automation business
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The Indian economy has higher capital buffers and greater liquidity and as such, the risk from the neg ative feedback between the economy and financial sys tem are receding, the agen cy said. The agency has al lotted a Baa3 rating for the Government of India with a stable outlook.
New Delhi (PTI): Reliance Industries on Tuesday said it will acquire a majority stake in California-based solar energy software de veloper SenseHawk for $32 million (around ` 256 cr). The acquisition of a 79.4% stake in SenseHawk is part of the conglomer ate’s aggressive push into renewable energy to decar bonise its oil and chemicaldominatedSenseHawk,business.founded in 2018, develops tools for the solar industry to help com panies streamline process es and use automation. It had a turnover of $2.3 mil lion in last financial year. In a statement, Reliance said it has “signed defini tive agreements to acquire a majority stake in Sense Hawk Inc for a total trans action value of $32 million, including funding for fu ture growth, commercial rollout of products, and R&D.” SenseHawk helps accelerate solar projects from planning to produc tion by helping companies streamline processes and use automation. It has helped 140+ cus tomers in 15 countries adopt new technology for their 600+ sites and assets totalling 100+ GW.
The agency expects In dia’s economic environ ment to allow for a gradual narrowing in the general government fiscal deficit over the next few years, avoiding further deteriora tion in the sovereign credit profile. However, the risks from a higher debt burden and weak debt affordabili ty persist.
BRIEFS Berlin: A union represent ing pilots at Lufthansa on Tuesday called off a planned two-day strike af ter a last-minute agree ment with Germany’s big gest airline in a pay dis pute. The Vereinigung Cockpit union had an nounced plans for a walk out on Wednesday and Thursday. It would have been the second strike in a week after pilots staged a walkout Friday that led to hundreds of flights be ing cancelled. On Tuesday the union said that the two sides agreed in prin ciple on an extensive package of monetary and structural issues.
San Francisco: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has pitched India as the best investment destination, saying the time is “just ripe” to engage in areas of mutual interests of India and the US. “There are many competitive advantages that the US-India relation has to offer. The resilience of our supply chains and the way talent India has provided to the US and investments the US has provided to India, all of these cumula tively make a very good business case,” he said. He added that India provides best investment opp. “It is a destination you cannot miss. It is a market of a billion plus aspirations.”
—PTI OTHER STORIES INDIA’S RETAIL INFLATION LIKELY ROSE TO 6.9 PER CENT IN AUGUST 2022, SAYS DEUTSCHE BANK New Delhi : India’s consumer price index (CPI) firmed to 6.9% year-on-year in August, while core inflation likely stood at 6%, said Deutsche Bank in a report. India’s CPI inflation data will be released next Monday. While Brent crude oil prices have recorded a steep decline in recent weeks, the favourable impact will be less reflected in the CPI as fuel items account for a very small weight, said the Bank. Meanwhile, the risks to food inflation persist with negative seasonality kicking in for the September-November period, the bank said.
“Should they (US admins) change their mind, India would be happy and willing to discuss. Without that also, we are engaged in attracting investment, technology, trade between the two countries” z “Canada (Minister of Int’l Trade Mary Ng) and I are very confident that we would be done with our early progress trade agreement by Dec” z India is negotiating all these trade pacts to boost the country’s exports and create jobs in the domestic market
—PTI Mumbai: States breathed easy in the debt market as the average cut-off on their market borrowings dipped sharply to 7.52%, down 15 bps from last week to the lowest level since mid-May. This is the third consecutive week of falling cut-off, as in the last two sessions the cost has come down by 10bps. At the weekly auction of SDLs on Tuesday, six states raised `5,900 crore, which is nearly 54% lower than indicated in their borrowing calen dar for the week.
—PTI ‘CAs SHOULD ACT AS AMBASSADOR OF BRAND INDIA, HELP ATTRACT INVESTMENTS’
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CAD to widen to 5% in Q2, 3.5% in FY23: Icra
Mumbai (PTI): The Sensex and Nifty closed modestly lower on Tuesday after investors offloaded FMCG, IT and banking stocks in the last hour of trade amid mixed global cues. The selling pressure emerged towards the fagend of the session. After rising over 320 points in intra-day trade, the 30-share BSE Sensex pared all gains to settle 48.99 points or 0.08% lower at During59,196.99.the day, it hit a high of 59,566.67 and a low of The58,974.26.NSE Nifty also slipped 10.20 points or 0.06% to 17,655.60. From the Sensex pack, Bajaj Finserv, Kotak Mahi ndra Bank, Hindustan Uni lever, Mahindra & Mahin dra, Bajaj Finance and Nes tle were among the major laggards.Ontheother hand, Bhar ti Airtel, NTPC, Tata Steel, Reliance Industries and Power Grid were among the major gainers.
New Delhi (Agencies): In dia’s credit profile reflects key strengths including its large and diversified econ omy with high growth po tential, a relatively strong external position, and a stable domestic financing base for government debt, rating agency Moody’s said in a report on Tuesday.
New Delhi: India added 1.3 gigawatts of open ac cess solar capacity in the January-June period of this year, registering a year-on-year growth of 97%, according to Mer com India. For the quarter ended June, open access solar installations wit nessed over 3-fold in crease to 680 megawatt. Solar power through open access is an arrangement where a power producer establishes a solar power plant to supply green en ergy to consumers.
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—PTI STATES’ BORROWING COST EASES FOR 3rd WEEK IN A ROW DEAL WITH UNION AVERTS LUFTHANSA PILOTS’ STRIKE
Mumbai (PTI): India’s current account deficit (CAD) will widen to 5% of the GDP in the September quarter due to higher merchandise trade deficit, domestic ratings agency IcraThesaid.trade deficit has doubled to $28.7 billion for August due to a 36.8% ex pansion in imports and a 1.2% decline in export earnings.“Thecurrent account deficit (CAD) is projected to widen to an all-time high of $41-43 billion in Q2 FY23 from the $30 billion expect ed in Q1 FY23. It is expected to widen to 5% of GDP in Q2 FY23, the second high est level since Q3FY12,” it said in a note. For the first two months of the quarter, the monthly average trade deficit has trended higher at $29.3 bil lion as against $23.5 billion in the June quarter.
—PTI CANARA BANK RAISES BENCHMARK LENDING RATE BY UP TO 0.15% New Delhi: Canara Bank on Tuesday said it has hiked the benchmark MCLR by uploansmakethata0.15%,tomovewill costlier. The revised marginal cost of funds-based lending rate (MCLR) across various tenors would be effective from Wednesday, the lender said in a regulatory filing. The bench mark one-year MCLR will be 7.75% against the existing rate of 7.65%. The one-year rate is used to fix most consumer loans such as auto, personal and home loans. The hike is in line with other peers following RBI raising its key lending rate last month.
—PTI Indian Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal at India-US Strategic Partnership Forum, in San Francisco on Tuesday.
ADANI GROUP SAYS NOT ‘OVERLEVERAGED’, LOANS FROM PSBs HALVED
PIYUSH HOPES FOR EARLY CONSENSUS ON FTA WITH THE UK
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` FALLS 2 PAISE TO 79.80 AGAINST USD Mumbai: The rupee declined by 2 paise to close at 79.80 (provi sional) against the US dollar on Tuesday amid a lacklustre trend in domestic equities. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the domestic currency opened at 79.80 per dollar. It hovered in a range of 79.80 to 79.91 during the session. The domestic unit finally settled at 79.80, down 2 paise over its previ ous close of 79.78. “Rupee traded in a narrow range and volatility was low as most market participants were on the sidelines following the U.S. market holiday,” said Gaurang Somaiya, Forex & Bullion Analyst, Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges the greenback’s strength against a basket of six currencies, was trading 0.10% higher at 109.64. Foreign institutional investors were net sellers in the capital market on Monday as they offloaded shares worth ₹811.75 crore, as per exchange data. —PTI
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New Delhi: Richest Indian Gautam Adani’s conglomerate has cited an improved net debt to halvingmoreratioingoperatprofitandthanof loans from public sector banks to allay concerns about it being overleveraged. In a 15-page note in response to Credit Sights report calling the group overleveraged, it said companies in the group have consistently de-levered, with the net debt to Ebitda ratio declining to 3.2 times from 7.6 times in the last nine years. The group had a gross debt of Rs 1.88 lakh crore in March 2022 and net debt of `1.61 lakh crore after consider ing the cash balance.
‘HAPPY TO NEGOTIATE TRADE PACT’ San Francisco (PTI): In dia would be “happy and willing” to negotiate a trade pact with the US, pro vided America decides to look for a new free trade partner, Commerce and In dustry Minister Piyush Goyal has said here. He said the US adminis tration, as a policy, is not looking at a FTA with any new“Shouldpartner. they change their mind, India would be happy and willing to dis cuss. Without that also, we are engaged in attracting investment, technology, trade between the two countries,” the minister told reporters here. During the Trump administration, India and the US had dis cussed a mini-trade deal to boost economic ties. Goyal said talks for a trade deal are progressing with Canada. “Canada (Minister of Int’l Trade Mary Ng) and I are very confident that we would be done with our early pro gress trade agreement by December,” he said. On the proposed IndiaIsrael agreement, the min ister said: “I still do not think, we have got a good enough deal or a proposi tion that is attractive be cause of small population size and their unwilling ness to open up on servic es...”. With the European Union also, Goyal said, ne gotiations are going on. “There are 27 countries (in the EU bloc), so it will take longer...India is open ing up discussions on nev er-before subjects like gen der, environment, SMEs, labour, and anti-corruption laws. “I am sharing this with you to just tickle and excite your imagination (so that) the American govern ment (can) have a rethink on their new FTA policy. So that they do not miss the bus,” he added.
—PTI INDIA PROVIDES BEST OPPORTUNITY:INVESTMENTMIN
San Francisco: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has suggested Indian chartered accountants here to act as ambassadors of ‘Brand India’ and help New Delhi attract investments. Addressing members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), he said India will become a $30 trillion economy in next 30 years. India is currently a $3.3 trillion economy. Suggesting four “call to action” for Indian chartered accountants overseas, Goyal said they can play a role to help expand investments coming into India and contribute to the economic growth. “You can all present tremendous invest ment opportunities in India to international clients. In a way work as a bridge between India and the US or other parts of the world where CAs have located themselves,” Goyal said. “You (chartered account ants) can be ambassadors to ‘Brand India’,” he said, and asked them to use ‘Made in India’ products so as to showcase the vibrant diversity of products with heritage value that India offers.
India’s economy has high potential:growthMoody’sMarkets settle modestly lower in volatile trade on Tuesday
San Francisco: With Liz Truss becoming new PM of the UK, Pi yush Goyal has expressed hope for early conclusion of talks with Britain for a free trade agree ment, aimed at boosting bilateral economic ties. “A little bit of po litical changes may have derailed (FTA negotiations) by few weeks, but I do hope (that) with...Liz Truss assuming prime minister ship of the UK, we may now be able to make up for some lost time (to conclude),” Goyal said. Officials in India were looking to conclude the negotiations for the trade agreement by August 31, but political developments in Britain could have slowed the talks a bit.
New Delhi: As many as 16 states, including Odis ha, Tamil Nadu and Bihar have integrated with Na tional Single Window Sys tem (NSWS) so far with an aim to promote ease of doing business, a senior official said on Tuesday. The government in Sep tember last year softlaunched NSWS for busi nesses. It was aimed at providing support to in vestors, including pre-in vestment advisory, infor mation related to land banks, and facilitation of clearances at the Centre and state levels.
RIL to acquire 79.4% stake in SenseHawk
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Teachers in Latur protest against ‘Aaple Guruji Abhiyan’ initiative
BJP leader Kirit Somaiya had sought a probe into the alleged `1K cr scam and the role played by Mumbai guardian ministers Aaditya Thackeray and Aslam Shaikh, in a letter to CM Shinde
The indigenously designed stealth frigate is being built in India using an integrated construction method
No plan to merge NEET, JEE, CUET for 2-3 yrs: Pradhan
First India Bureau Mumbai: The Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL) are all set to launch the construc tion of stealth frigate ‘Taragiri’, the third ship of Project 17 A, on September 11 at Yard 12653 at the Mazagon docks in cen tral Mumbai. Designed by the Indi an Navy’s in-house de sign organization the Bureau of Naval Design, the ship’s construction will involve the con struction of hull blocks at different locations and their integration on the slipway at Mazagon docks.
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“Of the 1,224 infected animals, 752 recovered after treatment, while 22 have died so far,” an of ficial from the depart ment said, adding that 12 died in Jalgaon, three each in Ahmednagar, Pune, Amravati and one in InBuldhana.Maharashtra, the disease has spread in 133 villages of Jalgaon, Ahmednagar, Akola, Dhule, Pune, Latur, Au rangabad, Beed, Sata ra, Buldana, Amravati, Osmanabad and Kol hapur districts, the of ficial said on Monday.
The major symp toms of the disease are fever, nasal and lacri mal discharge, ulcers in the eye, swollen lymph nodes and a drop in milk produc tion. Also, nodules are observed on skin on the head, neck, genital organs and chest re gions.According to the ani mal husbandry depart ment, since the disease is infectious, it is im portant to take preven tive measures—such as proper cleanliness of cowsheds and segre gation of healthy ani mals from infected ones.“A total of 2,21,090 livestock in 622 villag es, within 5km radius of the infected areas, have been vaccinated,” the official said. Animal malsmentandvisiteddracommissionerhusbandrySachinPratapSinghhaveAkoladistrictreviewedthetreatoftheaffectedaniandvaccination.
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The keel of ‘Tara giri’ was laid on Septem ber 10, 2020. The vessel is expected to be delivered to the Indian Navy by August 2025. The 149.02m-long and 17.8m-wide ship, pro pelled by a CODOG com bination of two gas tur bines and two main die sel engines, ‘Taragiri’ has been designed to achieve a speed of over 28 knots at a displace ment of approximately 6,670 tonnes. The steel used in hull construc tion of P17A frigates has been indigenously devel oped and is low carbon micro-alloy grade steel manufactured by SAIL, MDL officials said. This stealth frigate will have advanced fea tures including stateof-the-art weapons, sen sors, an advanced ac tion information sys tem, an integrated platform management system, world-class modular living spaces and a sophisticated power distribution sys tem. It will also be fit ted with a
Under the ‘Aaple Gu ruji Abhiyan’, the de partment asked schools to put up photos of teachers in classrooms. The tutors also pro tested against Bharati ya Janata Party (BJP)
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MLA Prashant Bamb’s remark that several Zilla Parishad teachers were not staying in the areas where their schools are situated but continue to receive rent as part of their salary. “The education de partment has ordered the display of teachers’ photos in classrooms. The move has caused displeasure,” district chief of the Teachers Congress Keshav Gambhire said.
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That this ship designedwas and is being con structed in India amply highlights our commitment to indigenization in our quest for strategic autono my, an imperative for any national power of relevance.
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n Central Govt is considering setting up a Digital University, hints Pradhan n New Education Policy will strengthen young students from the beginning
First India Bureau Kota: Lok Sabha speak er Om Birla on Tuesday said that teachers should prepare the youth for the “Nav Nirman” of India in the changed circum stances.Birla said that the pride and honour of the country has increased in the last 75 years after in dependence and it was because of the teachers who in the midst of chal lenges produced such youth who took the country on the path of development.“Nowwhen we are moving towards the goal of making India a devel oped nation in the cente nary year of independ ence, then it is the re sponsibility of the teachers to prepare the youth for the Navnir man of India in the changing circumstanc es,” he said. The Lok Sabha Speak er was addressing the teacher’s felicitation function held in Bha mashah Mandi campus.
Mumbai: Civic ad ministrator Dr Iqbal Singh Chahal on Tuesday appointed Deputy AslamandAadityaShivtheoutshadCommissionerMunicipalHarKaletocarryanenquiryintoallegedroleofSenaleaderThackerayCongressleaderShaikhina scam involving con struction of illegal film studios on the Madh Marve beach front. The move comes al legations hours after BJP leader Kirit So maiya wrote to Chief Minister Eknatth Shinde, and Deputy CM Devendra Fad navis seeking an inves tigation into what he alleged as a scam worth Rs1,000 crore. “I have written to the CM, and Dy CM de manding a probe into Rs1,000 crore scam, the role of Aslam Shaikh, Aaditya Thackeray and BMC’s environ ment officer,” Somaiya had tweeted on Tues daySomaiya’smorning.letter also sought an enquiry into the role of the State Environment Secre tary, the Chairman and Secretary of the Maha rashtra Coastal Regu latory Zone Authority (MCZMA) in granting permissions. He fur ther demanded an in vestigation into the role of an officer of the Brihanmumbai Mu nicipal Corporation, who granted clearanc es to the allegedly ille gal studios, valid from October 2022 till Octo berIn2024.hisdirective, Cha hal said the civic au thorities had received various complaints re garding illegal studios at Madh, Marve, Eran gal, Bhati and Malad beaches.Hehas also included the role of withinmithasCommissionersions.haveing,studiosandarewhethertionFurther,NorthAssistantNorthCommissioner,AssistantPward,andtheEngineer,Pintheenquiry.theinvestigawillalsolookintothesestudioslocatedintheNDZCRZ,howmanyarefunctionandwhethertheylegalpermisDeputyMunicipalKalebeenaskedtosubtheenquiryreportfourweeks.
The ship is expected to be delivered to the Indian Navy by August 2025. Seen here is the keel laid on Sept 10, 2020. —FILE PHOTO
First India Bureau Latur: Teachers in La tur district wore black ribbons on their arms to register their pro test against the ‘Aaple Guruji Abhiyan’ (my teacher initiative) launched by the educa tion department. Educators who were part of the Congress’ teachers unit registered their protest during the Teacher’s Day celebra tions in the district.
Bhanwar S Charan Kota: In a relief for the students preparing for the competitive exams, there will be no merger of NEET, JEE and CUET in the next 2 to 3 years and the students can focus on their dif ferent preparations, Union Education Min ister Dharmendra Pradhan said this among the students in Kota on “ThereTuesday.isnoplan to merge these exams for the next two to three years. Therefore, stu dents should focus on their studies in what ever exam they are pre paring for,” Pradhan told the students. If the merger plan is also made in the com ing time, then its infor mation will be given much in advance, he said. Apart from this, students also raised questions on increas ing seats, increasing attempts in NEET, and the working style of the National Testing Agency.TheUnion Minister also talked about the establishment of a dig ital university in the comingAbouttime.several lapses in the examinations be ing conducted by the National Testing Agen cy, Pradhan said that very less time has hap pened for this system. “While there are many benefits of conducting online exams, some problems are also com ing to the fore and they are also being re moved,” he said. He said that due to the formative stage, some challenges have come up this time too and ef forts are being made to improve the system. Pradhan while inter acting with students said that the Central Govt is considering set ting up a Digital Uni versity. He will also re view the IIIT in Kota. “We built 400 medical colleges and 23 IITs in the country,” he added. Pradhan also praised the reserva tion system and said, “The basic spirit of our constitution is to bring the deprived classes on par with their counterparts across the country.
It has been brought to the notice of the authorities that 49 such studios came up in 2021 and 2022 in the NDZ and CRZ. It is alleged that thousands of square metres of such studios are built without proper permissions, fraudulent doc uments/forged permissions with the help of officials of BMC and MCZMA. Looking at the seriousness of the complaints, Harshad Kale, Deputy Municipal Commissioner (CPD) is hereby appointed Enquiry Officer.
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LS Speaker Om Birla urges teachers to prepare youth for ‘nav nirman’ of India
—Iqbal Singh Chahal, BMC chief MDL TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION OF NAVAL SHIP ‘TARAGIRI’ NEXT WEEK
22 heads of cattle die of lumpy skin disease in one month Disease has spread to 133 villages in Jalgaon, Ahmednagar, Akola, Dhule, Pune, Latur, Aurangabad, Beed, Satara, Buldana, Amravati, Osmanabad and Kolhapur districts
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BMC orders probe into illegal beachfront studios
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan takes selfie with a kid during a student interaction programme, in Kota on Tuesday.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan being garlanded at a student interaction programme, in Kota on Monday.
First India Bureau Pune: The state ani mal husbandry de partment has revealed that at least 22 heads of cattle have died of the lumpy skin dis ease in Maharashtra in a month.
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graced by MissTeen In ternational 2022 Han Ngo Ngoc Gia. Along with this, JD Mahesh wari, Ma havir Kira di, Face of Udaipur Cou ture Show Neha Paliwal, Saurabh Pali wal and show director Ajay Nair, Praveen Ma hawar were also pre sent among the special guests.Designers from dif ferent corners of the country showcased their collections dur ing the fashion event. The show was em bellished with nine fashion sequences in which designers from Udaipur as well as Jaipur, Su rat, Rajkot, Mumbai and Delhi present ed their garments on the exhibition stage.
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glance at beauty and royalty was witnessed in the fashion festival Show‘UdaipurRajasthanofCouture2022’pre sented by First India and Bharat 24. The grand Ut sav of fashion was held at Ramee Royal Resort in the beautiful lake city of Ra jasthan on talentsworkingsaidencouragingthechiefgracedJagdeeshMonday.Chandratheeventastheguestandmotivatedparticipantswithhiswords.HethatFirstIndiaistopromotelocalacrossIndia.Thegrandevewasalso
UDAIPUR COUTURE SHOW 2022
Jagdeesh Chandra with (L-R) Kritika Swarnkaar, Himakshi Choudhary, Neha Paliwal, Miss Teen International Ngo Ngoc Gia Han and Sanya Hissaria
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The magnificent royal fashion show titled, Udaipur Couture Show 2022 presented by First India and Bharat 24 took place at Ramee Royal Resort, Udaipur on Monday, September 5. City First brings to you glimpses of pure fashion from the mega show!
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(L-R) Alpesh Lodha, Kavita Chauhan, Dr Shailendra Singh, Dr Sunita Singh, Beenu Kumari, Durga Singh, Madhvi Chauhan, Pramila Kumari and Akanksha Bhalla Jagdeesh Chandra addressing the audience Jagdeesh Chandra felicitates Jayant Jagdeesh Chandra felicitates Mohit Tanwani Jagdeesh Chandra felicitates Harshda Mehta Jagdeesh Chandra felicitates Manish Dodeja Jagdeesh Chandra felicitates Santosh Kalra Jagdeesh Chandra felicitates Deeapk KhabyaJagdeesh Chandra felicitates Saroj Choudhary Jagdeesh Chandra felicitates Praveen Mahawar Jagdeesh Chandra felicitates Sanjay Meghwal Clockwise: Divisha Paliwal, Bhavya Jain, Vipra Mehta, Mona Gautam and Soumya Goyal Astha, Bhagyashree, Mahima and Daisy —PHOTOS BY SUNIL SHARMA Yashvi and Sanya
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The grand opening of the show was done by heavy bridal Mewari outfits by fashion designer ‘Yuvti by Bhupendra Singh’, where Zee Show fame actress Akansha Bhalla walked the ramp as the show stopper. In the second round of the show, de signer Mayur Patola from Ra jkot show cased a gor geous range and designs of Patola sarees withmodelsuperMonaGautamastheshowstopper.Thethirdsequence of the show showcased west ern and party wear gowns by designer Jenny Agarwal showstopperwithBhavyaJain.ThefourthsequenceflauntedwesterncostumesbyIftesham Khan having Vipra Mehta as the showstopper of the sequence. The next se quence showcased the range of Khadi and Cotton In dian wear by Fine Arts and Weavers from Su rat, Elite Miss Rajasthan 2021 winner Astha Khan delwal walked the ramp as the showstopper. After which exclusive IM show cased Punjabi Bridal and Party wear Salwar Suits on stage with Aditi Hundia be ing the showstopper. In the very next sequence, Ruchi Pathak brought her fusion wear on stage, with Kri tika Swarnakar being the showstopper. In an other sequence, the part ywear and evening gala designs by the students of INIFD Udaipur were glammed up on the ramp in which Divisha Paliwal was the showstopper. Indian le hengas and gowns by de signer Prashant Majumdar were displayed in the grand finale of the show, show stopper Vasudha Tiwari stunned in the finale of the show.Gaurav Gaur, the director of the Show said that they are very thrilled with the response they have got from Udaipur and in the coming days Kota Couture Show will also be held.
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MAGIC OF ELEGANCE!
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he cast of Goodbye came together to launch the trailer of the film on Sep tember 6. The event saw the presence of the entire cast and surprisingly even Amitabh Bachchan. The actor who re cently recovered from COV ID-19 for the second time at tended the launch online from the space of his home. A film that revolves around family, sure had the same energy off screen where the cast and crew emanated nothing but joy, love and respect. Amitabh Bachchan being his usual savage self answered the one thing he wants to say goodbye to - COVID-19. But along with some laughs, he also made sure to ball every one with his adjoining wise words. The actor stated that the films that he gets to work in give him satisfaction.
GaZa in ‘Baarish Mein Tum’
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G auahar Khan and Zaid Dar bar are back with another blockbuster of the year 'Baarish Mein Tum' sung by Neha Kakkar and Rohanpreet. It's a beautiful track which is just perfect for a bloom ing monsoon romance. Recently in an exclu sive conversation with us when asked Gaua har about her experi ence while shooting for it. She said, " Baarish Mein Tum' is a beauti ful track and since sung by someone whom I have always ad mired Neha Kakkar and Rohanpreet, that's what makes it more special. There's one scene in the song where we get a lift and the truck was filled with these beautiful lan terns and it was just me and zaid in the baarish. It was truly magical and having Zaid by my side is al ways such bliss. I got lucky that I got to do such amazing scenes with my husband". Zaid Darbar said, " Baarish Mein Tum' is all about having that special person you cherish in this roman tic season. And I am truly grateful that I got to do this with my spe cial person. So every thing just felt so natu ral. Plus I love my new look for the song. We are so grateful for the amount of love we have received from the audience ever since the song is out!".
Ranveer Singh Rashmika Mandanna Poster of the song Nikki Tamboli
“However, one should never be satisfied with their work. There is always a doubt about whether you have done a good job. Satisfac tion closes your doors to learning more. The ones standing beside me are talented veter ans from whom I got to learn every day.” When asked about how he as the head of the family would keep everyone together, Sr Bachchan replied that women are the head of the families. “You always think back about how my parents would have gone through a cer tain situation and you immedi ately get all the answers. That is the exact role of women. Even in the film, it is the lady that is the head.” Sharing how families are important, the Zanjeer actor recalled a per sonal incident. “After the last rites of my father were over, I was sitting in my father’s room. I was obviously sad. My friend came and sat with me. He asked why I was sad. When I told him the reason he had the most memorable reply, He said ‘You shouldn’t be sad as you got to spend more than 60 years of your life with him. I only got 25 years with my father.’ That shows the impor tance of an elder in a household.”BigBissurely a man of grand presence who makes everyone bow with respect for him. That was visible when Vikas Bahl re vealed that he has nothing else to achieve now that he has di rected Amitabh Bachchan. Calling the chance of star ring in the film a once-in-alifetime opportunity, Rashmi ka revealed, “It was an honour to work with legends. Every one wants to work with Bach chan sir and when I heard the script and the fact that Vikas will direct it along with such an amazing cast, there was no reason to say no. It was a oncein-a-lifetime opportunity.”
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morphosis on the screen to his coach Balwinder Singh Sandhu. He says, “It feels surreal and fulfilling in equal measures. At this moment I’m remembering my coach, Balvinder Sin gh Sandhu. I re ally miss him and his contri bution to 83, which one really can’t describe in words. He’s the heart of 83! You know when we see the emotion that he has at tached to that story of 83, to his teammates, you can’t work out of a very different place in your being.”
S uperstar Ranveer Singh has had the most remarkable year in cinema as he swept clean the film awards for his path-break ing performance in 83 in which he played the role of Kapil Dev. Ranveer says, “I am just grateful that I get to be an actor and that’s actually enough for me. I have always said that it’s a miracle that I even be came an actor. These types of experiences are beyond my wildest imagination. Every day, I wake up in disbelief that this is my life - that I am an actor and I get to do these things and collaborate with these tal ented filmmakers. And it all adds up to an over whelming amount of gratitude that I have for the opportunities and blessings that I have.”Ranveer has, undoubt edly, delivered one of the most acclaimed perfor mances in the history of Indian cinema with 83, which he creditsrunAftertainthetransformedmiraculouslytobecomelegendaryIndiancapKapilDevonscreen.hisincredibleawardforthefilm,Ranveerhisbrilliantmeta
The trailer not only touched the hearts of the viewers but had the pro ducer Ekta Kapoor tearyeyed. She revealed how there comes an age when one starts worrying about their parents. She further men tioned that she never thought she would work with any Khans but always wanted to work with Mr Bachchan.
A thiya Shetty and KL Ra hul’s wedding has become the talk of the town as the game of denying and accepting the ru mours continues. But it has been revealed that there in fact will be a wedding and it will be held at Suniel Shetty’s Khandala bungalow ‘Jahaan’! A report stated, that the venue was fixed by Athiya Shetty and the date will be fixed by KL Rahul depending on his schedule. A big wedding planner too attended the place with his team to take a recce of the house. Suniel Shetty’s Ja haan was built 17 years ago and is very close to his heart. Hence ditching the five-star hotels and Athiya's wedding in Khandala!
S tunning, hot, gorgeous, and sexy are just some of the many adjectives that fans of Nikki Tamboli use to describe the actor. She has been sending shockwaves across so cial media with her pictures, displaying her hot body in each one of them. The actor has a strong sense of fashion which reflects in the tagramturesslewhasmedia.hersharestorthatpicturestheacoftenonsocialThedivasharedaofpiconherInshandle in a Multi-Coloured Tube Bralette Top and Matching Pants. The pictures are nothing but a show of Nikki’s hot midriff and bold fashion. Nikki Tamboli went sub tle with the make-up, keeping the lips to a nude tone. However, the smokey eye makeup added drama to the look. She kept her hair open in casual beachy curls. Nikki Tamboli is known for her success ful stints in reality TV shows such as ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi’, ‘Bigg Boss’ and ‘Khatra Khatra’ among many others.
I wake up in disbelief that I am an actor: Ranveer Singh
NIKKI’S HOT MESS
