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Renni Abraham Mumbai: The high command of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has flagged re gional- and municipalitiescominggoodShinde--inChiefcal-alongcostlyrashtracomplacencylocal-levelinMahathatmayprovefortheparty-withthepolitiformationledbyMinisterEknathachievingashowingintheupcivicpollsin23includ ingTheMumbai.coalition gov ernment in Maharash tra has set an ambi tious target of placing 150 civic councillors in Mumbai city’s Brihan mumbai visitAmitionannouncedCorporationMunicipal(BMC),asduringUnHomeMinisterShah’srecenttoMumbai.“TheBJPhighcommand,afterassessingtheground-levelsituationinthecivicjuris diction of BMC , has realized that none of the 83 BJP councillors elected in 2017 have cre ated a political space for themselves,” a sen ior BJP leader said, adding that political complacency is visible across the civic wards of AMumbai.BJPcouncillor in turn cited existing con fusion among the par ty’s rank and file re garding a fresh lottery and reservation for the civicTheelections.erstwhile MVA government had in creased the number of seats from 227 in 2017 to 236 (in March), which has now reverted to 227.“We are not sure whether fresh reserva tions/lottery will be held now after this con traction from 236 to 227. Our political roadmap can be worked out post clarity on the issue,” the BJP councillor said, seeking anonym ity.However, the senior BJP leadership in Ma harashtra as well as in New Delhi is unim pressed, given that none of the BJP coun cillors have introduced a single Union govt scheme announced by PM Modi in their re spective constituen
SC to hear Uddhav group’s Shiv Sena claim plea on Sept 27
Cong is seeking to flag
New Delhi: The NTA on Wednesday declared the results of the NEET-UG 2022. This year, a total of 18.72 lakh candidates registered for the entrance test. The NEET UG exam was conducted on July 17 with over 95 per cent of the registered candidates appearing in the exam. Tanishka from Rajasthan with 99 percentile topped NEET.
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economic disparities, social polarisation, and political centralization & the gains in ‘battle of ideologies’
MAJOR HAPPENINGS z TN CM Stalin Presents Tricolour to Rahul Gandhi in Symbolic Start to Yatra z G23 member Anand Sharma conveys best wishes to Rahul Gandhi z Lost my father to ‘Hate and Division’, do not want to lose country, says Rahul z BJP Rath Yatra was for ‘satta’, Cong Bharat Jodo is for ‘satya’: Kanhaiya z The Bharat Jodo Yatra indication of Cong to take everyone together: Venu z Rahul should try to inte grate Pak, Bangladesh into India as ‘Akhand Bharat’: Assam CM SONIA CALLS YATRA ‘TRANSFORMATIONAL MOMENT IN HISTORY OF INDIAN POLITICS’ ‘FAMILY-SAVING CAMPAIGN’ TO KEEP CONTROL OF GANDHIS OVER CONG: BJP Congress President Sonia Gandhi said, “In view of the medical check-ups that I am undergoing, I regret my inability to be with all of you in person this momentous even ing to launch the historic Bharat Jodo Yatra to Kashmir. This is a landmark occasion for our great party with such a glorious legacy — the INC. It is a transformational moment in Indian politics,” she said.
New Delhi: Founder and chairman of the Adani Group, Gautam Adani on Wednesday was honoured with the USIBC 2022 Global Leadership Award. Theme of USIBC’s India Ideas Summit was ‘Maximizing the Next 75 Years of USIndia Prosperity’ . Adani later highlighted the need for strengthening India-US partnerships.
Gehlot: RaGa taking out Yatra to eradicate hatred & violence
Top brass unhappy with 83 Mumbai city fathers for failing to demonstrate outstanding work, even introduce GoI schemes in 5-year tenure
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Amit Mishra Kanyakumari: The much-touted 3,570-km ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ by the Congress was launched on Wednes day by party leader Ra hul Gandhi in Kanya kumari. Grand old par ty has claimed that it will be a “transforma tional moment” for In dian politics and a “de cisive moment” for Con gress’ theirRSSlivingandrepresentsRahultookPresidentBaghelGehlotChhattisgarh,CMsofSriperumbudurtheex-PMutesRahulrejuvenation.paidfloraltribtohisfatherandRajivGandhiatlatter’smemorialinahead‘BharatJodoYatra’.ofRajasthanandAshokandBhupeshrespandTNCCKSAlagiripartinthesession.Addressinggathering,said,“Nat’lflagthereligionlanguageofeveryoneincountry.BJP,thinkthatthisflagispersonalproperty.”HealsosaidBJPthinktheycanfrightenOppnbyusingED,CBI,andIT.
New Delhi: The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) on Wednesday approved a proposal to rename Rajpath as ‘Kartavya Path’. Lok Sabha MP and NDMC member Meenakshi Lekhi said the proposal was approved in a high-level special meeting of the NDMC Council. The revamped 3 km-long Central Vista Avenue is set to open for the public post it’s inauguration by PM Modi on Thursday.
12 STATES and 2 Union territories will be covered in the route 3,500-KM long route to be completed in 150 days 150 DAYS Rahul Gandhi to sleep in the container during the yatra India economicthroughgoingworst crisis ever. Bharat Jodo Yatra is designed to listen to people of India. BJP, RSS think Tricolor is their personal property but Opposition leaders are not scared of the BJP to bring India together.
P7 COAL SCAM: CBI RAIDS BENGAL LAW MINISTER GHATAK
Regional complacency may cost BJP ambitious ‘150 BMC seats’
BMC elec tions, where ShivsecuredSena85seats.AlthoughtheBJPand Shiv Sena were in subsequent2019,thementgovernallianceanuntilendofthe 2.5 years saw no civic issue or corruption be ing flagged by BJP councillors despite the parties having parted ways.The ambitious target of 150 seats may be wishful think ing if the BJP is tain the 83 uencies it won in 2017,”BJPtheleader
Jaipur: Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina will visit Ajmer today and offer prayers at the dargah of Sufi Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti. Meanwhile, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar will be visiting Kithana village in Jhunjhunu today. On Wednesday, a final rehearsal was performed on all routes along with convoy of vehicles.
Kolkata: The CBI team on Wednesday raided at least five houses of West Bengal law and labour minister Molay Ghatak in Kolkata and Asansol in connection with the alleged coal smuggling scam. The raid was carried out at Ghatak’s residence after he failed to appear before central probe agency despite being summoned many times. Crucial
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Rahul Gandhi, Ashok Gehlot, KC Venugopal, Bhupesh Baghel & others on the way to Vivekananda memorial, Kanyakumari on Wednesday.
Rahul Gandhi, Ashok Gehlot, Bhupesh Baghel, MK Stalin, KC Venugopal and other leaders during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, in Kanyakumari on Wednesday.
SHEIKH HASINA & VP DHANKHAR TO VISIT RAJ TODAY
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Councillors appear to be sitting pretty, confident of being re-elected due to the sway Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds over India. It is true that PM Modi was able to improve the BJP tally in the Lok Sabha in 2019 (303 BJP MPs elected) in comparison to the 2014 general elections (282 BJP MPs). Howev er, the results of the state assembly elections in Ma harashtra exhibited an opposite trend--105 BJP MLAs in 2019 compared to 122 BJP MLAs in —Senior BJP leader
First India Bureau Kanyakumari: With out naming the leaders who left the Congress party, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, on Wednesday, attacked them fiercely. Gehlot said that those who have left the party and those who are leaving the party do not repre sent the ideology of the Congress, they have made a deal of their conscience.Gehlot,while talk ing to the media in Kanyakumari, said, “Those who have left the party, what respect do they get in other parties? Becoming Prime Minister and Chief Minister is a dif ferent matter, but they have made a deal of their conscience to ful fill their selfish inter ests. They should see what their conscience tells them, in what form the country is calling them today.” Gehlot said that the purpose of starting Bharat Jodo Yatra is to counter the violence and hatred in the na tion.
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z NDMC passes resolution to rename Rajpath to Kartavya Path z PM Modi will also unveil statue of Subhash C Bose z Modi to inaugurate Kartavya Path, Central Vista lawns today z Security beefed up ahead of Central Vista inauguration
A NEW BEGINNING! CONG EYES REVIVAL WITH ‘BHARAT JODO YATRA’
The BJP dubbed the Congress’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ as “hollow” and claimed that it was essentially a “family-saving campaign” to keep control of Gandhis over the party and was another attempt to establish Rahul Gandhi as a leader. BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “This is not about unifying the country but trying to establish him (Rahul) again as a leader,” he said.
forestaycourtandtakingnotsion.fromstrainmatterapplicationinterventionintheirseekingtorethepollpaneltakinganydeciHesaidtheECIcanbepreventedfromanydecisionearlier,thetophadrefusedtotheproceedingbethepollpanel.SenioradvocateKapilSibal,appearingfortheUddhavThackerayfaction,saidonAugust03,atopcourtbenchhadorallyaskedtheECItonottakeanypre cipitative action. Senior advocate Arvind Datar, appear ing for the ECI, said it is a process that when there is a com plaint under symbols order, the poll panel has no option but to issue notice to the other theyqualified,torsthesaidDatarside.eveniflegislaarediswillstill remain members of the party. Sibal said disquali der the 10th schedule if bership of the party Justice Shah asked the counsel to reserve their energy for The faction led by former Maha CM seeks to restrain the ECI Senadecidingfromon‘real’itself
First India Bureau New Delhi: A fivejudge constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear an ap plication of the Uddhav Thackeray-led faction on September 27. It seeks to restrain the Election Commission of India (ECI) from de ciding on the claim of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shin de-led group over the “original” Shiv Sena party.The bench headed by Justice DY Chandra chud said it will pass directions indicating the timeline for hear ing all other issues emanating from a batch of petitions filed by both the sides. They are all related to the power of inspeakerspeaker/deputyandgovernorrelationtothepoliti cal crisis which had happened in Maha rashtra a few months ago.The bench was hear ing pending cases re lated to the crisis that led to the fall of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in theAsstate.the matter was taken up for hearing, senior advocate Neeraj Kishan Kaul, appear ing for the Shinde fac tion, told the bench also comprising Jus tices MR Shah, Krishna Murari, Hima Kohli and PS Narasimha that the opposite side has filed an
The kidnapper dropped the girl and fled the spot in Kandivali (East) when her father’s friend confronted him: Cops
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CM Eknath Shinde performs aarti of Lord Ganesh at the Shreemant Dagdusheth Halwai Ganpati temple, in Pune on Wednesday.
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HC gives bail to man held as juvenile for gang rape
First India Bureau Mumbai: A man at tempted to kidnap a six-year-old girl play ing at a Ganpati man dal near her home in Kandivali (East) on Tuesday. According to the po lice, around 11.40 am, while the girl was play ing with other children, the man allegedly picked her up on his shoulder and began running away after promising to show her more Ganpati idols. Her father Pankaj Singh was sleeping at his home in the Kaveri chawl in Singh Estate when Vikrant Godambe foiled the kidnap attempt. The accused dropped the girl and fled the spot in Thakur village when her father’s friend con fronted him. The kid napper was dressed in a T-shirt and shorts, po lice said. A CCTV camera at the spot has captured the incident. Samta Na gar police said they had identified the kidnap per as a 24-year-old resi dent of Damunagar in Kandivali (East). They booked the man under Indian Penal Code sec tion 363 (kidnapping) and are on the lookout for him.
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First India Bureau Pune: Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday visited several prominent Ganesh mandals in Pune and sought blessings of the deity. Shinde visited five “manache” or pre-emi nent Ganpati mandals in the city: Kasba, Tambdi Jogeshwari, Guruji Talim, Tulshibaug and Kesari Wada. He also paid vis its to some other prom inent mandals, includ ing the Ganpati.DagdushethShreemantHalwaiSpeakingtoreportersontheoccasion,ShindesaidhecouldseehappinessamongthemembersofGaneshmandalsastheycouldcelebratethefestivalwithgreatfanfarethisyear.
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“We had eased all the restrictions at the time of Dahi Handi (cele brated last month). For the last two years, COV ID-19 had left the people of the state troubled. Negativity had spread in the society, and the state government de cided to do away with that negativity by allow ing people to celebrate the festivals with great zeal and zest by taking due care,” he said. Shinde also met ail ing BJP MLA Mukta Tilak, who represents the Kasba temberwillbeganphant-headeddedicatedquireconstituency,Assemblytoenaboutherhealth.The10-dayfestivaltotheelegodthatonAugust31concludeonSep09.
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First India Bureau Mumbai: The Bom bay High Court has granted bail to an 18-year-old man, who was arrested in a gang-rape case two years ago when he was a juvenile. Dur ing the proceedings, it also noted that he has responded posi tively to the rehabili tative efforts. In the order passed on August 22, which was made available on Wednesday, a single bench of Justice Bharati Dangre also noted that a child in conflict with law de serves to be reunited with his family. The man, who is pres ently lodged at an obser vation home in Dongri area of south Mumbai following his arrest, was booked for the gang rape of a seven-year-old girl in 2020. He was 16 years old at that time and was sent to the ob servation home. He turned 18 recently. While ordering for him to be released, the high court said the edu cation of the applicant, who is now an adult, cannot be further dis continued and reunit ing him with his family would enable him to develop himself to his full“Thepotential.applicant has positively responded to the rehabilitative efforts during his stay in the observation home. He deserves to be reunited and restored with his family and it would be in his best interest so that he can develop himself with full potential,” said Justice Dangre.
MP Sanjay Raut seeks bail from PMLA court
A team counts and evaluates the donations and offerings to Lalbaugcha Raja during the ongoing Ganesh Chaturthi festival, in Mumbai.
Court permits Nawab Malik to get renal scan
Attempt to kidnap six-year-old girl Ganpati mandal foiled
First India Bureau Mumbai: Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut—who was arrested last month in a money laundering case linked to a housing project in Mumbai— on Wednesday moved a bail application be fore a special court. His bail plea is like ly to come up for hear ing before Judge MG Deshpande, presiding over the special PMLA court, on Thursday. Raut, 60, was ar rested by the Enforce ment Directorate (ED) in early August under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) for his al leged role in ceedsRs2ciarybemembercustody.jailticiansuburbanrowoftoirregularitiesfinancialrelatedtheredevelopmentPatra‘Chawl’(oldtenements)inGoregaon.TheShivSenapoliiscurrentlyinunderjudicialTheRajyaSabhawasfoundtotheallegedbenefiofmorethancroreoftheproofcrime,theED
hasFurther,claimed.the central probe agency has claimed documents seized during its probe showed the purchase of properties at Ali baug—a coastal town in neighbouring Raigad district—by Raut involved substan tial cash transactions. Raut has denied any wrongdoing.
The court had last month also permitted the Nationalist Con gress Party (NCP) lead er Malik to undergo the renal scan (a nuclear medicine test to see how well kidneys work), but it could not be conduct ed then as he was suf fering from fever and other health issues. Special court Judge RN Rokade on Tuesday allowed Malik’s appli cation seeking permis sion to undergo the scan. A copy of the or der was made available onTheWednesday.Enforcement Di rectorate (ED) arrested Malik on February 23 this year in a money laundering case linked to gangster Dawood Ibra him. Malik is currently in judicial custody and lodged at the Arthur Road jail in Mumbai. Malik had in his ap plication said he was permitted to undergo the renal scan at a hos pital in suburban Ghat kopar on August 10. However, the scan could not be performed then as he was suffering from high fever, pus cells in urine and high creatinine level, his plea“Thesaid.vitals of the ap plicant have now stabi lized and as per his lat est medical report the scan is required to de termine further course of medical treatment. Hence it is prayed that applicant be escorted to hospital for the scan,” stated the plea. The prosecution did not op pose the plea and left it to the court’s discretion. After perusal of the medical report, the judge directed the jail superintendent to take him to a test centre in Sarvodaya Hospital premises in Ghatkopar on September 12 for the scan.
UDDHAV DENIED PERMISSION TO MEET RAUT IN JAIL Mumbai (PTI): Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray was denied permission to meet jailed party MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday. He was asked by authorities to take court approval for meeting him in the prison, said a senior jail official. According to the senior Arthur Road jail official, a few days back, a person claiming to be a representative of Thackeray had phoned the prison administration. He had said that the Sena chief wanted to meet Raut, his close aide, in the jailer’s room. However, jail authorities denied the meeting with Raut and asked his representative to take court’s consent for the same, he said, adding “no written application had been received by the jail authorities.”
Malik is in jail for money laundering. —FILE PHOTO Test expenses will be borne by the NCP leader, said the court; he could not get a scan last month due to healthill Govt eased festival curbs to axe ‘negativity’: CM
ofinturalcio-economictorationofinvokingtotheorvictimbeorderhasmadeguidanceopportunities,andsupportisavailablethenhegoodpotential.Thehighcourtinitssaidnoriskcouldestablishedtothebytheaccusedhisfamily.JusticeDangresaidapplicantdeservesbereleasedonbailbytheprinciplerepatriationandrestothesamesoandculstatusthathewasbeforecommissiontheallegedcrime.
First India Bureau Mumbai: A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Mumbai has allowed former undergoeylik,ministerMaharashtraNawabMaarrestedinamonlaunderingcase,toarenalscan.
Raut outside Arthur Road jail last month. —FILE PHOTO Bombay High Court. —FILE PHOTO The accusations faced by the applicant are undisputedly seri ous, but he must so derive the benefit of being a child and hence the benefit of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act cannot be denied to him. —Justice Bharati Dangre, Bombay High Court
Presiding Justice Dangre says he has responded well to rehabilitative efforts and ‘deserves to be reunited with his family to develop himself to full potential’
—PHOTOS BY ANI CM Ekanth Shinde with Independent MP Navneet Rana and MLA Ravi Rana during Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at his residence in Mumbai. —PHOTO BY PTI MNS President Raj Thackeray during his visit to the residence of CM Eknath Shinde for Ganesh darshan, in Mumbai.
LOP Ajit Pawar visited the Siddhivinayak temple and Lalbaugcha Raja, in Mumbai on Wednesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
The man in his bail plea had claimed that his long detention in the observation home has caused disruption in his life and that if the right kind of
The civic body has decided to charge Capital Property Tax; change is expected to directly affect more than 80,000 houses in Pune city
Family members of late bizman Cyrus Mistry outside Worli crematorium, on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY BHUSHAN KOYANDE
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Dwindling vultures led to shift in Parsis’ funerary rituals
First India Bureau Mumbai: After swine flu, now dengue and malaria cases are on the rise in Mumbai. In the past four days, the city has been witnessing over 20 cases of malaria and five cases of dengue every day. Till now, 89 patients have been diagnosed with malaria and 29 pa tients have been diag nosed with dengue. Most of the cases of dengue and malaria have been reported from B, F South, G North, D, and E wards, BMC officials informed. According to Dr Vas ant Nagvekar, co-direc tor, Infectious Diseases at Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital, very few patients need ed hospitalization. “But, anyone with fever for more than four to five days must go for a test,” heExpertssaid. further said that there has been a drop in swine flu cases. In the past four days, only three cases of swine flu have been GomareofficerBMCgieneMaskingtolowerandyear,“Comparedreported.tolastcasesofmalariadengueareontheside.Butwehavemaintaincleanliness.andself-hyshouldcontinue,”executivehealthDrMangalasaid.
BMC worker sanitizes a temple premises in Mumbai. —FILE PHOTO
CRUCIAL READ Thane: A 32-year-old home-maker from Ambernath in Thane district has been booked for biting her motherin-law after the latter turned off the television, police said on Wednesday. According to the complaint filed with the Shivaji Nagar police station, Vijaya Kulkarni had been watching television while her mother-in-law Vrushali Kulkarni (60) was reciting bhajans on Monday morning. Vrushali asked her to lower the TV volume, and later turned off the set, angering her daughter-inlaw, who grabbed the old woman’s hand and bit three of her fingers. She also slapped her husband who tried to intervene. The victim’s fingers were not severed.
WOMAN, HORSE SWEPT AWAY IN STREAM AMID HEAVY STEALSACCOUNTANTRAINFALL
First India Bureau Thane: Two civic em ployees have been ar rested in Thane dis trict in a case of brib ery, the Anti-Corrup tion Bureau (ACB) said in a release on Wednesday.
Mumbai: According to Borivli police, Kapil Ramanlal Khunt, an accountant, stole more than Rs15 crore from his employer but lost it on gambling. In 2008, the accused began working as an accountant for Mansi Shares and Stock Advisors on Shimpoli Road in Borivli West. Chetan Shah co-owns the business with his brother Paresh Shah. The accused had siphoned a total of Rs15,37,75,000 from the company’s bank accounts since 2021.
First India Bureau Thane: A man has been arrested for al legedly strangling his 50-year-old mother to death, and attempting to disguise it as a case of suicide, police offi cials in Thane district said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Monday in Kalyan town and the ac cused, identified as Ravi Pumni (34), was arrest ed on Tuesday, inspec tor SG Gavali from Kolsewadi police sta tionPumni,said. who worked at a factory in Ghansoli area of Navi Mumbai, had a history of fre quent quarrels with his mother Saroja Pumni over domestic and mon etaryTheissues.duohad another such fight on the inter vening night of Sunday and Monday, the official said, adding that the man is believed to have strangled his mother to death with a rope on Monday morning, be fore hanging her body from the ceiling fan with a cloth to pass it off as a case of suicide.
ready reckoner. “There fore, now the tax will be levied according to the facilities and the price of the flats. The more luxurious the fa cility, the higher the tax,” he said. A number of housing societies in the city have various facilities, including a cinema hall, hotel, swimming pool, gymnasium, play ground, kids zone, and entertainment centre. However, a few other societies do not have any of these. Similarly, while a 500 sqft flat in a normal housing society costs Rs20 lakh, the same building in large housing projects will cost Rs40 lakh with all amenities. So, this dis parity shall be ad dressed, the PMC top official explained. The officials have not yet specified the area to kickstart the change. The corporation has al ready levied facilitybased property tax from 100 houses and they are examining the reports.ThePMC has also de cided to increase the spot levying of proper ty tax. According to the officials, the isofedadministrationmunicipalrecordahighercollectionpropertytaxwhenitleviedonthespot.
Nashik: A female leop ard was rescued by the forest department in Nashik on Tuesday. Forest officer Ganesh Rao Jhole said, “A female leopard has been rescued by our team in Nashik’s Deolali camp area. It is around 3 to 4-year-old and is in healthy con dition. We will release in a forest soon.” Earlier on Monday, the forest department west had apprehended four people from Nashik, in connec tion with leopard skin smuggling.
After swine flu, now dengue and malaria cases on the rise in Mumbai
Nagpur: A suspended police sub-inspector (PSI) and seven other persons were ar rested a day after an MCOCA (Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act) case undertrial, identified as Suraj Kawle, was arrested while trying to smuggle ganja and case.suspendedPradipPoliceanddeliveryRs45,000theafacie,anNagpurbatteriesmobile-phoneintotheCentralJail,officialsaid.Primahewasusingmobilephoneinjailandarrangedfortheoftheganjaphonebatteries.sub-inspectorNitnawrewasinarape
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First India Bureau Pune: The Pune Mu nicipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to levy the property tax in accordance with facilities and price of flats in housing socie ties. Now, property owners with more fa cilities will have to pay a higher rate of taxes. Currently, the PMC imposes property tax based on a ready reck oner rate, which is the minimum value set by the government at the time of property transactions. However, this resulted in the same amount of tax be ing levied on housing societies with more amenities as well as flats purchased at high prices in propertylevywasVikrampalesmorepectedphase,(CPT).Capitalhassocieties.non-luxuriousNow,thecivicbodydecidedtochargePropertyTaxIntheinitialthechangeisextodirectlyaffectthan80,000housinthecity.AccordingtomunicicommissionerKumar,thereadisparityinthewhilechargingtaxwasasper
Pune: A car in the parking bay of an automobile sales company in Pune’s Vimannagar caught fire Wednes day afternoon. The staffers at the facility said the fire was caused by a lightning strike. No casualties and damages to other cars parked nearby were reported in the incident. The fire brigade control room re ceived a call regarding the car catching fire at around 2.50 pm on Wednesday. Fire officer Sopan Pawar said, “We brought the fire under control within min utes after reaching the spot. The staffers have told us they heard a very loud noise like that of a thunder, moments before they saw the car catching fire.”
2 civic employees held for demanding bribe
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Thane (PTI): The body of a 65-year-old woman, identified as Sharada Murlidhar Burse, was found in a well near her house in Thane city on Wednes day morning, Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) chief Avinash Sawant said. Local firemen along with a team of Thane Municipal Corporation’s RDMC fished out the body after police personnel informed them that some persons had spotted the body floating in the well, he said. The Kapurbawdi police have registered a case of accidental death and are investigating.
BMC begins free diabetes testing at Sion Hospital
First India Bureau Mumbai: Mumbaikars can now get their dia betes screening done for free at the NonCommunicable Dis ease (NCD) corner at the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, also known as Sion Hospital. The biggestnearthisfunctioningSionotheropenpopulationparametersinitiative(BMC)MunicipalBrihanmumbaiCorporationhaslaunchedthetogaugehealthofthecity’sandplanstosimilarcentresatcivichospitalstoo.TheNCDcorneratHospitalbeganinAugustyear.ThehospitalisDharavi—Asia’sslum—thathasa high prevalence of dia betes.“Slum dwellers who cannot afford expensive tests can just come to the NCD centre and take the test. It is being done for the first time where out siders can voluntarily undergo a test for diabe tes,” said Dr Mohan Joshi, dean of Sion Hos pital.The BMC now plans to open a similar centre at KEM Hospital, the big gest civic-run hospital in Mumbai.
sion. Later, the amount was negotiated to Rs25,000, the ACB said. The aggrieved man lodged a complaint with the ACB’s Thane unit which laid a trap at the UMC ward office on Tuesday.Theanti-graft agency arrested conservancy worker Viya Teji (46) while accepting Rs25,000 from the complainant on behalf of the supervisor who was to pay the amount to the assistant commissioner.
Latur: Salia Mujayatula Maujan (46) and her horse were swept away in flood waters amid heavy rains in Latur district, an of ficial said on Tuesday. The incident occurred around 6 pm on Mon day evening, in Hal gara village of Nilanga tehsil, head constable Vishwanath Dongare of Aurad Shahajani police station said. Search operations could not be conducted at night due to poor lighting. The body was found in the silt of a small stream in Halgara area and recovered with the help of the NRDF on Tuesday. It was handed over to the family after post-mortem.
Ashish Agashe Mumbai: The dwin dling vulture popula tion has led to a ma jor change in the way some in the Parsi community treat their dead. This issue was in fo cus again on Tuesday after Cyrus Mistry, for mer chairman of Tata Sons, was cremated af ter his death in a car crash two days ago. In a shift from the earlier practice of ‘sky burials’—where a body was left in ‘Towers of Silence’ for the vultures to feast on—many Parsi funerals have been tak ing place since 2015 at a specially made electric crematorium in the fi nancialMortalcapital.remains of the deceased are fed into the electric ma chine after performing rituals as per the Zoro astrian faith; the same was observed in Mis try’s case as well.
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A man had sought per mission from the Ulhas nagar Municipal Corpo ration (UMC) for the renovation of his dilapi dated house and request ed authorities not to pull it down. UMC supervi sor Ratan Jadhav (50) al legedly demanded Rs30,000 from the man on behalf of his senior official, an changecommissioner,assistantinexforthepermis
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Mistry’s mortal re mains were taken to the crematorium, opposite a star hotel created by the community in the last decade, where a family priest performed the rituals before the body was sent into the electric machine. For the Parsis, the de clining vulture popula tions presented a formi dable leavewellssuchbodies,onlyhours,withincleanedWhilechallenge.thevulturesfleshonabodyacoupleofcrowsandkitespeckedthedeadleadingtomanybodiestorotintheformonthsandastench.
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SOURCE: PROJECT SYNDICATE T ntil 2019, Ladakh was a part of the Jammu and Kash mir state. Since then, it has become a union territory with Bud dhism and Islam are its main two religions. Buddhism first came to Ladakh in the first century of the common era during the reign of the Kushan Empire. For centuries, Bud dhism flourished practically unchallenged by other reli gions. In the 15th century, how ever, the spread of Islam in Ladakh began through the migration of Muslim traders from Kashmir, Afghanistan and Central Asia. They started coming to Ladakh, settling there and marrying local Bud dhistToday,women.Muslims comprise 46.6% of Ladakh’s population while Buddhists form 39.7%. Yet the Ladakhi tradition of peaceful coexistence contin ues. Even as anti-Muslim sen timent has been rising in In dia, Ladakh remains a model of religious tolerance.
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The writer is the senior political correspondent of National Review and author of several books Among the world’s 156 countries with at least 1 million people, we managed to obtain data on total mortality from just 84. Some of these places update their figures regularly; others have published them only once Two and half years on, we are still very much in the dark as to when, how and even where SARS-CoV-2 first made its appearance. This isn’t because our efforts to get to the bottom of the mystery have proved fruitless, but rather because those efforts have been systematically thwarted by the world’s two most powerfulAmericagovernments:andChina Jagat Prakash @JPNaddaNadda
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BUDDHIST DOMINATE AND NEW DELHI-RUN For centuries, Tibet has been influencing the culture and religious practices in Ladakh and Tibetan refugees have been finding refuge in the re gion. The first large wave of Tibetans arrived in India in 1959 following the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Now, there are more than 6,500 Tibetans living in Ladakh. The cul tural heritage of Ladakhis and Tibetans is similar, which is why Ladakh is often called “Little Tibet.”
In 15th century, the spread of Islam in Ladakh began through migration of Muslim traders from Kashmir, Af and Central Asia. They started coming to Ladakh, settling there and marrying local Buddhist women U
The removal of special status for Jammu and Kashmir in 2019 led to Ladakh emerging as a separate territory. At first, this deepened the MuslimBuddhist divide. Following the decision, people in Kargil took to the streets to protest. Those in Leh, on the other hand, cel ebrated the move.
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COVID ORIGIN DESTINED TO BE A FOREVER SECRET
emember the lab-leak theo ry? A few scientists argue that it is dead, with new stud ies contending that the global pandemic, which likely killed three to four times the offi cial death-toll numbers, must have started from someone catching the virus from an animal in a wet market. Oth er science writers say, “Not so fast,” arguing that the lack of cooperation from China and incomplete data make it impossible to rule out any point of origin. But two and a half years after Covid ar rived and turned our lives upside down, the U.S. and the world have grown disturb ingly comfortable with not knowing the answers.
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According to the official numbers, Covid-19 has killed more than 6.5 million people and infected 611 million peo ple around the world. Those numbers are undercounts; the estimate at the Econo mist calculates that since the start of the pandemic, hu manity collectively experi enced between 15.8 and 26.2 million more deaths than it ordinarily would. The team at the Economist explains the difficulty in nailing down a more precise figure. As we approach the au tumn of 2022, Covid-19 is a nonentity in American daily life, with most Americans giving the virus little thought since the end of the Omicron wave. That’s not the case over in China, where “more than 70 Chinese cities have been placed under full or partial Covid lockdowns since late August, impacting more than 300 million people.” With daily life returning to nor mal in North America, Eu rope, and much of non-China Asia, very few people are still asking the question of what started the worst global pan demic since the Great Influ enza of 1918. We have collec tively moved on. A bit more than a year ago, the U.S. government issued its summary statement about its investigation, infuriatingly shrugging and declaring, “The [intelligence communi ty] remains divided on the most likely origin of COV ID-19. All agencies assess that two hypotheses are plausible: natural exposure to an infect ed animal and a laboratoryassociated incident.” This was akin to declaring that the coin could have landed heads up or tails up. A bit more than a year ago, the U.S. government issued its summary statement about its investigation, infuriatingly shrugging and declaring, “The [intelligence community] re mains divided on the most likely origin of COVID-19. All agencies assess that two hy potheses are plausible: natural exposure to an infected animal and a laboratory-associated in cident.” This was akin to de claring that the coin could have landed heads up or tails up.
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Under the leadership of Modi, the cabinet approved the proposal of land amendment of railways to implement PM Gati Shakti Framework. With this decision 300 PM Gati Shakti Cargo Terminals will be developed in the next 5 years, which will increase the revenue of Railways and generate about 1.2 lakh employment opportunities.
WE HAVE ACCUSTOMEDGROWNTO NOT KNOWING THE ORIGIN OF COVID-19
IN-DEPTH WILL KEYNES?REHABILITATETRUSS he United Kingdom finally has a new prime minister, but will Liz Truss im prove the dismal out look for the British economy and political life? The conven tional answer is no. As Shake speare said, “when sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.” That is cer tainly true of Britain today. The UK is cursed with the G7’s highest inflation, steepest decline in real wages, and biggest budget and trade deficits. Making matters worse, Britain’s battalion of sor rows also overwhelms its politics. Truss’s three predecessors were the worst prime ministers in mod ern British history. So says the British public: According to the latest polling, David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson all score postwar records for doing “a bad job as PM,” with each suc cessive Tory leader rated worse than the previous one. This core Keynesian analysis is sometimes exaggerated in extreme versions of Modern Monetary Theory, which is sometimes parodied as a “Magic Money Tree.” Last month, I joined in, calling the notion that US policymakers will be able to reduce inflation without causing a severe recession a “fairy tale.”
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually addresses the Plenary Session of 7th Eastern Economic Forum in Russia’s Vladivostok, in New Delhi on Wednesday.
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with Myron Brilliant, Executive Vice Prez and Head of International Affairs, US Chamber of Commerce, Ed Knight, Executive Vice Chairman, Nasdaq and Atul Keshap, President, US-India Business Council, join hands at the India Ideas Summit, in New Delhi on Wednesday.
China’s President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks next week on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Uzbekistan, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also attend, a Russian of ficial said Wednesday. This month itself, 30 years are being completed since the establishment of the Consulate of India in Vladivostok. India was the first country to open a consulate in this city. Since then, this city has been witness to many milestones in our relationship.
KEY DECISIONS
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked a lawyer arguing for the right to wear the hijab in education institutes: "You can't take it to illogical ends. Right to dress will include right to undress also?" The lawyer, Dev Datt Kamat, replied, "Nobody is undressing in a school." Justice Hemant Gupta also re marked: "Problem here is that one particu lar community is insisting on a headscarf (hijab) while all other communities are following the dress code. Students of other communities are not saying we want to wear this and that."
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New Delhi: A Delhi Court has issued a non-bailable warrant against the You tuber influencer Bobby Kataria, who is being tracked by the police ever since he was seen smoking a cigarette on board a Spice Jet flight last month. DCP Airport Tanu Sharma told ANI news agency that Kataria has been on the run since the case was registered against him. New Delhi: Justice Dhan anjaya Yeshwant Chand rachud on Wednesday said that the Constitution bench headed by him will be a "green bench" and asked the lawyers not to submit any papers or physical documents. "We will keep this a completely green bench so there would be no papers. Please don't carry papers," said Justice Chandrachud to the lawyers.
—PHOTO BY ANI New Delhi (ANI): Bi har Chief Minister Nit ish Kumar on Wednes day met Communist Party of India (MarxistLeninist) General Sec retary Deepankar Bhat tacharya in his party office and discussed various issues includ ing the development of Bihar and an urgent need for forging a dy namic and broad-based opposition unity. After meeting with CPI(ML) General Secre tary, Kumar said, “Sev en political parties unit ed in Bihar and we are running the govern ment together and on the other side there is only Bharatiya Janata Party. We had a discus sion on how to work for the development of the state with consensus, how to uplift every sec tion of the society and the work has to be done for the welfare of peo ple.” “I have met all the people in Delhi and many of them thanked me for coming out from NDA. Everyone wishes that there should be unity in every state and such an atmosphere will be created in the country in the coming days,” the Bihar chief minister added.
New Delhi: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar met NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday on his mission to unite the Opposi tion ahead of 2024 polls. The chief of JD(U), who ended ties with the BJP last month, is in the national capital since Monday with a long list of leaders he wanted to meet. After Congress's Rahul Gandhi and JD(S)'s HD Kumaraswamy, he met CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury, CPI's D Raja, Indian National Lok Dal's Om Prakash Chautala and Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav.
On his Oppn Unity Mission in Delhi, Nitish Kumar meets CPI(ML) General Secretary Nitish Kumar with CPI(ML) Gen Secy Dipankar Bhattacharya addressing media, in New Delhi on Wednesday.
CABINET'S APPROVAL FOR THE PRADHAN MANTRI SHRI SCHEME
z Ex post facto approval given for the MoU signed on mutual recognition of academic qualifications between India and the UK and Northern Ireland.
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New Delhi (ANI): Un ion Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday assured that the new bill on data privacy will be ready “soon” and the Informa tion Technology minis ter has been diligently working on it. Ashwini Vaishnaw is the Union Minister for Information and Technology.“Wewillsoon have a new Data Privacy Bill, which will be a product of consultations and will address every such concern most of us had on the privacy Bill,” she said. Sitharaman made the remarks here on Wednesday while ad dressing the ongoing India Ideas Summit or ganised by US-India Business Council. The Central govt last month withdrew the Personal Data Protec tion Bill 2019 from Lok Sabha several months after it was introduced. Minister for Commu nications, Electronics & Information Technolo gy Ashwini Vaishnaw had said the Bill was withdrawn because the Joint inmendedCommitteeParliamentaryrecom81amendmentsabillof99sections.Further,inheraddresstotheUS-IndiaBusinessCouncil,shesaidjobs,equitablewealthdistributionandensuringthatIndiaisstillonthepathofgrowtharesomeofhertopred-letterpriorities.
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New Delhi (ANI): India is keen to strengthen its partnership with Rus sia on Arctic subjects and there is immense scope for cooperation in the field of energy as well, PM Narendra Modi said today and re iterated support to all peaceful efforts to end the Ukraine conflict. In an online plenary session address at the Eastern Economic Fo rum, being organised in the Russian city of Vladivostok and also attended by Russian President Vladimir Pu tin, PM Modi said India has been emphasising the need to adopt the path of diplomacy and dialogue since the be ginning of the Ukraine conflict.“We support all peaceful efforts to end this conflict,” PM said. He also said Russia can become an important partner for the Indian steel industry through the supply of coking coal and there was scope for good coopera tion in the mobility of talent. “The Ukraine conflict and the Covid pandemic have had a major impact on global supply chains,” he said. Referring to India’s ancient doctrine “Vas udhaiva Kutum bakam”, PM Modi said, “It has taught us to see the world as a family and in today’s glo balised world, events in one part of the world create an impact on the whole world.”
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday restored a private complaint against former CM BS Yediyurappa on the allegation of accepting bribe while stating that there is no need of previous sanction for the special court to order an investigation under Section 156(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Justice Sunil Dutt Yadav passed the order while set aside a Special Court’s July 8, 2021 order of rejecting the private complaint, filed by Abraham TJ, a social activist and president of the Karnataka Anti-Graft and Environmental Forum, Bengaluru.
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KARNATAKA HC RESTORES BRIBERY COMPLAINT AGAINST YEDIYURAPPA
www.firstindia.co.in Mahesh Sharma New Delhi: How iron ic is it that the Aam Aadmi Party is criticiz ing the central govern ment for harassing the Opposition parties by using central agencies, while AAP’s own Pun jab government is after its main opposition Congress and other parties. From the day the Congress govern ment was formed in Punjab, all the agen cies of the state have been engaged against the Congress and other opposition leaders. Old cases are being taken out and investigated and opposition leaders are being targeted. The police and the AntiCorruption Bureau of the Aam Aadmi Party’s Punjab government, which have alleged misuse of the CBI and ED, are engaged in the investigation of oppo sitionCongressleaders.state presi dent Raja Amarinder Singh Warring and sen ior leader Sukhpal Khaira have been booked under the IT Act. State government agencies are also prob ing the contracts award ed during the tenure of Raja Warring as minis ter. Recently, Bharat Bhushan Ashu, who was a minister of the Congress government, has been accused of many types of allega tions and the state vigi lance has arrested him. A few days after the for mation of the govern ment, the Bhagwant Mann government ar rested Sadhu Singh Dharamsot, who was the Forest Minister of the Congress govern ment led by Captain Amarinder Singh, in connection with the felling of trees. The state government has started the investiga tion of Vijay Inder Sin gla, another former minister of the state government and big leader of Congress. These are cases differ ent from those filed against Kumar Vish was, Alka Lamba etc. who criticized party su premo Arvind Kejriwal. ‘hypocrisy’ as its political agenda?
The Pradhan Mantri Shree Yojana has also been approved by the Cabinet. The quality of 14,597 schools will be upgraded from 2022 to 2027 at a cost of `27,360 crore.
Dharmendra Pradhan and Anurag Thakur brief the media on Cabinet decisions in New Delhi on Wednesday.
"WILL RIGHT TO DRESS INCLUDE RIGHT TO UNDRESS?" SC REMARKS AT HIJAB ROW
z Approval for the MoU on coopera tion in the field of Disaster Management between the National Disaster Manage ment Authorities of India and Maldives.
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1 per square foot will be charged. Land will be made available at a low cost for a solar plant. It has been decided to cut the LLF of railway land. Land licence fee has been reduced from 6% to 1.5%. Now 1.5% land lease fee will be charged on the market price of the land. LLF is de ducted only for cargo related companies. Two supporting fac tors have been added to the Rail Land Lease change. Companies which currently have land lease of railways, under the old lease policy, they can bring themselves under the new lease policy.
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First India Bureau New Delhi: In its meet ing on Wednesday un der the chairmanship of PM Narendra Modi, Un ion Cabinet approved the change in the rail land lease. The Cabinet approved to increase the lease period from 5 years to 35 years. Apart from this, a decision was taken to cut the LLF of railway land. Now rail way land can be given on lease for 35 years. Un ion Ministers Dharmen dra Pradhan and Anur ag Thakur briefed me dia about the decisions.
Reshuffling of seven IAS officers in UP Ahtesham Siddiqui
New Delhi (Agencies): The faulty design of the bridge is the reason be hind the accident of the Mercedes Benz SUV in which Cyrus Mistry was travelling along with three others, which led to the death of bil lionaire industrialist and his friend Jehangir Pandole, a forensic team investigating the crash hasPiyushconfirmed.Tewari, CEO of SaveLIFE Founda tion - the NGO, said, “This crash is a grim reminder of how over speeding when com bined with poor road infrastructure and cas ual attitude towards safety equipment such as seatbelts can take away“Aslives.”perhundreds of forensic crash investiga tions carried out by SaveLIFE Foundation on behalf of agencies across India, non-usage of seatbelts, especially in the rear seat, contrib uted to nearly 35% of deaths investigated. In most cases, victims vio lently crash with vehi cle interiors and fellow passengers, and in many other cases are found ejected from the vehicle. Seat belts can prevent that,” Piyush Tewari said.
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New Delhi (Agen cies): Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has made a toonistercountry’sthedesh”tegratingstatementcontroversialabout“inBanglaatatimewhenneighbouringPrimeMinSheikhHasinaisadiplomaticvisitIndia.Sarmawasrespondingtothemedia’squestionsontheCongress’‘BharatJodoYatra’aspartofwhichRahulGandhiandotherCongressleaderswilltravelacross3,500km,fromKashmirtoKanyakumari.ThemarchisbeingseenasadesperateattemptbytheCongress,hitbyseveralhigh-profileexits,torallysupportaheadofthe2024generalelection.“Indiaisunited.FromKashmirtoKanyakumari,SilchartoSaurashtra,weareone.CongresspartitionedthecountryintoIndiaandPakistan.ThenBangladeshwascreated.IfRahulGandhifeelsapologeticthatmy
—A resident E-COM FIRMS FACES HARROWING TIME Bengaluru (PTI): E-commerce companies, especially their delivery boys, had a harrowing time to supply products to the customers when certain parts of Bengaluru was under deluge due to two days of heavy rains in parts of the city, PTI reported. The flooded areas such as parts of Sarjapura, Bellandur, Varthur, Whitefield and Outer Ring Road had become inacces sible due to water-logging.
DEMOLISHED MADRASAS WERE AL-QAEDA OFFICES: ASSAM CM New Delhi (ANI): A day after the demolition of madrasas in Assam’s Goalpara district, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said all wantsayingisTheingnowdemolishedAlweredemolishedhere,todamadrasasmadrasasdemolishedwerenotbutAl-Qaeoffices.SpeakingmediapersonsSarmasaid,“AllmadrasasnotmadrasasbutQaedaoffices.We2-3andthepubliciscomtodemolishothers.Muslimcommunitycomingtodemolish,thattheydonotamadrasawhere
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Try to integrate Paki stan, Bangladesh and strive to create Akhand Bharat,” said Sarma, who joined the BJP in 2015.
BENGALURU FLOODS
The video comes as Bengaluru is experi encing severe flooding in certain areas after two days of torrential rains. Upscale apart ment buildings and gated communities like Divyasree 77 Place, Ep silon Residential Vil las, and Rohan Jharoka were among the worst hit by the torrential rains. Other visuals show inflatable boats being used to evacuate residents from their apartments in Rama gondanahalli. Videos also show cars, bikes, and bicycles sub merged completely un der water. A resident said, “Around 100 cars are floating in the park ing space. Everything is in bad shape. It was so bad that we were taken out on tractors.” He further said that the housing society was cut off from electricity and water supply ow ing to inundation. “All the residents came to gether to help each other.People have moved to hotels, and we have come to a relative’s house. You can’t stay in that place anymore as there’s no water or electricity. I have a 16-month-old child as well and it is a very dif ficultAddingsituation.”thatno one from the government, Bruhat Bengaluru Ma hanagara Palike (BBMP), or police had come to their rescue, he said, “Builders, gov ernment officials, eve ryone is answerable to the taxpayers. We won’t get our insurance mon ey and there are brand new cars that have been submerged in wa ter. We are forced to live out of our own homes and we don’t know how long this will take.”
‘PM’s VISIT TO KUNO NATIONAL PARK ON HIS BIRTHDAY WILL BOOST TOURISM’
CRUCIAL READ SCHOOL BOYS KILLED IN MOVING CAR, BODIES DUMPED IN CANAL NEAR KOLKATA
the work of Al-Qaeda is done. That changes ma drasa’s character.” The CM’s statement came after local residents of Pakhuria Char in As sam’s Goalpara district demolished a madrasa on Tuesday.
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has once again trans ferred IAS officers as 7 officers have been shuf fled and given new post ings. IAS Amrita Soni, a senior IAS officer wait ing after returning from leave, has been made Chief Staff Officer of Chief Secretary Durga Shankar Mishra. Whereas the post was ly ing vacant in the Chief Secretary’s Office after IAS Anita Meshram moved to Delhi. In the transfer list, Secretary National Integration, Medical Health and Family Welfare and Ad ditional Mission Direc tor, National Health Mission IAS Pranjal Ya dav has been posted as Secretary MSME and Export Promotion, Han dloom and Textile In dustries.Special Secretary, Ag riculture cialhasGurralaSecretary,sourcerigationassiaIASCommissionerProductionBranchDrArvindChaurahasbeenappointedSpecialSecretaryIrandWaterRes,whileSpecialFinance,IASSrinivasulunowbeenmadeSpeSecretary,Revenue.
Former Karnataka CM and senior BJP Leader BS Yediyurappa meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in New Delhi. —FILE PHOTO
New Delhi (ANI): The IT dept is conducting raids on political par ties across the country on Wednesday in con nection with the alleged bogus donation and tax fraud, said sources. In Lucknow, the IT team arrived at the resi dence of Rashtriya Krantikari Samajwadi Party chief Gopal Rai. According to sources, several NGOs are run by Rai. The IT dept is investigating cases re lated to tax evasion.
POLITICAL PARTIES AT RADAR!
Bengaluru (Agen cies): India’s IT hub, Bengaluru, has been witnessing devastation for the last couple of days. Constant heavy rains has led to floods and waterlogging which has brought mis ery to thousands and has caused much dam age. In fact, drinking water supply was also affected due to flooding of pump houses in cer tainTheareas.flooding in Ben galuru has affected sev eral parts of the city including elite gated communities and high profile residences.
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—Himanta Sarma, Assam CM
UPSCALE SOCIETIES AMONG WORST HIT BY FLOODING
‘Faulty design of bridge led to crash that killed Mistry’Income tax dept raids pan India to unearth bogus donations
Kolkata (Agencies): Two class X students who had left their Keshtopur home two weeks prior with a neighbor to buy a motorcycle were killed on the same evening while being strangled inside a moving car, and their bodies were dumped into a canal off Basanti Expressway while the father of one of the boys continued to receive calls and messages demanding a ransom of Rs 1 cr for his son’s safe return. The police didn’t realise the two boys had been kidnapped and murdered 14 days prior to Monday’s arrest of one of the suspects in the kidnapped case; instead, they followed the bodies to the Basirhat police mortuary.
Sharat K Verma New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party is now learning about the ground realities of Karnataka. Karnataka is not important to the BJP just because it has a government there and it will be better if the government comes. What worries the BJP even more is that the BJP has won 25 out of 28 Lok Sabha seats in the state. The BJP has only 29 seats out of 120 in all the southern states, of which 25 are from Karnataka alone. So BJP cannot afford any loss here. That is why along with win ning the assembly elec tions that are due in May next year, a strat egy is being prepared to repeat the former suc cess, in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as well. It is being told that BJP’s Karnataka strat egy is completely in the hands of BS Yediyurap pa. He was recently made a member of the BJP’s parliamentary board and through him the message has been given to the ‘strong’ Lingayat community of the state that the party has not sidelined Yed dyurappa, but in creased his stature. Af ter that Prime Minister Modi went to Karnata ka and gave a tremen dous preference to Yed dyurappa. He held his hand and talked for a long time. Not only this, he made him sit on the stage next to the governor and allowed him to be the focus throughout the pro gramme. It is being told that the election strategy and ticket dis tribution will be done according to Yeddy urappa. BJP knows that only Yediyurappa can do any miracle in Karnataka. Anyway, he himself has announced his retirement, so the party leadership is not worried about him and it is being said that both his sons will definitely get a good position.
Bhopal (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Kuno National Park and the release of African cheetahs in the forest on his birthday on September 17 will boost tourism in Madhya Pradesh, said state Forest Minis ter Kunwar Vijay Shah on Tuesday.“It was our wish to celebrate the birthday of the Prime Minister in a historic and unique form and our wish has been fulfilled. The Prime Minister will come to Madhya Pradesh on his birthday and has permission to release cheetahs brought from Africa into our state’s forests. This time the birthday of the Prime Minister will prove to be a milestone in the history of the Forest Department of Madhya Pradesh,” the Minister told ANI.
Anantnag (ANI): Two terrorists were neutral ised in an encounter that broke out at the Bi jbehara area of Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K) Anantnag district on Wednesday, the officials said.“Two #terrorists neutralised in a chance encounter by Anantnag Police in Thajiwara, #Bijbehara area of #Anantnag, “ a police spokesman said. Police identified the slain as Fayaz Ahmad Kumar alias Faheem Kumar.
BJP leader Ruby Khan defies fatwa Aligarh (UP) (ANI): Even death threats and a fatwa issued against BJP leader Ruby Asif Khan for installing Lord Ganesh idol at her residence in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh, did not deter her from step ping out to immerse the idol with due diligence in Narora Ghat with heavy security. She was accompanied by her two sisters and her hus bandRubyAsif.Asif Khan, who has been receiving death threats since she installed Lord Ganesh’s idol at her residence, said that she is not scared of the fatwa and threats. Even Fatwa has been issued against her for worshipping the idol.Speaking to ANI, she said, “I am taking Lord Ganesh’s idol for im mersion at Narora Ghat. I installed the idol of Lord Ganesh at my residence on August 31. Since then this fatwa has been issued. Maula nas (clerics) are saying that I have become Hin du as I have installed Lord Ganesh’s idol. I am receiving threats to boycott me from Islam and to burn my family alive.When I go out, people are calling me Hindu but I am afraid of fat was and Maulanas. The way I installed the idol in the same way I will immerse with due dili gence.” Municipal workers remove blocks and other obstructions to clear the waterlogged Outer Ring Road after heavy monsoon rains, in Bellandur on Wednesday.
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“We have recently seen some successes in terms of our international en gagement growing to about $675 billion (exports of goods and services) for the first time ever last year. We are hoping to do our international trade to about $2 trillion by 2030,” the minister added.
New Delhi: State-owned CIL on Wednesday said it will reach close to its production target of 306 million tonnes (MT) in the first half of FY23, provided its mining areas are not extremely affected by heavy rains this month. Coal India Ltd (CIL) accounts for over 80% of domestic coal output. “At the current pace of production...The company is hopeful of reaching close to the apportioned H1 target of 306 MT,” CIL said. Of the total production target of 700 MT for FY23, the output split is around 44% in the first half and 56% in the second half, the company said in a statement.
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San Francisco: ITC Ltd would pursue the “assetright” strategy for its ho tel business to ensure that the diversified con glomerate remains com petitive and contempo rary, and continues to de liver superior perfor mance, its chairman San jiv Puri said. The compa ny also said that it is ex ploring foreign markets for its hospitality busi ness. The tourism & hotel industry is recovering and the company will take the demerger process for ward and explore alter nate structure.
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Job creation and equita ble distribution of wealth remain the other focus ar eas, she said. “Some of course are red-lettered (pri orities), some may not be. Red-lettered ones would of course be jobs, equitable wealth distribution and making sure India is mov ing on the path of growth. “In that sense inflation is not red-lettered. I hope it doesn’t surprise many of you. We have shown that in the past couple of months that we were able to bring it to a manageable level,” she said at the event. According to official data, retail inflation sof tened to 6.71% in July due to moderation in food pric es but remained above the Reserve Bank’s comfort level of 6% for the seventh consecutive month.
Govt should plan to privatise PSBs: Ex-RBI Governor New Delhi (PTI): Former RBI governor D Subbarao has suggested that the gov ernment should come up with a 10-year road map for privatisation of all Public Sector Banks (PSBs) as it would provide much need ed predictability to stake holders.Subbarao further said that the big bang approach to privatisation of stateowned banks is not desira ble but at the same time the issue should not be put on the back “Ideally,burner.weshould have a road map, maybe over a 10 year timeframe, to priva tise all “ThatPSBs.will give much needed predictability to all stakeholders,” he said. Meanwhile, Subbarao said the government should also be thinking about corporatisation of public sector banks so that they come within the um brella of uniform RBI reg ulation. According to Sub barao, the impact on the Indian economy of privati sation of PSBs will be in two ways.
The Consumer Price In dex (CPI) based retail in flation was at 7.01% in June and 5.59% in July 2021. It was above 7% from April to June this fiscal. She exuded confidence that the Reserve Bank would manage the volatil ity emerging from aggres sive rate hike stance by the US Fed and the European Central Bank.
New Delhi (Agencies): Chairman of the Adani group, Gautam Adani said that India needs to become self-reliant in manufactur ing of semiconductors. He said that US’ help would be critical in helping India become self-reliant in semi-conductor manufac turing. Due to global short age of semi-conductor chips, which are vital for running everything from cars to computers to air crafts and military equip ments, industries are suf fering, Adani said. Indian govt wants to start domestic manufactur ing of semi-conductor chips so that it can be in a position to export them in future, he said. “India can not remain dependent on global supply chains, as chips are required by every one,” he said.
San Francisco (PTI): In dia’s goods and services exports have already crossed $675 billion in last fiscal year and the country is now aspiring to take in ternational trade to $2 tril lion by 2030, Commerce and Industry Minister Pi yush Goyal has said. Goyal also said by the time India would celebrate the 100th anniversary of its independence, it would be a $30 trillion economy. “...By 2047-2050 period, when India would be com pleting 100 years of Inde pendence, we will be at least a $30 trillion economy on a business as usual sce nario and possibly a $35-45 trillion economy if some of the aggressive plans that the government is putting together work well. That’s the kind of opportunity that I bring to the table,” Goyal said. Goyal said the government has spent the last few years laying the foundation on which the country can rapidly trans form, grow its economy, improve its systems, and engage in technology.
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‘CBDC TO BRING DOWN TIME, COST FOR CROSS-BORDER TRANSACTIONS’ New Delhi: Central bank digital currency (CBDC), to be launched this year, could become a tool for reducing time and cost for cross-border transactions, Reserve Bank Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar said on Wednesday. “We have to understand that interna tionalisation of CBDC is crucial to addressing the payments issue that bodies like G-20 and Bank for International Settlements (BIS) are dealing with now,” he said at India Ideas Summit. Observing that India has an excellent, cheap and fast domestic payments system, he said the cost of cross-border payment, however, is still high.There is a lot of scope for improvement in terms of both cost and speed, he noted. CBDC is probably the most efficient answer to this, he said, adding, for example, if India CBDC and the US CBDC systems can talk to each other, we don’t have to wait for settling transactions.
—PTI Bhopal: State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) on Wednesday said it has raised `710 crore from bonds to fund business growth. The fund raised via Basel III compliant Additional Tier 1 (AT1) bonds of `710 crore (including green shoe option of `610 crore) is at a coupon rate of 8.74%, the bank said in a statement. The issue garnered overwhelming response from investors with subscription of 10 times against base issue size of `100 crore.
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PM KISAN SCHEME: 21L FARMERS SELECTED IN UP FOUND INELIGIBLE Lucknow: Under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme, 21 lakh farmers se lected in Uttar Pradesh have been aineligiblefoundinprobe.The amount given to those ineligible farmers so far under the scheme will be recovered from them. A total of 2.85 crore farmers were selected under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme in the state, out of which 21 lakh beneficiaries have been found ineligible, state Agriculture Min Surya Pratap Shahi. —PTI SENSEX, NIFTY DECLINE 2nd DAY OVER LOSSES IN BANKING STOCKS Mumbai: Benchmark BSE Sensex and Nifty ended lower on Wednesday, dragged down by losses in marketweakstocksbankingamidglobaltrends.
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FINANCE MINISTER SAYS New Delhi (PTI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sithara man on Wednesday said the country’s economic growth remains a priority for the government, as in flation has come down to a manageable level.
Mumbai: Despite increas ing margin pressure, the consumer durables sector is likely to witness a dou ble-digit volume growth, pushing its revenue up by 15-18% to `1 lakh crore this fiscal, according to a report. According to the report, a 10-13% spike in demand/volume, which will be driven by both ur ban and rural segments -led mostly by the AC and refrigerator segments, though rural demand will come into play in the sec ond half of the fiscal. This fiscal, the company will scale past the pre-pan demic volume mark by 3 per cent.
The 30-share Sensex declined by 168.08 points or 0.28% to settle at 59,028.91. The broader NSE Nifty dipped 31.20 points or 0.18% to 17,624.40. From the Sensex pack, IndusInd Bank, Mahindra & Mahindra, Maruti, Bharti Airtel, SBI, Tata Steel, ICICI Bank & HDFC were major laggards. —PTI OTHER STORIES
New Delhi (PTI) : Gautam Adani on Wednesday said his ports-topower conglomerate will build three giga factories for manufacturing solar modules, wind turbines, and hydro gen electrolyzers as part of a $70 billion investment in clean energy by 2030. “The Adani Group has already committed $70 billion. This will see us building three giga factories in India leading to one of the world’s most integrated green-energy value chains,” he said.
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UNTIL WE GET A GOOD DEAL, NO FTA WITH ISRAEL: PIYUSH San Francisco: The proposed India-Israel trade pact should be beneficial to both nations and until New Delhi gets a good deal, it would not do an agree ment, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said. India and Israel are negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) since May 2010. “With Israel, until we get a good deal, we will not do an FTA. It has to be recipro cally beneficial,” the minister said. Major exports from India to Israel include precious stones and metals, chemical products and textiles and textile articles while imports include precious stones and metals, chemicals and mineral products, base met als and machinery and transport equipment. The bilateral trade in goods between the two countries stood at about $8 billion in 2021-22. It was $4.7 billion in 2020-21.
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New Delhi (PTI): India is in a much better position to deal with the challenges re lated to growth and infla tion, said Sanjiv Bajaj, Pres ident of industry body CII. According to official fig ures, India's retail inflation continues to remain above the Reserve Bank's toler ance level of 6% since Jan uary, while the economic growth in the first quarter of the fiscal was 13.5%, lower than the central bank's estimate of 16.2%. "I don't want to say we don't have our own chal lenges with growth, with inflation but we are in a much better position and credit must go to every body including the central and state governments. I don't see economic growth as an issue," Bajaj, who is also the CMD of Bajaj Finserv said.
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First India Bureau Pune: The Pune Municipal Corpora tion (PMC) fined 33 contractors a total of Rs50 lakh during the defect liability period due to poor quality of roads in side city limits. According to VG Kulkarni, head of the PMC’s road depart ment, this is the sec ond phase of action. “Earlier, the civic ad ministration fined contractors around Rs8 lakh for not car rying out proper road work. More action is on the cards. The civ ic body is also mak ing them repair the roads,” he Throughoutsaid. the term of defect liabili ty, the contractors are in charge of condition of the roads. A top PMC official told the media that repeat offenders are being identified. “A list of bad contrac tors is currently be ing compiled. They will face severe pun ishment,” he claimed.gress,”thepercarequality.worriedtheadministrationwithlistbeingpunishment,faceContractorsfinesclaimeddenizens,pasthavethanPMC,hole.squarefinedContractorssaid.areRs5,000foreverymetreofpotAccordingtothetillnowmore11,000potholesbeenfilledinthethreemonths.Civicgroupsandhowever,thatthesearemeaningless.shouldmorestringentsuchasputonablackorbeingchargedacrime.“NeitherthecivicnorcontractorsareaboutroadTheydon’ttobuildroadsasthestandardsofIndianRoadConaresident
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CREDAI-MCHI’s flag ship property festival will return to MMRDA Grounds in Mumbai October 13-16, with an exclusive stall at the expo to create aware ness about the e-regis trationOfficersfacility.ofthe state government will spread awareness among home buyers and guide them through the new portal.
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CREDAI-MCHI with the state government has so far organized six train ing workshops for de velopers.Thedigitized process will be applicable only to first sale transac tions at the moment, of ficials said, adding that the state registers over 30 lakh properties an nually. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) remains the big gest real estate market among the top eight Tier-1Nikunjcities.Sanghavi, Con vener, Exhibition com mittee, CREDAI-MCHI said, “The initiative stems from a customercentric approach. Since we will launch this facil ity during our flagship event, customers would get an opportunity to un derstand the process in real-time with the help of dedicated members who will take them through the process.”
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Satish Nandgaonkar Mumbai: The State Election Commission on Wednesday an nounced the third round of local body elections the biggest so far, in 1,166 gram panchayats on Octo ber 13. Not only will the OBC theelectedlieraspanchesrectlyalsopolls,applicablereservationsinthesebutvoterswillbeabletovotediforthesarofpanchayatsopposedtotheearsysteminwhichmemberschosesarpanch. Making the an nouncement, State Election Commissioner UPS Madon said the election code of con duct had come into ef fect with the announce ment and that counting will take place on Octo ber 14. While voters in 18 districts will cast their votes from 7.30 am till 5.30 pm, voting will close at 3 pm in Naxalaffected districts. The reservations will be ap plicable as per the per centages decided by the backward class com mission, SEC officials said.This is the biggest round of local body elections after the Eknath Shinde govern ment came to power. On August 05, 271 gram panchayats had gone to polls, and the BJP has emerged at the top with 82 seats and the Shinde faction had bagged 40 seats, while NCP had emerged at the top in the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance with 51 seats followed by Shiv Sena and Congress with 20odd seats.
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CREDAI-MCHI functionaries at the announcement of e-registration facility and the property expo at the Old Customs House. This initiative will open doors of a new home-buying experi ence for thousands of buyers who will now enjoy a vastly im proved level of ease and convenience in buying their dream homes. This pilot will also help in boosting home ownership sentiment further.
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The Property festival will offer a range of property alternatives from affordable to luxu ry apartments to home buyers, and aims to bring the most renowned developers and home buyers under one um brella. velopersrepresentsCREDAI-MCHIover1,249deintheMMR.
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First India Bureau Mumbai: A special court on Wednesday rejected the plea of Vidhie Mukerjea, daughter of es tranged couple Ind rani Mukerjea and Peter Mukerjea, seeking permission to reside with her mother in Mumbai on her return to In dia. Both are accused in the Sheena Bora murder case. Vidhie has been liv ing in London for the past several years. She is returning to India on September 10, as per her application filed on August 30. Her plea was reject ed by Special Judge SP Naik Nimbalkar, pre siding over the Sheena Bora murder case. Ind rani Mukerjea, the prime accused in the case, is currently out onInbail.her plea, filed through advocate Ran jeet Sangle, Vidhie claimed that she was deprived of her moth er’s companionship as a minor when Indrani Mukerjea was arrested in 2015. She also stated that the separation has affected her “emotion al Thewell-being”.plea further said that Indrani is suf fering from irreversi ble cerebral ischemia, she is frail and re quires proper personal and medical care, which Vidhie would like to provide to the best of her ability and time.However, the prose cution (Central Bu reau of Investigation) on Wednesday opposed her plea, saying Vidhie Mukerjea is a prosecu tion witness and has not been examined un tilAllowingnow. her plea would be a violation of conditions imposed by the Supreme Court while granting bail to Indrani Mukerjea, said the CBI. The apex court while granting bail to Indrani Mukerjea had set certain conditions, including that she will not influence the pros ecution witness or tamper with the evi dence.The petitioner (Ind rani Mukerjea) in any case shall not meet or establish contact with the witnesses till the recording of evidence is Findingover. merits in the prosecution reply, the special judge re jected Vidhie’s plea.
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First India Bureau Mumbai: The di rector handling the business ac tivities of M/s Ro bosteel Trading Pvt Ltd has been arrested by CGST, Navi Mumbai, on the charges oncrore(availedRs181.67tiesbogus/fakewasCreditfakeing/passingavailing/utilizofonInputTax(ITC)whichreceivedfromentiamountingtocroreRs87.48andpassedRs94.19crore).
A team of offic ers of Anti-Eva sion, CGST & C.Ex. Navi Mumbai con ducted an enquiry against the afore said firm. The total amount of bogus invoices involved is to the tune of Rs1075.37 crore, without actual sup ply of goods or ser vices.The accused has been arrested and was produced be fore the todysentday.lapurclass,MagistrateJudicialFirstVashiatBeonWednesHehasbeenonjudicialcusfor14days.
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Mumbai (PTI): A Mumbai court on Wednesday granted bail to actor Kamaal R Khan, popularly known as KRK, in the 2020 case of contro versial tweets about actor Akshay Kumar and filmmaker Ram Gopal Verma. On Tuesday, another court granted bail to him in a molestation case of Khan,2021.currently in ju dicial custody, was ar rested by the police from the Mumbai airport last week in connection with his tweets. He is likely to walk out of jail on Thursday morning. Police have claimed that Khan’s posts were communal and that he targeted Bollywood per sonalities. However, Khan in his bail plea moved through advocates Ashok Sarogi and Jay Yadav, said that the tweets in question were only his comments on the film titled ‘Laxmii’ and no offence as alleged by the police wasKhancommitted.isacting as a “critic and/or reporter in the film industry”, said the bail plea.
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Sandeep Yadav, Sher Mohammad and Laxman Raghav Jagdeesh Chandra with Yogesh Sharma Jagdeesh Chandra with Deepak Sain, Manish Rawat, and Lalit Gangwani Jagdeesh Chandra with Vijendra Solanki and Poonam Sharma Solanki Jagdeesh Chandra with Rohit Sharma Greetings from Ria Arora Jagdeesh Chandra with (L-R) Mitali Soni, Deepti Choudhary Saini and Pragya Tibriwal Jagdeesh Chandra with (L-R) Neelanjana Jangid, Rewati Upadhyay, Sanya Hissaria and Megha Shyam Soni Jagdeesh Chandra with (L-R) Rituraj Sharma, Bhuvnesh Sharma, Laxman Raghav, Rohit Parihar, Dharmendra Rathore, Hitesh Bagari and Nadeem Jagdeesh Chandra with (L-R) JK Jajoo, Mohit and Garima Jajoo Jagdeesh Chandra with Sanjeev SrivastavaJagdeesh Chandra
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Jagdeesh Chandra with (L-R) Mitali Dusad, Shweta Mishra Awasthi, Jinendra Shekhawat, Shishir Awasthi and Shaan
GALORE! Jagdeesh Chandra celebrated his birthday on Wednesday with immense galore and joy. The day was no less than any festival as hundreds of his well-wishers reached his residence to greet and wish him good health. City First shares some glimpses! Jagdeesh Chandra with Suresh Mishra Jagdeesh Chandra with Dharmendra Rathore Jagdeesh Chandra with Sher Mohammad Jagdeesh Chandra with Rafeek Khan Jagdeesh Chandra with Gopal Surolia Jagdeesh Chandra with Rupa Khurana Jagdeesh Chandra with Mahesh Sharma Jagdeesh Chandra with Gaurav Gaur Jagdeesh Chandra with Yogesh Mishra and Nimisha Mishra Jagdeesh Chandra with Vinayak Sharma Jagdeesh Chandra with Moni Sharma (L) and Vinod Kumar Sharma (R) Jagdeesh Chandra with (L-R) Deepak Daduria and Virendra Poonia Jagdeesh Chandra with YS Rathore Jagdeesh Chandra with Ram Sharma Jagdeesh Chandra with Khalid Ansari Jagdeesh Chandra with (L-R) Satish Sharma, Dinesh
Jagdeesh Chandra with Ram Singh Meena Chandra cuts the cake at his residence. Also seen are (L-R) Gaurav Gaur, Nikhil Anand, Krish Gangwar, Shweta Mishra Awasthi, Shrishti Khatri, Astha Khandelwal, Akanksha Bhalla and other supermodels
Jagdeesh Chandra with (L-R) Khushboo Dahiya, Gaurav Gaur, Krish Gangwar, Arshina Sumbul, Jigyasa Sharma, Ngo Han, Nikhil Anand, Praachi Nagpal, Rishee Miglani and Lokesh Sharma Jagdeesh Chandra with Nishant Bhagwati Jagdeesh Chandra with Ankit Goyal Jagdeesh Chandra with (L-R) Ashwini Yadav, Avdhesh Divakar, Rohitash Sharma, Bhanwar Singh Bhati, Dharmendra Rathore, Rohit Parihar, with BY MUKESH KIRADOO
he birthday celebrations of Dr Jagdeesh Chandra were held on Wednesday at the Bharat24- Vision of New India channel office at NOI DA. It was an afternoon replete with joy and togetherness with cake cutting and sharing of sweets and savouries. Special guests Dhiraj Srivastava Com missioner Rajasthan Founda tion, Anil Wahal CMD Whether ford India Private Limited , and many others reached to greet Jagdeesh Chandra.
agdeesh Chandra invokes a huge amount of love and loyalty from his team and friends and never is this more in evidence than on his birthday, every year! The outpouring of greetings and the celebra tions start a day prior and continue till the next day. This year too the celebra tions started a day prior at midnight and were still con tinuing when the edition went to print. Political, bu reaucracy, media from across India, fashion and entertain ment world- people from all fields greeted the media icon on his birthday. He also visited the Bharat24- Vision of New In dia, the First India channel office and the First India Newspaper office at the re quest of the respective teams so that everyone could celebrate and enjoy the occasion together with him. As always, the re nowned Taj Rambagh Hotel organised a special celebra tion for Jagdeesh Chandra, with GM Ashok Rathore and each staff member of Rambagh getting together to wish their mentor and patron on his birthday, Rambagh is well known as the second home of JC and the staff refuse to consider him a ‘customer’, he is muchJagdeeshmore!
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Managing Editor Ajay Kumar, Chief Business Officer Manoj Jagyasi, Senior Editor Syed Umar, Political Editor Aditi Na gar, Consulting Editor Shashi kant Sharma, Mimansa Malik, Poornima Mishra, Shikha Thakur, Sonal Dahiya, Amit Mittal along with the entire team were there to congratulate and greet him on the special oc casion. The State Bureaus across India joined the celebra tion via Zoom, adding to the feel ing of familial togetherness. Jagdeesh Chandra greeted by Vaibhav Gehlot. Also seen is GM Ashok Rathore
Jagdeesh Chandra with Moni Sharma, Yaqoob Khan, Mahesh Sharma, Mitali Dusad, Ashish Aman, Gajraj Singh Bhati and others during the celebration at the First India newspaper office
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Chandra en joyed the day with his inher ent simplicity and joy in the love which surrounded him.
Special cake curated by Rambagh family Jagdeesh Chandra greets the Rambagh family. Also seen is GM Ashok RathoreJagdeesh Chandra cuts the cake, as GM Ashok Rathore and the Rambagh family celebrate the special day
Jagdeesh Chandra cuts the cake. Also seen are (L-R) Shashikant Sharma, Manoj Jagyasi, Dhiraj Srivastava, Aditi Nagar, Ajay Kumar, Prasoon Shukla, Syed Umar, Sandeep Mishra and Bharat 24 team members
Jagdeesh Chandra with Dhiraj Srivastava, Manoj Jagyasi, Ajay Kumar, Prasoon Shukla, Syed Umar, Poornima Mishra, Vijay Shrivastava Jagdeesh Chandra with Shashikant Sharma, Dhiraj Srivastava, Manoj Jagyasi, Anu Shridhar, Aditi Nagar, Ajay Kumar, Parimal Mehhta, Syed Umar, Mimansa Malik and Vijay Shrivastava Jagdeesh Chandra with Anu Shridhar, Amit Mittal, Syed Umar, Prasoon Shukla, Shashikant Sharma, Aditi Nagar & Ajay Kumar Jagdeesh Chandra with Rainu Singh, Mahesh Sharma, Jinendra Shekhawat, Shweta Mishra, Shishir Awasthi, Poonam Sharma, Vijendra Solanki, Megha Kaushik, Ayushi Vijayvargiya, Ashish Aman and other members during the celebration at the First India channel office Jagdeesh Chandra with Rainu Singh, Shweta Mishra, Shaan and other members of the First India family Jagdeesh Chandra with Chandra Prakash, Mahesh Sharma, Pawan Bagda, Vinod Sharma and others Jagdeesh Chandra with Moni Sharma, Yaqoob Khan, Mahesh Sharma, Sharat Verma, Rashpal Singh, Gajraj Singh, Dilip Solanki, Dinesh Mathur, Ajit Shukla and others during the celebration at the newspaper office
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dr. JC!
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