First India-Delhi Edition-09th October 2022

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Be it Adani, Ambani or Jay Shah, we welcome all: CM Gehlot

Naresh Sharma & Ziauddin Khan

Jaipur: Criticising the BJP for mocking the Congress after he praised industrialist Gautam Adani during the Invest Rajasthan summit, Chief Minis ter Ashok Gehlot on Saturday said it was not a private pro gramme and 3,000 del egates attended it.

Be it Adani or Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah, Rajasthan will welcome all because it wants in

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CBI ‘EXAMINES’ SATYA PAL MALIK OVER ALLEGATIONS

New Delhi (PTI): The CBI has “examined” former governor Satya Pal Malik in connection with two graft cases registered in April based on allegations levelled by him, officials said. Malik had claimed that he was offered a Rs 300 crore bribe for clearing two files, “one belonging to Ambani and another to an RSS-affiliated man”.

OVER 600 EXOTIC ANIMALS SEIZED AT MUMBAI AIRPORT

Mumbai: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has seized 665 animals of exotic species at the Mumbai airport, an official said on Saturday. The animals, smuggled into the country concealed in an imported consignment of live fish, included rare lizards, pythons and iguanas, he said.

NO ONE ASKED INDIA TO STOP BUYING OIL

FROM RUSSIA: PURI

Washington: India, world’s third biggest oil importer, will continue to buy oil from any country that it has to, Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said adding that no country has told New Delhi to stop buying oil from Russia. India, which has not publicly condemned Moscow.

vestment and employ ment, Gehlot said.

“It is not a private event, it is an investors’ summit. Are 3,000 dele gates (who attended the

summit) of the Con gress?” Gehlot asked, asserting their ideolo gies could be that of the Congress or the BJP.

“In such a situation,

RAJ GOVT HASN’T GIVEN PREFERENTIAL

TREATMENT TO ADANI: RAHUL GANDHI

Turuvekere: A day after Gautam Adani pledged huge investments in Rajasthan, Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday the Congress government in the state has not given any preferential treatment to the industrialist and asserted that he is not against corporates but monopolies. Addressing a press conference here, Gandhi also said if the Rajasthan government gives business to Adani wrongly, he will oppose that. The BJP mocked the Congress on Friday after CM Ashok Gehlot lavished praise on Adani.

why do they want to cre ate a hurdle? I condemn these people. They talked about Gautam Adani yesterday (Fri day). Be it Gautam Ada

ni or any Adani, or Am bani or Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah, we will wel come all of them here. We want employment, we want investment,”

Will remove AFSPA only after installing peace: Shah in Assam

Coordinated efforts between central and state agencies a must to make country drug free: HM ‘Not drug seizure alone, enforcement agencies must aim at destroying channels of trafficking’

Guwahati (ANI): Un ion Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that the BJP-led govern ment would remove Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) only after installing peace in northeast India.

“Rahul Gandhi gave Congress an agenda to remove AFSPA from the northeast if they came to power (in 2019), for the sake of appease ment. When it was asked of me, I said we will first bring peace in the north east and then only will remove AFSPA, which would not happen just for appeasement,” Amit Shah said at a public gathering at the inaugu ration of the newly built BJP office — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bhawan in Guwahati, party’s big gest office in the north eastern region with all modern amenities.

The Ministry of Home Affairs recently extended the AFSPA, an act that empowers the

Guwahati: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday as sured the people of Assam that the government would make the state ‘flood-free’ in the next five years. “Earlier, during Assembly elections, I said that we made Assam free from terrorism and strikes. Now give us five years we will make Assam free from floods. The Assam government has made yojana which will make floods a thing of the past in Assam within 5 years,” Shah said at a Karyakarta Sammelan at Guwahati’s Khanapara.

armed forces to main tain public order in “dis turbed areas,” in some parts of the northeast for another six months.

Bar Council of India comes in Justice Chandrachud’s defence

Sumit Kumar

New Delhi: With Jus tice DY Chandrachud set to take oath of office as the next Chief Jus tice of India, the Bar Council of India has come out strongly in fa vour of Justice Chan drachud and deprecated the modus of some peo ple with vested interests for their unsuccessful attempt to tarnish the image of our Supreme court and/or its Judges.

The BCI has observed that “such growing ten dency is really a matter of serious concern for the country and it has to be checked anyhow.”

It further said on Sat urday, “One R. K. Pa

than, claiming to be the President of some so called “Supreme Court and High Court Litigant Association” is stated to have lodged a complaint against the Senior-most Judge of Supreme Court- Justice D. Y. Chandrachud. Such post and letter of R. K. Pathan is being made viral by a few people de liberately on the eve of

Justice Chandrachud’s elevation as the Chief Justice of India. The Bar Council of India has thoroughly exam ined the contents of this 165 pages long let ter and it finds that it is nothing but a scur rilous and malicious attempt to interfere with the functioning of Judiciary and the administration of Justice.”

Notably, a complaint was been filed before the President of India Droupadi Murmu, Central Vigilance Commission, and Prime Minister Naren dra Modi for “corrup tion and misuse of Su preme Court”.

In an order on Octo ber 1, the AFSPA was extended in certain re gions of Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.

However, the act was ex tended in Assam for six months on February 28, 2022 and on December 1, 2021 in Manipur.

This is the home min ister’s first visit to the region after the exten sion of the act.

Amit Shah asserted that the party’s consec utive rule in the north eastern region has en sured an “all-round de velopment”.

BJP ONLY IDEOLOGY BASED PARTY, CONG LACKS IDEOLOGY, SAYS JP NADDA Guwahati: The Con gress does not have any particular ideology and the BJP is the only ideology-based and national party in India, said BJP chief JP Nadda at the inauguration of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bhawan in Guwahati, the newly built BJP office.

At a public meeting in Guwahati, Nadda said that BJP is the only ide ology-based and national party. He was speaking at the inauguration of the newly-built State BJP of fice. He further said that BJP proposed to set up 512 offices across the country out of which 236 offices have been con structed and 154 offices are under construction.

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Much hype is be ing created over Gehlot's meet with Adani. Adani wants to invest `60,000 cr in Rajasthan. No CM will say don't invest. There are NO special rules or policies for Adani by RJ Govt. Gehlot is very much against cro nyism of the Modi variety.

the chief minister said. It was not clear why Gehlot clubbed Jay Shah’s name with those of industrialists Am bani and Adani as the

Union home minister’s son is not known to have any major busi ness interest.

Congress leader Ra hul Gandhi often high lights Adani to allege that Prime Minister Nar endra Modi only helps big business people. Adani, the chairman of the Adani Group and the richest man in Asia, was seated next to Ge hlot during the inaugu ral ceremony of Invest Rajasthan, organised by the Congress-run state government to attract investment.

We’ll fight against hate-mongering, says Rahul Gandhi

Tumakuru (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi held an interac tion with the masses as the Bharat Jodo Yatra resumed from Mayasan dra, Tumakuru in Kar nataka on Saturday. He said the Congress be lieves in fighting against those who spread hatred.

“My view is that it doesn’t matter who the person spreading hatred is, it doesn’t matter which community they come from, spreading hatred and violence is an antinational act and we’ll fight against such peo ple,” said Gandhi.

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‘I am sent by God to finish off Kansa’s descendants’

Nashik (ANI): At least 11 persons, including a child, died and over 20 people were injured af ter a Mumbai- bound bus caught fire after a collision with a trailer truck in Maharashtra’s Nashik this morning, said the city police add ing that the injured peo ple have been taken to hospital, as per the po lice.

President Droupa di Murmu, Prime Min ister Narendra Modi and CM Eknath Shinde condoled the loss of lives in the accident.

PM Modi and Maha rashtra CM Eknath Shinde also announced ex gratia for the kin of the deceased.

Vadodara (PTI): AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said he was born on Jan mashtami and God has given him a special task to finish off “descend ants” of demon Kansa on a day posters calling him “anti-Hindu” sur faced in Gujarat.

Claiming that the posters and banners have used words which are insulting to God, the Delhi chief minister said that the people of Gujarat will not pardon those who have used such words. “I would like to tell them that I was born on Krishna Janmashtami. And God has sent me with a spe

cial task-- to finish off these descendants of Kansa, to rid the public of corruption and hoo ligans,” he said.

“We will work togeth er to fulfil God’s desire.

God is with me. People are with me. People want a change, which is

why they are so upset,” he said on the first day of his latest visit to pollbound Gujarat.

Banners terming Ke jriwal “anti-Hindu” and showing him wearing a skull cap surfaced in Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Su rat, & Vadodara cities.

rity and unity in the country he said,” Our constitution states: Bharat is a union of states. It means all our languages, states and traditions have an equal ly important space. That is the nature of our country.” This was his third press interaction during the march.

Pakistani boat held in Gujarat;

`350 crore heroin seized

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah with Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and others during a public meeting at Khanapara ground in Guwahati, on Saturday. —PHOTO BY PTI GOVERNMENT WILL MAKE ASSAM FLOOD-FREE IN 5 YEARS, AMIT SHAH ASSURES PEOPLE

CM Ashok Gehlot with Gautam Adani at the summit. —FILE PHOTO

CM Ashok Gehlot addressing at the summit on Saturday.

Kutch: The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Saturday informed that they have seized heroin worth Rs 350 crore from a Pakistani boat off the state coast. The ICG and ATS, in a joint operation, also apprehended six crew members from the boat in Indian waters close to the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) in the Arabian Sea. The boat is being further investigated at the port Jakhau in Gujarat.

11 die, 20 hurt as bus catches fire in Nashik

Rahul Gandhi with Siddaramaiah during the party’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, in Tumakuru district, on Saturday. —PHOTO BY PTI

CONG PREZ POLL: RaGa TO VOTE AT CAMPSITE Turuvekere: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and 40 other leaders will vote in the party president’s election at a Bharat Jodo Yatra campsite in Karnataka’s Bellary on October 17.

Justice DY Chandrachud

Rain chokes several Delhi roads, again

n Mercury dips but roads get waterlogged n Poor drainage system makes situation worse

New Delhi (PTI): A downpour in the nation al capital on Saturday gave the public a first taste of the upcoming winter, but also led to waterlogging at several places in the city.

Anand Vihar, Wa zirabad, the road stretch between INA and AIIMS, Mehrauli-Ba darpur Road, Tughlak abad, Sangam Vihar, Kirari, Rohtak Road, Vikas Marg, near Zakh ira, Najafgarh, Mahipal pur, and Rangpuri, were among several places which witnessed water logging, civic and PWD authorities said.

Prabhakar Kumar, an urban planning expert said to enable free flow

of rainwater, it is re quired to have integrat ed drainage system.

“Improper integra tion of the drainage sys tem especially near the flyovers or the under passes areas makes the situation worse. Drains mainly along the roads, flyovers and underpass es should be corrected in a way that the slope of the roads matches the drains," he said.

Unseasonal rains trigger rise in typhoid, respiratory issues

First India Bureau

New Delhi: City hos pitals are seeing an uptick in patients coming to OPDs with upper respiratory tract infections, ty phoid, and gastroen teritis.

According to the

Court notice to CBI on bail plea of businessman in DHFL case

First India Bureau

New Delhi: A Delhi Court has issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on a regular bail plea of busi nessman Ajay Ramesh Nawandar.

Nawandar was arrest ed in connection with an alleged bank fraud of ` 34,615 crores by Dewan Housing Finance Corpo ration Limited (DHFL) and is presently on in terim bail on medical grounds. Special Judge Vishal Gogne on Friday sought a response from the CBI and listed the matter for arguments on October 12. “Let notice of the present bail appli cation be issued to the CBI for filing reply. List for filing of reply of the CBI, if any, and argu ments on the bail appli cation on October 12,”

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city doctors, this could be the result of unseasonal rain and sudden weather change.

Doctors say that the number of such cases has doubled due to the increased awareness. “These days, we are getting

more than 20 patients every day in the OPD with complaints of upper respiratory tract infections, undi agnosed prolonged fever, typhoid, cases of swine flu, aller gies, pneumonia and dengue,” said Dr Bhagwan Mantri,

consultant pulmonol ogist and critical care specialist at Mool chand Hospital.

Doctors advise peo ple to wear mask since it not only pro tects against Covid-19 but other viruses too which get transmit ted through air.

Traffic jam at many places

Heavy traffic jam was reported from Zakhira flyover. Similar scenes were witnessed on Najafgarh road towards Bahadurgarh and on Ring Road from Raja Garden Chowk till Dhaula Kuan loop. A commuter tweeted that the traffic was heavy from Naraina towards Moti Bagh on the Dhaula Kuan stretch. Another commuter said the red light at Punjabi Bagh Chowk was not working and there is heavy traffic jam due to rain and waterlogging. Slow traffic was reported near Anand Vihar, Red Fort, Mathur Road and Chhawla areas. Azad market red light chowk also witnessed traffic jam.

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said the court. Accord ing to the fresh regular bail plea, the applicant is severely ill suffering from various medical ailments and is in the worst of fragile health. The applicant has to un dergo various surgeries and thus needs bail.

Advocate Hemant Shah appeared for Nawandar and submit

ted the applicant was ar rested in the aforesaid matter on the premise that two paintings have been recovered from the premise of the applicant which belonged to the promoters of DHFL, however, the applicant had stated earlier that the same did not belong to the applicant and he was merely a custodian.

Injunction sought against movie 'Adipurush'

New Delhi (PTI): A plea has been filed seeking injunction againstthe upcoming movie "Adipu rush", alleging it has de picted Hindu gods in an "unwarranted" and "in accurate" way in its pro motional video.

The matter has been listed for hearing before senior civil judge Ab hishek Kumar on Mon day. The plea filed by ad vocate Raj Gaurav on

Friday stated that Lord Ram was shown as "atro cious, revengeful and angry", and Lord Hanu man was depicted as wearing leather straps all over his body.

Also, the character of Ravan, a staunch Brah man, was "awfully cheap and appalling", the plea alleged. "That prima fa cie the teaser is so atro cious wicked and dia bolical that it along with the pursuant movie should be outrightly banned in the interest of religious feelings, senti ments and aspirations of Hindus of India and else where," the plea said.

Gurugram (PTI):

A teenage boy has been apprehended for allegedly raping an around 4-yearold girl in Sector 52 area, police said on Saturday.

He was booked under POCSO Act at Badshahpur Po lice Station, said police. The boy was produced before the Juvenile Justice Board on Saturday and sent to a correc tional home in Faridabad.

According to the complaint filed by

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the mother of the victim, the incident happened Tuesday when she was away at work. In the evening when her daughter was play ing outside, the boy lured her on some pretext and took her to him room where he raped her, she said in her com plaint, according to police.

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MINOR GIRL KILLED IN DELHI

New Delhi (PTI): An eight-year-old girl was allegedly killed by her neighbour in Narela area. The police ruled out any sexual assault angle in the case and attributed the murder to the strained relationship the victim’s brother had with the accused. Police received information around 10 pm on Friday. The accused was tracked down around 11.30 pm and taken into police custody, poice said.

SA shortlisted to bring mate for African elephant

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Zoo Director Dharam Deo said they chose South Africa as it has a good population of elephants and can provide a suitable match for Shankar

New Delhi (PTI): Shankar, the 26-year-old African elephant from Zimbabwe at Delhi zoo, is likely to get a female companion from South Africa, officials said.

Zoo Director Dharam Deo Rai said they had shortlisted South Africa as it has a good popula tion of African elephants and could provide a suit able match for Shankar.

“It is not possible to relocate the elephant into the wild. Normally, we conduct a rewilding

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programme for animals born in zoos wherein the next generations of the animal are trained to

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New Delhi (PTI): A 24-year-old man was allegedly robbed of `4 lakh by three per sons at gunpoint in north Delhi’s Sadar Bazar area, police said on Saturday.

One of the ac cused has been ar rested. Sadar Bazar resident Salman Qureshi, who trades in goats, reached Tikona Park on his two-wheeler at 4.10 am on Friday to de liver `4 lakh as pay ment to Shera, who delivered goats from Jaipur to Gazipur, a

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hunt and their interac tion with humans is minimised. It takes gen erations,” he said.

Zimbabwe gifted Shankar to India in 1998, when he was 26 months old. He is one of the two

African elephants in In dian zoos, the second be ing another male at Mys uru Zoo.

police officer said. He was accosted by the three accused on a motorcycle. One of them took out a pistol and pointed it at Qureshi, who im mediately threw the money and hid be hind a truck. The ac cused took the mon ey and fled, Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) Sagar Singh Kalsi said.

Special secretary to LG transferred to MCD

New Delhi: The Delhi government on Satur day transferred Sakshi Mittal, special secre tary to LG VK Saxena, as additional secretary of the Municipal Corpo ration of Delhi (MCD).

Also, three senior of ficers were appointed to the revenue depart ment, which is execut ing various important projects, including dig itisation of land re cords. Namgyal Angmu has been appointed as the SDM Kapashera and will look after the

“Revenue Estates” pro ject. Navneet Mann (SDM, Alipur) and Sar jana Yadav (SDM, Chanakyapuri) have been assigned e-Courts and e-Platform projects respectively.

Shankar has been alone since the death of his partner, Bombai,

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A man drags his two-wheeler through a waterlogged road following heavy rainfall in New Delhi on Saturday.

—PHOTO BY ANI

A tricycle rickshaw puller waits for passengers during rains in New Delhi on Saturday. —PHOTO BY PTI

Commuters stuck in a traffic jam amid heavy rains at Ring Road near Lajpat Nagar on Saturday.

Air Force personnel perform a drill with rifles during 90th anniversary celebrations of Indian Air Force (IAF), at the Air Force Station in Chandigarh on Saturday.

—PHOTO BY PTI

Teenage boy rapes girl, sent to correctional home

Three men rob trader at gunpoint, one arrested

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AAP to offer free Ayodhya trip if voted to power in Gujarat

In poll pitch, Kejriwal plays to Hindu sentiments

Dahod (PTI): If voted to power in Gujarat, the AAP government will bear the entire expenses of people who want to visit Ayodhya for Lord Ram's darshan, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Satur day amid a row over his cabinet colleague pur portedly denouncing Hindu deities.

He also said Aam Aadmi Party will win the upcoming Gujarat elections, due in Decem ber this year, because it is working for the people and "for God".

Addressing a rally at Dahod on the first day of his two-day visit to Gu jarat, the AAP national convener said the Delhi government has launched a similar scheme wherein devo tees of Lord Ram are taken to Ayodhya for free in a special train.

"Lord Shri Ram's tem ple in Ayodhya will get ready next year. Who all want to visit the temple?

All of you want to do so.

But the trip, stay, food and lodging is very cost ly, isn't it? And if you take your entire family, then it costs a lot," he

said. If we form a gov ernment in Gujarat, we will take you for a free darshan of Ayodhyaji, he said.

"In Delhi, a special train leaves with Ram Bhakts. People's travel, food and lodging are free. They are picked up from their homes and dropped back,” he said.

I visit Delhi railway sta tion when the train leaves for Ayo dhya and also re ceive devotees when they return. They bless me a lot upon return.

—Arvind Kejriwal, CM, Delhi

Why Kejriwal and gang hate Hindu, Hindutva: Rijiju

New Delhi (PTI): Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju hit out at the AAP and its leadership say ing he does not understand why Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and "his gang" hate Hindu and Hindutva so much.

The minister's remarks came after a video clip pur portedly showing Delhi So cial Welfare Minister Ra jendra Pal Gautam at an event where hundreds took a pledge to convert to Buddhism while de nouncing Hindu deities went viral.

In a series of tweets posted late on Friday night and on Saturday morning, Rijiju said, "I really don't understand the reason as to why Arvind Kejriwal and his gang hate Hindu and Hindutva so much."

"I can understand about Rahul Gandhi but Arvind Kejriwal....," the BJP MP from Arunachal Pradesh said.

Damage Control?

Kejriwal's invocation of Lord Ram came against the backdrop of a video clip purportedly showing Delhi Social Welfare Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam at an event where hundreds took a pledge to convert to Buddhism while renouncing Hindu deities. Banners terming Kejriwal as "anti-Hindu" and show ing him wearing a skull cap surfaced in Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat, and Vadodara cities on Saturday. Along with Kejriwal's pictures, some banners carried lines like "I consider Hindu religion as madness", while some others had an "anti-Hindu Kejriwal go back" message.

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CM running away from constitutional duties: LG

New Delhi (PTI): In a no-holds-barred letter to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, LG VK Saxena has accused him and his ministers of running away from their consti tutional duties and re sponsibility of govern ance in Delhi.

In the letter dated Oc tober 7, Saxena also hit out at Kejriwal govern ment saying its rule, based on "speeches and advertisement", was al ienated from works of basic public interest.

Saxena's letter comes days after DyCM Man ish Sisodia accused him of interfering in govern ment's functioning and "unconstitutionally" set ting up probes on its de cisions and works.

In a cheeky reply to Saxena, Kejriwal in a tweet on Saturday said: "Another love letter has come." Kejriwal had ear lier too taken a dig at the LG in a tweet saying he was scolded by Saxena more than he is scolded by his wife. The LG said his letters and instruc tions were meant to cau tion the government against "errors and shortcomings" in its functioning yet he was personally attacked and became target of "base less allegations."

In his letter, the LG flagged his instructions regarding a probe in the now scrapped excise policy, absence of Kejri

MULAYAM SINGH’S CONDITION STILL CRITICAL: MEDANTA HOSPITAL

Gurugram: Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav continues to be in ICU of Medanta Hospital here and his condition remains critical, the hospital said on Saturday. It said, “Mulayam Singh Yadav ji's condi tion is still critical and he is maintaining vitals on life saving drugs. He is being treated in the ICU of Medanta Hospital, Gurugram, by a comprehensive team of specialists.”

BCOM AT KIRORI MAL, RAMJAS TOP CHOICE AT DU

New Delhi: BCom at Delhi University's Ramjas and Kirori Mal College are the most popular programme combina tions among candidates for under graduate admissions.

Till 5:30 am Saturday, 37,566 candidates had listed BCom at Ramjas College as one of their choices and 37,531 have chosen BCom at Kirori Mal.

GOVT OKAYS NEW FILTER HOUSE AT NANGLOI WTP

New Delhi: DyCM Man ish Sisodia approved construction of a new filter house at Nangloi water treatment plant (WTP) for Rs 59.7 crore to en sure roundthe-clock water supply in the city, according to an official statement.

The WTP will now be able to treat 10-15 per cent more water during peak summer season, the statement said.

Brain dead ex-BSF jawan donates organs at AIIMS

New Delhi (PTI): The family of a 52-year-old ex-BSF jawan who was declared brain dead at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here donated his organs, offering a new lease of life to three people.

While Rakesh Ku mar's one kidney was used at the AIIMS Del

His heart was transplanted in a patient at Army RR Hospital. His one kidney went to Safdarjung hospital while his other kidney was used at AIIMS

hi itself, the other was sent for a patient at the Safdarjung hospital. His heart was trans planted in a patient at the Army's Research

and Referral (RR) Hospital.

Kumar, a native of Firozabad, had suffered a fall while carrying out some electricity re

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pairs at his home on October 3. He was rushed to a local trau ma centre which re ferred him to the AIIMS, a doctor said.

Kumar was admitted to AIIMS Trauma Cen tre early on October 4 and was operated upon. He was declared brain dead on October 6, the doctor added.

My letters & instructions are meant to caution the govern ment against errors & shortcomings in its functioning, yet I am personally at tacked.

—Vinai Kumar Saxena, Lt Governor, Delhi

BJP destroying lives of Delhiites via LG: Kejriwal

New Delhi (PTI): CM Arvind Kejriwal on Sat urday hit out at the BJP and LG VK Saxena, saying the saffron party is destroying the lives of people of the national capital through LG.

"BJP is hell bent on destroying the lives of the people of Delhi through LG. Every day these people make a fuss about something or the other. I assure Delhiites that as long as this son of yours is alive, don't worry. I won't let any harm come to you," Kejriwal said in another tweet in Hindi.

DyCM Manish Sisodia also reacted to the LG's letter, saying that it was being done due to Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party's growing popularity in Gujarat.

"Every day AAP's support base in Gujarat gets stronger, and everyday a new fake investi gation starts in Delhi. Everyone is aware of his (LG's) conspiracies to stop Arvind Kejriwal. They can do whatever they want but neither the work being done in the interest of the pub lic in Delhi will stop, nor will the AAP wave in Gujarat," Sisodia said in a tweet in Hindi.

wal or his ministers at an event attended by the President, power subsi dy, recruitment of teach ers and asked was he wrong in doing that.

Saxena accused Kejri,

yet I wal and his associ ates of levelling false al legations and spreading them through social me dia causing "irreparable loss" to the people they targetted.

ED seizes `1crore in raids at 35 locations

New Delhi (PTI): The Enforcement Directo rate has seized about Rs 1 crore in cash after raids in connection with a money laundering in vestigation into the al leged irregularities in the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy, official sources said Saturday.

The searches were launched at about 35 lo cations in Delhi-NCR, Punjab and Telangana's capital Hyderabad.

About a crore cash was seized from a loca tion during the raids against liquor business men, distribution com panies and linked enti ties, sources said. Some devices and documents were also seized, they said without disclosing the locations of the re coveries. Premises linked to a director of a TV news organisation and a former Punjab MLA were also searched.

CBI questions Tejashwi aide in land-forjobs ‘scam’

New Delhi: The CBI questioned pri vate secretary of Bihar DyCM Tejash wi Yadav in connec tion with alleged land-for-jobs scam in Railways. Sanjay Yadav was sum moned to appear be fore the agency on Saturday, a day after the CBI chargesheet ed Tejashwi's father Lalu Prasad, moth er Rabri Devi and sister Misa Bharti in the case.

Two women held for manhandling Noida housing society guard

Noida (PTI): Two women were taken into police custody after a purported video of them manhandling a private security guard of a group housing soci ety here went viral, of ficials said on Saturday.

A third woman, who was with the duo at the time of the incident that took place around 1 am on Saturday, is ab sconding, they said.The trio, aged below 30 years, had allegedly got into an argument with

the private security guard Ujjwal Shukla of the Ajnara Homes soci ety in Sector 121, under Phase 3 police station limits.

They have been identi fied as sisters Deeksha and Anjali Tiwari, who are natives of Uttara khand but staying in the society on rent, and Kakul Ahmed, a resi dent of Gaur City-2 in Greater Noida (West).

Addl DCP (Central Noida) Saad Miyan Khan said a non-cogni

zable report (NCR) has been lodged against them over a complaint by the guard.

“Two of the accused

magistrate and chal lans issued against them under Indian Pe nal Code sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (inten tional insult),” Khan told PTI.

Those held are Anjali and Kakul while Deek sha is absconding, offi cials said.

which the on-duty guard stopped them for enquiry.

However, this prompt ed a heated argument between the women and the security guard even as his colleagues tried to intervene and resolve the situation.

have been taken into custody in a preventive action under CrPC sec tion 151. They were pro duced before a local

According to officials, the women, allegedly under the influence of alcohol, were in a car that did not have a soci ety sticker because of

A purported video of the episode surfaced on social media which showed one of the wom en holding the guard by his collar before she re moved the cap from his head and flung it in air.

Arvind Kejriwal at 'Lav Kush Ramlila' in New Delhi on Dussehra.

Nargis Saifi, wife of activist Khalid Saifi, speaks during a press conference ‘India Behind Bars: The Cost of Free Speech’, at Press Club of India in New Delhi on Saturday.

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OF LITERARY RENDEZVOUS & MORE...

One of her novels, “Getting Lost”, published in 2001, is about her intense affair with a Soviet Diplomat.

Annie Ernaux is 82 years old. The citation was read out by Mats Malm, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy which selects the winner. Part of it lauds the ‘courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and col lective restraints of personal memory’.

PAST KARMAS NOT LETTING LALU & FAMILY LIVE IN PEACE

This year’s prize for Literature has been awarded to the French author, Annie Ernaux. She is the first French woman to get the award. In all, seventeen female writers have received the Nobel for Literature

The one who wrote, “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretch es its arms towards perfec tion; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into everwidening thought and actionInto that heaven of Freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

This is stanza 35 from Ra bindranath Tagore’s “Gitan jali” for which he was award ed the Nobel Prize for Litera ture in 1913. No other Indian has got the Literature Prize since then.

Ihave met twenty one Nobel Laureates. Pearl Buck, U.S.A, Kawabata Yasunari, Japan, Pablo Neruda, Chile, Nelson Mandela, South Africa, Rob ert Manchu, Guatemala, Des mond Tutu, South Africa, Lech Walesa, Poland, Shiman Peres, Israel, Yaseer Arafat, Palestine Liberation Organi sation, Kofi Annan, Ghana, Wangari Maathai, Kenya, Mu hammad Yunus, Bangladesh, Amartya Sen, India, V.S. Nai paul, Trinidad, Nadine Gordi mer, South Africa, Octavio Paz, Mexico, Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, Gunter Grass, Ger many, Hennery Kissinger, U.S.A, Eisaku Sato, Japan, Martin Luther King Jr., U.S.A. and Garcia Marques.

R.K. Narayan would have got the Nobel Prize for Literature sooner rather than later. I often spoke to R.K. Narayan about missing out on the prize. His answer was that of man who had Malgudi written all over him. “I am glad I did not get the Prize. It would have disrupted my life, peace and tranquillity completely.” He meant it

Had Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary General of the United Nations, not died in plane crash in September 1961, R.K. Narayan would have got the Nobel Prize for Literature sooner rather than later. I often spoke to R.K. Narayan about missing out on the prize. His answer was that of man who had Malgudi written all over him. “I am glad I did not get the Prize. It would have disrupted my life,

CASTE SYSTEM IS TOO DEEP-ROOTED

peace and tranquillity com pletely”. He meant it.

We had been intimate friends for forty years. I still re-read some of his novels, specially, ‘Swami and Friends, ‘The Bachelor of Arts’, ‘The Guide’ and his en chanting autobiography, ‘My Days’, in which I appear. The year, 1965, New York. R.K. Narayan was in serious trou ble. Harvey Breit, at one time literary editor of The New York Times was an old friend of R.K. They fell out over Har vey’s stage version of “The Guide”. “His version was so different from mine that I withheld my permission to present it on the stage.”

R.K’s lawyer warned him that he should leave the coun try immediately, because, Har vey was taking him to court. A summon would be issued and R.K would not be allowed to leave New York for six months….”Thanks to my friend Natwar Singh of our foreign service, I secured asy lum in the Indian Consulate..” I put him on the Air India flight at 8 P.M.

This year’s prize for Litera ture has been awarded to the French author, Annie Er naux. She is the first French woman to get the award. In all, seventeen female writers have received the Nobel for Literature.

On October 6th a half de mented 34 year old Thai drug addict and dismissed police of ficer committed a horrific crime in a children’s school in the northern eastern rural town, Nangbua Lamphu. He entered the child care facility, armed with a pistol, shotgun and knife. He killed thirty eight people, including twenty four children, taking their af ternoon nap. Not one was more than four years old. Each was stabbed or shot in the head. Their eight month pregnant teacher met the same fate.

The killer then walked home, shot his wife, son and himself. Thailand is a Bud dhist country. At 5:1, weapons per 100 people, gun ownership rate in Thailand is among the highest in Asia.

The Chief of RSS, Shri Bhagwat is, it seems has be come an enlightened Hindu reformist. Do away with the concepts of Jati and Varna, he said four days back. I have lit tle doubt that some of his con servative followers must be feeling uneasy. Let them.

Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Pras ad Yadav cannot run away from his kar ma as chief minis ter of Bihar and as the Union railway minister. He has al ready served a fairly long term in jail for the infamous fodder scam and now the CBI has charge sheeted Lalu, his wife Rabri Devi who is also a former chief minister of Bihar, their daughters Misa Bharti, Hema Yadav and 16 others in the land for job scam in which land was acquired at rates lower than the market rate. The CBI’s case is that 12 persons from Patna were hired for Group D jobs in the railways and in return La lu’s family got seven plots of land. Lalu and his kin are al leged to have acquired 1 lakh square feet of land for mere Rs 26 lakh against the market rate of Rs 4.39 crore.

After the fodder scam Ya dav’s charge of witch hunt by the Central agency will be hard to believe.

SPIRITUAL SPEAK

The spirit is beyond destruction. No one can bring an end to spirit which is everlasting. Bhagavad Gita

Caste and religious politics are close ly linked in India.

In reality politics feeds on caste and religion as it keeps voters divided to its advantage. Hindu scriptures divide the society into four Varnas--Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras--based on which the evil of the caste system has evolved and become all-pervasive. It is reflected in the discrimi nation of and frequent cases of assault on Dalits. So fix ated are some upper caste Hindus on castes that they even want to practice it even in distant America. It is, therefore, heartening to hear Mohan Bhagwat, the Sarsanghchalak, talk of dis carding the caste system

The latest suggestion will also have an impact on reservations for both Dalits & Backward Classes. Neither section will let go of that right and with general elections due in 2024 netas will start making a beeline for Dalits’ homes

(Varna and Jaati) as it has become outdated. They are things of the past and forgot ten, he said. Unfortunately, they are not being allowed to fade from public memory.

Given the hold that caste politics has on Indian’s mind scape that doing away with it will be like stirring a hornet’s

nest. Although attempts are being made to assimilate low er castes into the main stream, high caste Hindus will oppose any such move tooth and nail. Just as Bhag wat’s 2019 call for a “conver sation in harmonious atmos phere between those in fa vour of quota and those against it”. The call was in terpreted as anti-Dalit-Back ward face of the RSS and BJP. The RSS had to clarify that an unnecessary controversy was being created.

The latest suggestion will also have an impact on reser vations for both Dalits and Backward Classes. Neither section will let go of that right and with the general elections due in 2024 netas will start making a beeline for Dalits’ homes.

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Inaugurated the new headquarters of @BJP4Assam in Guwahati. I am confident that this state-of-art building will play a significant role in further strengthening BJP in the state and contributing in the development of Assam and welfare of its people.

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Touch The Sky With Glory! On 90th #AirForceDay, we salute the valour and service of our Air Warriors and our veterans. The @IAF_MCC with its tradition of gallantry is transforming for the future as an Aatmanirbhar force.

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IAF CHIEF ANNOUNCES CREATION OF NEW WEAPON SYSTEM BRANCH

Chandigarh (ANI):

Pride and valour ech oed in the celebrations of the Indian Airforce which marked the com pletion of 90 years of its foundation on Satur day. IAF chief Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari lauded the forces and informed that the Indian govern ment approved the cre ation of a weapon sys tem branch for the of ficers in IAF.

This year’s anniver sary celebrations theme was “IAF: Transform ing for the Future”. This aptly highlights the Indian Air Force’s needs to redefine, reim agine and recalibrate to transform into a con temporary and futureready force. “It is my privilege to announce that the government has approved the crea tion of a Weapon Sys tem Branch for Officers in the IAF. This is the first time since the inde pendence that a new op erational branch has been created,” said Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari.

The move will essen tially be for manning four specialised streams of Surface-to-Surface missiles, Surface-to-Air Missiles, Remotely Pi

PRESIDENT MURMU, RAJNATH WITNESS IAF PROWESS ON FIRST AIR FORCE DAY CELEBRATIONS OUTSIDE DELHI-NCR

Chandigarh (PTI): A dazzling show by a fleet of military aircraft over the Sukhna Lake here enthralled the gather ing, including President Droupadi Murmu, who clapped during their breathtaking maneu vers as the Indian Air Force marked its 90th anniversary celebra tions on Saturday. It is the IAF’s first annual

loted Aircraft and Weapon System Opera tors in twin and multicrew aircraft. He also informed that the crea tion of this branch would result in savings

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Guwahati (Agencies): Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday washed the feet of senior BJP functionaries and shared the video on his Twitter handle.

The chief minister said showing re spect to the seniors is a cornerstone of the BJP’s tradition and he is honoured to have washed the feet of the senior functionaries.

WOMAN KILLS HUBY BY CHOPPING OFF HIS GENITAL

Air Force Day parade and fly-past outside the Delhi-National Capital Region, which also saw the participation De fence Minister Rajnath Singh. Governors of Punjab and Haryana Banwarilal Purohit and Bandaru Dattatreya, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khat tar and Chandigarh MP Kirron Kher were

of over Rs 3,400 crore due to reduced expendi ture on flying training.

He also stressed the induction of air warri ors into IAF through the Agnipath scheme and

Nath seeks reply from 2 MLAs of molesting woman

present too. Prior to the spectacular aerial display, a ceremonial parade was held at the air force station here in the morning in the presence of Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari. Murmu was accorded the guard of honour upon her arrival here. This is her first visit to Chandigarh as the President of India.

called it an opportunity to harness the potential of youth. “We have changed our operation al training methodology to ensure each Agniveer is equipped with the

PM GREETS INDIAN AIR FORCE ON THE DAY

The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has greeted the members of Indian Air Force and their families on the oc casion of Air Force Day.

BJP plans mega PM rallies in 144 identified LS seats

New Delhi (Agencies):

Aiming to boost its tally in the 2024 general elec tions, the BJP has planned dozens of mega rallies by Prime Minis ter Narendra Modi, cov ering the 144 Lok Sabha seats most of which it lost in 2019, and where it has been working to brighten its prospects.

Sources said on Sat urday the party has pre pared a ‘cluster plan’ to strengthen its standing in these seats.

‘BJP AIMS 12 OF 14 LS SEATS IN ASSAM’

Jajpur (PTI): A 33-yearold woman allegedly chopped off the genitals of her husband before stabbing him to death in Odisha’s Jajpur district, police said on Saturday. The incident took place at Pubola Mundasahi village on Friday night. The deceased has been identified as Raju Cham pia (39) of the village, police said. The accused woman, identified as Kuni Champia, allegedly murdered her husband with a sharp weapon late on Friday night.

CHANDRAYAAN-2 MAPS SODIUM ON MOON: ISRO

Bhopal (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Congress pres ident Kamal Nath has sought a reply from Satna MLA Siddharth Kushwaha and Kotma MLA Su neel Saraf who have been ac cused by a woman of molesting her onboard a train.

Kamal Nath has also constituted a committee to look into the matter.

Bengaluru (PTI): The X-ray spectrometer ‘CLASS’ on the Chan drayaan-2 Orbiter has mapped an abun dance of sodium on the moon for the first time, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Fluorescence Spectrom eter (C1XS) detected sodium from its char acteristic line in X-rays which opened up the possibility of mapping the amount of sodium on the Moon, it said.

CROCODILE CLAIMS LIFE IN BHITARKANIKA, FIVE DEATHS IN LAST FOUR MONTHS

Kendrapara (PTI): A 17-year-old girl was appar ently killed in an attack by a saltwater crocodile at a riverside village in Odisha’s Kendrapara district, officials said on Saturday. Sheela Dalei was grazing goats near a creek in Rangani vil lage when the crocodile pounced on her Friday afternoon. Her mutilated body was later fished out by fire brigade personnel on Saturday, officials said.

Both MLAs were alleg edly accused by a wom an of molesting her on board a train, said the police. The Railway po lice received the infor mation of molestation and a team of officials was sent to the train.

Narendra Modi @narendramodi

On Air Force Day, my greetings to the cou rageous air warriors and their families. In line with the motto of the Indian Air Force has shown exceptional dexterity for decades. They have secured the nation and also shown remarkable human spirit during disasters.

right skills and knowl edge to start their career in the Air Force. In De cember we would be in ducting 3,000 Agniveer Vayu for their initial training,” he added.

Confident India will navigate through OPEC + production cut: Puri

Washington (ANI): Union Minister for Pe troleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday (local time) said that India will navigate through the Organisation of Pe troleum Exporting Countries Plus (OPEC+) decision to cut oil production from November by a steeper than expected two mil lion barrels per day (bpd).

“How will this im pact India? We are very confident of being able to navigate through the situation,” Puri said while speaking to re porters in Washington.

Puri highlighted In

It’s good, Prashant Kishor helping BJP, says Nitish Kumar

Patna (ANI): After Prashant Kishor claimed that Nitish Ku mar offered him to join his party, Bihar Chief Minister said that a po litical strategist who helps political parties to win the elections and influence people is now making baseless claims, adding that a few years back Kishor had ad vised him to merge his party Janata Dal (Unit ed) with Congress.

Kumar took a swipe at Kishore, saying, “it appears that Kishor is working for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).”

The Bihar Chief Minis

ter categorically denied offering Prashant Kishor a post in his par ty. Asked about PK’s claim, Kumar told re porters, “It is false. Let him speak whatever he wants. We have nothing to do with it. 4-5 years back he had told me to merge with Congress. He has gone to BJP nowadays and is acting as per them. What he has to do with politics?”

dia is one of the largest oil importers and the demand is expected to rise driven by an in crease in India’s per capita consumption of energy which current ly stands at one-third of the global average. Puri further stressed that the fuel demand is expected to keep rising as the country’s econo my grows.

In the first phase of the elaborate plan, sev eral Union ministers were asked to visit these seats and hold meetings with BJP workers and people from different walks of life. Last month, BJP president JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah had held a review meeting with the vari ous Union ministers to assess the progress of

Guwahati: The BJP has set a target of winning 12 out of 14 seats in Assam in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday. Addressing a party workers’ meet here, Sarma said the BJP will start working from now to make Narendra Modi India’s prime minister for the third consecutive time. “Assam has 14 Lok Sabha seats and we won nine last time. This time, we will have to win at least 12 seats,” he said in presence of BJP president JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. “We will not stop till the Lok Sabha polls. We want to see Narendra Modi as prime minister for the third time,” he added.

the party’s cluster plan.

“Now as part of phase 2 of the plan, it is being planned to hold dozens of mega rallies of the prime minister

covering these 144 Lok Sabha seats to brighten the party’s prospects on these seats in next Lok Sabha polls,” a source said.

EX-CONG CHIEF JAKHAR NOW AT CENTRE OF BJP’S PUNJAB PLAN

Chandigarh (Agen cies): Former Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar is emerging as a prominent face of the state BJP since he joined the party this May, after being asso ciated with the Con gress for over three

‘Missing links in WHO’s claims should be probed’

New Delhi (ANI): A health expert from the Standing National Com mittee on Saturday as serted that there are several “missing links” that need to be probed in the World Health Or ganisa tion’s (WHO) claim of over 66 deaths due to cold and cough syrup produced by the Maiden Pharma ceuticals Ltd. “The first death was reported in July but WHO informed the regulator in India on September 29. The Indi an government has not received a complete cau sality assessment,” Dr YK Gupta said.

decades.

Last month, the BJP high command chose him to be part of a

5-member committee constituted to conduct an inquiry into the vi olence during the par ty’s Nabanna march in Kolkata. This was the first assignment for Jakhar, the only party leader from Punjab in the committee.

J-K developments PM Modi's biggest achievement: Singh

New Delhi (ANI): Un ion Minister Jitendra Singh on Friday called the development in Jammu and Kashmir as the biggest achieve ment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led gov ernment and further claimed that each sec tor of the Union Terri tory has got a common allocation.

"It is the biggest achievement of PM Modi that in 70 years, each division of J-K has a common allocation for the proposed develop ment projects," Union Minister Jitendra Singh said while reacting to Jammu and Kashmir National Conference

(JKNC) chief Farooq Abdullah's response to the challenge of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Shah, during his public address in J-K's Baramullah on Wednes day, took a dig at the Gupkar alliance and openly challenged the JKNC to present a 're port card' regarding the development projects in the Union Territory, during its tenure of gov ernance.

Will Nitish and Tejashwi agree to form a 7 party coordination committee?

Mahesh Sharma

New Delhi: The cur rent Bihar government has the support of seven parties. Although only four parties are involved in the government, a to tal of seven parties are in the coalition govern ment. Three communist parties—CPI, CPM and CPIML—have support ed the government from outside, while JD(U), RJD, Congress and Hin dustan Awam Morcha form part of the govern ment. Running an alli ance of seven parties is not easy in a politically volatile state like Bihar. But since the number of these two parties, JD(U)

Tejashwi Prasad Yadav along with Nitish Kumar

and RJD, also exceeds the majority, neither party is in a position to exert pressure.

Nevertheless, for the last few days, there is a discussion that a coordi nation committee should be formed, which will help in the opera tion of the coalition and

the government. This demand is especially from the three commu nist parties, which are not part of the govern ment. They feel that through the coordina tion committee, they will be able to keep an eye on the work of the government and take

some decisions accord ing to their agenda. For mer Chief Minister Ji tan Ram Manjhi’s party Hum and some Con gress leaders have also pointed out the need for a coordination commit tee. In fact, the message among the leaders of these five small parties is that the government is of JDU and RJD. All the work is being done according to these two big parties, which is true to an extent. There fore, it will be interest ing to see whether Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Min ister Tejashwi Yadav are ready to form a coordi nation committee.

HIMANTA SARMA WASHES FEET OF SENIOR BJP LEADERS; SAYS, ‘INDIAN CULTURE’

President Droupadi Murmu graces the 90th anniversary celebrations of the Indian Air Force (IAF), at Sukhna Lake, in Chandigarh on Saturday. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit, Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari and his wife Neeta Chaudhari are also present. —PHOTO BY ANI

Beijing: China on Satur day criticized the latest U.S. decision to tighten export controls that would make it harder for China to obtain and manufacture advanced computing chips, calling it a violation of international economic and trade rules that will “isolate and backfire” on the U.S. “Out of the need to maintain its sci-tech hegemony, the U.S. abus es export control meas ures to maliciously block and suppress Chinese companies,” said Foreign Ministry representative Mao Ning.

ROLLS ROYCE IN TALKS WITH DRDO ON AMCA ENGINES

Rising food, oil prices fuelling inflation

New Delhi (Agencies): In flation in India has been on the rise consistently for the past several months and various reasons can be at tributed to it such as soar ing food and oil prices, among others.

However, most impor tantly, the sharply depreci ating rupee against the dol lar is one of the most sig nificant reasons behind it.

India’s retail inflation rose to 7 per cent in August from 6.71 per cent in July and this was due to higher food prices. In fact, retail inflation has been beyond the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) tolerance limit of 6 per cent for eight months in a row. A rise in food prices has led to a spike in retail inflation and this is evident from the fact that inflation in the food basket was 7.62 per cent in August, up from 6.69 per cent in July and more than double from 3.11 per cent in August 2021.

Earlier this year, the crude oil price had touched $130 a barrel. However, in September, it slid to less

BEYOND RBI TOLERANCE LIMIT

z India`s retail inflation rose to 7 per cent in August from 6.71% in July and this was due to higher food prices. In fact, retail inflation has been beyond the RBI tolerance limit of 6 per cent for eight months in a row

than $85 per barrel. But now they may rise again as OPEC+, the group of oilproducing nations, has de cided to cut down oil pro

z A rise in food prices has led to a spike in retail inflation as inflation in the food basket was 7.62 per cent in August, up from 6.69 per cent in July

z Rising oil prices directly impact inflation in India it imports more than 85 per cent of its oil requirement

duction. Rising oil prices directly impact inflation in India. This can be gauged from the fact that India im ports more than 85 per cent

of its oil requirement.

As crude oil prices start to rise, imports will also go up, which in turn will wid en the current account deficit (CAD).

Widening CAD will fur ther weaken the rupee, as in the face of a widening deficit, the country will be forced to sell rupees and buy dollars.

A weak rupee has fuelled inflation in India.

In order to control infla tion, the RBI has been hik ing repo rates since May this year. Due to monetary policy tightening across the world, and the continu ing war between Ukraine and Russia, the global sce nario has worsened as dis ruptions in supply chains have fuelled price rises.

Resultantly, these pre vailing situations have fuelled the risks of reces sion globally.

This has also impacted stock markets, as India has seen large portfolio out flows worth $13.3 billion during the current finan cial year.

PEOPLE STRUGGLE AS PRICES OF GRAINS GO THROUGH THE ROOF

New Delhi: Skyrocketing prices of essentials has dealt a heavy blow to the public already struggling to recover from the repercussions of the Covid-induced lockdowns im posed in phases since early 2020. Be it vegetables or foodgrains, the prices have touched the roof right from taking them out of the farms to reaching the common man’s kitchen.Prices increase manifold by the time it reaches the consumer from the farms via markets, wholesaler and the vendors. The farmer grows vegetables in the field and sells it in the government-mandated markets (mandis).

TRANSPORTATION MAIN CAUSE OF RISING PRICES IN NE

Guwahati/Agartala: Price rise at source, transportation bottlenecks and inadequate storage facilities are the main causes of the rising prices of vegetables and other essentials in the mountainous northeast ern states. The capitals of the northeastern states via Guwahati are 1,000 km to 1,700 km from Kolkata by road, and 2,000 km to 2,650 km from Delhi The Northeast Frontier Railway is now laying new railway tracks to connect the capital cities of three more northeastern states - Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland.

COMBINATION OF ‘GLOCAL’ FACTORS

EXPECTED TO HEAT UP INFLATION

New Delhi: A combination of global and local (glocal) factors -- geopo litical developments, crop production, reduction in crude oil production and the resulting price increase and depreciating rupee -- are expected to heat up the prices. The heating up of the prices is already happening and will continue to happen. A top official of a city-based star hotel told that their raw food costs have gone up and is continuing to hike, which have prompted hotels to revised prices of the dishes. A recent survey of households by the RBI showed that most categories of respondents expect higher inflation for both three months and one year ahead. A larger share of households expects higher prices for all product groups. Overall prices and inflation expectations for the 3 months ahead period were generally aligned with food products, non-food products and cost of services, while they were more aligned with non-food products and cost of services for the longer horizon of one year, the survey revealed.

Mumbai: A team from De fence Research and Devel opment Organisation (DRDO) met with the UKbased Rolls Royce to dis cuss the Advanced Medi um Combat Aircraft (AMCA) Engine. Under this joint venture the Intellectu al Property Right (IPR) will be retained by India for High Thrust Low bypass engine (110kn+). RollsRoyce said it is interested in collaborating with India to co-develop and produce engines for India’s AMCA fifth-generation fighter air craft project. —Agencies

EV PRODUCTION LIKELY TO REACH 54 MN UNITS BY 2029

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META WARNS 1 MILLION FACEBOOK USERS WHO INSTALLED PASSWORD-STEALING APPS

New York: Facebook parent Meta is warning 1 million users that their login information may have been compromised through malicious apps. Meta’s researchers found more than 400 malicious Android and Apple iOS apps this year that were designed to steal the personal Facebook login information of its users, the company said Friday in a blog post. Meta spokesperson Gabby Curtis confirmed that Meta is warning 1 million users who may have been affected by the apps. Meta said the apps they iden tified were listed in Apple’s app store and Google Play Store as games, photo editors, health and lifestyle services and other types of apps to trick people into downloading them.

GOOGLE TO SHUT DOWN ENTIRE ASST DRIVING MODE DASHBOARD

RETAIL JOBS DOWN 12% AMID RECORD FESTIVE SALES, SAYS REPORT

India’s forex reserves down to lowest level since July 2020

Odisha gives nod to projects worth `1,900 cr, targets 5,000 jobs

Bandhan Bank’s collection efficiency rises to 97 per cent

New Delhi: The global electric vehicle production will grow at a compounded average annual growth rate (CAAGR) of 26%, with volumes approaching 54.1 million units by 2029, as per report. The EV Power train semiconductor mar ket is forecast to grow at a CAAGR of 31% to reach $27.3 billion by 2029, as per report by market re search firm Strategy Ana lytics. The push to electric vehicles is being dictated by consumer awareness and government regula tions and mandates related to climate change and the need to reduce emissions and reverse the impacts of global warming.

GURUGRAM FIRM TO ORGANISE BIGGEST PROPERTY EXPO

San Francisco: Tech giant Google has announced to shut down the Assistant Driving Mode Dash board that was announced at its developer conference I/O in 2019. Google will shut down the entire Assistant Driving Mode Dashboard on November 21, as per reports. Driving Mode, another name for the caroptimised experience in Google Maps for Android, will continue to exist, the report said.

New Delhi: As e-commerce play ers earn big this festival season, India saw a de-growth of 11.8 per cent in retail sector jobs from August 2021 to August this year, as per report.

Indians searching for retail jobs see a fall during the pandemic and beyond, and jobs in retails have seen an overall 5.50 per cent degrowth in the past three years.

Although jobs in retail saw an uptick of 27.70 per cent in 20202021, it again de-grew last year.

AMBUJA CEMENTS GETS SHAREHOLDERS’ NOD FOR RAISING ` 20,000 CR FROM ADANI GROUP FIRM

New Delhi: Ambuja Cements Ltd on Saturday said it has received shareholders’ approval for all proposals in its EGM, including a resolu tion to raise Rs 20,000 crore from an Adani group firm and appointment of Gautam Adani and others on the board of the com pany. The Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) has passed the special resolution proposing to raise Rs 20,000 crore by issuing securities on a preferential basis to Harmonia Trade and Investment Ltd, an Adani group entity, with 91.37 per cent votes, Ambuja Cements said in a regulatory update.

WORLD BANK PRESIDENT WARNS

New Delhi: India’s foreign exchange reserves fell by $4.8 billion to $532.6 billion for the week ended Septem ber 30, Reserve Bank of In dia data showed. This is the ninth straight weekly drop and the lowest since July 24, 2020. The decline was due to a dip in foreign currency as sets which decreased to $472.81 billion from $477.21 in the previous week.

The fall is partly due to depreciation of RBI’s hold ings of other major global currencies. The forex re serves stood at $532.664 bil lion at the end of the re porting week. The forex reserves stood at $537.52 billion in the prior week ending September 23.

The rupee, on October 7, hit a record low of 82.43 against the dollar and has depreciated more than 9 percent in 2022 so far fol lowing the Russia-Ukraine war and fears of recession.

New Delhi (PTI): The Odi sha government’s State Level Single Window Clearance Authority on Saturday approved ten in dustrial projects worth Rs 1923.60 crore as part of its initiative to generate em ployment for over 5,170 people in the state.The ap proval of big ticket projects took place during a meeting chaired by Odisha chief secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra in state capital Bhubaneswar, the govern ment said in a statement.

The industrial projects cleared in the meeting hailed to sectors like power and renewable energy, chemicals, information technology, electronics sys tem design and manufactur ing, oil and gas, metal down stream, tourism, technical textiles and infrastructure.

The Odisha government said four of the approved projects are being set up in Khordha while the remain ing six will be set up in Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapa da, Balasore, Keonjhar and Angul. The single window clearance authority also ap proved the proposal of Lu

‘We are facing ‘5th wave’ of debt crisis’

Gurugram: Axiom Land base, one of the leading real estate advisory firms of Gurugram, is all set to host the biggest property expo in Gurugram, which will serve as the one-stop property solution for all the real estate needs of visi tors. It will see large-scale participation by renowned developers in the NCR. All esteemed realtors from the NCR, dealing in diverse real estate segments, will register their presence to showcase the best of their projects.

New Delhi: World Bank President David Malpass has said the world is facing a “fifth wave of debt crisis” and called for more support for the countries that are in distress. He said about $44 billion in debt service pay ments from bilateral and private debt service have become due in 2022 alone.

He said, “I am worried about the debt levels, wor ried about the individual countries… In 2022 alone, around $44 billion in debt service payments from bi lateral and private debt service have become due in some of the poorest coun

tries, bigger than the for eign aid flows the coun tries could hope for.,” Mal pass added that the world right now is “in the midst of what I think is a fifth wave of debt crisis”.

Separately, during a con ference call, he told report ers that India has been one

INDIA IS AWARE OF DEBT DISTRESS: PM MODI

AIMS TO BE INT’L INDUSTRIAL HUB

z Odisha govt is seeking to not just be an industrial leader in Eastern India but also in East and South East Asia, leveraging its costal advantage

z State govt contributing to the development of Odisha as an industrial hub in Eastern India

minous Power Technologies Private Limited to set up a manufacturing unit of new technology eco-friendly Bat teries Fuel Cell, Advanced Chemistry Cell, and power storage and solar batteries in Angul Aluminium Park with a proposed investment of Rs 481 Crores generating employment for over 1,150 people in the state.

New Delhi (PTI): Band han Bank on Saturday said its collection efficiency ra tio (CER) increased to 97%, excluding NPAs and in cluding restructured ac counts, at the end of the second quarter of the cur rent fiscal. The bank’s CER stood at 96% at the end of the first quarter of the 2022-23 financial year. Its collection efficiency ratio at the end of the JulySeptember period of FY’23 for microlending increased to 95% as compared to 94% which it registered at the end of the previous quarter, a spokesperson of the pri vate lender said. The ratio for other advances stayed at 99 per cent both in the first and second quarters of FY’23. CASA (current ac count, savings account) ra tio at the end of the second quarter fell to 40.8% as com pared to 44.6% t in the same period last fiscal.

WhatsApp’s cloned app claimed to be spying

New Delhi (Agencies):

of the leaders in digitisation that empowers and expands the social safety net, Mal pass said. Responding to a question on India taking over the presidency of G-20 in December, Malpass said there is a potential focus on debt. I think the world is at a point where there can be

progress made for a more effective common frame work, he said. India, he said, is an important credi tor, for example, in Sri Lan ka and also in some of the heavily indebted countries of Africa. So, India as the chair of the G-20 has an op portunity there, he said.

The India is one of the na tions with the largest num ber of Android trojan de tections, a new report has warned. It also said that WhatsApp’s cloned app is leading in spying on people`s chats in the coun try. The cloned app is the third-party unofficial ver sion of WhatsApp.

According to the report by cyber-security firm ESET, ‘GB WhatsApp’ was behind a large part of An droid spyware detection in the last four months. It is a popular but cloned third-

party version of What sApp. These malicious programmes can record audio and video in addi tion to having many other surveillance features.

“The cloned app is not available on Google Play and, therefore, there are no security checks in place compared with the legiti mate WhatsApp, and ver sions available on various download websites are rid dled with malware,” said the report.

The report also exam ined threats mostly im pacting home users.

UDDHAV

COME BACK TO

THE ‘OLD HOUSE’?

One thing that can be said with certainty about politics is that neither are there ‘allweather’ friends nor enemies. Perhaps this was the reason why in his Dussehra rally at Shivaji Park, where Ud dhav Thackeray was cursing BJP in his fer vent address on Oct 5, sources reveal that on occasion of Navratri, Uddhav’s wife Rashmi Thackeray and Maha rashtra’s Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis have held a meeting at a well known Mumbai based businessman’s residence. If sources are to be believed, Fad navis is constantly try

ing to make a deal be tween Uddhav’s Shiv Sena once again. It is said that this Navratri party was organized by businessman’s wife, since Uddhav’s wife Rashmi Thackeray is one of her integral friends, so an invitation had already been sent to her. Inviting Fad navis to the event, busi ness family had told him ‘Rashmi is also go ing to come.’ And this meeting of Rashmi Thackeray & Fadnavis lasted for one and a half hours. According to sources, Fadnavis told Rashmi ‘if your Shiv Sena gives up its claim for post of CM, then we can come together. You can also get the benefit of this in BMC elec tions.” Fadnavis fur ther said that ‘Aditya Thackeray will be given full respect in this alli ance, but we should avoid personal attacks on each other’. It is said that Rashmi asked Fad navis if his plans had support of the central leadership & if it hap pens, what will you do with Eknath

Shinde? To this Fad navis said, “Shinde is our problem. Leave him to us. He has MLAs which you don’t have.” Rashmi has promised Fadnavis that she will speak to Uddhav.

GEHLOT AGREED, BUT WAS MAKEN’S HANDLING OF RAJ ‘CRISIS’ IMMATURE?

What really tran spired during the meeting between Sonia Gandhi and Ashok Ge hlot when the political whirlwind hit Ra jasthan Cong a few days back. Highly placed sources in grand old party have revealed that KC Venugopal had accompanied Ashok

and, according to sourc es, an emotional Sonia asked Gehlot an impor tant question, “I always trusted 2 people blindly, one was Ahmed Patel and other is you. But I was disappointed by the developments in Ra jasthan.” Gehlot also presented his explana tion on Sonia’s ques tion and said, “Madam, your people have made a mistake. Ajay Maken was in a hurry. I was ready to leave the post of CM even before con testing for the post of President, but your peo ple had already started pressurizing the MLAs’ that they have to choose their new leader now or at least convey ments to

mand. I tried to en and make him understand but he did not

even consider it neces sary to meet me. Where as Ajay Maken spoke to Sachin Pilot at least ten times that day. So shouldnt I even defend myself, mam?” On this, Sonia replied to Gehlot and said, “Cong will have to do ‘face saving’ and ‘damage control’ in Raj.” In such a situa tion, it was decided be tween the two leaders that after the election of Cong President, Cen tral Observers will be sent from Delhi to Ra jasthan who will talk to the MLAs in a group of 5 legislators each. Any decision on the new leadership will be taken only when they explore their mind.

AKHILESH’S ‘NO’ TO NITISH’S ‘ROAD MAP’ OF KURMI POLITICS

general elections, Nit ish’s JDU will contest from 17 LS seats in Bi har while 17 seats will be given to RJD and the remaining 6 seats for Cong and Left. So, San jay Jha, a very close friend of Nitish, has advised him that ‘JDU should contest more elections on 15 Kurmi dominated seats out side Bihar. JDU is also going to field candi dates in MP, West Ben gal, Jharkhand, Odisha and Gujarat. If sources are to be believed, San jay Jha reached Luc know as Nitish’s spe cial envoy & urged SP supremo Akhilesh Ya dav to ‘organize meet ings for Nitish in Kur mi-dominated districts like Basti,

Jha and said, “Give time to think, I will re spond.” When Akhile sh’s call did not come for a long time, then Tejashwi called Akh ilesh at Nitish’s behest and asked him his opin ion about this. He said that “when my party is not entering Bihar, why do you want to come to UP?” Tejashwi sensed what Akhilesh said. Mamata Banerjee also had similar views about this. Jharkhand CM He mant Soren said after much hesitation that ‘he can give up one of his seats for Nitish as per agreement.’ MP’s Rewa is also a Kurmi dominated seat from where Buddsen Patel came for the first time by winning the election in 1996. But UP is slip ping out of Nitish’s hands, where after Bi har, there is a 9 percent Kurmi population. San jay Jha also hopes that he will convince Akh ilesh for this soon.

TENSION IN KCR

now visible in public.

Recently, when KCR changed name of his regional party ‘TRS’ to ‘BRS’ and made his in tentions clear that now his eyes are on national politics, his daughter Kavita was absent. She has not found a place in the team of 87 leaders in charge of campaign ing & management for by-election to be held in Monogode assembly seat of Telangana. KTR himself is blaming elec tion strategist Prashant Kishor and claims that PK had come to Hy derabad to meet Kavita and his cousin Harish Rao. KTR suspects that PK has put various ide as in kavita & his broth er’s minds that they are being sidelined in party. Since then, the rebel lion of Kavita has start ed taking shape. Any way, when a BJP MP dragged Kavita’s name in Delhi’s liquor scam, party did not come to her rescue. KTR has also ex

B

ihar CM Nitish Kumar is taking the 2024 general elec tion a little too seri ously and it is likely that in the 2024

Varanasi-bound Vande Bharat jammed, Shatabdi sent for help

Suffers ‘Flat Tyre’: Perfect roundness of wheels damaged, explain officials

New Delhi (PTI): The New Delhi-Varanasi Vande Bharat Express was taken out of opera tion on Saturday after it suffered a snag in a traction motor that jammed its wheels and damaged their perfect roundness, a situation officials described as “flat tyre”.

The officials said the semi-high speed train left New Delhi station at its scheduled time of 06.00 AM but it had to be withdrawn at Khurja station in Uttar Pradesh, just after trav elling about 90 km.

All the 1,068 passen gers had to be deboarded

and shifted to a Shatabdi Express rake brought from Delhi for their on wards journey, which started around 12.40 pm. Officials said the train crossed Dadri station of North Central Railway at 06.38 hours.

When it was hurtling past the level crossing gate no 146, the gate man working there felt some friction in the 7th

At aorund 12:40, all the 1,068 passen gers were deboarded and shifted to a Shatabdi Express rake which was brought from Delhi for their onwards journey.

—Railways official

tion of the wheel by the onboard technical staff, the train was taken 20 km further to Khurja Railway Station at a controlled speed.

“At aorund 12:40, all the 1,068 passengers were deboarded and shifted to a Shatabdi Express rake which was brought from Delhi for their onwards jour ney,” an official said.

Senior Section Engi neer, Carriage and Wag on, V K Meena said the Shatabdi Express be gan the onward journey after a four-hour wait by the passengers.

SP’s Vinay Tiwari vs BJP’s Aman Giri in Gola Gokarnnath

Lucknow (PTI): The Samajwadi Party on Saturday named Vinay Tiwari as its candidate for the bye-election to be held in Gola Gokarn nath assembly constitu ency polls, the party said in a statement.

Meanwhile, the BJP has fielded Aman Giri from the same seat. “Aman Giri is the son of Arvind Giri,” UP BJP spokesperson Hero Bajpai told PTI.

According to the Election Commission, polling will be held on November 3, while counting of votes will be held on November 6.

compartment from the rear SLR (Seating cum Luggage Rake) of the train and immediately reported the brake block jam. The train,

Ankita murder: Police add Immoral Trafficking charge

Dehradun (ANI): The Uttarkhand Police has increased the charges on the accused of the murder of Ankita Bhandari whose body was recovered from Chilla canal in Rishi kesh on September 24.

Based on the evi dence collected and the recorded statements of the witnesses, the po lice have increased sec tion 354 A (Assault or criminal force to wom an with intent to out

Pulkit Arya, the prime accused, in murder of Ankita Bhandari

rage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and have added section 5 of the Immor al Trafficking Preven tion Act, DIG P Renuka Devi said.

“The evidence has

been collected and sent to the forensic lab while some other evidence are sent to the Chandi garh lab,” DIG added mentioning that they have urged the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) for giving the re ports promptly as it is a “sensitive matter”.

Pulkit Arya, son of BJP leader Vinod Arya, was arrested for alleg edly pushing Ankita into Chilla canal follow ing an altercation.

cruising at around 100 kmph, was then halted at Wair Station (Bu landshahar) at 7:30 am, 67 km from Delhi.

Later, after inspec

The Vande Bharat Express was being re paired to take it to Del hi, he said. A ‘flat tyre’ in the railway terminol ogy refers to the dam age to the perfect round ness of the wheel with some “flat” places in its periphery.

SC bench to hear plea on Law Commission

New Delhi (ANI): The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea seeking direction to the Centre to appoint the Chair person and Members of the Law Commis sion of India and make it a statutory body.

A bench headed by Chief Justice UU Lalit will hear the petition filed by advocate and petitioner Ashwini Upadhyay. Earlier, the apex court had issued notice to the Centre on the plea which was filed in 2020.

Although on Febru ary 19, 2020, the Centre approved the Constitu tion of the 22nd Law Commission but it has not appointed the chair person and members till date, the plea said.

Bye-election to the as sembly seat has been necessitated following the death of the sit ting BJP MLA Arvind Giri.

FAMILY, BLAME ON PK Even though the po litical ambitions of Telangana CM Chan drashekhar Rao are to rise to national stage, all is not well in his house. The differences between his son KTR & daughter Kavita are

Adampur bypoll: BJP fields Kuldeep Bishnoi’s son

Chandigarh (PTI):

The BJP on Saturday announced ex-Congress leader Kuldeep Bish noi’s son Bhavya as its candidate for the next month’s assembly by poll from Adampur, considered a family pocket borough.

The bypoll was neces sitated after Kuldeep Bishnoi resigned as a Congress MLA in Au gust and quit the party along with his son. Both later joined the BJP.

The bypoll will be a litmus test for Kuldeep Bishnoi, the younger son of former chief minister the late Bhajan Lal, as the seat has been a family stronghold for the past five decades.

“Heartfelt gratitude to all the top leadership of the party for making Bhavya Bishnoi the candidate in the Adam pur by-election,” Kul

deep Bishnoi tweeted in Hindi.

The Aam Aadmi Par ty has fielded Satender Singh, who was earlier with the BJP. The Con gress is yet to name a candidate.

Passengers of Vande Bharat Express being shifted to Shatabdi Express at Khurja Junction on Saturday. —PHOTO BY PTI

Aman Giri

BY TRIDIB

Chandrashekhar Rao

Ashok Gehlot

Devendra Fadnavis

Nitish Kumar

Nothing expresses happi ness like flowers. They have the remarkable capac ity to make people smile and lift their spirits. That is why flowery motifs and patterns are always used by designers in their collections. If you’re anything like us, you prefer to have flowers around you in some man ner, shape, or form, whether you have fresh blossoms on your nightstand or your favourite dress has flowers over it. In the textile business, there are several flower print and pattern varieties, such as antique floral pat terns, tropical floral patterns abstract and stylised floral patterns which are the favourite of most women.

Florals may provide a splash of col our to Indian festival attires. It adds to the festive atmosphere, floral prints were prominent at numerous fashion events, including Couture Fashion Week SS21 in Paris. Chanel, Fendi, Dior, Viktor& Rolf and Giambattista Valli, all embraced the freshness of flowers in their designs. Florals have been popular in fashion for millennia.

During special occasions, ancient Greek and Roman ladies wore fra grant head crowns and garlands composed of flowers, leaves, and herbs. Floral motifs are stitched with gold and silver threads onto the velvet dresses of Eu rope’s affluent throughout the Medieval Ages.

FLORALS IN THREE DIMENSIONS

3D floral designs are an incredible strategy to bring the charm of flowers to life. “Team 3D floral blouses with jeans, shorts, or even a smart pair of joggers for a casual style.” When paired and matched correctly, it may also be the ideal day appearance. They also look great for a sophisticated party dress.

FLOWERS ON FLOWERS

If implemented right, printover-print looks may be a lot of fun. “Flowery paired with floral look remarkably good.

Floral designs stand out even more when paired with stripes and gingham. However, bear in mind that over-styling might ruin the effect.

MRIDULA SHARMA cityfirst@firstindia.co.in

Florals are a sign of beauty and youthfulness, they are ageless and that much is certain! City First brings you some most romantic floral pieces to float around this season

JEWELLERY IDEAS TO EXPRESS YOUR ROMANCE!

From voicing love to cherishing the memories of love, Jewelry is the way you can make a person feel special and desired. A Fine piece of the gem is capable to bring the feeling of affection towards one another. The feeling of being trapped in the world of love is magical and what makes it more ravishing is exhibiting it in a most memorable way. If you are scheduling to make a moment special for your loved ones, a jewel that expresses your feelings would work as the cherry on top.

is a pendant, ring or bracelet the aesthetic design makes the most popular jewellery to gift these days. An open heart pendant that split open in between leaving a space to add a picture or symbols that you cherish the most.

GLIMMERING GEMSTONES

vigilant about how pre cious they are to you.

POSY RINGS

ew jewellery specialists ex plore the uni versal set of jewellery that symbolizes love and eter nity from ancient to the current world and how the innovation of this jewellery has impro vised over the years that evokes the feeling of love and affection Certain jewellery in novations that occur between ancient to pre sent times that could cheer up your love life and showcase your im pregnable love for each other.

ROSE QUARTZ RINGS

Rose quartz is a stone that expresses love and compassion. Its pale pink colour exhibits emotions of undenia ble love for your mate. it has translucent transparency and is in hexagonal crystal seems perfect for the girl you dream to spend the with rest of your life. only this but its warm tone promotes the feeling of self-love. In case you are on low self-esteem gifting a rose quartz ring or necklace can make you feel worthy and beauti ful.

OPEN HEART PENDANT

Open hearts jew ellery is one of the most trendy sets of jewel lery between couples. It allies with the feeling of love, compas sion, beauty and faith. Whether it

It may sound cheesy but just like a real Diamond never loses its shine, a true feeling of affection last forever. To outshine the crowd of people lead ers and powerful figures wears diamond crowns to let people know about their superiority since a Diamond symbolizes power and strength. Pre senting diamond jewel lery to your loved ones can make them

A simple Gold plated ring with a secret poem or a message written outside or inside of the ring makes it special and unique. The term ‘posy’ is driven by the word poesie, it is a me dieval time design popu lar in the 15th to 17th century in both Eng land and France, it is gifted mostly as the feel ing of love and friend ship. The language in which the quotation was written was Nor man French, French, Latin and English used in later times.

CUPID DESIGN JEWELS Cupid jewels play a sig nificant role

in expressing a soppy feeling of attachment towards each other. There are several de signs with the Cupid concept but the most popular one is ‘The Power of Love,’ which features a playful take on romance in a ring that has cupid abscond ing with a flaming heart set with ruby from Eng land circa designed in the year 1725 engraved with the English in scription ‘Stop Thief ‘ at the Victoria and Al bert Museum, London.

DRIED RED TULIP PENDANT

Most people love flow ers but what makes them questionable is their short lifespan. Each flower symboliz es a different meaning of love hence the Red tulip represents the declaration of love. Spending cash on ex pensive bouquets is not worth knowing it will wilt within the days. Instead of a pendant with dried flowers would be an amazing deal. Dried Flowers can symbolize the most treasured memories.

Dried flowers impro vise the way of think ing about beauty, gift ing dried flower jewel lery can bring differ ent meanings to your

INTERLINK PENDANT

A simple set of pendants with a huge meaning be hind it. It consists of two interlocked geo metrical symbols representing two people. It looks ele gant and classy and can be worn on the daily basis will do all justice to the feeling of the person that has gifted you a specific kind of ornament keeping it close to your heart all the time.

CHEERS TO ALL LADIES & GENTELMEN

A formal wear bash in the Western dress code, commonly known as Black Tie Party was organised at Notion, Sahkar Marg Jaipur, a newly opened Restaurant on Saturday. The British and European-inspired party was organised by Youth Icon Rishee Miglani and Priyambi Rajawat. The party enthusiasts were dressed up in dashing suits and pretty gowns, which made the aura mesmerizing. During the bash, Priyambi Rajawat said, “Black Tie Gala, is an amazing royal gala night inspired by the British Culture, for the first time in Jaipur, where we brought antiquity and culture with a very formal event, where people are envisioned to be elegant and they are predicted to see the culture and talk about food and good music as well as enjoy a little taste of UK and we are looking forward to seeing everyone.” During the occasion, Rishee said, “This is very exciting and I did a party like this for the first time, the party had warm vibes with the coolest people in the town, all were wearing formal and were enjoying the night in the most happening way. It was indeed a night Jaipur can not forget.”

—PHOTOS BY SUNIL SHARMA

Priyambi, Meghna, Rishee and Tanay Vriti, Wrickie, Rishee and Priyambi

Ratika and Kavita

Mandakini taking a selfie

Priyambi and Meghna Deepti and Atin

Sujata, Rishee, Hiyavi , Ashna and Karan

Devraj, Nisha and Anju

Deviya and Shaina

Shiksha and Abhishek

Inder and Rishee

Rishi, Ashima and Priyambi

Neha

Suvrat and TanyaAnjula, Mohit and Jassi

Ankit, Payal and Rohit

Kirti Rathore

Dhruv, Khushi, Divisha and Vaibhav Richa and Jitendra

Raj Choudhary, Deepti Saini, Karan Vig, Dr Poonam Madan and Farha Ansari

Radhika and Ayesha

DANCE BALLET IN DELHI’S KAMANI AUDITORIUM

CITY FIRST

Presenting the illustrious sto ry of the Indi an subconti nent from an cient times to the modern day, a remarkable dance ballet, ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Parv’ was organ ised on Friday in Kam ani Auditorium, New Delhi. The production showcases India’s 75 years of Independence via various classical dance forms of In dia. It was organised by the Urvashi Dance Music Art and Culture Society, in collabora tion with Paramhans Prakashvati Mehta Trust and ChhayaDeep Foundation. The danc ers represented Indian art and culture and the Natyashastra, includ ing Kathak dancers from Urvashi Dance Music Art and Culture Society, disciples of Jayaprabha Menon, an eminent Mohiniyattam exponent, disciples of Odissi Dancer Pad

mashree Ranjana Gauhar, disciples of Bharatnatyam Guru Sindhu Mishra and dis ciples of Chau dance exponent Shashadhar Acharya.

Union Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt, Rajya Sabha MP, Gandhi Smriti Vice Chairman Vijay Goel, former national BJP Vice President Shyam Jaju, dance gurus Dr Uma Sharma, Ranjana Gauhar and Shovana Naryan graced the

event with their pres ence.

The thematic dance ballet was choreo graphed by Kathak ex ponent Guru Gitanjani Lal. The dancers also

CITY FIRST

Divine Art opened its post-pandemic ven tures with a mean ingful collection of contemporary Indian art from the studios of emi nent artists as well as from personal collections on Thursday at The Stainless Gallery, Mira Corporate Suites, UPPALS, Ishwar Nagar (New Friends Colo ny), Mathura Road, New Delhi. The exhibition will be on the display till Mon day, October 10.

‘Param’ depicted the strive to attain the best and the highest, reaching out to the Supreme, the best & the highest. The exhi bition features artists who are influenced by their own idea of ‘Beauty’ and thus, disentangled from the mundane world.

Sumit P Thakur, Direc tor of Divine Art Gallery said, “It was not easy to procure these works. In trying to maintain variety, I have included some folk and tribal artists, too, be cause India has a wide range of this genre. In ad dition to this, I have tried and included works are done in different mediums from pen and ink to oil, acrylic and tribal art in mixed media, to give a wide choice to viewers.

a liking for intricate

represented Indian art and culture and the Natyashastra, includ ing Kathak dancers from Urvashi Dance Music Art and Culture Society, disciples of

Jayaprabha Menon, an eminent Mohiniyattam exponent, disciples of Odissi Dancer Pad mashree Ranjana Gauhar, disciples of Bharatnatyam Guru

Sindhu Mishra and dis ciples of Chau dance exponent Shashadhar Acharya.

Awards were also presented to those who have served the nation,

including Dr Vijay Grover, SP Bhatia, Dr Vinod Kumar Sharma, Pravin Khandelwal and Manju Pandit to name a few.

Speaking on the oc casion, Dr Rekha Meh ra, Kathak exponent and President of Ur vashi Dance, Music, Art, and Cultural Soci ety said, “We as a team put together a lot of hard work and time to deliver this largerthan-life show ‘Azadi ka Amrit Parv’ and make

PARAM: EXHIBITION OF SUPREME CONCEPTION AND CREATIVITY

it a visual delight. Our goal was to demon strate how unique our country is by embark ing on an extraordi nary journey. We were living these iconic mo ments during rehears als and aspired to bring them to life in front of the audience as well. I’d want to express my heartfelt gratitude to all of the artists and in dividuals that helped make this production a success.”

A 10-line poem or 10 poems of one line each?

Dogs barked at the calendar, on it was a bird.

The cat pranced over to the rosebush and ran away. The wind shook the tree’s branches and one quickly fell.

A Leaf slowly fell from the tree and into rivers.

Mr. Frizt had lost his best hat to the wind.

A street with the number nine that is my home.

The Library’s books are the thickest I have ever seen .

A jar of jam is on the table, now not.

In the doorway bells are ringing, a beautiful, wonderful Sound.

I throw a water melon out the win dow, I hate it.

BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!

CITY FIRST

Celebrity makeup artist Gu lafsha Qureshi cele brated her birthday with her friends from Delhi social circle at the Infinity lounge bar on Satur day. Delhi’s fashion able set danced till the wee hours on the tunes of a DJ belt ing out club hits. The event was graced by the pres ence of several emi nent personalities including Ashish Dhondhiyal, Shelly, Javed, Nupur, Nas reen and Neil Nitin.

IRIKA MAURYA (Age 10)

Mesmerising performance by the dancers during the dance ballet, Azadi Ka Amrit Parv

Dr Rekha Mehra, Vijay Goel and Shyam Jaju with others during the lamp lighting ceremony

Geetanjali Lal and Dr Uma Sharma Ranjana Gauhar and Helen Acharya

Shyam Jaju Vijay Goel

Rekha

(L-R) Sumit P Thakur and Manisha Bhatia (L-R) Anand Narian, Bhuwal Prasad and Bhagat Singh

(L-R) Rama Thakur and Sonal Jindal Alka Kapur

Dr Navnit Haror

Sumer Raj Chadha

Abhir Malhotra, Khushi, Shweta Singh and Ashu Dhawan

SHAZID

—PHOTOS BY SHAZID CHAUHAN

Rahul