First India-Delhi Edition-12th November 2022

HIMACHAL PRADESH VOTES TODAY

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh will have a single-phase election on Saturday. Campaign ing for the assembly elections had conclud ed on Thursday, and all the eyes are now on bal lots and voting ma chines, where the fates of candidates from the ruling Bharatiya Jana ta Party (BJP), Con gress, Aam Aadmi Par ty (AAP), and other parties will be decided on Saturday.

Prime Minister Nar endra Modi had spear headed the charge of the ruling party against the Congress, which is attempting a comeback. On December 8, results for Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat will be an nounced together.

VOTE

PUBLIC HOLIDAY ON HIMACHAL POLLING DAY

Shimla: The State Gov ernment has declared a public holiday on poll day on Saturday, November 12th, to the employees working in government offices, boards, Corporations, educational institutions and industrial establishments situated in Himachal Pradesh on ac count of assembly elections in the State. A notification in this behalf has been issued by the Himachal Pradesh Chief Secretary’s office.

CONGRESS, NCP FORGE PRE-POLL ALLIANCE IN GUJ

Ahmedabad (PTI): The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) entered into a pre-poll alliance for the next month’s Gujarat Assembly elections, as part of which the Sharad Pawar-led party will contest three of the total 182 seats in the state, the leaders of the two parties announced here on Friday.

Noida rape accused nabbed in Gurugram

Noida (PTI): A rape suspect, who also ran over a security guard at his housing society with his car while flee ing a police raid two days ago, was on Friday arrested from Guru gram, Noida Police said. Neeraj Singh, a resi dent of Amrapali Zodiac society in Sector 120, works as a general man ager in a private firm. He was accused of raping a woman associate of his, who had lodged a com plaint against him earli er this week, police said.

“Singh was located with the help of elec tronic surveillance and manual policing-based sources and arrested today and brought to Noida from there,” a po lice officer said. He was produced before a local magistrate and sent to 14-day judicial remand, the officer added.

ANU THAKUR FOR ‘ANTI-PARTY’ ACTIVITIES

Shimla (ANI): The Himachal Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday expelled state executive committee mem ber Anu Thakur for ‘anti-party’ activities. According to the official statement released by the BJP’s Himachal Unit, state president and Shimla MP Suresh Kashyap issued an order expelling Thakur for six years.

RECORD CASH, LIQUOR, FREEBIES SEIZED IN POLL-BOUND HIMACHAL AND GUJARAT: EC

New Delhi (PTI): Nearly 11 lakh litres of liquor, freebies worth Rs 65 crore and Rs 17.84 crore cash meant to in duce voters have been seized from poll-bound Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, the Election Commission said, describ ing it as a “record”. While polling will be held in Himachal on Saturday, Gujarat will have

PM Narendra Modi after unveiling the 108 ft bronze statue of Nadaprabhu Kempegowda, in Bengaluru on Friday.

Union Minister Pralhad Joshi and Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai are also seen.

Mumbai:

ACTOR SIDDHAANTH VIR SURRYAVANSHI DIES IN

SC orders release of six Rajiv Gandhi assassins

New Delhi (Agencies): The Supreme Court on Friday directed the pre mature release of six convicts, including Na lini Sriharan and RP Ravichandran, serving life term in the assassi nation case of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, noting that the Tamil Nadu govern ment has recommended remission of their sen tence.

Besides Nalini and Ravichandran, the four others to be released are Santhan, Murugan, Robert Payas and Jaya kumar. The top court also took into account that their conduct was satisfactory during in carceration and they have undertaken vari ous studies.

A bench of justices BR Gavai and B V Naga rathna said the judg ment of the top court in the case of AG Perari valan, one of the con victs in the case, is equally applicable in their matter.

CONG CRITICIZES APEX COURT ORDER

New Delhi: The Congress has termed “totally unac ceptable and completely er roneous” apex court’s order directing premature release of six remaining convicts serving life sentence in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, saying the court has not acted in consonance with the spirit of India.

STALIN WELCOMES 6 CONVICTS’ RELEASE

Chennai: The Supreme Court judgment in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case demonstrated that Gov ernors should not put the decisions of elected govts on the back burner, Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin said on Friday. Stalin welcomed the release of six convicts in the Rajiv case.

WHERE IS JUSTICE FOR US? ASKS SURVIVOR IN RAJIV GANDHI ASSASSINATION BOMBING

Chennai: “What about justice for those killed and injured survivors in the 1991 suicide bombing that assassinated former PM Rajiv Gandhi?” asked Anusuya Daisy Ernest, a retired woman police officer. Ernest, then police sub inspector was regulating crowd when people jostled to move forward at venue of a Congress public meeting at Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991 to garland Rajiv Gandhi.

PM Modi’s ‘4 states in 2 days’ tour, mega projects in big South push

Bengaluru (Agencies): Amid bitter battles be tween the BJP and sev eral ruling parties in the states, PM Narendra Modi is on a visit to four south Indian states in two days. The PM’s visit assumes significance as it comes less than six months before Assem bly elections in Karna taka, and bitter battles between Centre-appoint ed Governors and ruling parties in many states.

‘Anti-Hindu’, cries BJP as AAP names Rajendra Gautam its star campaigner for MCD polls

New Delhi: Soon after the Aam Aadmi Party named MLA Rajendra Pal Gautam as one of its star campaigners for the upcoming MCD elections, the BJP de nounced the ‘anti-Hin du’ move as Gautam was recently in contro versy, which forced him to quit as cabinet minis ter, for attending a Bud dhist religious conver sion event where Hindu gods were renounced.

“Arvind Kejriwal has

been exposed... he is an ti-Hindu as Gautam, who abused Hindu dei ties, has been made a star campaigner of AAP

for the MCD polls,” said BJP MP Manoj Tiwari.

Delhi BJP leader Ta jinder Pal Singh Bagga said Gautam’s nomina

STAR CAMPAIGNERS

The AAP on Friday an nounced 30 star campaign ers for the December 4 MCD polls, including Kejriwal, Gautam, and former crick eter and sitting Rajya Sabha member Harbhajan Singh.

The list features Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, and Rajya Sabha members Sanjay Singh, Raghav Chadha and ND Gupta.

tion as star campaigner exposed the “anti-Hin du face” of the chief minister and the AAP.

BJP leader Kapil

Mishra said Gautam’s elevation as star cam paigner proved that Ke jriwal was behind the anti-Hindu agenda fur thered by the ex-minister.

Delhi BJP spokesper son Praveen Shankar Kapoor accused Kejri wal of not having any respect for the senti ments of Hindus.

“Time and again, Aam Aadmi Party lead ers have hurt Hindu and Sikh sentiments and Kejriwal has al lowed them to go scotfree,” Kapoor charged.

PM INAUGURATES T2 OF B’LURU AIRPORT

Bengaluru: PM Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated Terminal 2 of Kempegowda International Airport. The passenger handling capacity and check-in and immigra tion counters has got double.

PM FLAGS OFF VANDE BHARAT EXPRESS

Bengaluru: PM Modi on Friday flagged off ChennaiMysuru Vande Bharat Express at Kranthiveera San golli Rayanna Railway Station here. This is the fifth Vande Bharat train in the country.

PM UNVEILS 108-FEET STATUE OF B’LURU FOUNDER NADAPRABHU KEMPEGOWDA

Bengaluru: PM Narendra Modi on Friday unveiled the “Statue of Prosperity”, 108-feet bronze statue of Bengalu ru founder Nadaprabhu Kempegowda. The statue has been built to commemorate the contribution of Kempegowda, the founder of the city, towards the growth of Bengaluru.

JUDICIARY

PROTECTION OF ‘SHIVLING’ EXTENDED

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has extended till further orders protection of ‘Shivling’ found at Gyan vapi complex in Varanasi.

A bench allowed the Hindu parties to move application before Varanasi dist judge for consolidation of lawsuits filed on the Gyanvapi row.

GO TO SAME BENCH: SC TO MOS’S SON

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday said a plea filed by Union minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra seeking bail in a case related to Lakhimpur Kheri violence should be placed before a bench that had earlier dealt with the matter.

11 RSS WORKERS GUILTY OF MURDER

ACTIVIST’S MURDER: ACCUSED ACQUITTED

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Friday ac quitted all the 12 accused in a case relating to the murder of the RTI activ ist and editor of ‘Maha Prachanda’ newspaper Lingaraju back in 2012 citing lack of corrobora tory evidence.

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Mumbai: Famous television actor Siddhaanth Vir Surryavanshi, known for his roles in shows like ‘Kkusum’ and ‘Kasautii Zindagi Kay’, died on Friday at the age of 46. The actor died while working out at a gym at 11am. P11

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BJP EXPELS HIMACHAL PRADESH MEMBER

voting on December 1 and 5.

Polling officials carrying EVMs, Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) and other polling materials leave for the polling stations for the upcoming Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections, in Kullu on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI

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Rajendra Pal Gautam during Jaati Unmulan Sankalp Yatra at Dr BR Ambedkar National Memorial in New Delhi. —FILE PHOTO

Thiruvananthapuram (PTI): A court here on Friday convicted 11 RSS workers for the murder of Anavoor Narayanan Nair in 2013. Nair was hacked to death by the RSS workers who came to his house to attack his son, Sivaprasad, then area secretary of SFI.

Curbs to continue

New Delhi (PTI): The Centre's air quality panel on Friday said curbs under stage 3 of Graded Response Ac tion Plan (GRAP) will continue in Delhi-NCR as the air pollution in the region is showing an upward trend.

Delhi's AQI stood at

346 at 4 pm on Friday, deteriorating from 295 on Thursday.

"The AQI has been showing an increasing trend for the last two days in Delhi-NCR.

Wind conditions have not been very favoura ble and accordingly dis persion of air pollutants

Man jumps to death day after killing girlfriend

Faridabad: Mahender, 24, a married man going through a divorce and accused of beating to death his 19-year-old girlfriend Roshni on Wednesday night, died on Friday after jumping from the sixth floor of the Faridabad court complex, where he was taken to be produced be fore a magistrate.

He had two children.

Mahender had left Roshni on a roadside Wednesday night after beating her. She was rushed to a hospital where she died Thurs day evening during treatment. Before dying, the woman told her brother the name of her assailant.

Roshni lived in her brother-in-law’s house near Dabua Chowk in Faridabad. Raju, her brother-in-law, said that she used to work in a fac tory near Whirlpool Chowk and had gone for work around 8.30 am Wednesday as always.

But that day, she did

not return till late night, and her mobile phone was also switched off, he said.

“We started looking for her and around 5.30 am today a call came from an unknown num ber on Roshni’s broth er’s phone. The person who called said that there is a woman lying in injured condition on a road. He said she has asked him to call on your number,” Raju said.

After getting the de tails about the location, her family members

DU: 3rd round of seat allocation on Sunday

New Delhi (PTI): Delhi University (DU) will de clare the third round of seat allocation for un dergraduate admission on Sunday, Registrar Vikas Gupta said.

In the third round of common seat allocation system (CSAS), admis sion will be done to all supernumerary quotas including ECA, sports, CW (children and wid ows of armed forces), and Kashmiri Mi grants, along with regu lar admissions.

The third round of seat allocation was scheduled to begin on Thursday but the uni versity announced on

Wednesday that it had been rescheduled. Now the round will begin at 5 pm on Sunday and will conclude on No vember 20.

A senior university official said the re scheduling has been done as the varsity needed some time to prepare the list for ad mission for all supernu merary seats like those under economically weaker section (EWS) and sports categories.

went to the spot where they found Roshni lying in a pool of blood at a roadside.

She told his brother Kishan that Mahendra had done this to her, Raju said.

“She told me that Ma hendra had taken her forcibly with him from outside the factory in night and thrashed her with a stick. She lay in jured overnight on the road. We rushed her to BK Hospital where she died during the treat ment,” Roshni’s brother said in his complaint.

Man arrested for molesting girl in mosque

New Delhi (PTI): A 10-year-old girl was al legedly molested inside a mosque in Maujpur area, police said Friday.

Mohd Imran (24) has been arrested in connec tion with the incident reported at Jafrabad po lice station, they said.

Imran, from Kis hanganj in Bihar, used to teach students inside the mosque, the officer said, adding is in judi cial custody now.

Last month, a cleric was arrested for alleg edly sodomising an 11-year-old boy in a ma drassa in Karawal Na gar area.

has not been very effec tive," the CAQM said in a statement.

“Considering the need to continue with steps to prevent deterio ration of air quality, the sub-committee on Grad ed Response Action Plan (GRAP) has decided that the "ongoing action im

plemented under Stage III of GRAP shall con tinue and it should not be withdrawn at this stage,” it said.

All construction and demolition work, except for essential projects, is banned in Delhi-NCR under the third stage of the GRAP.

WINTER GLOW

New Delhi (PTI): Delhi's air quality de teriorated to the 'very poor' category on Friday, after marginal improvement over the last few days, with a layer of smog shroud ing several parts of the city. The city recorded a minimum temperature of 14.6 degrees Celsius, a notch above normal, according to IMD. The 24-hour aver age air quality index (AQI) stood at 346 in comparison to 295 a

(CPCB).

Maid arrested for murdering, robbing elderly woman

New Delhi (ANI): Two persons were arrested for murdering and rob bing a senior citizen in the national capital, Delhi Police said on Fri day. The arrested per sons were identified as Yogesh Kumar Arora and Rani (former maid of the deceased) from whom robbed jewellery articles were recovered from Chhatarpur En clave, PS Mehraulli.

One sophisticated pis tol with two live car tridges and a huge quantity of foreign liq uor have also been re covered from the house of accused persons, po lice said.

According to the po

In HC: Man with religious tattoo on ‘saluting arm’ rejected by armed forces

New Delhi (PTI): A man who was declared unfit for recruitment in Central Armed Police Forces, NIA and other forces for having a “reli gious tattoo” on his right hand has ap proached the Delhi High Court challenging the authorities’ decision.

The counsel for the authorities opposed the plea saying right arm is the saluting hand and this tattoo was not per missible under relevant guidelines of the Minis try of Home Affairs.

The court, which was told by the petitioner

that he was willing to remove the tattoo by a minor laser surgery, noted the detailed medi cal examination and re view medical examina tion showed there were no other defects in him.

It disposed of the peti tion by giving liberty to the man to appear be fore the new medical board constituted by the authorities after remov al of the tattoo.

lice, information re garding a woman lying in an unconscious state at first floor of a flat situated at Amar Colo ny was received on No vember 8, following which the police staff immediately rushed to

the spot and found one lady lying in an uncon scious condition. The deceased was identified as Kulwant Kaur.

"It was found that jewellery articles were forcefully removed from the body of the victim. There were in jury marks over the neck and ears. However, as there was no damage to the gates and win dows, the entry ap

peared friendly," the police said. "One of the teams was dedicatedly deput ed for the analysis of CCTV cameras. One team especially focused on technical surveil lance. The CCTVs in stalled near the house were found to be angled in such a manner that the entry and exit of the house was not covered," the police said.

Police file FIRs, JNU asks for report on campus clash

New Delhi (PTI): After a scuffle broke out be tween two groups of students on the campus, the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) au thorities instructed the security branch to take necessary steps and submit a detailed re port on the incident.

The scuffle that broke out near Narmada hos tel on Thursday was a fallout of events that unfolded at a birthday party a day before.

Police have regis tered two separate FIRs regarding the incident. According to police, two students were injured

in the scuffle, while uni versity sources claimed that only one student sustained injuries.

In a statement issued on Thursday night, the JNU administration re iterated its resolve for zero tolerance towards any form of violence on

the campus and ap pealed to the students to desist from resorting to violence.

Video clips purport edly of the incident showed some students were seen running on the campus with sticks in their hands.

A worker walks through a lawn near India Gate, shrouded in smog, near Kartavya Path in New Delhi on Friday.

Stage 3 of GRAP in Delhi remains activated as pollution graph shows upward trend again

day ago, according to the Central Pollution Control Board

AQI SLIPS BACK TO ‘VERY POOR’

Snow-covered Himalayan mountain range after fresh snowfall, seen from Shimla on Friday.

—PHOTO BY PTI

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ACCUSED JUMPS OFF COURT BLDG, DIES

Jewellery articles were forcefully removed from the body of the victim. There were injury marks over the neck and ears.

—Official, Delhi Police

A traffic policeman wearing a mask manages traffic amid heavy smog in Gurugram on Friday. —PHOTOS BY PTI

Cleaning up garbage, corruption & strays

BY ANI

New Delhi (PTI): Clearing Delhi’s three landfill sites, a corrup tion-free MCD, and re lief from the stray ani mal menace were among Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's 10 guarantees announced on Friday. He also referred to the guar antees as nothing less than "Fevicol ka jod".

Kejriwal asserted that the BJP would not win more than 20 seats in the high-stakes contest on December 4.

Kejriwal said the BJP, which has governed the civic body for the last 15 years, released a 'sankalp patra' and threw it in the trash af ter the elections.

"After December 7, their 'vachan patra' will also meet the same fate. In the last elections, the BJP said they would clear out the garbage mountains; now they say every city has these. Do London, Tokyo, New York garbage moun tains?" he asked.

Kejriwal said people were eagerly awaiting the polls so that they could bring AAP to pow er. "The incumbent MCD government has cheated the people of Delhi. AAP gives guarantees. Our guarantees are like Fevi col ka kod," he said.

THE TEN GUARANTEES

New Delhi: Under the first guarantee, Kejriwal said Delhi's garbage mountains would be cleared and the city beautified.

"We will also shelve their (BJP's) plan of building 16 new gar bage mountains. We will call experts from London, Paris, Tokyo to work this out. We will clean up the roads and galis (alleys) of Delhi," he said.

Assuring that MCD would be freed of cor ruption as part of the second guarantee, Ke jriwal said the build ing department was most corruption-prone and the process of clearing all plans and maps would be digit ised and simplified.

The third, fourth and fifth guarantees include solving the parking crisis, ending the stray-animal men ace and repairing roads under the MCD.

"There are a lot of stray cows, dogs and

Bishnoi using same phone in Tihar as IM terrorists, say police

New Delhi (ANI): A court here on Friday is sued notice to Lawrence Bishnoi and three other accused on a plea by Delhi Police seeking nod to obtain their voice samples in singer Moose Wala murder case.

Delhi Police said Bish noi was using a mobile number which was be ing used by a member of terrorist group Indian Mujahideen.

Special Judge (MCO CA) Shailendra Malik issued notice to the ac cused and listed it for November 22 hearing.

Police submitted that

one mobile number was being used in Tihar Jail by members of terrorist group Indian Mujahi deen. It was found the phone number was also being used by Bishnoi who was also lodged in Jail Number 8, where members of Indian Mu jahideen were lodged.

monkeys that cause problems for resi dents. We will bring a solution for them too.

All MCD roads are di lapidated. We will re pair them and ensure they no longer hinder commute," he said.

Schools, dispensa ries and hospitals of the MCD are in disre pair, Kejriwal said, and promised to trans form them "like we have done under our government" under the sixth guarantee.

Noting that the parks under the MCD "are a disaster", Kejri wal said he intended to give a facelift to

them and make Delhi a city of beautiful parks.

“The eighth guaran tee is regularisation of contract workers. Many employees are not paid for months; they will all be paid on time. No matter how we arrange funds, eve ryone will get their salaries within the first week of the month,” he said.

Alleging traders were under severe dis tress due to the "bribes" that need to be paid to obtain a licence, he said AAP planned to simplify and digitise the system.

Those with warrants can’t give guarantees: Patra

New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Friday attacked the AAP after it an nounced 10 promises for the upcoming MCD polls, saying that those who have warrants is sued in their names can not give guarantees.

Citing media reports, BJP spokesperson Sam bit Patra said at a press conference here that those who guaranteed an honest government in Delhi "changed 140 mobile phones costing Rs 1.2 crore to destroy evidence related to the excise policy scam".

"Thirty-four persons accused in the excise policy scam, including Manish Sisodia, changed 140 mobile phones to cover their digital footprints. Siso dia did all this on the

directions of Arvind Ke jriwal," Patra charged.

"These people change phones costing Rs 1 to 2 crores. You can imagine the scale of corruption in the excise policy," he said.

After CBI started probing the matter, the BJP leader said, Sisodia asked for soft copies of files pertaining to the

want to make altera tions? You knew you had committed a crime," he said. Patra alleged a copy of the excise policy was leaked before it was notified last year to ben efit Sisodia's friends. He also said Delhi govern ment handed over the wholesale liquor busi ness to private players and allowed

tion by giving multiple censes to

AIMIM, Bhim Army to contest as allies

New Delhi (PTI): The Hyderabadbased AIMIM and Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad’s outfit Azad Samaj Party (ASP) on Friday an nounced they will contest on 100 wards in the minor ity and Dalit-domi nated pockets of the city.

The AIMIM headed by Asadud din Owaisi will contest 68 of the 100 wards, while ASP will fight the polls in 32 wards, leaders of the two parties announced in a press conference.

Congress 'insulted Sikh community'

New Delhi (PTI): The Congress has "insulted the Sikh community’ by inducting Jagdish Tytler in the poll com mittee for MCD polls, BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa said Friday.

While Congress lead er Rahul Gandhi is on a 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' his party is "sheltering and promoting the murderer of Sikhs", Sirsa alleged in a press meet at BJP's Delhi unit office.

"The Congress has in

TREES ON FIRE

sulted the entire Sikh community and shown its mentality by making Sikh murderer Jagdish Tytler a member of the

MCD poll committee," he charged.

After Kharge became Congress president, it seemed perhaps the

mood of the party would change but the "murder ers of Sikhs" are still be ing protected under "pressure from the Gan dhi family", Sirsa said.

He also questioned Kejriwal's silence on it.

"Kejriwal, whose party won 92 seats in Punjab with the support of Sikhs, is also silent to day. He had taken a vow to punish the murderers of 1984 riots but he has forgotten it like his other promises," Sirsa said.

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TECHNOLOGICAL MARVEL

Delhi-Meerut RRTS: Trial runs to begin early Dec

New Delhi (PTI): Trial runs on the main line for the operationalisa tion of the 17-km DuhaiSahibabad priority sec tion of the ambitious Delhi-Meerut RRTS cor ridor will begin early December, a senior offi cial said on Friday.

The priority section is expected to get opera tionalised by March next year, Managing Di rector of the National Capital Region Trans port Corporation (NCRTC), Vinay Kumar

Singh, said.

Trial runs have been started in the depot al ready and the trains are “behaving perfectly” as was planned and de signed, he said.

The NCRTC is imple menting India’s first Re gional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) between Delhi and Meerut.

During a media inter action held at the site of the under-construction station of Anand Vihar on the 82-km Delhi-Gha ziabad-Meerut RRTS, he

said after the Duhai-Sa hibabad priority sec tion, “the next section

that we will open will be the Duhai-Meerut South section and plan is to op

erationalise it by De cember next year”.

The entire Delhi-Gha ziabad-Meerut RRTS is targeted to be operation al by 2025. Its Duhai-Sa hibabad priority section in Ghaziabad is expect ed to be operational by early 2023, the NCRTC had earlier said.

The priority section has four stations -- Sa hibabad, Ghaziabad, Guldhar and Duhai.

On the subsequent section of the NCRTC that it plans to opera

tionalise after the prior ity section, he told re porters that DuhaiMeerut South section is quite long and includes Murad Nagar, Modi Na gar South, and Modi Na gar North.

Sarai Kale Khan is one major station on the 82-km-long corridor. The RRTS corridor would cut down travel time between Delhi and Meerut to around 55 minutes from the cur rent three-four hours by road.

Vipul from Delhi, Minesh Shah from Mumbai and Anuj from Indore.

New Delhi: In a bizarre incident, the police have arrested a man declared dead in official documents 24 years ago. The man, wanted in a theft case in 1991, was declared 'dead' in all official papers. However, Bawana police was recently tipped off about the accused and Delhi Police worked on the lead to nab him. Police said he forged documents and went into hiding. He was on the run for the next 24 years. DCP Outer-North District Devesh Kumar Mahla said the police are questioning the accused.

New Delhi: A meeting to discuss the modali ties on payment of the balance arbitral award to Reliance Infrastructureowned Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited was held on Thursday, sources said. Senior officials of the Centre, Delhi government, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and leading banks took part in the discussion. Senior officials of DMRC presented their financial status, they said. Representatives of several banks and PSU also took part in the meeting,

Workers at the construction site of Anand Vihar RRTS Station on Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor on Friday. —PHOTO BY PTI

Delhi: Special Judge Vikas Dhull on Friday reserved for November 16 his order on the bail applications of AAP leader Satyendar Jain and co-accused Vaibhav Jain and Ankush Jain in a money laundering case. Jain urged the court to grant him bail, saying that no purpose will be served by keeping him in custody any longer. The judge reserved the order after hearing arguments of the accused as well as the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

CM Arvind Kejriwal addresses a press meet along with DyCM Manish Sisodia in New Delhi on Friday.

CM Arvind Kejriwal with Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and Environment Minister Gopal Rai release the manifesto.

Manjinder Singh Sirsa Jagdish Tytler

n BJP won't win more than 20 seats, says CM n Claims, people eager to bring AAP to power

Tourists and locals during their visit to a garden laden with Chinar trees, the hallmark of the autumn season in Kashmir, in Srinagar on Friday.

—PHOTO BY PTI/S. IRFAN

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INDIAN DEFENCE INDUSTRY: BLAZING TO GLORY

diverse equipment and tech nologies through indigenous sources, without compromis ing the operational efficiency. A large number of pro curements worth Rs 47,000 crore from Indian industry were concluded in 2021–22. The quantum of contracts that went to domestic units in the last three years has been the highest ever.

CHALLENGES

The defence production in dustry faces the following major challengesz High Dependence on Imports

z Narrow Private Participation.

z Lack of critical state of the art Technology

z Overlapping jurisdic tions between the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Industrial Promotion.

z Fragile relationship between R&D institutions, production agencies (public or private) and end-users.

WAY AHEAD

SUPREME COURT SET TO DEFEND ITS TURF ON COLLEGIUM ISSUE

Atmanirbhar Bharat’ is a ‘feel good factor’ but the success of Atmanirbhar Bharat will depend much on the right blend of policy implementations to fix the inherent challenges, as given out. India will require total focus and sincere efforts in line with “Nation First” attitude to reap the best benefits, in future

India has one of the world’s largest armed forces with a strength of over 14.4 lakhs (1.44 million) active personnel, since it has the largest unsettled borders with two nuclear powered neighbours. Also, it has high defence spending for operational readiness of such large force. Hence, the Indian defence budget is the third largest next to USA and China, though they are far ahead. Undoubtedly, the defence and aerospace industry is a strategically important sector in India.

In “AZAADI KA AMRIT MAHOTSAV” we find the indigenous defence manufac turing ascending on a path of growth and glory. The suc cess stories of India’s De fence Production include ship building including air craft carrier, Brahmos su personic missiles, Tejasmulti role fighter aircraft, attack and utility combat helicopters, anti-satellite weapon systems and a wide array of radars, missiles, drones, unarmed combat vehicles and armaments.

VISION STATEMENT

The vision of the govern ment is to achieve a turno ver of $25 Bn including export of $5 Bn in Aero

space and Defence by 2025.

Over the next 5-7 years, the Government of India plans to spend $130 Bn for fleet modernization across all armed services. In line with the self-reliant India initia tive, the share of domestic capital procurement, which was earmarked at 64% in 2021-22 has been enhanced to 68% of the Capital Acquisi tion Budget of the Defence Services for FY 2022-23.

GOVT INITIATIVE

To give a fillip to the domestic defence industry, the govern ment aims to ensure transpar ency, predictability and ease of doing business by creating a robust eco-system and form ing industry friendly poli cies. Towards this end the government has taken steps to bring about de-licensing, deregulation, export promotion and foreign investment liber alization. Ministry of Defence has also notified three ‘Posi tive Indigenization lists’ comprising of 411 defence equipments to be manufac tured locally. Additionally, to promote export and liberalize foreign investments FDI in Defence Sector has been en hanced up to 74% through the Automatic Route and 100% by government route. The following policy changes are noteworthyz Defence Production and Export Promotion Policy (DPEPP 2022)

z Defence Acquisition Proce dure (DAP 2020

z Strategic Partnership Model

z Re-Organisation Of Ord nance Factories

In a politically im portant judgment, the Supreme Court ordered premature release of Nalini Sriharan, P. Ravichandran and four other convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. Na lini and Ravichandran were set free on account of their good behaviour. Besides Nalini and Ravichandran the other four---Murugan, Santhan, Sri haran and Robert Payas---had spent over three decades in prison. They were all sen tenced to life in prison. Earlier, the Supreme Court had used its extraordinary powers un der Section 142 of the Constitu tion to release another convict, AG Perarivalan, on the recom mendation of the Tamil Nadu government in May this year. The special powers had to be

India will require total focus and sincere efforts in line with “Nation First” attitude to reap the best benefits, in future. There are shining examples of exclusive brilliance and the future seems to be bright, in-spite of a sluggish start. The defence industry took a long time to start toddling but now it has started walking

DEFENCE PRODUCTION HUBS

In line with ‘Make in India’ thought, new welcome develop ment has been the establish ment of two defence corri dors at Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. These two cor ridors shall focus upon devel opment of indigenous manu facturing and in turn become the springboard for defence manufacturing. These are z Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor (UPDIC) z Tamil Nadu Defence Industrial Corridor (TNDIC)

REALIGNMENT OF DEFENCE PROCUREMENT

The Indian Armed Forces modernization plan is rea ligning itself to ‘Make in In dia’ initiative. The ‘At manirbhar’ vision has em powered the Army, Air Force and Indian Navy, to procure

Although Sonia Gandhi, Rajiv’s widow, her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra & son Rahul Gandhi wanted a closure to the tragic chapter of their lives by pardoning the convicts but the Congress party has taken a different stand

invoked because the state gov ernor took an inordinately long time to decide on his mer cy petition.

Former Prime Minister Ra jiv Gandhi was assassinated by a suicide bomber in Sripe rumbudur on May 21, 1991.

For reasons hard to explain,

There is a silver lining and defence production has been looking up in the last decade. We can feel proud about the fact that defence exports grew by 334% in last five years and India is now exporting to over 75 countries. With Govern ment initiatives, the expendi ture on defence procurement from foreign sources which used to be 46% of the overall expenditure has reduced to 36% in the last four years i.e. 2018-19 to 2021-22. In 2020-2021, 74% of contracts by Army were awarded to Indian Ven dors, which is praise worthy. Government of India has set a target of Rs 1.75 lakh crore of defence production by 2025, which includes export of INR 35,000 crore.

CONCLUSION

‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ is a ‘feel good factor’ but the suc cess of Atmanirbhar Bharat will depend much on the right blend of policy imple mentations to fix the inher ent challenges, as given out. India will require total focus and sincere efforts in line with “Nation First” attitude to reap the best benefits, in future. There are shining ex amples of exclusive bril liance and the future seems to be bright, in-spite of a slug gish start. The defence indus try took a long time to start toddling but now it has start ed walking. With the right support and initiatives, we will soon find it taking giant strides, to glory and fame.

BRAVO! JAI HIND!! THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL

the Congress party is not in sync with the Gandhi family on the release of Rajiv’s kill ers. Although Sonia Gandhi, Rajiv’s widow, her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and son Rahul Gandhi wanted a closure to the tragic chapter of their lives by pardoning the convicts but the party has taken a different stand.

In 2018 it was Randeep Singh Surjewala who said that “the State cannot derelict its duty of punishing terrorists and ter rorism”. On Friday, the day of the Supreme Court’s order, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh tweeted that he found the order “totally unacceptable and com pletely erroneous”. Both Rahul and Priyanka had forgiven them after the latter met Nalini in jail in 2008. Their views must be respected.

It is the same conten tious issue of Gov ernment versus Su preme Court over ju dicial appointments once again. Law Minister Kiren Rijiju has repeatedly said that the Collegium system is “opaque and not accountable” involving a lot of politics. He has also ham mered the point that nowhere in the world do judges appoint themselves, which is fair. The new Chief Justice of India, Jus tice DY Chandrachud, said in an interview that the executive should avoid “grandstanding” but defended the system as it “ensures judicial independ ence”. He also said that the Col legium system “must improve” and that he took the criticism in a positive light. While the gov ernment may be right about lack of transparency, the executive’s bigger role in judges’ appoint ments could also compromise judicial independence.

The issue may take a new turn with the Bench of Justices San jay Kishan Kaul and AS Oka is suing notice to the Union Law Secretary for delay in processing names cleared for judgeship.

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SPIRITUAL SPEAK

A Karma-yogi performs action by body, mind, intellect, and senses, without attachment, only for self-purification.

Bhagavad Gita

Piyush Goyal @PiyushGoyal

PM @NarendraModi ji flags off South India’s first Vande Bharat Express from Bengaluru connecting Mysuru & Chennai.The Bharat Gaurav Kashi Yatra train is also flagged off for pilgrims to visit our spiritual capital Kashi.

Dharmendra Pradhan @dpradhanbjp

#KashiTamilSangamam will celebrate the bond between Kashi and Tamil Nadu. People of Kashi are eager to celebrate Tamil Nadu’s language, culture and history. This mutual love and respect is the basis of our unity— PM Shri @narendramodi ji.

MAJ GEN

CP SINGH (RETD)

The writer is a scholar soldier accredited with MA, MSc, LLB, MBA, M Phil (Def Mgt) and M Phil (International Strategic Affairs)

Prez Murmu gets emotional as she visits her school in Odisha

Bhubaneswar (PTI):

President Droupadi Murmu on Friday turned emotional as she sat on the cot on which she used to sleep during her student days in 1970s at Unit-II Gov ernment Girl’s High School here.

Murmu, on the sec ond day of her Odisha tour, visited her alma mater and Kuntala Ku mari Sabat Adivasi Hostel where she used to stay during her school days. She also met 13 classmates and

expressed her happi ness for being in midst of her classmates, stu dents of her school and teachers.

The President start ed the day by visiting the Tapabana High School at Khandagiri in the city. Recalling her school days, Mur mu said: “I started my schooling at my Uparbeda village.

There was no school building, but a thatched house where we used to study.” Describing the children of the present day as “fortunate”, the

President said: “We used to sweep class rooms, clean the school premises with cow dung. The students in our time studied with a free mind. I appeal to you to work hard and concentrate on your studies.” During an in teraction with girl stu dents, Murmu said: “In our time there were no such facilities like in ternet, television and other provisions to know the world outside us. As such I do not have any role models from outside. My

grandmother was my role model. I have seen how she used to help

people, particularly women in our area. My grandmother was men

tally very strong and I learnt a lot from her life.” As Murmu reached her alma ma ter where she studied from class 8 to 11, the school children greet ed her. She entered the school premises by waving at the people who were eagerly wait ing outside the campus to have a glimpse of her since morning.

She also visited the Kuntala Kumari Sabat Hostel, where she stayed during her studies at the staterun school.

HIMACHAL PRADESH POLLS: In total, 55% (226) of the 412 candidates fighting the elections are crorepatis

90% OF CONGRESS CANDIDATES

CROREPATIS, BJP HAS 82%: REPORT

AAP banking on Patidars to power its foray in Gujarat

Shimla (PTI): Around 90 per cent of the Con gress candidates in Himachal Pradesh as sembly polls to be held on Saturday are crore patis against 82 per cent of the ruling BJP, according to a report.

The AAP, which has fielded candidates on 67 of the total 68 assem bly constituencies, has 35, or 52 per cent, crore pati nominees, accord ing to the report by the Association for Demo cratic Reforms.

The BSP is fighting polls on 53 seats and 25 per cent (or 13) of its candidates are crorepa tis while 36 per cent (four) of candidates of CPI(M) are in the rich list. As many as 45 inde

Pradesh which goes to poll on Saturday. More than 55 lakh voters in the hill state will decide the fate of 412 candidates, including Chief Minister Jairam Thakur, former CM Virb hadhra Singh’s son Vikramaditya Singh and former BJP chief Satpal Singh Satti, in the elections in 68 constituencies across the state. For the ruling BJP, Prime minister Narendra Modi has led the cam paign from the front, wrapping up his canvassing with a personal appeal to voters of the state.

pendent candidates are also crorepatis. Sixtyone Congress candi dates and 56 BJP nomi nees are crorepatis.

Consumers in Noida get benefit of regulatory discounts from NPCL

In total, 55 per cent (226) of the 412 candi dates fighting the 2022 elections are crorepatis in Himachal Pradesh

Surat (PTI): “The ‘Bab bar Sher’ (lion) has come, now no one else stands a chance here,” said a youngster as Al pesh Kathiriya, AAP candidate from the Var achha Road Assembly constituency, arrived at a residential colony here on a motorcycle with his supporters in tow.

Kathiriya along with his supporters went from door to door chant ing ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ and urging residents, many of whom came out of their houses after seeing his cavalcade, to vote for him in the up coming state polls.

“We are with you,” an elderly woman assured 28-year-old Kathiriya, who was a prominent

leader of the 2015 Patidar quota agitation in Gujarat and earned the sobriquet ‘Babbar Sher’ for his aggressive and uncompromising stand on the issue.

“During the 2017 As sembly polls, they (BJP) had promised that they would withdraw all cas es filed against us but did not do so after re turning to power. They betrayed us.

Record seizures in Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat ahead of polls

New Delhi (ANI): The Election Commission of India (ECI) has made "Record seizures" dur ing Assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. The seizures in Gujarat amounted to Rs 71.88 crores while sei zures in Himachal Pradesh amounted to Rs 50.28 crores as per ECI's statement. The ECI in its press release stated that through "compre hensive planning, re views and follow-ups" these seizures have been made. Notably, on the oc casion of the announce ment of dates for the upcoming Gujarat As sembly Elections, 2022, Chief Election Commis sioner, Rajiv Kumar has stressed inducementfree elections.

Impact of Bharat Jodo Yatra already being felt: Cong’s dig at PM’s visit

“When we showed the President her room and the cot on which she used to sleep dur ing her student days, she turned emotional and sat on the same bed for a while,” said a woman teacher.

She also planted a sap ling on the premises of the Kuntala Kumari Sa bat Hostel where she stayed for four years from 1970 to 1974.

Later, Murmu met her classmates, who were invited to the school.

“It was a different

moment in our lives that the President of India invited to see us. We cannot express the feeling and we are so happy after meeting the country’s first citi zen, who was our class mate during school days,” said Chinmayee Mohanty, a retired col lege teacher and Mur mu’s classmate.

Murmu enquired about her other hostel roommates and asked: “Where is Chuni? Inci dentally, Murmu’s friend Chuni was ab sent on the occasion.

COURTYARD

ORDERS IPS OFFICER TO APPEAR IN COURT IN M S DHONI CONTEMPT CASE

Chennai: A division bench of the Madras High Court on Friday directed IPS officer G Sampath Kumar to appear on December 9 in connection with a contempt petition filed by cricketer M S Dhoni. The bench of Justices P N Prakash and R M T Teeka Raman issued the statutory notice when the contempt application came up today. Dhoni has moved the High Court with a prayer to initiate contempt proceedings and issue summons against Sampath Kumar, for his alleged statements against the Supreme Court and certain senior counsels in the matter regarding fixing of cricket matches. Originally, Dhoni had filed a civil suit in 2014 to permanently restrain Sampath Kumar

ONLINE PORTAL FOR RTI QUERIES

READY IN SC

New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court Friday said an online portal for filing RTI applications to help people access information about the top court is “practically ready” for launch. A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice Hima Kohli said the online portal to streamline responses of the Supreme Court under the Right to In formation Act is ready for being unveiled. The top court was hear ing a plea filed by law students Akriti Agarwal and Lakshya Purohit.

SC SEEKS REPLY FOR DELAY IN APPT OF JUDGES

New Delhi: The SC on Friday expressed un happiness with the Cen tre for keeping pending the names recommend ed by the Collegium for the appointment of judges in the High Courts and Apex Court. A bench headed by Jus tice Sanjay Kishan Kaul sought an explanation from the Law Secretary for the delay in the appointment of judges in the High Courts and Apex Court. The top court's observation

ing a plea filed by the Advocates

CHHATTISGARH COAL SCAM: IAS OFFICER TO REMAIN IN JAIL ANOTHER 12 DAYS

New Delhi: Based on the consistent efficient performance of the Company, the Uttar Pradesh Electricity Reg ulatory Commission (UPERC) vide tariff or der announced a regula tory discount @ 10% for the consumers of Great er Noida on the Retails Tariffs approved for the entire state of Uttar Pradesh. Resultantly, the tariffs in Greater Noida are cheaper by 10% as compared to the rest of the state of UP. In fact, after the aforesaid regu latory discount, the in dustrial tariff in Great er Noida is cheaper amongst all the cities in Delhi-NCR region, giv ing a boost in the arm in the developmental plans for the area luring more and more investment to Greater Noida Area.

The aforesaid regula tory discount has been made effective from Au gust August 4th, 2022 and since then the com pany has given a total discount of Rs. 54 Cr. from Aug-Oct’22 to its consumers in Noida.

New Delhi (PTI): The Congress took a dig on Friday at Prime Minis ter Narendra Modi’s visit to four southern states, saying the im pact of the opposition party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra is already being felt, but no antics can match the connection established with people by walking with and listening to them.

Modi is on a two-day visit to the southern states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra

Pradesh and Telanga na from Friday, during which he would attend several events and launch development

initiatives.

Taking a dig at his visit, Congress general secretary in-charge communications

Jairam Ramesh said the impact of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the foot march taken out by the party from Kanni yakumari to Kashmir, is already being felt.

“PM is now on a 2-day visit of 4 South Indian states that the Yatra has been through. There will undoubtedly be big photo-ops for camerajeevi. But no antics can match the connect from walking with and LIS TENING to the people,” Ramesh said in a tweet.

UTTAR PRADESH BUREAUCRACY

Raipur (PTI): A special court here on Friday extended by 12 days the judicial custody of IAS officer Sameer Vishnoi and two other accused, Sunil Agrawal and Laxmi kant Tiwari, as well as the ED’s custody of coal trader Suryakant Tiwari, arrest ed by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case linked to alleged extortion of money from coal mining transporters. The ED had claimed a “massive scam” was taking place in coal transportation in Chhattisgarh, under which a car tel of politicians, officers and others was allegedly running a parallel system of extorting illegal levy, generating Rs 2 crore to Rs 3 crore daily.

IAS officer Pratibha Singh to join UP bureaucracy

Ahtesham Siddiqui

Lucknow: IAS officer

Pratibha Singh will join the Uttar Pradesh bureaucracy. She has been allotted TG-2020 and is currently posted as trainee officer in Telangana. Chief Min ister Yogi Adityanath has given an NoC for her to come to UP.

Singh got married

this year to IPS officer Aditya Langeh of Uttar Pradesh Carder 2016 batch. He is from Jam mu and Kashmir. Pres ently, he is the SP of Amroha. Earlier, he has done a good job as DCP in Varanasi Police Commissionerate. He is known for his hon esty and hard work.

Singh had applied for UP carde after her mar

riage. The DoPT will soon issue a notification for her carde change.

The DoPT will soon issue a notification for Pratibha Singh’s cadre change

In the bureaucracy of UP, in the 2020 batch, a total of 16 IAS

officers came from the Centre and are posted as Joint Magistrate in different districts of the state. IAS Nidhi Bansal Joint Magis trate Jhansi married her to IAS Abhishek Kumar 2020 of Tripu ra Carder of her batch.

Last month, DoPT changed Kumar’s post ing from Tripura to Uttar Pradesh on

grounds of marriage. He has been made Joint Magistrate Ja laun.

Sources said that by the end of this year, Singh will come to UP. The number of IAS of ficers in the list will increase from 16 to 18. In the coming days, this number may in crease further on grounds of marriage.

President Droupadi Murmu was given a rousing welcome by the students, teachers and officials on the campus.

Shimla (PTI): The ruling BJP is hoping for an en core on the back of its development agenda, while the opposition Congress is urging voters to go by the four-decade old tradition of voting out incum bents in Himachal

HC

New Delhi (PTI): The DPIIT has organised a workshop on PM Gat iShakti national master plan for over 100 senior officials of public sector units such as Airports Au thority of India, Food Cor poration of India, and Power Grid Corporation.

The PM GatiShakti - NMP was announced last year with an aim to break de partmental silos and bring in more holistic and inte grated planning and exe cution of projects with a view to address the issues related to multi-modal and last-mile connectivity.

TKM DISCONTINUES

URBAN CRUISER COMPACT SUV

MOODY’S CUTS INDIA’S GROWTH FORECAST TO 7%

New Delhi (PTI): Moody’s on Friday slashed India’s GDP growth projection to 7% for 2022, saying that global slowdown and high domestic interest rates would dampen economic momentum.

This is the second time in as many months that Moody’s Investors Service has cut India’s growth esti mates for 2022. In Septem ber, it had cut projection for the year to 7.7% from 8.8% pegged in May.

“For India, the 2022 real GDP growth projections have been lowered to 7% from 7.7%. The downward revision assumes higher inflation, high interest rates and slowing global

growth will dampen eco nomic momentum by more than we had previously ex pected,” said the Global Macro Outlook 2023-24.

Moody’s expects growth to decelerate to 4.8% in 2023

31% higher tax collection to help meet deficit target

New Delhi (PTI): Toyota Kirloskar Motor on Friday said it has phased out Ur ban Cruiser compact SUV from its product portfolio in the country. The au tomaker introduced the model, a rebadged Maruti Vitara Brezza, in Septem ber 2020 and it has regis tered cumulative whole sales of over 65,000 units till date. The Co said that in order to further en hance customers’ mobility experience, its product strategy is focused on bringing in models based on customer’s feedback.

JET AIRWAYS POSTS

`308 CRORE LOSS IN SEPTEMBER QUARTER

Mumbai (PTI): Gross di rect tax collections have risen 31 per cent to Rs 10.54 lakh crore so far this fiscal, driven by personal income tax mop-up, the finance ministry said on Friday.

The net collection of direct taxes, which include per sonal and corporate taxes, after adjusting for refunds stood at Rs 8.71 lakh crore. This is 61.31 per cent of the Budget target for the full fiscal. Gross corporate tax and Personal Income Tax (PIT) collections grew 22.03 per cent and 40.64 per cent, respectively.

The Centre is likely to meet

the key fiscal deficit target of 6.4% in the current fi nancial year, mainly due to better tax collection.

Bank of America Securi ties on Friday said the key risks to budgeted fiscal deficit include higher sub sidies, lower divestment proceeds, excise duty cut on petrol and diesel.

and then to rise to 6.4% in 2024. The Indian economy grew 8.5% in 2021 calender year, according to Moody’s.

As per official GDP esti mates, the economy ex panded 13.5% in April-June

SECOND TIME MOODY HAS CUT INDIA’S ESTIMATES

This is the second time in as many months that Moody’s In vestors Service has cut India’s growth estimates for 2022. In September, it had cut projection for the year to 7.7% from 8.8% pegged in May. “For India, the 2022 real GDP growth projec tions have been lowered to 7% from 7.7%. The downward revi sion assumes higher inflation, high interest rates.

2022-23, higher than 4.10% growth clocked in JanuaryMarch.

GDP figures for Septem ber quarter would be re leased at the end of this month.

`-denominated exports to soon touch $8-10 bn

Kolkata (PTI): Rupee-de nominated exports may soon touch $8-10 billion on the back of strong demand for Indian goods from Rus sia and the completion of groundwork by both gov ernments to create a new regime in international trade, a senior official of the FIEO said.

Russian lender Gazprom bank has already opened a special Rupee account with UCO Bank. On Wednesday, India notified that export ers will receive all stipu lated benefits under the foreign trade policy for ex port realisations in domes tic currency after the Com merce ministry desired to promote international trade settlement in Rupee.

“Indian currency-de

nominated exports will reach $8-10 billion soon. Russia requires everything under the sun from India. There are strong inquiries in various sectors. Export ers were waiting for the government to allow bene fits under Rupee and banks to commence the process of transactions,” FIEO Di rector General & CEO Ajay Sahai said.

Currently, India’s ex ports to Russia are around $3 billion.

SENSEX RISES TO LIFETIME HIGH

Mumbai (PTI): Equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty on Friday spurted by nearly 2%, propelled by heavy buying in IT, metal and financial stocks amid a rally in global markets af ter lower-than-expected US inflation data.

A strong rupee against the US dollar and unabated foreign capital inflows fur ther bolstered sentiment, traders said.

Easing US inflation trig gered speculation that the US Federal Reserve might slow down the pace of in terest rate hikes.

The 30-share BSE Sensex zoomed 1,181.34 points or 1.95% to settle at 61,795.04.

Government taking steps to help small tea growers: Piyush Goyal

New Delhi (PTI): Jet Air ways, which is grounded for more than three years, on Friday reported a stan dalone net loss of `308.24 crore in the three months ended September. The air line had reported a net loss of `305.76 crore in the same period a year ago, according to a regu latory filing. Through the corporate insolvency reso lution process, the Jalan Fritsch consortium emerged as the winning bidder for the airline after the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approved the consortium’s resolu tion plan in June last year. However, the carrier is yet to resume operations.

GOLD RATE CLIMBS

`294; SILVER ALSO JUMPS BY `638

Kolkata (PTI): Union Commerce and Industry minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said that the gov ernment is taking steps to help the small tea growers (STGs) which contribute to more than 50% of the coun try’s production.

Goyal said efforts are be ing made to strengthen the STGs and ensure them a safe source of supply to the factories for tea production.

“The government is tak ing steps to help the STGs which contribute to more than 50% of the total tea production. Efforts are also there to ensure that the STGs become a safe source of supply to the fac

TOP TALKING POINTS

z Union Commerce and Industry minister Piyush Goyal said efforts are being made to strengthen the STGs and ensure them a safe source of supply to the factories for tea production.

z Goyal said that tea is an ‘emotion in India’.

Likewise, the broader NSE Nifty rallied 321.50 points or 1.78% to finish at 18,349.70.

Among Sensex stocks, HDFC emerged as the lead gainer, rising by 5.84%, fol lowed by HDFC Bank, Info

Forex kitty drops by $1.09 bn to $529.99 billion

sys, Tech Mahindra, HCL Tech, TCS, Wipro, Tata Steel & RIL.

On the other hand, M&M, SBI, Kotak Bank, Dr Reddy’s, ICICI Bank and NTPC were among the laggards.

OTHER STORIES

RIL TO DEVELOP MULTIMODAL LOGISTICS PARK IN TAMIL NADU

tories producing tea”, he said. Goyal said that tea is an ‘emotion in India’. “The Darjeeling variety has been a sensation while As sam tea has become a sym bol of India’s global recog

IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER

New Delhi (PTI): Gold price in the national capi tal rallied `294 to `52,663 per 10 grams on Friday amid a rise in price of the metal in the international market, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the yellow metal had closed at `52,369 per 10 grams.

Silver also surged by `638 to `62,858 per kg.

In the international mar ket, gold was trading higher at $1,761 per ounce while silver was up at $21.89 per ounce.

nition,” he stated.

The Commerce and In dustry minister said steps have been taken for auto matic renewal of their li censes for exports, tea waste and warehousing.

Mumbai (PTI): India’s for eign exchange reserves dropped by $1.087 billion to stand at $529.994 billion for the week ended November 4 on a sharp decline in the gold reserves, the Reserve Bank said on Friday. In the previous re porting week, the reserves had swelled by $6.561 bil lion to reach $531.081 bil lion, making it the biggest weekly jump in a year. The reserves have been declining as the central bank deploys the kitty to defend the rupee amid pressures caused by global developments.

PV wholesales rise 29% to 2.91 lakh units

First India Bureau

New Delhi: Aided by ro bust demand in the festive season, Passenger Vehicle wholesales in India jumps 29% to 2,91,113 units in the month of October 2022, the Society of Indian Automo bile Manufacturers (SIAM) said on Friday.

Total passenger vehicle dispatches from companies to dealers were 2,26,353 units in October 2021.

Total two-wheeler dis patches last month in creased 2% to 15,77,694 units as compared to Octo ber 2021.

“Good market senti ments coupled with festive boost, resulted in higher sales in October, especially for passenger vehicles,” SIAM President Vinod Ag

garwal said. Higher inflation and rising interest rates have impacted the rural market more, thereby returning marginal growth of the

MAJOR FINDINGS

z Passenger vehicle wholesales in India jumps 29% to 2,91,113 units in the month of October 2022

z Total two-wheeler dispatches last month increased 2% to 15,77,694 units as compared to October 2021.

two-wheeler segment, he added. Three-wheeler wholesales last month rose to 54,154 units from 31,812 units in the yearago period.

New Delhi (PTI): Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has been awarded the work to de velop the first multi-modal logistics park (MMLP) at Mappedu in Thiru vallur district of Tamil Nadu.

“MoRTH has made significant progress under this National Master Plan and embarking on the same, MMLP Chennai at Mappedu being developed in 184.27 acres is 1st MMLP awarded to RIL for which PM laid the foundation stone,” the MoRTH said in a statement.

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GAINS 62 PAISE TO CLOSE AT 80.78 AGAINST US DOLLAR

Mumbai (PTI): The rupee ap preciated by 62 paise to close at 80.78 (provisional) against the US dollar on Friday.. At the inter bank foreign exchange market, the local unit opened at 80.76 and touched an intra-day high of 80.58 and a low of 80.99 against the greenback. The local unit finally settled at 80.78, register ing a rise of 62 paise over its previous close of 81.40 against the American currency.

GLOBAL FOOD IMPORT BILL TO JUMP TO RECORD $1.9 TRILLION

New Delhi (Agencies): Global spending on food imports is expected to reach a record $1.94 trillion in 2022, the UN’s Food and Agri culture Organization warned on Friday, a 10% jump compared to the previous year due to rising prices. The new forecast would mark “an all-time high”, and is due to the depreciating values of currencies against the US dollar—the main currency of exchange on international markets—as well as Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

SEBI INTRODUCES REGULATORY FRAMEWORK TO FACILITATE ONLINE BOND PLATFORM PROVIDERS

New Delhi (PTI): Capital markets regulator Sebi has introduced a regulatory framework to facilitate providers of online bond plat forms that are selling listed debt securities. Under the new rules, no person would act as an online bond platform provider without obtaining registration certificate as a stock broker from Sebi, the regulator said in a noti fication made public on Friday. Such a person would have to comply with the conditions of registration and such other requirements specified by the regulator from time to time.

AMBANI, ADANI AMONG 13 BIDDERS FOR FUTURE RETAIL

New Delhi (PTI): Firms run by billionaires Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani are among the 13 compa nies that have submitted initial bids to acquire Future Retail Ltd. Ambani’s Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd, submitted the expression of interest (EoI) under insolvency proceed ings initiated to recover dues Future Retail owes to lenders.

April Moon Retail Private Ltd, a joint venture between Adani Airport holdings and Flemingo group, also submitted an EoI.

INDUSTRIAL

New Delhi (PTI): India’s industrial production ex panded by 3.1% in September, boosted by manufactur ing, mining and power sectors, ac cording to official data released on Friday. Factory output had contracted by 0.7% in the preceding month (Au gust 2022). It grew by 2.2% in July this year. Factory output, measured in terms of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), had expanded by 4.4% in September 2021.

DPIIT HOLDS WORKSHOP ON PM GATISHAKTI NMP

FIN MIN SITHARAMAN PROMISES

‘GREATER VIGOUR’ IN INDIA-US TIES

New Delhi (PTI): India and the US will look for ward to strengthening bilateral ties with great er vigour, Finance Min ister Nirmala Sithara man said here on Friday.

Addressing the me dia jointly with US Treasury Secretary Ja net Yellen at the start of the Ninth Indo-US Fi nancial Partnership, Sitharaman said that bilateral talks will im part greater vigour to the long-standing rela tionship with the US.

India, Sitharaman said, “Deeply values its relationship with the United States as a trusted partner. We share a traditionally strong bilateral rela tionship underpinned with shared values, convergence of inter ests on wide ranging issues and vibrant peo

ple-to-people contact.”

“Our meeting will lend greater vigour to our economic relation ship, strengthen busi ness-to-business links, and facilitate coordi

Submissions ‘frozen’, next hearing Nov 24

nated policy stance to address the pressing global economic chal lenges,” she said.

The 9th meeting of the Forum is being held against the back

India deeply val ues its relation ship with the US as a trusted part ner. We share a traditionally strong bilateral relationship un derpinned with shared values, convergence of in terests on wide ranging issues & vibrant peopleto-people contact.

Nirmala Sitharaman

drop of India prepar ing to assume the G20 presidency.

“We will continue to rely on close coopera tion with the US to ad dress the global eco

marks said that the In dia-US collaboration would not only promote economic growth and stability, but it can also be instrumental to sup porting economic pros perity across the IndoPacific region.

“Looking ahead, we’re also eager to dis cuss our shared pri orities as India as sumes the presidency of the G20 in the com ing weeks.

Andaman ex-chief secretary remanded to police custody

BY PTI

New Delhi (ANI):

The Supreme Court on Friday prohibit ed the filing of any pleadings (filing of documents or affida vits) in a case relat ing to a dispute over the contentious is sue of who should control administra tive services in Del hi over the transfers and postings of of ficers in the national capital.

Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Sin ghvi appearing for the Aam Aadmi Par ty government men tioned the matter before a bench of Chief Justice of In dia DY Chandrachud and Justice Hima saying Delhi's Depu ty Chief Minister filed an affidavit to show the paralysis in

administration due to non-cooperation by bureaucrats.

Additional Solici tor General (ASG) Sanjay Jain appear ing for the Centre ob jected to Sisodia fil ing an affidavit and also accused the Del hi government of leaking the affidavit to the media before it was filed in the court.

Singhvi refuted the allegation of sharing the affidavit with the press. The bench told Singhvi that the Del hi government could have said that with out filing an affidavit as well.

"We will not ask the Centre to file a response to this affi davit. We will deal with the constitu tional issues," the apex court said.

nomic challenges in a more coordinated man ner and in strengthen ing multilateralism,” Sitharaman said.

US Treasury Secre tary Yellen in her re

SC quashes HC bail to two who fired at Owaisi in Hapur

New Delhi (ANI): The Supreme Court on Fri day set aside the order passed by the Allahabad High Court granting bail to two accused of firing at the vehicle of AIMIM president Asa duddin Owaisi in Hapur on February 2022.

A bench of Justices MR Shah and MM Sun dresh directed the ac cused to surrender be fore the jail authority within a week. It sent the matter back to the High Court and asked it to decide on the bail ap plication of the accused afresh at the earliest or

within four weeks from the date of surrender.

The top court further asked HC to decide on application for bail while considering the evidence filed in the charge sheet.

Setting aside the HC order, the top court said, “It can be seen that there was no reason for the High Court to release the accused on bail and even the prime facie ma terial or the chargesheet was not considered.”

Owaisi had chal lenged the bail granted to the 2 accused – Sachin Sharma, and Shubham Gurjar – by the Alla habad HC.

Owaisi's car had come under attack while he was returning to Delhi after attending election-related events in western UP on Feb 3.

“We also hope that the mutual under standing we build will help us work together to advance our shared goals, including miti gating the existential risk of climate change, evolving multilateral institutions, and ad dressing the debt bur den faced by many de veloping countries,” Yellen said.

First India Bureau

Port Blair: The For mer chief secretary of Andaman & Nicobar Islands Jitendra Narain was sent to police re mand on Friday for 3 days till Monday, No vember 14, in an alleged gang-rape case filed by a 21-year-old woman against him and others.

The judgement was declared by the chief ju dicial magistrate of Port Blair after he was produced in court.

Police sought remand to continue their probe against him and other co-accused who are yet to be apprehended in the case which has rocked the island territory.

The IAS officer was held after his bail plea was rejected on Thurs day by a local court. Soon after the ver dict, a team of police men reached a private resort where Narain was staying and took him to the Police Line amid heavy security.

Court adjourns order on Jacqueline’s bail plea

New Delhi (PTI): A Delhi court on Friday adjourns to November 15 its order on actor Jac queline Fernandez's bail application in a Rs 200 crore money laun dering case involving alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekar.

The court also ex tended Fernandez's in terim protection till Tuesday. Special Judge Shailendra Malik, who had earlier granted Fernandez interim

bail, said the order was not ready. The court on Thursday reserved or

SEEKING STRONGER LAWS AGAINST RAPE CONVICTS

tress as well as the En forcement Directorate.

During the argu ments, on ED's submis sion that Fernandez can escape the country easily as she is not short of money, the court had questioned why the actor was not arrested so far.

Oppn to GM crops based on unfounded fears: Centre to SC

First India Bureau

New Delhi: Opposition to Genetically Modified (GM) crops is unfound ed as India is already importing and consum ing oil derived from it, the Centre told the Su preme Court today.

“Opposition to such (technologies) based on unfounded fears will only hurt the farmers, consumers, and the industry, ” the affidavit said

der after hearing argu ments from the lawyers appearing for the ac

DCW sets up panel on parole and remission policies

New Delhi (PTI): The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has set up an enquiry into pa role and remission poli cies in the country after the recent release of the Dera Sacha Sauda chief and rape convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gang-rape case.

Set up by DCW chief Swati Maliwal, the pan el will study the rele vant policies of differ ent states under which remission and parole

are granted to convicts.

It has issued notices to Delhi government and Tihar jail seeking infor

mation by November 21 regarding these policies for convicts of heinous crimes and their imple

mentation in the nation al capital. The commis sion will also submit a report to the Delhi gov ernment as well as the Central government.

“The commission has set up an enquiry in light of recent cases,” DCW said, adding, “For instance, Bilkis Bano was gang raped in 2002 and her 3-year-old son & 7 other family mem bers were killed.”

“Despite the court ac cording the 11 convicts

life imprisonment, they were let off on August 15 this year by the Gujarat government citing the 1992 remission policy that allowed prisoners to apply for reduction of their sentence,” it said.

“Recently, the Hary ana government re leased Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Ra him on parole who has been convicted of rapes and murders and is serv ing a life sentence in a jail in Rohtak,” it said.

The agency had told the court that it has is sued a Lookout Circu lar (LOC) on airports to stop the actor from leaving the country.

In an affidavit filed before the SC, the Min istry of Environment & Forests submitted the average prices of re fined palm oil, soy oil

and mustard oil are in creasing continuously & India needs to be inde pendent in oil produc tion to meet domestic consumption demand.

Subhas Chandra Bose was first PM of undivided India: Singh

Noida

He

ever since Narendra Modi became the prime minister, continuous ef forts are being made to accord Bose the respect which he rightly de

serves. “There was a time in independent In dia when the contribu tions of Bose were ei ther deliberately ig nored or undermined, it was not evaluated correctly.

It was done to the ex tent that several docu ments related to him were never made pub lic,” Singh said while ad dressing a programme at a private university in Greater Noida.

(PTI): Subhas Chandra Bose was the first prime minister of undivided India, in that he had formed the Azad Hind Sarkar’ independ ent of the British rule, Defence Minister Ra jnath Singh said Friday.

also said that Bose’s contributions were either ignored or undermined after the country got independ ence. The senior BJP leader also said that

Former Andaman and Nicobar chief secretary Jitendra Narain being produced at District & Sessions Court in Port Blair on Friday.

Asaduddin Owaisi addresses a press conference, at AIMIM headquarters, in Hyderabad on Thursday. —PHOTO BY ANI

Sharing the stage with US Treasury Secy, Sitharaman says will address global economic challenges

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and the US Treasury Secretary, Dr. Janet Yellen at the 9th meeting of India-US Economic Financial Partnership, in New Delhi on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI

—PHOTO

The convicts of the Bilkis Bano case 2002 after the Gujarat government granted them remission from the life sentencing.

Jacqueline Fernandez leaves after appearing before the Patiala House court in New Delhi on Friday. —PHOTO BY PTI

Polling officials with EVMs and other election equipment wade through snow, on their way to polling stations ahead of Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections in Lahaul and Spiti district, on Thursday. —PHOTO BY PTI

LG Vinai Saxena

Deputy CM Manish Sisodia

YOUR WAY

THROUGH WINTERS

ho doesn’t adore knitwear these days as it grows more and more fashionable? People need and want knitwear no matter the season, whether it is winter or fall. Customers frequently purchase knitwear, even in the summer. Despite their laid-back vibe, these

gan. Knitted sweaters are also a musthave; for an effortlessly chic look, wear yours with jeans and a plain tee. Knitted gilets, knitted vests, and knitted tanks are other names for sweater vests. They have been popular among fashionistas for a while. Since AW20 collections from high-end fashion houses like Prada, Gucci, and Dior included, they have been trendy. Because of its adaptability, a knit midi skirt is a great addition to your wardrobe essential. Dress it up for a special occasion with a beautiful top and heels, or dress it down for a trip to the grocery store with a cropped sweatshirt and spotless shoes.

By this point, it should be clear that knitwear includes much more than just sweaters. Knitted pants are among the cosiest loungewear options, and they are now stylish enough to wear everywhere. The knitwear direction for the next season celebrates uniqueness and self-expression and introduces exaggerated materials that are bursting with colour. A vivid green knit dress with sparkling crystal buttons might catch the eye. A pastel pink wrap dress goes perfectly if you prefer more muted tones; it may be worn on both casual and formal occasions.

These knitted patterns show that there are no limits to what you may wear, so don’t be afraid to experiment with your appearance.

KHUSHI TAMBI

THE ART MOVEMENT OF

The Gyrotonic Method – a rel atively recent exercise re gime derived from dance and yoga, among others – is grow ing around the world and its practitioners swear by it. However, it may be something many Olympic athletes are reluctant to adver tise, preferring to keep it hush-hush for now given the intense scru tiny and competition they face from rivals. Varsha has a strong be lief in Gyrotonic’s abil ity to open up the hu man physical form, using the body to go beyond its limitations and to increase the functional capacity of the entire organism harmoniously. She be lieves that exercise should be a creative and delightful experi ence for everyone and

Talking about her background, Varsha said, “I completed my dance education in New York at the Mar tha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, after which I studied other contemporary dance forms and worked as a perform ing artist in and around New York City. I taught ballet and con temporary classes at various studios. I am also a coach and men tor to students looking to pursue dance as a full-time profession.”

When asked why Gy rotonic, the passionate multitasker explained, “I first started taking Gyrotonic private les sons as a tool to sup port my dance training at the Martha Graham School which required highly coordinated movements, along with strong core and articu lation of the spine and hip joint. With consist ent Gyrotonic lessons, I felt a significant im provement in the qual ity of my movements and technique, adding more freedom and ef fortlessness to my dancing.”

there is no better way to go about it than through the GYRO TONIC® Method.

She has studied with Billy Macagnone, au thorized master train er and the founder of the largest Gyrotonic studios in New York City, Body Evolutions, among others like De bra Rose, master train er and the owner of San Francisco GYRO TONIC®. Varsha has worked extensively in New York City with cli ents of backgrounds ranging from profes sional ballet/modern dancers to senior citi zens with complaints of arthritis and scolio sis.

Gyrotonic essential ly became a part of her life when she decided to study this work in depth under her mas ter trainers. She gained a renewed sense of purpose and began shar ing her knowl edge with not only her friends who were profes sional dancers/ dance students in New York but also with people from all sorts of physical back grounds who did not experience movement as much in their daily life. After returning to In dia during the pandemic, Varsha strongly believes her journey has come full circle in an effort to give back to her com munity a fairly new and more intelligent way of exercising the whole body. Varsha came back to India in 2021 and has been working toward setting up a chain of fitness studios where she and a team of international trainers would teach Gyrotonic Method and Ballet Fitness in on line, in-studio and out door environments. The first such studio has come up in Jaipur and she plans to ex pand into leading me tropolises in India.

Gyrotonic is a unique system of exercise that incorporates movement principles from yoga, dance, gymnastics, swimming and t’ai chi. City First interacted with Varsha Bansal, a certified GYROTONIC® trainer, who is committed to bringing her Gyrotonic training and the joy of moving freely to people.

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Varsha Bansal

Varsha Bansal practising Gyrotonic

to premiere at IFFI

PRIYANKA TWINS WITH DAUGHTER

Priyanka Chopra is back in Los Angeles and she couldn't be more excited to be reuniting with her husband-singer Nick Jonas and daughter Malti Marie Chopra Jonas. Priyanka returned to India after three long years and was busy with her work com mitments. Just a while back, PeeCee took to her social media handle and shared her excite ment as she kickstarted her preparations for Christmas at her Los Angeles residence. Tak ing to her Instagram stories, Priyanka shared a glimpse of her Christmas tree and wrote: "It's up!" In another picture, she can be seen twin ning with Maltie Marie in white as they sat in front of their fireplace. Meanwhile, this will mark Malti's first Christmas after her birth.

Siddhaanth Vir dies at 46

Actor Siddhaanth Vir Surryavan shi, known for his roles in shows like Kkusum, Waaris and Suryaputra Karn, died on Friday at the age of 46. The actor reportedly collapsed while working out at a gym. He is survived by his wife, supermodel Alesia Raut and their two children.

The actor suffered a cardiac arrest while working out in the gym. There are no further de tails on the demise yet. However, his fans have already started drop ping 'RIP' comments on his Instagram post.

'FRESH AS A DAISY'

Anushka Shar ma is serving fitness goals as she's presently shooting for 'Chakda Xpress' where she es says the role of crick eter Jhulan Goswami. While she's been in dulging in some local lovely food while shooting in Kolkata.

JANHVI RECREATES ‘JHOOMAR SCENE’ Tears of Joy

applauded for her per formance. Nora's nota ble songs such as Dilbar, Saki Saki and Kamariya are popular and fans adore her beauty and talent. Recently, Nora's fan visited Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 10 sets to fulfil her dream of meet ing the actress. Her fan got emotional when she saw Nora and couldn't stop crying as Nora hugged her and kissed her forehead.

Poster of the movie

Anushka Sharma

Her post...

Late Siddhaant Vir Surryavansh

Priyanka Chopra

Janhvi Kapoor Nora Fatehi

Yami Gautam

Nora Fatehi with her fan

Korean Brand Puttisu is Now in India

CITY FIRST

Korea’s most popular kids’ brand Puttisu is now available in India with a wide range of childcare products. Korean-born Puttisu has a full range of children’s sk incare and make-up products from easy-to-use sunscreen sticks to non-toxic nail paint (which can be peeled off to re move, avoiding the use of harsh chemical-based nail polish re movers), cheek tint and lipstick as well as kid-sized, natural sheet masks and more. The products just launched with nail paints, sunscreen, sheet masks, nail stickers and hand cream along with blush, lip crayons and lip gloss in the Indian market. Put tisu is aimed at young, Pre-teen girls, teenagers and also older girls and every woman.

Two mothers, Neha Varghese and Manasvi Shah, are the pil lars behind bringing this popu lar Korean brand into India and here is what they have to say about allowing their daughters to play around with makeup. In attempts to limit screen time, parents find themselves indulg ing and even encouraging chil dren’s desire to dive into their skincare, cosmetics and closets to keep themselves entertained and to imbibe self-care as a life principle.

“During the pandemic, we saw our kids enjoying experimenting with our makeup and skin care products. The fact is, even if we try to stop them, kids will always find a way to get their hands on our lipsticks or nail paints and play around. This way, with a brand like Puttisu, specially cre ated for kids, with safe, 100% natural ingredi ents.” said Manasvi Shah.

We also found that home ‘spa days’ with our girls where we paint ed their nails or let them put tis sue paper soaked in wa ter over their face like a sheet mask was a wonderful bond ing experience with our kids. It was something we could do to gether and that was amazing”, adds Neha Varghese.

CITY FIRST

OPS Art Gallery is or ganising an exhibi tion titled Reflec tion of Tribes (An Indian Folk Art and Tribal Art Exhibition). The show is curated by Kiran Keth line Mohan and will be in augurated by Dr Sonal Mansingh (Padma Vib hushan and M.P. Rajya Sabha) on November 17 at Open Palm Court Gallery, New Delhi. Neena Mishra (Author, Chairperson- Set tler, Draupadi Dream Trust) will be present as a special guest at the event.

These folk and tribal art forms in their subtle way carry through a message to respect and safeguard our

global resources and leave a better future for our forthcoming generations to enjoy. Each season

abounds with a purely dif ferent natural splendour, to be explored and admired. The spring brings new blooms full of hope, the fall has a delicate display of colours to the winter’s magic and the energies of the summers. Dis played in this exhibi tion are various forms of folk and tribal art like – Warli Tribal Paint ing, Gond Tribal Painting, Kalamkari, Phad painting, Hazaribagh Tribal Paint ing, Bengal Patachitra, Bhil Tribal Painting, Rau tawa Painting, Leather Puppet Art, Kerala Mural

Painting, Sanjhi Art, Kan gra Miniature painting, Cheriyal Painting, Saura Painting and Bhuta Masks.

India in its diverse na ture has its own interest ing conventional and social characteristics and each of its re gions has its local style and community work manship rustic and each creation has a story to tell.

True craftsmanship is car ried from generations down to create a legacy for itself and a showcase of creative vitality. Even though these folk and trib

REFLECTION OF TRIBES FESTIVAL OF HOPE

al forms have seen a transformation in their mediums, designs, adoption of modern meth ods of creating different surfaces, gathering inspi ration from the surround ings etc. to cite perfect ex amples of ‘traditional modernity.’

CITY FIRST

he 15th edition of the Festival of Hope was organised at the Grand Hyatt, Gur gaon, Haryana. The show was hosted by Shalini Vig and Varun Bahl. The crème de la crème of Delhi NCR was treated to an evening soi ree that included all the elements of an unforget table indulgence Cou ture, Fashion, Glamour and charity. The evening also witnessed cancer warriors and other per sonalities walking the ramp styled and dressed by Designer Varun Bahl and Jewellery by Archana Aggar wal. Some of the personali ties who walked the ramp were Bollywood Actress Sanjana Sanghi, Dr Blos som Kochhar, MD PVR Sanjeev Bijli, Dr Amit Bhasin, Anushman Khaitan, Dr Anjali Hoo da Sangwan name a few. The event was supported by Lake Forest Wines and the IREO hospitality Grand Hyatt, Gurgaon. “There are heroes amongst us, fighting a

daily battle ‘Cancer.’ All they do is hold onto HOPE and this is how we do it. Celebrate the spirit and courage of cancer warriors.” says Shalini Vig, Founder of FOH stating the success of the foundation.

“I’m very happy to have partnered with Festival of Hope this year for their wonderful initiative, in support of Cancer Survivors,” says Fashion Designer Varun Bahl. “Festival of Hope, true to its name, brings sunshine into the lives of cancer survivors. It is

an outstanding devo tion and involvement to a very noble cause, which only selfless people can do,” says Archana Aggarwal, Ce lebrity Jewellery Designer. Festival of Hope is an or ganization that celebrates the spirit and courage of cancer survivors.

Through the unique me dium of fashion and de sign, the Festival of Hope has revolutionized the world of charity.

Master Blaster in Royal Rajasthan

he

Sachin Tendulkar is on a Rajasthan tour to celebrate his wife Anjali Tendulkar’s birthday. On the occasion of Anjali’s birthday, Rambagh Pal ace GM Ashok Rathore and the Rambagh Family

greeted

with a warm welcome by deco rating the palace with flowers and celebrated her birthday with much zeal and enthusiasm.

During the tour, Bharat Ratna cricketer Sachin Tendulkar also visited Jhalana Leopard Safari on Friday where

tation

at

During this, wildlife ex pert Dheeraj Kapoor gifted Sachin the Jhala na Leopard Tree which consists of information about leopards living in Jhalana from the year 2011 to 2021. Sachin Ten dulkar was greeted in

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—PHOTOS BY MANOJ KESHARWANI

Shaini Vig, Archana Aggarwal and Varun Bahl during the lamp lightning ceremony Shalini Vig, Sanjana Sanghi, Sanjeev Bijli and Dr Amit Bhasin

Varun Bahl and Shalini Vig

Blossom Kochhar and Archana Aggarwal

Amit Bhasin

Sanjana Sanghi

Manasvi Shah and Neha Varghese

CITY FIRST

the couple

visited the Interpre

Center

Jhalana.

Jhalana by State Wild life Board member Sunil Mehta, DFO of Forest Department Kapil Chan drawal, ACF Balamuru gan, ACF Raghuveer Meena, Ranger Janesh war Chaudhary and incharge Forester Jogend ra Shekhawat.

Captivating flower decoration by the Rambagh family for Anjali Tendulkar’s birthday

Sachin Tendulkar and Anjali Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar with others during his visit to the Interpretation center

GM Ashok Rathore greets Anjali Tendulkar