Indo-Oman joint military exercise Al Najah-IV in progress, at Mahajan Field Firing Ranges in Bikaner, on Friday.
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RUSHDIE ATTACKED AT NEW YORK EVENT ANOTHER ARREST IN UDAIPUR KILLING COP INJURED AS TERRORISTS OPEN FIRE IN ANANTNAG
New Delhi (ANI): The Delhi Police on Friday seized a consignment of smuggled ammunition that was intended to be transported to Lucknow from the national capital. The police have ar rested six persons in the case, including two persons for transport ing it, one gun house owner from Dehradun, one person each from Roorkee and Dehradun, and one consignment handler from Jaunpur. “Six persons includ ing two persons trans porting the consign ment, a gun house own er from Dehradun, one person each from Roor kee and Dehradun and one handler from Jaun pur were arrested,” Eastern Range ACP Vikramjit Singh said at a press conference.
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Seoul: UN Secy-Gen Antonio Guterres on Friday proclaimed unwavering UN commitment to a fully denuclearised N Ko rea, even as a divided Security Council allows more room for the isolated country to expand its nuclear weapons and bal listic missile programmes.
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MightMilitary of Delhi Police with the arrested accused and the seized ammunitions, in New Delhi on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Girish Mahajan was able to secure a cabinet berth for himself while Manoj Kotak, the BJP group leader in the BMC, is likely to be giv en charge of handing the civic polls in Mum bai city as well. Al though the BJP high command had mandated a lean cabinet with fresh faces, Fadnavis was able to ensure Mahajan got a berth against the party diktat. to P6
New York: Author Salman Rushdie was attacked at an event in New York on Friday just as he was about to give a lecture. The author’s writings have in the past led to death threats. A man storming the stage at Chautauqua Institution; he either punched or stabbed Rushdie as he was being introduced. The author fell to the floor, and the man was restrained.
l These will be the first elections with OBC reservations in FirstMaharashtraIndiaBureau Mumbai: The Maha rashtra Election Com mission on Friday an nounced elections in 608 gram panchayats in 51 tehsils across the state on September 18. State Election Com missioner UPS Madon said voting will be held on September 18 from 7.30 am to 5.30 pm and counting of votes will be held on September 19. Madon said the poll schedule has been an nounced after taking into consideration 51 tehsils which have not been affected by heavy rainfall but if excessive rainfall is reported in that region, the district administration should immediately report it to the Election Commis sion and an appropriate decision will be taken. According to the schedule announced, the SEC will publish the notification for elec tions in newspapers on August 24 and nomina tions by candidates could be filed till Sep tember 01 barring three days of government holidays on August 27, 28, and 31. The nominations will be scrutinised on Sep tember 02. Candidates can withdraw their nominations till Sep tember 06. Turn to P6
Washington: Former US President Donald Trump has called for the immediate release of the federal war rant the FBI used to search his Florida estate, hours after the Justice Depart ment had asked a court to unseal the warrant.
New Delhi: The NIA has arrested the 9th accused in connection with the brutal killing of Rajasthan’s Udaipurbased tailor Kanhaiyya Lal in June this year. A 41-year-old Muslim Khan, of Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh district, was arrested on August 10 for his “active role in the conspiracy”, NIA said on Friday.
MUMBAI CP TO CHANGE AGAIN?
COURTESY MEET F ormer Minister of External Affairs Natwar Singh hosted Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and Sudeep Dhankhar for lunch at his residence in New Delhi on Friday afternoon. He also presented the newly elected Vice President with a copy of his book ‘One Life in not Enough’. More on P8 Natwar Singh presents a copy of his book to Jagdeep Dhankhar.
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Renni Abraham Mumbai: The state govt is contemplating a change of guard in the Mumbai Police force following the upcoming polls to the BMC. Those familiar with the issue told First India that senior IPS officers being considered for the post of Mumbai’s police commissioner include Naval Bajaj and Niket Kaushik. Kaushik, notably, had refused to lodge an FIR against BJP’s Kirit Somaiya when he headed the economic offences wing of the Mumbai Crime Branch. He was subsequently placed on compulsory wait by the erstwhile MVA govt.
Bandipora: A migrant labourer was shot dead by militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora area on Thursday night, the police said. The labourer, identi fied as Mohd Amrez, hailed from Madhepura in Bihar and was working at Soadnara in Bandipora. After being shot, Mohd Amrez was rushed to hospital where he succumbed to injuries. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Ku mar on Friday expressed condolences and announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh to the kin of the deceased. JAIPUR, NEW DELHI & MUMBAI www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epapers/mumbai I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia
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Srinagar (ANI): A policeman was injured after terrorists fired at a joint naka party of the police and CRPF in the Bijbehara area of Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir, the police said on Friday. The injured policeman was immediately evacuated to a hospital for treatment. Following this, the area was cordoned off and a search is in progress. “Terrorists fired upon joint naka party of po lice/CRPF in #Bijbehara area of #Anantnag. In this terror incident, one police person nel got injured who was immediately evacuated to hospital for treatment. Area cordoned off. Search in pro gress,” tweeted the Jammu and Kashmir police. Earlier, three Indian Army personnel on Thursday succumbed to injuries received while neutralising two terrorists carrying out a suicide bomb attack in Rajouri district.
In naming new Maha, Mumbai chiefs, Fadnavis stamps political authority 608 gram panchayats to go to polls on Sept 18
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State NCP president Jayant Patil said Chief Minister Eknath Shin de and deputy CM Dev endra Fadnavis made several visits to New Delhi in connection with cabinet formation but did not seek finan cial assistance from the Centre for farmers. The former minister said, “Farmers have in curred severe losses due to heavy rainfall in mid-July. There is very high inflation; snails have damaged several agricultural crops in Marathwada, while downpour has also caused severe damage to crops and land. We will raise all these is sues in the legislature during the session.” The NCP leader said his party will demand special financial assis tance for farmers who are in distress due to attacks by snails, a pest, on agricultural crops. “There are cases in Beed, Osmanabad and Latur districts of Mar athwada where crops over two to four acres of agricultural land have been completely damaged by snails. It is a very serious issue for farmers. We will seek special assistance for them,” he said.
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Awareness about the existence and enforcement of the RTE Act is almost non-existent. Secondly, economical ly backward parents of students lack the wherewithal and knowledge to effectively re fer RTE complaints through the central Mumbai office of the Education Officer from BMC when they are faced with the challenge of admission refusals in Mumbai city.
Eight private schools in Mumbai are exempted from the Right to Education Act.
RTI on RTE gives Mumbai schools a good grade Of 290 private schools in the city, only one saw a complaint in the last five years, though awareness of RTE Act is not widespr ead First India Bureau Mumbai: A right to information (RTI) application about complaints under the Right to Educa tion (RTE) Act for de nial of admission in the 290 private schools of Mumbai city has revealed only a solitary aber ration that was found and rectified. RTI activist Anil Gal gali, however, says, “In reality, creating aware ness about the exist ence and enforcement of the RTE Act is al most non-existent. Sec ondly, economically backward parents of students lack the wherewithal and knowledge to effective ly refer RTE complaints through the central Mumbai office of the Education Officer from BMC when they are faced with the chal lenge of admission re fusals in Mumbai city.” According to the de tails provided by the BMC’s private primary school department in spector to Galgali, of 290 private schools to which RTE is applica ble, action was taken on a solitary complaint against the Rajrani Malhotra School in Andheri West in the last five years. The school had denied ad mission due to the nonreceipt of the reim bursement amount from the state govern ment but was was or dered to comply under the provisions of the RTE after it was given a hearing in the case. Following this, the school started online education of students in due However,compliance.RTEis not implemented at 100%, Galgali claims, besides emphasizing the need for sudden inspections at the schools during the one-month period when admissions to Classes I-IV take place annually. Galgali has ex pressed the opinion that it is necessary to hear the complaints at the ward level instead of keeping it restricted to one office at Dadar. The RTE Act was brought into law in or der to enable students from the poor and lowincome groups to be able to gain education through English medi um schools. Eight pri vate schools in Mumbai are exempted from the Right to Education Act including Samata Vidy amandir (under redevel opment), the Hand maids’ School (closed down) and six schools that possess certifica tion as minority institu tions: Vanita Vishram, JD Bharda, St Mary’s, St Louis, KR Makecha and Afak English School.
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New Delhi (PTI): Three-fourths of Ma harashtra’s ministers have declared crimi nal cases against themselves, accord ing to the Association for Democratic Re forms (ADR). Maharashtra now has 20 ministers, in cluding the chief min ister, after the council of ministers was ex panded on August 09 with the induction of 18 Aftermembers.thecabinet ex pansion, the Associa tion for Democratic Reforms and the Maha rashtra Election Watch analysed the selfsworn affidavits of all ministers submitted during the assembly polls in According2019. to the analysis, 15 (75%) min isters have declared criminal cases against themselves and 13 (65%) have declared se rious criminal cases against themselves. All the ministers are crorepatis and the av erage value of their as sets is Rs47.45 crore. “The minister with the highest declared to tal assets is Mangal Prabhat Lodha from Malabar Hill constitu ency with assets worth Rs441.65 crore. The minister with the low est declared total assets is Bhumare Sandipan rao Asaram from Pai than constituency with assets worth Rs2.92 crore,” the ADR said. There is no woman in the council of min isters.Eight (40%) of the ministers have de clared their education al qualification to be between Class X and XII, while 11 (55%) have declared having an educational qualifi cation of graduate or above. One minister holds a diploma. Four ministers are aged 41-50 years and the remaining are aged 51-70Chiefyears. Minister Eknath Shinde ex panded his two-mem ber ministry by in ducting 18 ministers on Tuesday, 41 days after he took the oath of office along with his deputy and BJP leader Devendra Fad navis. Of the 18 new ministers, nine each are from Shinde’s re bel Shiv Sena group and the BJP.
15 of 20 ministers in Maharashtra face criminal cases: ADR
The council of ministers was expanded on August 09 with the induction of 18 members.
Uddhav meets ex-councillors, asks them to stay in touch with people
First India Bureau Mumbai: Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Friday asked former party councillors to stay in constant touch with people as the crisis-hit outfit braces for the crucial elections to the Mumbai civic body. Former mayor Kishori Pednekar said Thackeray had called a meeting at Sena Bhavan in Dadar in central Mumbai which was attended by for mer party councillors of the cash-richendedtionMunicipalBrihanmumbaiCorpora(BMC)whosetermearlierthisyear.ElectionstotheBMC,which had been under the Sena control for more than two decades, are due later this year. In the 2017 BMC polls, the Shiv Sena had won 84 seats in the 227-member House. Pednekar said 12 former councillors did not turn up for the meeting. Of these, nine had informed they were out of Mum bai, while two cited medical reasons for their absence. One councillor did not turn up after assuring that he would attend the meeting.Thackeray also spoke about the upris ing in Bihar by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and slammed the BJP for vitiating the politi cal environment in the country as well in Ma harashtra.Earlier this week, Kumar’s Janta Dal United walked out of the alliance with the BJP and tied up with the Rashtriya Janta Dal to form a new gov ernment in Bihar. On Thursday, the Sena, in an editorial in its mouthpiece ‘Saama na’, had heaped praise on Kumar for dumping theHeBJP.(Thackeray) ad vised us to remain in touch with people con stantly. He said the mon soon is already halfway through and if there is no consistency in rain fall, this could result in a spike in vector-borne diseases. So the focus has to be on trying to co ordinate with agencies in curbing such out breaks, she said.
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Jalna civic body clerk suspended, 3 face probe for ‘misappropriation’
‘Will raise farmer issues in Monsoon Session’
`100 and `1,000 First India Bureau Mumbai: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pankaja Munde on Thursday said she may not have been “qualified enough” to get a berth in the newly expanded Ma harashtra cabinet. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has faced flak as there was not a single woman among the 18 ministers inducted into the cabinet ear lier this week. Asked about it by reporters, Munde— who was a cabinet minister in the earli er BJP-Sena govern ment headed by Dev endra Fadnavis— said, “I may not be qualified enough to be inducted. Whoever is eligible according to them will be in ducted into the cabi net. I have no stand about it.”
—Jayant Patil, President, Maharashtra NCP
—Kishori Pednekar, Former Mayor, Mumbai Shinde and Fadnavis, despite mak ing multiple trips to New Delhi after taking oath on June 30, have failed to get any Central assistance for the state and its people. Had they spent some time seeking financial assistance from the Centre, it would have been better for farmers and people who are affected by heavy rains. They prioritized cabinet formation over the suffer ing of the common people.
First India Bureau Mumbai: The opposi tion Nationalist Con gress Party (NCP) on Thursday said it would raise important issues like price rise, snail at tack on crops and loss es suffered by farmers due to heavy rains in the Monsoon Session of the AugustlegislatureMaharashtrabeginning17.
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A final report would be submitted after these actions were taken, he said.The JMC had formed squads during the pan demic, and deputed them at different places in the central Maha rashtra town, to collect penalties for violating the rules put in place against the spread of theFinesvirus.were imposed for not wearing face masks, roaming outside without reason and opening business estab lishments during the lockdown.However, a Right to Information query re vealed that Rs18 lakh, received as fines, was not deposited with the council. Later, a com plaint was submitted to the JMC and the district collector, seeking an in vestigation. Based on an inquiry committee’s re port, the JMC chief of ficer suspended the clerk and initiated de partmental action against the other three.
All the ministers are crorepatis and the valueaverageoftheirassetsis `47.45 crore First India Bureau Jalna: A clerk of the Jalna Municipal Council (JMC) was suspended, and three other officials faced departmental in quiry—as ordered by the chief officer—for alleged irregularities in collection of fines during the COVID-19 pandemic, an official said on Thursday. The official also in formed that there were orders to register a po lice complaint against Santosh Agnihotri, the suspended clerk. The senior official said dep uty chief officer Ma hesh Shinde, storekeeper Raju Jogi and office superintendent Vijay Phulambrikar would be put through a departmental inquiry.
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He (Thackeray) advised us to re main in touch with people constant ly. He said the monsoon is already halfway through and if there is no consisten cy in rainfall, this could result in a spike in vector-borne diseases. So the focus has to be on trying to coordinate with agencies in curbing such outbreaks.
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First India Bureau Gadchiroli: IPS An kil Goyal, who is posted in viceserysurehisnationalchosenliceperintendentGadchiroliNaxal-hitasSuofPo(SP),hasbeenforaninterawardforinitiativetoenpromptdelivofpublicsertocitizens.
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First India Bureau Mumbai: Most parts of Mumbai received light rains with oc casional spells of moderate to heavy showers on Friday morning, but there was no report of wa terlogging in any low-lying areas of the city, officials said. The India Meteoro logical Department (IMD) has predicted moderate rainfall in the city and suburbs in next 24 Publichours.transport ser vices, including subur ban trains and Brihan mumbai Electric Sup ply and Transport (BEST) buses, are oper ating as per their usual schedule, officials said. A civic official said that in the 24-hour pe riod that ended 8 am on Friday, Mumbai re corded 9.54mm rain fall, eastern suburbs 23.49mm, and western suburbs 26.35mm. “The IMD has pre dicted that the sky will be cloudy and Mumbai could witness moder ate rains. Windy weather with strong wind speed reaching at 40-50 kmph gusting to 60 kmph is very likely,” he said.
First India Bureau Mumbai: An interdepartmental inquiry has been ordered against absconding IPS officer Saurabh Tripathi for his al leged involvement in an extortion case, said a senior police official on Friday. Although the orders have been issued by the state government, the inquiry is yet to start as a chargesheet could not be served to the abscond ing officer, he added. Senior officials of General Administra tion Department will conduct the inquiry, he said adding that sepa rate inquiry will also be ordered against the jun ior police officers in volved in the case. An FIR was ordered against Tripathi in De cember 2021 on the com plaint of some mem bers of the Angadia as sociation. Angadias are traditional courier op erators who provide services to bullion and diamond PoliceLokmanyathenthreementionedbyTheonoperatorsmonthmandedofDeputyTripathi,businesses.thethenCommissionerPolice,Zonell,deRs10lakhperfromAngadiaforcarryingtheiroperations.complaintlodgedtheassociationalsonamesofofficialswhowerestationedatTilakMargStation.
Tripathi is yet to be arrested and a look out notice has been issued against him at airports across the nation ORDERED AGAINST IPS ROLE IN EXTORTION BID PHOTO
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Bail for man in conspiracy case to kill filmmaker Gadchiroli SP bags int’l award for welfare move SP Ankit Goyal
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An on-duty patrolman, Motiram Lobhi, found that boulders of up to 2m in size had fallen on the railway track at Lonavala- Karjat ghat section, and took steps to avoid any untoward incident
First India Bureau Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has granted bail to Obed Radi owala, an alleged aide of gangster Ravi Pujari, in connection with a 2014 case of con spiracy to kill Hin di film director Mahesh Bhatt. A single bench of Justice Bharati Dan gre on August 10 granted bail to Radi owala on a personal bond of Rs50,000, ac cording to the court order made available onTheThursday.accused, fac ing trial in the eightyear-old case, was ap prehended in the US in September 2017 for staying there illegal ly. He was deported to India in September 2019 and has been in jail since then. In 2018, before Ra diowala’s deporta tion, a special court had convicted 11 per sons in the case on charges of criminal conspiracy of the In dian Penal Code (IPC), but had acquit ted them under provi sions of the Maha rashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA).JusticeDangre, in her order, noted that Radiowala has been accused of arranging financiers from the US and money so pro cured was alleged to have been transferred to a Theco-accused.HCnoted that barring the confes sional statement made by a co-accused in the case, there was no material against Radiowala prima fa cie indicting him.
WALKING FOR PEACE
A statement by Gadchiroli Police said that Interna tional Association of Chiefs of Police has selected Goyal as the winner of 2022 IACP/ ‘DadaloramentionedreleasepolicetionaldisplayingagencyAward,munityLeadershipWalmartinComPolicinginlargecategory.Hewillbefetedforexcepleadershipinprofession,thesaid.ThestatementalsooftheKhidki’ (single window facili tation service) initia tive of Gadchiroli Po lice, aimed at reach ing out to people in remote areas with various welfare schemes and services. Goyal launched the ‘Dadalora Khid ki’ in 2021 to deliver public services and benefits of welfare schemes of the gov ernment to senior citizens, divyangs (persons with disa bilities), unemployed people and surren dered Naxalites in remote areas of the district, it said.
COMPOUND WALL FALLS AMID RAINS IN THANE, NO CASUALTY REPORTED Thane: A compound wall of a company in the Wagle Estate area collapsed amid heavy rains in Thane city around noon on Friday and no casualty was reported in the incident, regional disaster management cell (RDMC) chief Avinash Sawant said. The wall collapsed by the side of the road near a nullah and the protection wall of the hous ing complex near it was also in a precarious condition, he added. Local firemen and the RDMC team rushed to the scene and cleared the debris. Mahesh Bhatt
Women hold the Tricolour as they march for peace as part of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, at Marine Drive, in Mumbai on Friday.
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‘Dadalora Khidki’ initiative has been started at 53 places in the district and it has so far benefited more than 2.14 lakh citizens, said the release The incident occurred on a Mumbai-bound Bhor Ghat line. PHOTO
Light showers in Mum, IMD predicts moderate rains Mumbai is likely to see a high tide of 4.77m in the Arabian Sea, officials said on Friday.
First India Bureau Mumbai: Boulders fell on a railway track between Nagnath and Palasdhari in the Lo navala-Karjat ghat section a little after midnight, leaving train services on the Mumbai-Pune route disrupted for nearly eight hours. However, traffic movement was restored by 8.15 am on Friday morning, officials said. After the boulders fell on a track in Bhor ghat around 12.50 am, several outstation trains were detained for 30 minutes to around one hour, which affect ed the services between Mumbai and Pune, the Central Railway (CR) said on Friday. “The incident oc curred on the Mumbaibound line,” Shivaji Sutar, chief public rela tions officer of CR, said. Sutar said that an onduty patrolman, Moti ram Lobhi, found that the boulders had fallen on the track, and took necessary steps to avoid any untoward incident. “He took quick action and stopped one banker (locomotive), which was in a section, by showing a red signal. Then, he called higher officials and informed them about the inci dent,” the official said. The boulders that had fallen were up to two metres in size. A boulder train was roped in for the restoration work, Sutar added. The Lonavala-Karjat ghat section has three railway lines—Down, Mid and Up—he said. “The traffic on the af fected Up line was re stored at around 8.15 am, after around eight hours of efforts. During the restoration work, mail express trains were diverted on the Mid line. So, the traffic of the Up and Down lines had to run on the Down and Mid lines,” heHesaid.further said that due to the availability of only two lines as against the usual three, trains moving towards Mumbai from Pune, and also due to the movement of ghat banking locomotives, a few Down trains suf fered detention of up to one hour during the res toration work.
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THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL n this magnificent world full of economic disasters, uncertainties and ram pant failures of political systems, India has gener ally been seen by political pundits as a great chaos which has survived all up heavals but sustained its function as a democracy in seven and a half decades that have gone by. That’s a different story that our country was left in a much worse state by the English than the history books narrate. Nevertheless, just like the phoenix, India awoke and rose from its ashes to make its presence felt in the Western world as a self-reliant, powerful and a progressing country. Today, we Indians should bow to both the ideologies, of hard-core liberation fighters like Bose, Azad and Bhagat Singh & the unique strategies by the Mahatma of nonviolence, non-cooperation and civil disobedience that joined into the celebrations of what Nehru called ‘India’s tryst with Destiny’. If we go by the theorists, insufficiency, illiteracy and a deeply graded soci ety structure are all con sidered as unfavourable soil for the sowing and growth of democracy. Yet, while many Afro – Asian countries which achieved Independence around the same time as India terri bly failed to initiate or to hold a democratic set up, Indian press and Judici ary upheld their institu tional autonomy in spite of some periodic pres sures from the federal ex ecutive branch. So, what were the major differences between the failed political systems of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malesia, Turkey, Thai land, Myanmar and many African nations & India? In my personal analysis there are five major rea sons why India stands where it is while the trou bled regions named above collapsed time and again. First and foremost was to preserve inclusivity in our society. This by and large was the most impor tant achievement of India since independence as In dia has survived all chal lenges despite diverse cul tures, despite a long proxy war from across the bor ders and stiff terrorismrelated challenges on do mestic front. Yes, against all odds, India’s secular fabric and its amazing unity in diversity have re mained intact. Next logical mantra was to Work on the goal of selfreliance. The green revolu tion of mid-1960s convert ed agriculture into a mod ern industrial system by adopting technology, high yielding variety (HYV) seeds, mechanised farm tools, irrigation facilities, pesticides and fertilizers. Indeed, it not only made India feed its teeming mil lions but empowered it to export surplus stocks. After the success of Green Revolution, the country embarked upon the idea of the White Revo lution. The objective was to make India a self-de pendent nation & one of Yes, though the country has covered the mosaic flooring of its 75 years long independence history with vibrant and colourful tiles of hard work, toil, sacrifices, intensions and planning, India’s herculean efforts in unemployment,poverty,combatingilliteracy,corruptionandpopulationexplosionhavenotfetcheddividends
the Nirbharandnurtureworld.countriesmilk-producinglargestintheNowwecouldouryoungonesgiveaPhilliptodairytoryoverhunger,healthforms.Andtherefore,aninitiativewaslaunchedtofreeIndiafromepidemicslikesmallpox,chickenpox,polioandscoresofotherdiseases.Obviously,itneededastrongbaseoficsandinspiteofmanyimpedimentsandroadblocks,We,thepeopleofIndiaworkedrelentlesslytomaterializeourdreams.hiprovedtobetheworldagementofthepandemicsSpace,NuclearenergyandmissileprogrammesThemodesteffortsthatbeganin1975toconquerthespacewiththelaunchofAryabhattahavenowcomeofage.Today,theMangalyanmissionof2013hasdisplayedIndianholdonthetechnologicallylaunchedmissionwaseconomicallycheapest&technologicallysound.ThelaunchofAtmaBharatwillnowputIndiaatparwithanyworldpowerinthedefenceproductionalso.Mayitbetanks,fighteraircraft,Navalships,artillerygunsorsmallarms,Indiaisself-relianttosustainanywarforanylengthoftime.Yes,thoughthecountryhascoveredthemosaicflooringofits75yearslongindependencehistorywithvibrantandcolourfultilesofhardwork,toil,sacrifices,intensionsandplanning,India’sherculeaneffortsincombatingpoverty,illiteracy,unemployment,corruptionandpopulationexplosionhavenotfetcheddividends.IfIndiawantstobecomeaglobalsuperpower,thenthesechallengeshavetobetakenheadon.Indiaindeedhastherequiredresources,givenitsveryhighpercentageofyoungdynamicpopulation.It’sthenuptoourleaderstodeliverwithvisionanduptothepeopleastowhatkindofleaderstheychoosetoensureeffectivedeliverance.
FOUR TIMES FASTER THAN REST OF EARTH
he Earth is thethan1.1°cproximatelyapwarmeritwasatstartofthe industrial revolution. That warming has not been uni form, with some regions warming at a far greater pace. One such region is theAArctic.newstudy shows that the Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the rest of the world over the past 43 years. This means the Arctic is on av erage around 3°c warmer than it was in 1980. This is alarming, be cause the Arctic contains sensitive and delicately balanced climate compo nents that, if pushed too hard, will respond with global consequences. Why is the Arctic warming so much fast er?: A large part of the ex planation relates to sea ice. This is a thin layer (typi cally one metre to five me tres thick) of sea water that freezes in winter and par tially melts in the summer. The sea ice is covered in a bright layer of snow which reflects around 85% of incoming solar radia tion back out to space. The opposite occurs in the open ocean. As the darkest natural surface on the planet, the ocean absorbs 90% of solar radiation. When covered with sea ice, the Arctic Ocean acts like a large reflective blan ket, reducing the absorp tion of solar radiation. As the sea ice melts, absorp tion rates increase, result ing in a positive feedback loop where the rapid pace of ocean warming further amplifies sea ice melt, con tributing to even faster oceanThiswarming.feedback loop is largely responsible for what is known as Arctic amplifi cation, and is the explana tion for why the Arctic is warming so much more than the rest of the planet.
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T Piyush Goyal@PiyushGoyal Tiranga flying high outside my office at Vanijya Bhawan. Fills my heart with pride. #HarGharTiranga Dharmendra Pradhan@dpradhanbjp I have suggested to rename this contest as #SenaSuper25 in the honor of our soldiers. This time #Super25 was conducted among 8 lakh students across 5,000 school. @EduMinOfIndia will work to take this initiative to all schools in India and to over 1 crore students going forward.
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"Lawyers complain matters are not listed, but seek adjournment when their cases come up," the judge said adding adjournment can be sought only on ac count of Covid or a bereavement in the family.
Sambit Patra said several people had been killed since the two parties joined hands Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ties a ‘Rakhi’ on a tree, as he celebrates the Raksha Bandhan festival to mark the ‘Vriksha Sukarksha Diwas’, in Patna on Friday. —PHOTO BY ANI No PM ambitions but ready to play role in forging oppn unity: CM JDU gundaraj’‘returndismissesofjibe Patna: CM Nitish Kumar maintained he had no prime ministe rial ambitions but said he was looking for ward to play a positive role in forging op position unity against ruling NDA at the Cen tre. Kumar also made light of apprehensions of misuse of the CBI and ED against the new dispensation in Bihar, which has achieved power after ousting the BJP, and said those habituated to misuse will face public ire. New Delhi: JD(U) president Rajeev Ranjan Singh alias Lallan Singh said crime was always kept under check during Nitish Kumar’s rule as he rejected BJP’s al legations that ‘goond araj’ had returned as political propaganda. The JD(U) chief also said that Kumar would soon hold meetings with opposition lead ers in Delhi in a bid to unite the opposition.
Home Minister Amit Shah addressing at the National Conference of Rural Co-operative Banks, in New Delhi on Friday.
New Delhi: Enforce ment Directorate said it has attached Rs 370 crore worth deposits -- invested in bank, payment gateway and crypto accounts -- of a countrynationalsporated“shell”Bengaluru-basedcompanyincorbytwoChinesewholeftthein2020.
CONG MLA SEEKS BERTH IN NEW BIHAR CABINET NITISH DEFENDS Z-PLUS SECURITY TO DEPUTY CM TEJASHWI YADAV “NATURAL ALLIANCE, NOT DEAL”, TEJASHWI ON MAHAGATHBANDHAN Patna: The return "Mahagathbandhan"of to power in Bihar seems to have set personal ambitions soaring in the Congress which had been down in the dumps. Chhatrapati Ya dav, MLA from Khagaria Sadar, has shot off a letter to Congress high command, demanding that he be considered, by virtue of his caste, for a berth in the new cabinet headed by CM Nitish Kumar.
HC RAPS TOP COPS ‘ORDERLIES’ON Chennai: Madras HC rapped higher police officials in Tamil Nadu for engaging lower level cops as ‘orderlies’ at their residences for menial jobs, as it rued at the continuance of the “colonial slavery sys tem.” Unless concrete steps are taken to totally wipe out this practice, the court will have no option but opt for other course of action under Constitution, Justice SM Subramaniyam warned.
New Delhi: Bihar DyCM Tejashwi Yadav called the recent tie-up of Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) with Mahagath bandhan “a natural alliance and not a deal”, and also claimed that Bihar will be the largest government jobs providing state within a month. Tejashwi said, “It’s a natural alliance, not a deal. This is the real ‘Mahagath bandhan’ formed by Lalu Yadav ji and Nitish Kumar.”
Mahesh Sharma New Delhi: After five years, the BJP has sud denly come into the op position in Bihar. Till now it was in govern ment with Nitish Ku mar. If we leave out the time from 2013 to 2017, the BJP is in power in Bihar since 2005. Now it has to do the politics of opposition and that too in front of the unit ed strength of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Pras ad. Keep in mind that the politics of Bihar has been revolving around the faces of these two leaders for the last 32 years. In such a situation, BJP has an opportunity to do politics by denttionwillmainstream.party,theYadav,shilbringthissueanti-incumbencymakinganisof32years.ButforBJPwillhavetoanewface.SuModi,NandkishorewhorepresentrulingfaceoftheareoutoftheButtherealsobenocompetiwithstatepresiSanjayJaiswalor Union minister Nity anand Rai. BJP had made Nity anand Rai state presi dent and later Union Minister of State for Home in the hope that if RJD is weakening, he will bring Yadav votes towards BJP. But now that the RJD has become very strong, there is no political need for Nityanand Rai. Sanjay Jaiswal is also a very weak leader and he will not be able to compete with Nitish and Tejashwi. In such a situation, BJP has the option to forward a Kushwaha leader and that leader is Samrat Chaudhary. He is the son of Shakuni Choud hary, the tallest Kushwaha leader of Bihar and has long po litical experience. Sec ondly, he is a good speaker and a fighting leader. The effect of caste politics in Bihar is such that Yadav and Kushwaha cannot live together. Kushwaha votes for Nitish only when he is with BJP. The Kushwaha commu nity has eight percent votes, which Samrat Chaudhary can associ ate with the BJP. If BJP succesfully manages to bring Chirag Paswan with him and puts oth er upper caste and most backward caste leaders behind him, then there can be a fight.
New Delhi (ANI): The Central Bureau of In vestigation (CBI) has filed a ingagainstKamrupJudicialtheachargesheetsecondniesprivatetorformerchargesheetsupplementaryagainstthemanagingdirecanddirectorsofagroupofcompainachitfundcase.TheCBIhasfiledthesupplementaryrelatingtochitfundcasebeforecourtofAddlChiefMagistrate,(M),Guwahatithethenmanagdirectorandthree
PTIBY—PHOTO Hyderabad (ANI): Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Telanga na on August 21 and ad dress a BJP public meet ing where Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy, who re signed from Congress and is set to quit his Munugode MLA seat, will join the BJP. This was announced by Reddy at Delhi after he met with Shah. He was accompanied by former MP Vivek Ven katswamy and BJP lead ers. Reddy said there would be others from Congress who would be joining the BJP along with him in Shah's pres ence. He said a final de cision on the venue for the event would be de cided after consulta tions with BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar currently on the third leg of his Praja Sangrama Yatra.
IN THE COURTYARD 26 APPOINTEDJUDGES TO 6 HIGH COURTS New Delhi: Twenty-six judges were appointed to six high courts on Friday, bringing the total number of HC judges appointed this year to a record 127. The previous record was in 2016 when 126 HC judges were appointed during the first tenure of the Modi government, sources said. Of those elevated as additional judges and judges, 20 were judicial officers and six advocates.
Amit Shah’s public meeting in Telangana on August 21
CHIT FUND CASE Ex-MD, directors of pvt group of cos in CBI net
Mahouts with national flag ride their elephants on World Elephant Day, at Manas National Park in Baksa district, on Friday.
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former directors of a private group of compa nies, CBI said.
New Delhi 12 (ANI): Tales of valour of In dian soldiers would soon be made part of the school curricu lum to inculcate a sense of “responsibil ity towards the na tion” among children from an early age, Un ion Education minis ter PortalGallantrycontest,ofemonyatday.PradhanDharmendrasaidonFriHewasspeakingthefelicitationcerof25winnerstheVeerGathaorganisedbyAwardsofIndia,here.
151 POLICE PERSONNEL SELECTED FOR ‘UNION HOME MINISTER’S MEDAL’ New Delhi: As many as 151 police personnel, includ ing 28 women officers, from across the country were selected for the ‘Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation’ which was announced on Friday. The CBI’s top 15 personnel have been selected for the award, followed by 11 from Maharashtra Police, 10 each from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, and eight each from Kerala, Rajasthan and West Bengal Police. Seven personnel from Bihar Police, six each from Gujarat, Karnataka and Delhi, and five each from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Narcotics Control Bureau were selected for the award.
Modi expresses happiness on rise in elephant reserves
‘NO ADJOURNMENT UNLESS FOR COVID OR FAMILY BEREAVEMENT’ New Delhi: Justice DY Chandrachud called for a change in the way lawyers work in Supreme Court. He told this when a law yer sought adjournment in a case. "You have to change the style of work ing in SC. Judges read briefs and then lawyers don't argue," he said.
WHAT OPTION DOES BJP NOW HAVE IN BIHAR? NEW EQUATIONS
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Patna: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar defended the Z+ security cover provided to RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav. He was granted this second-highest level of security after becoming the Deputy CM of Bihar for the second time. Reacting to BJP leaders objecting to this, Kumar said, "Why should they object to it? He is the Deputy CM. They speak nonsense.”
Jungle Raj has returned to Bihar, says BJP on Nitish’s new alliance
HUMAN-ELEPHANT CONFLICTS RISING DUE TO COMPETITION FOR RESOURCES: YADAV New Delhi: Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Friday said human-elephant conflicts are increasing due to “competition for resources”, with around 500 people in the country dying in elephant attacks and 100 jumbos “killed in retaliation” annually. The minister said India has emerged as a pioneer in elephant conservation and managing human-elephant conflicts is the major focus of the government.
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New Delhi (PTI): The BJP alleged on Friday that "jungle raj" has re turned to Bihar with the RJD-JD(U) govern ment assuming power in the state as it cited a string of murders and other crimes to attack the ingintheofBJP.snappednatagovernmentjoinedsincepriestbeeningseveralpressSambitBJPalliance.spokespersonPatrasaidataconferencethatpeople,includjournalists,havekilledandatemplewasbeheadedthetwopartieshandstoformtheaftertheJaDal(United)tieswiththeHealsocitedcasessexualassaultanddeathofsixpersonsChhapraafterdrinkspuriousliquor."Disorderisspreadinginthestateatafastpace.Itwillnotbeanexaggerationtosaythat'jungleraj'returnstoBihar,"hesaid.TheBJPhasassociatedtheRashtriyaJanataDal'sruleinthestatewith'jungleraj'(lawlessness).HeclaimedthattheBJP'spresenceinthestategovernmentearlierworkedasarestraininginfluenceoncrimeeventhoughthepartydidnothavehomeorexcisedepartments.
Nitish Kumar with Sushil Modi. —FILE PHOTO New Delhi (Agencies): PM Narendra Modi on Friday lauded the ef forts of ‘Elephant’ con servationists on ‘World Elephant Day’. He also expressed happiness upon the rise in the number of elephant re serves in last 8 years. In a series of tweets, Modi said, minimiseunderwaytextmustephanttectingthoseyears.risenelephantphants.centdiahappyelephant.mitmentreiterating#WorldElephantDay,“OnourcomtoprotecttheYouwouldbetoknowthatInhousesabout60perofallAsianeleThenumberofreserveshasinthelast8Ialsolaudallinvolvedinproelephants.”“ThesuccessesinelconservationbeviewedinconofthelargereffortsinIndiatohuman-ani mal conflict, and inte grating local communi ties and their tradition al wisdom in sciousness,”environmentalfurtheringconModisaid.
ANIBY—PHOTO ‘Indian soldiers’ stories to be part of textbooks’
SC NOTICE ON PLEA BY SULLI DEALS APP ACCUSED New Delhi: The Supreme Court agreed to examine a plea by Aumkareshwar Thakur, accused of creat ing the ‘Sulli Deals’ app on GitHub, seeking club bing of FIRs against him across the country. SC issued notice to Delhi, UP and Maharashtra police and sought their affidavits in 3 weeks. The court observed each woman whose picture was uploaded on the auc tioning site is “an aggrieved party” and can in such a situation multiple FIRs be clubbed.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh felicitates Subedar Major and Honorary Captain Yogendra Singh Yadav PVC (retd) during the felicitation of ‘Super 25’ students of Veer Gatha contest organised by Gallantry Awards Portal of India, as Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State for Defence and Tourism Ajay Bhatt and Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar look on, in New Delhi on Friday —PHOTO BY ANI
GOA PANCHAYAT ELECTIONS
Karnataka CM Bommai says further action on HC recent order of abolishing ACB after party meet Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Chief Min ister Basavaraj Bom mai on Friday said the state government’s fur ther action following the High Court’s deci sion to abolish the AntiCorruption Bureau (ACB) and restore the powers of the Lokay ukta police wing, will be on the basis of BJP’s 2018BJPmanifesto.initspoll mani festo had promised to scrap the ACB, which was formed by the then Congress government headed by Siddaramai ah in “Yesterday2016. the High Court gave its decision regarding the ACB. Keeping our party man ifesto in mind, we will discuss in the Cabinet today, taking view of the instructions given in the court’s order copy,” Bommai said ahead of the cabinet meeting. He said, “We will take further action on this, on the basis of our party manifesto.”The judge ment of the Division Bench of Justice B Veer appa and Justice K S He malekha came on a peti tion challenging the ACB’s formation and the subsequent March 16, 2016 government or der withdrawing the powers of the Lokayuk ta police from register ing and investigating into cases under the Pre vention of Corruption Act. The formation of the ACB through an “ex ecutive order” is not jus tified and Constitution al, the judgement said. With this, the ACB stands abolished. All cases pending be fore ACB would now be transferred to Lokayukta police wing, HC said.
other civic elections are likely to be add ed soon, according to his own discre tion.”
“Though the ruling BJP claims that Guja rat is a power surplus state, farmers are not getting adequate elec tricity for agriculture. If Congress comes to power, it will provide free electricity to farmers for 10 hours, that too during the day. We will also withdraw penalties and cases of electricity theft lodged against farmers,” Tha kor said in a press con ference“Farmershere.in Gujarat are reeling under huge debt. But instead of providing a relief, the BJP had waived loans of industrialists. In the first cabinet meet ing after coming to power, the Congress will make a decision to abolish all the farm loans below Rs 3 lakh,” Thakor said.
Bengaluru (PTI): Three alleged illegal im migrant Bangladesh na tionals have been ar rested at the Kempegow da International Air port here and remanded to judicial custody, po lice said on Friday. Shayan Das (25), Nikhilesh Das (34) and Amin detainedChowdhuryMohammed(27)werebytheimmi gration officials a week ago upon suspicion. On verification, it was revealed that they were natives of the neigh bouring country and had sneaked into India through the porous bor der in 2013.The trio lived in West Bengal for some years during which they obtained ID cards, in cluding Aadhaar num ber and Indian passport.
Entry of Sri Rama Sena chief banned in Gadag MUHARRAM STABBING CASE Panji (PTI): Even as the counting of votes for the Goa panchayat elections is underway on Friday, the results declared till afternoon indicated a mixed bag, with the candidates supported by the Bharatiya Janata Party, opposition Congress and the Revolutionary Goans Party winning some local bodies. The counting of votes for elections to 186 pan chayat bodies in the state, held on Wednes day, began at 8 am on Fri day. The elections, held through ballot papers, were not fought on party symbols. A total of 5,038 candidates were in the fray in 1,464 wards. Several BJP leaders, including Speaker of Goa Legislative Assem bly Ramesh Tawadkar, claimed that their party won the panchayat bod ies in opmentnecessaryandtweenastionsningTawadkar.nineWeninehaveconstituencies.“Wetheirwonthreeoutofpanchayatbodies.willwininallthepanchayats,”saidHesaidwinpanchayateleciscrucialforBJPcoordinationbethepanchayatslocallegislatorsisforthedeveloftheregion. Cong, underway 2022 RESULTS
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP Friday said the government’s ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign has seen unprecedented re sponse across the country and claimed the target of having 20 crore households hoist or display the national flag on inde pendence day will definitely be reached. BJP general secre tary Arun Singh said party president JP Nadda will also inau gurate an exhibition here on Saturday to mark the ‘Partition Horrors Remem brance Day’, which falls on August 14. It will highlight the atrocities people faced during the par tition violence, he said. Silence marches will also be taken out in every district on that day, he added. It will send out the resolve that everyone is together for nation al integrity, he said.
‘Strategist’ Shah gives roadmap to form govt EYEING ODISHA
Sharat K Verma New Delhi: Amit Shah has been the Home Min ister at the Centre for more than three years but till now he has not visited Odisha. For the first time after becom ing the Home Minister, he visited the state re cently. It seems like he was waiting for Drau padi Murmu, who hails from Odisha, to become the President. Soon af ter Murmu became the President, he visited Odisha and claimed that the BJP would soon form its government in the state. One reason for this hope of the BJP is the belief that Naveen Patnaik is old enough and remains ill. He has not made anyone his successor. By taking his close friend Ashwini Vaishnav in its party, BJP has made him min ister of many big minis tries at the center. Through him the BJP is hoping to handle the Biju Janata Dal. But apart from this, it is being told that Amit Shah has shared the roadmap for the next election in the meeting of party workers and leaders. Assembly elec tions in Odisha are held along with the Lok Sab ha and BJP eyes to take advantage of this. The BJP performed well in the Lok Sabha last time but its performance in the Assembly was not the same. The BJP could win only 22 seats in the 147-member assembly.
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Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai. Gadag: Authorities on Friday banned Sri Rama Sena chief Pramod Muthalik's en try to Karnataka's Gad ag district saying his visit might disturb peace in the area. Muthalik was planning to meet Somu Gudi, an arrested activist of Sri Rama Sena in connec tion with a stabbing case on Muharram.
This time BJP is doing politics of taking advan tage of 25 years of anti incumbency against Naveen Patnaik govern ment. Shah has asked party leaders to focus on the tribal vote and capi talize on the decision to make Draupadi Mur mu, the President. Along with this, he has asked to pay more atten tion to those seats where BJP had finished sec ond in the last election.
608 gram... Madon said the res ervations for 27% Other Backward Classes will be ap plicable for these elections, making it the first local body polls with OBC quo ta after the Supreme Court gave its ap proval.This is the second round of local body polls after the Maha Yuti government led by Eknath Shinde has come to power. In the first round, 271 gram panchay ats had gone to polls on August 05 and the BJP has emerged at the top with 82 seats and the Shinde fac tion had bagged 40 seats, while NCP had emerged at the top in the Maha Vi kas Aghadi alliance with 51 seats fol lowed by Shiv Sena and Congress with 20-odd seats.
‘ACB DISSOLUTION ON BJP MANIFESTO’
WHY IS GOVT SILENT ON 'GAJAK' CULTURE: CONG ON 'REWARI' JIBE New Delhi: The Congress on Friday attacked the Centre over the writing off loans amounting to Rs 10 lakh crore and termed it as the "Gajak culture". Congress spokesperson Gaurav Vallabh said that based on the Food Security Act 2013, the BJP govern ment distributed free ration to 80 crore citizens during the corona epidemic.
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Cong promises farm loan waiver, free electricity to farmers if voted to power Ahmedabad (PTI): The Congress on Friday promised that if the party is voted to power in Gujarat, where As sembly elections are due by the year end, it would waive farm loans of up to Rs 3 lakh and provide free electricity for 10 hours daily to farmers in the state. Gujarat Congress president Jagdish Tha kor also said that his party would bring a law to prohibit the purchase of farm produce below the minimum support priceNotably,(MSP).the opposi tion party in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled state made these announce ments days after the new entrant Aam Aad mi Party (AAP) made a host of promises, in cluding free electricity of up to 300 units every month and allowance for unemployed youths as well as women above the age of 18 years of age.
3 illegal immigrantsBangladeshiarrested Bengaluru (PTI): A youth who had immo lated himself for “salva tion” as depicted in Telu gu horror movie ‘Arund hati’ succumbed to his burns at a government hospitalFamilyhere.sources said 23-year-old Renuka Pras ad, a Class 12 dropout from a village in Madhu giri taluk of Tumakuru district, had watched the film about two dozen times. His parents often asked him to refrain from doing so but he never heeded to their advice.“Just as the cen tral character of the movie got salvation after immolation, Prasad too tried the same act by pouring about 20 litres of petrol on his body on the village outskirts,” sources said. Inspired by movie, youth dies immolatingafter self Home MInister Amit Shah on recent Odisha visit. —FILE PHOTO Pramod Muthalik People celebrating by flaunting the national flag.—FILE PHOTO
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This person add ed: “It was also true that a group of few senior BJP leaders consistently tried to undermine Fad navis within the party. He has repaid them in their own coin by disrupting their political tra jectory (read exclud ing them from the council of minis ters) in Maharash tra for the time be ing.
The elections to 186 panchayat bodies in the state were conducted on August 10.
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Bengaluru: Amid the leadership change buzz in Karnataka, CM Basavaraj Bom mai on Friday met predecessor and senior BJP leader BS Yediyurappa at his residence. There have been some rumours on and off within the state unit of the BJP, regarding some kind of an overhaul, specifi cally after the recent visit of Home Minister Amit Shah to Karna taka. Yediyurappa has already rejected the speculations regard ing a change of guard and said he doesn’t expect any changes to occur at this point in time when polls are expected in seven to eight months.
‘Good response to Tiranga campaign’
—FILE PHOTO Gujarat Congress president Jagdish Thakor.
New Delhi: Senior Trinamool Con gress leader Pawan K Varma on Friday tendered his resig nation to party president Mamata Opposition.strengtheningworkneedsayingthewarmbest,Wishingmaininglookandforcordedwarmthankficial.fromceptwrote,toBihar.theJDU'sbandhan,toishcameBanerjee.HisresignationdaysafterNitKumarreturnedtheMahagathbreakingalliancewithBJP-ledNDAinVarmatookTwitterand"Pleaseacmyresignationthe@AITCofIwanttoyouforthewelcomeactome,andyouraffectioncourtesies.Iforwardtoreintouch.youalltheandwithregards."VarmahadjoinedTMClastyear,itwastheofthehourtotowardsthe
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Mumbai: The rupee de clined by 12 paise to close at 79.74 against the US dollar, tracking a strong American curren cy in the overseas market and rising crude oil pric es. Strong demand for the dollar from oil im porters and concerns over trade deficit also weighed on the local unit. However, heavy foreign fund inflows into equities cushioned the rupee from a major fall. At the inter bank foreign exchange market, the local curren cy opened at 79.67 and saw an intra-day high of 79.63 and a low of 79.74 against dollar.
—PTI PRODUCTIONINDUSTRIAL GROWS 12.3% IN JUNE RUPEE DECLINES 12 PAISE TO 79.74 AGAINST USD New Delhi: India’s ex ports rose by 2.14 per cent to USD 36.27 billion in July while the trade deficit almost tripled to USD 30 billion during the month, according to offi cial data released on Fri day. Imports shot up by 43.61% to USD 66.27 bil lion in the month com pared to July 2021, the data showed.The trade deficit was USD 10.63 bil lion in July 2021. The trade deficit was pegged at a record USD 31 billion in the month.
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The 30 stock S&P BSE Sensex ended the day at 59,462.78 points, which is 130.18 points or 0.22 per cent higher than its previ ous day’s close at 59,332.60 points. The markets wit nessed volatile trading. The Sensex started the day in the red at 59,235.98 points and slumped to a low of 59,113.01 points in the morning session. The index witnessed good buy ing support in the after noon session rising to a high of 59,538.08 points. The Sensex had gained 515.31 point or 0.88 per cent on Thursday. The broader Nifty 50 of the National Stock Exchange closed 39.15 points or 0.22 per cent higher at 17,698.15 points against its previous day’s close at 17,659.00 points. The Nifty had gained 124.25 points or 0.71 per cent on Thursday. The index heavy weight Reliance Indus tries Limited surged 1.64 per cent to Rs 2632.65. Tata Steel soared 3.25 per cent to Rs 112.65. NTPC surged 3.26 per cent to Rs 158.55. Power Grid Corporation rose 2.24 per cent to Rs 227.80. State Bank of India, ICI CI Bank, ITC, Asian Paints, Bajaj Finserv, Axis Bank and IndusInd Bank were among the major Sensex gainers.ITstocks witnessed sell ing pressure. Infosys slipped 1.56 per cent to Rs 1594.50. Tech Mahindra slumped 1.02 per cent to Rs 1066.20.
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New Delhi (PTI) : The Centre on Friday cleared the air whether those stay ing at a rented accommoda tion needed to pay goods and services tax (GST). The Press Information Bureau issued a detailed clarifica tion on the provisions of GST which is applicable on rented rentsetoruse.privateNorentedunit“Rentingproperties.ofresidentialtaxableonlywhenitistobusinessentity.GSTwhenitisrentedtopersonforpersonalNoGSTevenifpropriorpartneroffirmresidenceforperson al use,” the PIB tweeted. Earlier, Mint had report ed that tenants who are registered will have to pay 18 per cent GST on their rent. The new rule came into effect on July 18 fol lowing the recommenda tions by the 47th GST Council meet.
New Delhi (ANI): Passen ger vehicle dispatches to dealers in India rose by 11 per cent year-on-year in July 2022 helped by im provement in semiconduc tor supplies, as per data released by (SIAM).bileSocietyingunitsas1,37,104grewUtilitythe2022tobysengercordedparedunitswholesalesonmanufacturingautomobilebodySIAMFriday.Passengervehicleroseto2,93,865inJuly2022ascomto2,64,442unitsreinJuly2021.Pascardispatchesrose10percentyear-on-year1,43,522unitsinJulyfrom1,30,080unitsinsamemonthlastyear.vehiclewholesalesby11percenttounitsinJuly2022comparedto1,24,057inJuly2021,accordtodatareleasedbytheofIndianAutomoManufacturers closes 130 pts higher; Tata Steel
PM MODI’S VISION z PM Narendra Modi had envisioned “a new India that taps on the entrepreneurial potential of its people” as he mentioned in the Independence Day speech from the Red Fort on August 15, 2015. z Start-ups India programme, launched by the government in 2016, was primarily set up to provide an enabling environment for start-ups.
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—PTI INDIA’S EXPORTS RISE BY 2.14% TO USD 36.27 BN IN JULY New Delhi: FMCG firm Dabur India Limited on Friday said Amit Burman has stepped down as chairman of the company with effect from August 10, 2022. Amit Burman, who took charge as the chairman of Dabur India Ltd in 2019, will continue to serve as non-executive director of the company. Mohit Burman has been elevated to the position of non-executive chair man of the Board of Di rectors of Dabur India Limited with effect from August 11 for a period of 5 years.
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Mumbai (ANI): The Indi an stock market’s bench mark Sensex closed 130 points higher in a choppy session on Friday led by strong buying support in metal, power and energy
—ANI BURMAN STEPS DOWN AS CHAIRMAN OF DABUR INDIA Gold declines `90; silver falls `374 New Delhi: Gold price declined by Rs 90 to Rs 52,915 per 10 grams, according to HDFCperRsclosedmetalpreciousrities.SecuThehadat53,00510 grams in the previous trade. Sil ver also dipped by Rs 374 to Rs 59,166 per kg from Rs 59,540 per kg in the previous trade. In the international market, both gold and silver were trading flat at USD 1,789 per ounce and USD 20.37 per ounce, respec tively. “Gold prices are stuck in range over hawkish US Fed and soft inflation numbers while the weaker dollar has capped down side,” said a Senior Analyst. —PTI Retail inflation eases to 6.71% in July New Delhi: Retail inflation softened to 6.71 per cent in July, mainly on accountmentgovernprices,foodtionmoderaofin data showed on Friday. In June, retail inflation was at 7.01 per cent and it stood at 5.59 per cent in July 2021. According to the data, food inflation in July 2022 moderated to 6.75 per cent as against 7.75 per cent in June. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based retail inflation, however, remained above the Reserve Bank of India’s upper tolerance level of 6 per cent.
Inauguration of Donyi Polo Airport in Arunachal Pradesh deferred to Oct Itanagar (PTI): Inaugura tion of the newly con structed Donyi Polo Air port at Hollongi near Itana gar in Arunachal Pradesh has been postponed till October due to non-receipt of flight schedule from the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), state Civil Aviation Minister Na kap Nalo said. The airport was sched uled to be inaugurated on August 15 to mark India’s 75th Independence Day but has been postponed due to non-receipt of flight schedule from DGCA, Nalo said in his official twitter handle. However, construc tion of all infrastructure of the ambitious project has been completed. All the ma jor civil constructions like the runway, air traffic con trol (ATC) tower, (interim) terminal building, etc are complete. The Airports Au thority of India (AAI) has facilitated inspection by various regulatory authori ties, and successfully con ducted flight calibrations and test landing of aircraft last month, the minister said in another tweet. It is learnt that the flight schedules would be pre pared in October by the DGCA. The airport will be inaugurated after inclu sion of the airport in the flight schedule, Nalo add ed. The state Cabinet had recently approved naming of the Hollongi Greenfield airport as Donyi Polo Airport.
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—FIB START-UPs PER DAY New Delhi (ANI): S tartups have been the buz zword in India for the last several years. India is pow ering its growth with in novation and entrepre neurship. Currently, there are 75,000 start-ups in the country, which coincides with the 75th year of inde pendence.PrimeMinister Naren dra Modi had envisioned “a new India that taps on the entrepreneurial poten tial of its people” as he mentioned in the Inde pendence Day speech from the Red Fort on August 15, 2015 (Indian Independence Day). A programme has been initiated to lay out an action plan to build a strong ecosystem for nur turing innovation and start-ups in the country. In the past six years, the action plan has success fully guided into making India the third largest eco system. While the initial 10,000 start-ups were rec ognised in 808 days, the lat est 10,000 were achieved in only 156 days. With more than 80 start-ups getting recognised per day- India holds the highest rate in the world. This further en courages the future startup culture that is promis ing and encouraging for budding entrepre neurs. The Indian start-up ecosystem is promising not just for entrepre neurs but also for job seekers too. An impres sive, 7.46 lakh jobs have been created, so far, which has seen a 110 per cent year increase over the last six years. In fact, about 49 per cent of Indian start-ups are from Tier II & Tier III, a picture that validates the tremendous potential of Indian youth not limited to professional and com mercial services and 5 per cent to agriculture. The start-up India pro gramme has become synonymous with sus tainable economic growth.
—PTI OTHER STORIES Paytm Slips 6% over Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s Possible Return as CEO Bengaluru: Shares of digital payments firm Paytm fell 6.2% on Friday, hit by a proxy advisory firm’s opposition to reappointment of its chief executive officer and the central bank’s guidelines for digital lending apps. Institutional Investor Advisory Services has said it opposes the reappointment of Vijay Shekhar Sharma as CEO and managing director at the annual general meeting next week.
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New Delhi (PTI): With prices of tur dal on the rise, the Centre on Friday asked all States and UTs to ensure that stockists and traders disclose quantities of tur dal held by them. The di rection comes amid reports that tur dal sales are being restricted to create artifi cialThescarcity.Centre is monitor ing the prices of pulses closely. Currently, it has 38 lakh tonnes of pulses in buffer stock and the same is being released to boost the domestic supply. On Friday, the Depart ment of Consumer Affairs issued a “directive to all the States and UTs to en force stock disclosure by stockholders of Tur under Section 3(2)(h) and 3(2)(i) of the Essential Commodi ties Act, 1955”. States and Union Terri tories (UTs) have also been told to monitor and verify the stocks. Besides, they have been asked to direct stockholder entities to up load the data of stocks held by them on the depart ment’s online monitoring portal on a weekly basis, according to an official statement.“Thereare reports that some sections of stockists and traders are resorting to restricted sales in an at tempt to create artificial scarcity to push the price upward,” it added. The retail price of tur dal has been on an upward trend from second week of July, following the slow progress in kharif sowing as compared to last year.
—PTI New Delhi: India’s indus trial production grew in double digits for the sec ond month in a row at 12.3% in June mainly due to strong performance by manufacturing, power and mining sectors, according to official data. However, the data showed that the industrial output growth is lower than 19.6% record ed in May this year. It was 6.7% in April. Factory out put, measured in terms of the Index of Industrial Pro duction (IIP), had expand ed by 13.8% in June 2021, the data showed.
AND DISTANCE MATTERS HERE z At present, there is no airport in the vicinity of the state capital, the closest one being Lilabari Airport in Assam’s North Lakhimpur district. z Hollongi is about 15 km from Itanagar
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Mumbai: Maharashtra on Friday recorded 1,975 new cases of COVID-19 and five pandemicrelated deaths, taking the state’s case tally to 80,68,218 and the death toll to 1,48,167, the health department said. Mum bai recorded 871 new cases and one death. Pune city and Gadchiroli district recorded a death each, while Solapur district reported two deaths. The case fatality rate stands at 1.83%, while the recovery rate in the state stands at 98.02%. There are now 11,856 active cases in Maharashtra. As many as 1,904 people recovered from COVID-19 in 24 hours, taking the total of recovered patients to 79,08,195. As many as 29,025 new tests were conducted, taking the total of samples tested in the state to 8,35,79,493.
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Glimpses of the visit of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and Sudeep Dhankhar at the residence of Natwar Singh and Heminder Kaur on Friday. Kamna Dhankhar and Kartikeya Vajpayee, (daughter and son-in-law of the Vice President), Jagat Singh, Somaya Singh and Himmat Singh (Son, daughter-in-law and grandson of Natwar Singh) were present during the lunch.
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—Dr Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO & Editor-in-Chief, First India First India Bureau Mumbai: All of the 230 swab samples col lected from Mumbai in June-July were found to have been in fected by tionMunicipalthenovelsub-variantsOmicronofthecoronavirus,BrihanmumbaiCorpora(BMC)hassaid.
I deem it appropriate to direct the state to pay compensation of Rs2 lakh within six weeks… Merely because the appli cant is a foreign national and has antecedent and he has been indulging in narcotic drugs, does not authorize the state to detain him when the substance found on him was neither a nar cotic drug nor a psychotropic substance.
MAN DONATES `36.98L GOLD CROWN TO SHIRDI Mumbai: A circular issued by the Act,ofwellPenalsectionsshouldplaint(FIR)InformationregistrationshouldtionsMumbai’sPoliceCommissionerDeputyof(Operations)topolicestasaysthatofficialsnotdelaytheofaFirstReportwhenacomisreceived,adinvokerelevantoftheIndianCodesectionsasasthePreventionCrueltytoAnimals1960. Shirdi: A 57-year-old man from Andhra Pradesh has donated a 770g gold crown worth Rs36.98 lakh, and a 620gm silver plate worth Rs33,000 to the famous Saibaba Temple in Shirdi, the chief executive officer of the Shri Saibaba San sthan Trust Bhagyashri Banayat said on Friday. Satish Prabhakar Annam made his donations on Rakshabandhan, it was stated.
Maha records 1,975 COVID-19 cases, five deaths 110 First India Bureau Pune: Citing snakebite as one of the major public health prob lems in Maharashtra, Dr Amol Kolhe, the Lok Sabha member from Shirur in Maha rashtra’s Pune district has requested the Un ion Health Ministry to set up an advanced centre for snakebite treatment and re search here. Dr Kolhe has written to the Union Health Ministry seeking an ad vanced centre for snakebite treatment and research in Maha rashtra under the Indi an Council of Medical Research
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Neighbour’s videos ‘communally provocative’ Salman tells HC First India Bureau Mumbai: Actor Sal man Khan, as part of a defamation suit filed against his neighbour, told the Bombay High Court on Friday that the videos about him, posted on social me dia by his Panvel farmhouse neigh bour, were commu nally provocative, too, apart from be ing defamatory. The actor made his statement before the single bench of Justice CV Bhandang, which was hearing his appeal challenging a March 2022 civil court order. The lower court had refused to grant Khan any relief in the defa mation suit he had filed against Ketan Kakkad.Khanhad moved the lower court to order Kakkad to remove the defamatory videos, and to refrain from such commentary in the future. When the civil court refused to pass such an order, the actor approached the high“Thecourt.videos upload ed by Kakkad are blithely speculative. They were not only de famatory, but also com munally provoked the viewers against Sal man Khan,” Khan’s counsel Ravi Kadam said. Reading out scripts of the videos, Kadam said Kakkad spoke about how Khan, a member of a minor ity community, was trying to usurp a Gane sha temple (in Panvel near his viewers….watched“Thesefarmhouse).videosarebylakhsofThisis clearly provoking the viewers against Sal man. The videos have communalized every thing and made it Hin du vs Muslim,” Kad amTheargued.senior lawyer also told the court that in the videos, Kakkad called Khan a member of Dawood Ibrahim’s gang, and claimed the actor was into traffick ing drugs, organs and humans.Kakkad’s lawyers had claimed in the lower court that the actor had filed a defa mation suit to pres sure their client to give up his land.
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Mumbai: Unidentified persons fired shots at the signboard of a shop in suburban Khar on Thursday evening, police said. Nobody was injured in the inci dent. The miscreants opened fire on the signboard of Gazebo Shopping Centre on Linking Road, said a police official. Police were trying to ascertain the identities of the culprits, he added.
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Thane: Firemen and disaster management cell personnel rescued a 35-year-old man who attempted to commit suicide at a creek in Thane city on Friday, an official said. Gangadhar Jadhav jumped into the henelmenSawantCellDisasterchiefpute—aroundovercreek—allegedlyadomesticdis1.45pm,oftheRegionalManagement(RDMC)Avinashsaid.Localfireandpolicepersonsavedhimbeforecoulddrown.
Thane: A 32-year man has been sentenced to three years of impris onment by additional sessions court judge Dr Rachna Tehra for possessing 550 bottles of Mumbra.prescribedcoughnon-prescribedsyrupandnon-pillsin
Of the 230 patients whose samples were tested, 74 persons had not taken even a single dose of vaccines against COVID-19, and 19 of them were admitted to hospitals, the civic body said in a release. Three of these pa tients ended up in ICU, it said.The Public Health Department of the civic body appealed to the people to strictly follow the measures pre scribed for controlling the spread of the virus. Genome sequencing of samples from the city is being conducted periodically since last year to find out which sub-variants of the vi rus are prevalent. The results of the 14th round of genome sequencing showed that out of 230 samples, 64 or 28% had BA 2.74 variant infection, 45 were each infected by BA 2.75 and 2.76 variants, another 28 samples showed BA 2.38 infection and 19 samples showed the presence of BA 5 vari ant, among others. Most of these pa tients had mild COV ID-19 symptoms, the BMC said. A 43-year-old male COVID-19 patient with diabetes and heart dis ease died due to the in fection, the release stated.
First India Bureau Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Friday directed the state gov ernment to pay Rs2 lakh compensation to a Nigerian man who was wrongly incarcer ated for more than a year because of a ty pographical error in the chemical analysis report in a drug case. A single bench of Justice Bharati Dangre was hearing the bail plea filed by the 27-yearold Nigerian who was arrested in October 2020 for alleged posses sion of Accordingdrugs. to the prosecution, the con traband purported to be 116.19g of cocaine and a pouch containing 40.73g of saffron-col oured heart-shaped pills and 4.41g of pink pills purported to be ecstasy tablets were re covered from the man. All the drugs were in commercial quantity and were sent to the fo rensic science labora tory for chemical anal ysis (CA). When the CA report came, it was stated that the drugs found on the Nigerian were not co caine or ecstasy but Li docaine, Tapentadol and caffeine. However, the report by the assis tant director of the fo rensic science labora tory stated that Lido caine and Tapentadol drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Sub stances (NDPS) Act". However, the assis tant director of the Re gional Forensic Science Laboratory, Aurang abad had a year later expressed his regret and corrected the anal ysis and stated that the contents do not fall un der the NDPS Act. Based on this, the ac cused approached the high court seeking bail. On Friday, Justice Dangre ordered for the accused to be released on bail on a surety of Rs25,000 and directed the state government to pay Rs2 lakh compen sation to him within sixTheweeks.court was in formed by additional government pleader AA Takalkar that the gov ernment did not have any policy for cernedatedinquirywrongfulcompensationawardingforarrest,butanwouldbeinitiagainsttheconofficer.Tothis,JusticeDan gre said, “So you can keep people behind bars and not give com pensation just because there is no policy? When it comes to de priving a person of fun damental rights, you require a policy?”
MAN DROWNS IN MAHIM CREEK, BODY FOUND MAN’S SUICIDE BID IN THANE CREEK FOILED Mumbai: The body of a man who drowned in Mahim creek late on Thursday was recov ered on Friday morn ing, while one secondisofficialtheandaroundmationcreek(28)Javedsaid.fearedaccompanyingpersonhimwasdead,officials“ThebodyofAlamShaikhwasfoundintheneartheReclaflyoverbridge7am,retrieved,handedovertolocalpolice,”thesaid.Asearchunderwayfortheperson.
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T eam Liger, including Vijay Devera konda and Ananya Panday, are in Chandigarh as their next stop for promoting the sports drama. Both the co-stars were seen dressed in white ethnic attires. The Dear Comrade star looked handsome in a white kurta pajama and his female lead carried a matching salwar kameez with grace. The makers of this upcoming sports drama, Dharma production shared a few glimpses from the promotions on Twitter along with the caption, “#Chan digarh, this #Liger duo is all set to drop the latest beats with #Coka 2.0 in YOUR city and you know what they say...when in Chandigarh - do as the Chandigarhians do!”
hanaya Kapoor is one of the most popular star kids in recent years. She has lately been making headlines for her big Bollywood debut with Karan Johar’s Bedhadak. Shanaya excels at keeping fans interested by sharing every pleasant occasion she has with her friends, family, and loved ones. Meanwhile, the upcoming debutante on Thursday was spotted in the city, and none theless, to say, she looked stunning as usual. The upcoming movie star looked super pretty in her laid-back outfit. She donned a white strappy
R anbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt’s Brahmastra is one of the most anticipated films. Now it has been finally confirmed that King Khan will be a part of the film as recently his first look from Brahmastra was leaked online. If the photos surfacing on the internet are to be believed, the Kuch Kuch Hota Hai actor will be play ing the role of ‘Vanar As tra.’ In it, Shah Rukh ap pears to be donning a blood-soaked tee-shirt and pants. He can be seen jumping in the air and was seen on his knees as he gave his signature open arms pose. This has left King Khan’s fans frenzy and netizens have taken over social media to celebrate SRK’s look from Brahmastra.
S oon after return ing from her Maldives holi day with actorhusband Vicky Kaush al, Katrina Kaif re sumed work with Vijay Sethupathi on director Sriram Raghavan’s up coming thriller, Merry Christmas. According to the sources, Katrina, Vijay and Sanjay Ka poor starrer is in its last leg, and the actors will resume filming for the movie“Theysoon.have already completed seventy per cent of the film and the remaining thirty per cent will be shot in Au gust and September. They have three weeks schedule in theytheSeptember’sSeptember.scheduleislastoneafterwhichwillwrapup.
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iara Advani and Sidharth Mal hotra are one of the most adored couples in the industry. The duo is ru moured to be dating each other, however, the cou ple has always been tight-lipped about their alleged relationship. However, now, Kiara shared a cryptic note on her social media about her rumoured boyfriend Sidharth. Taking to her Instagram story, the JugJugg Jeeyo actress wrote: “@sidmalhotra Tu baatein toh badi badi karta tha, par tu bhi na “Out of sight, Out of mind” type ka banda nikla!” While netizens have been wondering what’s cooking between the duo, we have decoded it for you as the actress is celebrating Shershaah’s one-year anniversary. Sidharth and Kiara’s Shershaah premiered on this day, last year.
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oday, on World Organ Donation day, City First decided to visit the Angdata Sa marak in Jaipur. The Angdata Smarak was the initiative of the organization MOHAN Foundation Jaipur Citizen Forum which was inaugurat ed by Chief Minister of Ra jasthan Ashok Gehlot on 27th November 2020 on the occa sion of National Organ Dona tion Day. Angdata Smarak is India’s first Organ Donor Me morial Monument near Cen tral Park, Prithvi Raj Road, Jaipur, which was a dream project of MFJCF. The Chair man MFJCF- Rajiv Arora dedicated the Organ Donor memorial to the memory of beloved Organ Donors of Ra jasthan and it shall inspire people for the noble cause of Organ Donation. The design of the Samark is inspired by the famous sculpture of Jaipur- ‘Jantar Mantar’. Angdata Smaarak is the epitome of love and compassion towards man kind and it stands tall as a mark of respect for those en lightened families who set an example by donating organs in the service of mankind and gave gift of life to the peo ple who w’ere in need of or gans.The Convener of MFJCF Bhawna Jagwani told that they pioneered the project of Organ Donation in the State and have been working for the noble cause for the last seven years this saving over 125 lives through the donated organs. Dalmia Cement has powered the monument which is designed by the Jaipur designer of National repute Samir Wheaton. The Smarak shall stand tall as a symbol of selfless Service to Mankind. Ravi Kamra, a member of MFJCF told City First that the idea was born when Bhawna Jagwani, the Chief Convener of MFJCF, while moving around in the city, stopped at a red light and thought that if we can get a Circle or a Tiraha we can cul tivate beautiful plants and flowers and name it as Ang data Circle to be a mark of respect and remembrance. It was a good idea of course and in the meeting all the volunteers and members agreed to the idea. MFJCF team got busy in getting all permissions and setting up a state of art sculpture. The Treasurer, Anil Bakshi pushed forward the pace keeping an eye on expenditures all around but as per Bhavna, the cause is such that people come for ward on their own and good things take a life of their own!Meanwhile “Universe” brought in Sameer Wheatonthe Jaipur Designer & Archi tect of National repute. And he promised to do the hon ours without any commer cial aspect. Sundeep Kumar who himself had a passion for Organ Donation man aged the help of Dalmia Ce ment as the Sponsor of the concrete Statue. This was a Bajrang Bali stroke bringing Sanjiwani Booti. In the words of Majrooh Sultanpuri “Akela hi chala tha janeb-e-manzil magar Log judte gye aur karwaan banta gya” MITALI DUSAD mitalidusad01@gmail.com
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MFJCF and Rotary Organ Donation, Jaipur event at Angdata Smarak The Angdata Smarak stands as a memorial and tribute to all 46 Organ donors of Rajasthan whose names are there on the Smarak and each and every organ donor across India and the world.
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A distinctive fashion presentation called “Gaba Arch Fashion Show” was put on by Arch College of Design and Business on Thursday at Hotel Diggi Palace as part of the Global Educator’s Fest 2022
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rch College of De sign and graphedShow’,ArchshowuniqueorganisedBusinessafashiontitled‘GabaFashionchoreobyAbhimanyuTomarduringtheglobaleducator’sfest2022atHotelDiggiPalaceonDuringtheGlobalEducatorsFest2022inwhichprincipalsfromreputedschoolsandeducationalinstitutionswalkedtheramp.JagdeeshChandraalongwithAbdulRashidAhmed,MinisterofStateforEducation,MaldivesandLakshyaRajSingh,MewarofUdaipurand Trustee, Maharana of Me war Foundation and Chari table Trust were present on the occasion and encouraged the teachers while walking on the ramp. Redefining the creativity, the engaging show was conceptualized by Arch ana Surana, Founder & Di rector, of ARCH College. Under the guidance of Archana Surana, the stu dents of ARCH created an apparel collection on IndoWestern theme which was specially designed keeping in mind the dignity and style of the teachers and mentors. ARCH’s budding designers used cotton and blended fabrics to showcase 10 Thiscollections.isthefourth edition of the Global Educators Fest. This year’s theme is ‘Transforming School Cur riculum: Empowering Learning for Life’ where teachers from across the country will sit together to brainstorm new priorities, pedagogy, technologies and assessment strategies. This annual event is organised under the leadership of Ravi Santalani at the flag ship of ARCHScooNews.wassetup in the year 2000, under the aegis of the ARCH Educational Soci ety to impart industrially and globally relevant, spe cialized education in Design. Astonishing collection from Ishita Bhattacharya called “Prelude to Liberty” stole everyone’s heart. Autism is a learning dis ability disorder where a per son finds it difficult to sit at any one place for an extend ed time. Inspired from tradi tional Indian toys, ‘Prelude to Liberty’ is a collection of Adaptive Clothing that may help autistic people through cognition therapy and ena ble behavior manipulation. The garments remain defi nitely purposeful, relaxed andThesober.silhouettes are well structured and neatly tai lored. Arch helps their stu dents to develop a sense of belongingness and responsi bility towards society. The Fashion Show was Choreo graphed by Abhimanyu Sin gh Tomar. Creative Hair and Make up by Kunjal and Himanshi Rawal from Clas sic Make up studio Jodhpur. Backstage Managed by Arpi ta Parihar and Music by Tan may Surana from Trinati.
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A awaitedmostKhan’samir film Laal Singh Chaddha was fi nally released in the theatres. Ran veer Singh, who recently attended the screening of Aamir Khan starrer Laal Singh Chad dha’, took to his In stagram stories to share some lovely moments from the event. The ‘Simmba’ star was also seen sharing a warm hug with Saif Ali Khan and chatting and laughing with Ka reena Kapoor at the held a special screening of the film for the Bollywood industry. The screen ing was also attended by Deepika Padukone, Saif Ali Khan, Kiran Rao and others. there is pressure to deliver.Speaking on the same Kareena quotes, “There is always pressure to deliver because otherwise, It is not possible to last 22 years in the career. The idea is to constant ly keep trying to change yourself on screen and keep it real off-screen. Just doing different char acters and enjoying the process of acting is what I Kareenalove.”also spoke about her character’s sketches over the years, especially when working with Aamir Khan, She add ed: “I just love acting. It is a part of my be ing but I try to make a difference to do a film which will not be similar to the rest. I am working with Aamir Khan for the third time but ‘3 Idi ots’, ‘Talaash’ and ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ are completely differ ent. You can’t even put all the three char acters into one stream. They are completely different people. I think that has always been the aim to kind of mak ing differently.”
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THERE’S ALWAYS PRESSURE TO DELIVER: KAREENA celebratesShehnaazRakhiwithmanagerKaushal S ome bonds are stronger than blood. A case in point: Shehnaaz Gill and her manager, Kaushal Joshi. The two started working to gether soon after Bigg Boss 13. Today, the duo has become a force to reckon with. Shehnaaz posted a cute video of tying Kaushal a ra khi on her Insta gram account. A source close to Shehnaaz shares, “Shehnaaz trusts Kaushal to the T and the two have forged a strong bond. Kaushal has stood by Shehnaaz like a rock during her highs and lows.” Arjun Kapoor and Malaika Arora
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S ara is one of the most promising actresses in the industry. She has proved her acting mettle in movies such as Love Aaj Kal, Atrangi Re, Simmba, and others. On her birth day Taking to Instagram Sara shared, “Happy Birthday Sara. Al ways love yourself- And when you forget workout for your body, mind he latest epi sode of Koffee with Karan 7 had Sonam Ka poor and Ar jun bringingKapoorthe house down with their wit and chemistry. The brother-sister duo Ar jun Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor graced the couch in the episode and openly discussed their relationships and careers. Karan Johar talked about Arjun’s relationship and brought up questions regarding Arjun’s ro mance with Malaika Arora. Arjun was then asked by Karan why he took so long to reveal his relationship with Malaika to the public. The actor answered, “I think I’ve lived a life being on the other side of the spectrum. I grew up in a disjointed fam ily, and it was not easy to see what was going on, and still had to ac cept everything. I can’t just jump on her (Malaika). The first reaction could be ‘What do you mean?’ If you ease people in, they’ll under stand.”The Gunday ac tor added, “I first.everyoneaboutthinkalwayswillItis my choice to be with her, but I cannot ex pect everyone to un derstand. It has to be allowed to grow. I can not expect everyone to T ASHISH TIWARI cityfirst@firstindia.co.in
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